President Truman meets the National Cartoonists Society

Local photographer Bruce Guthrie found a photograph of President Harry Truman and cartoonists and wrote to the Truman Library asking about it.

They sent him links to two versions -

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=37184  -- best one
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=37185 -- similar but some people cut off

For the following photo, they identify the folks as such:

President Harry S. Truman (center, wearing glasses) posing outside the White House with a group of visiting cartoonists, as they exhibit the sketches they have just made of the President. The cartoonists holding up drawings are: Ham Fisher (left), Milton Caniff (behind Fisher), Alex Raymond (behind Truman), Jo Fischer (behind Truman's left shoulder), Ray Van Buren (standing behind Pieretti), Alfred Andriola (standing at Mr. Truman's left, wearing bow tie), John Pierotti (second from right), Rube Goldberg (right), and Gus Edson (kneeling, right). All others are unidentified. October 3, 1949.

In case you're drawing blanks --

• Ham Fisher -- "Joe Palooka"
• Milton Caniff -- "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon"
• Alex Raymond -- "Flash Gordon"
• Jo Fischer -- "From Nine to Five"
• Ray Van Buren -- "Abbie 'n Slats" (and distant relative of President Martin Van Buren)
• Alfred Andriola  -- "Kerry Drake"
• John Pierotti -- editorial cartoonist
• Gus Edson -- "The Gumps" and "Dondi"