Roosevelt Grandchildren, Sistie & Buzzie Dall
In this black and white photograph, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grandchildren, Sistie and Buzzie Dall, are playing on the slide installed on the South Lawn. They are the children of Anna Roosevelt and her first husband Curtis Dall. Their given names were Eleanor and Curtis, but the press gave them the nicknames of Sistie and Buzzie. The two children lived in the White House with their mother and grandparents when their parents divorced, and their grandmother, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, had slides, sandboxes, and swings constructed on the South Lawn for the children.