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The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948.
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In 1948, Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley were elected president and vice president of the United States, defeating Republican nominees Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren. Truman, a Democrat and vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt, had ascended to the presidency upon Roosevelt's death in 1945.
- Give 'em hell, Harry!
- "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
This is a 1948 Presidential campaign poster for candidate Harry S. Truman. The text reads, "Secure the Peace; Elect Harry S. Truman President. This object is in the Truman Library Museum collection.
Jun 4, 2012 · At once a time-capsule of history and an invaluable timeline of design evolution, Presidential Campaign Posters offers a rare look at the craftsmanship of political propaganda and the abiding aspects of the human condition that it bespeaks.
Date (s) 1948. A photograph of an original 1948 campaign poster showing Harry S. Truman and Alben Barkley. The top banner of the poster reads "Beat High Prices".
In "Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art" editors and curators of the Library of Congress have mined the institution's extraordinary collections for 100 posters, from the campaigns of Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama.
Oct 27, 2020 · Against the backdrop of the 2020 US presidential election, historian Hal Wert takes us through the artistic and political evolution of American campaign posters, from their origin in 1844 to the present. In an interview with Quarterly editor Gillian Jakab, Wert highlights an array of landmark posters and the artists who made them.