This oil on canvas portrait of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover was painted by Richard Marsden Brown. Highly educated, Mrs. Hoover graduated Stanford University with a degree in geology. She was at the time the only woman in Stanford's geology program. Mrs. Hoover was active with the Girl Scouts of America, serving as the national president from 1922-1925 and 1935-1937. Her husband was president from March 4, 1929 until March 4, 1933. Bates Littlehales photographed the framed portrait in March 1962 during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This oil on canvas portrait of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover was painted by Richard Marsden Brown. Highly educated, Mrs. Hoover graduated Stanford University with a degree in geology. She was at the time the only woman in Stanford's geology program. Mrs. Hoover was active with the Girl Scouts of America, serving as the national president from 1922-1925 and 1935-1937. Her husband was president from March 4, 1929 until March 4, 1933. Bates Littlehales photographed the framed portrait in March 1962 during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This oil on canvas portrait of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover was painted by Richard Marsden Brown. Highly educated, Mrs. Hoover graduated Stanford University with a degree in geology. She was at the time the only woman in Stanford's geology program. Mrs. Hoover was active with the Girl Scouts of America, serving as the national president from 1922-1925 and 1935-1937. Her husband was president from March 4, 1929 until March 4, 1933. Bates Littlehales photographed the framed portrait in March 1962 during the John F. Kennedy administration.

In this photograph, President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover relax on the porch of their cabin at Rapidan Camp. In the summer of 1929, President Hoover purchased and developed a 164-acre campsite in Madison County, Virginia, so that it could serve as a presidential country retreat by trout season the following spring. The camp included 13 cabins designed by James Yardley Rippin, a friend of the Hoovers, who also had also designed cabins for the Girl Scouts. The cabin where the Hoovers resided was called the Brown House, in contrast to their more famous abode in Washington, D.C., and featured a simple yet spacious 60-foot-long central living space. President Hoover donated Rapidan Camp to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1932 as a country retreat for future presidents. However, Hoover's polio-stricken successor President Franklin D. Roosevelt had difficulty navigating the demanding terrain, and established his own country retreat, which later became the preferred presidential retreat Camp David. Rapidan Camp and its surrounding woodlands were integrated into Shendanoah National Park when it was formally established on December 26, 1935. Under the management of the National Park Service, the Brown House was refurnished to its 1929 appearance, and made accessible to the public through guided tours.

This photograph shows First Lady Lou Henry Hoover planting a cedar tree on the White House Grounds. President Herbert Hoover and others look on.

This photograph is of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover standing on the North Portico with Mexican President-elect Pascual Ortiz-Rubio and his wife, Josefa de Ortiz.

This black and white photograph shows First Lady Lou Henry Hoover seated at a reproduction of the Monroe Doctrine Desk. Mrs. Hoover visited the James Monroe Museum while she served as First Lady and was so impressed with the furniture on exhibit that she requested several of the late Louis XVI style pieces be copied for the Hoover White House. The desk, a pair of hanging shelves, and a flat-top writing table were reproduced by Washington, D.C. cabinetmaker Morris W. Dove in 1932 and installed upstairs in Ulysses S. Grant's former Cabinet Room of the White House, which Mrs. Hoover converted to a sitting area known as the Monroe Room. Today, the room is known as the Treaty Room.

This photograph by Underwood & Underwood shows First Lady Lou Henry Hoover standing under the arched entrance to the West Garden with her dog, King Tut. The West Garden, which would later become the White House Rose Garden during the John F. Kennedy administration, was designed by landscape architect George Burnap under the efforts of First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson's first wife. The South Portico of the Executive Mansion is visible behind Mrs. Hoover.

This photograph by Herbert E. French shows First Lady Lou Henry Hoover on the North Portico of the White House with the Cowboy Band from Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. French was known for his photographs that captured life in Washington, D.C., from the Wilson through to the Hoover administrations.

This photograph is of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover greeting disabled veterans at a garden party held in their honor. The image shows that the party was not segregated.

This photograph by Herbert E. French of National Photo Company shows President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover sitting in wicker chairs. French was known for his photographs that captured life in Washington, D.C., from the Wilson through to the Hoover administrations.

In this photograph, President Herbert Hoover presents the gold Medal of the National Geographic Society to Amelia Earhart on June 21, 1932. Amelia Earhart was honored for being the first woman to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society stands on Hoover's right; First Lady Lou Henry Hoover stands on Earhart's left.

This oil on canvas portrait of First Lady Lou Hoover was painted by Richard Marsden Brown. Highly educated, Mrs. Hoover graduated Stanford University with a degree in geology. She was at the time the only woman in Stanford's geology program. Mrs. Hoover was active with the Girl Scouts of America, serving as the national president from 1922-1925 and 1935-1937. Her husband was president from March 4, 1929 until March 4, 1933.