A thoughtful Mamie
At age 17, Mamie Doud sat for this 1913 photograph wearing a white summer dress and holding an open book. Born in Iowa, Mamie spent her teenage years in Denver,...
A young Lady Bird
Born in Texas in 1912, Claudia Alta Taylor, known from an early age as Lady Bird was three years old when this portrait was made. Lady Bird married Lyndon Baines...
Ambassador Roosevelt
This document, dated March 15, 1946, is President Harry Truman's appointment of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as U.S. Representative to the General Assembly of...
Bess Wallace Truman
Elizabeth “Bess” Virginia Wallace was born in 1885 to a prominent Independence, Missouri, family – owners of the Waggoner-Gates flour mill. She is about four...
First lady and presidential mother
Born in 1925, Barbara Pierce, seen here in the early 1930s, grew up in Rye, New York. At the age of 16, she met future president George H.W. Bush and married him four...
Future First Lady
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and the future wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, poses for a portrait in a photography studio in...
Future First Lady in fur
Nancy Davis was photographed in her fur-trimmed coat and hat around 1928. The future wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, was born on July...