Text transcribed from caption: PRESIDENT GETS BIBLE. #S-1103 Washington, D.C. -- President Harry S. Truman receives a Bible from Dr. J. Chapman Bradley (right), secretary of the American Bible Society, on the eve of the opening of the World Wide Bible Reading Observance, which will last from Thanksgiving through Christmas Day. The smiling onlooker in center is Dr. Edgar C. Powers of Baltimore, secretary of the Maryland Bible Society. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LDF-Was-LDF-11235)

1945
November 21, 1945

still image

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negative : black-and-white ; 4 3/4 x 4 inches

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
American Bible Society.
Bradley, J. Chapman.
Powers, Edgar C.
Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.)
Religious News Service--Archives.

Presidents--United States.
Bible.
Presentation pieces (Gifts)--Washington (D.C.)
Church and state--United States.

United States.
Washington (D.C.)
North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. S-1103; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_S-1103

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