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Associated Press Truman Returns -- In the Rain

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1426 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 7 August 1946 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One image dated August 7, 1946 of President Harry S. Truman unboarding from an airplane while an attendant holds an umbrella above him.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974
Keyserling, Leon, 1908-1987
Clark, John D., 1884-1961

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