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International News Photo [Truman Receiving Note of Railroad Strike End]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1429 Author/Creator: International News Photo Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: August 1946 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One photograph of three images when Secretary of the Senate Leslie Biffle handed President Harry S. Truman handed a note to the president announcing that a railroad strike had ended. Wire transfer text details the moments in each image.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Biffle, Leslie, 1889-1966

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