• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Greets Native Americans
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    transportation
    South Lawn
    South Grounds
    American Indians
    In this photograph, taken in May 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt receives a group of American Indians from the Pueblo nation on the South Drive. The president is pictured seated in an open convertible. The guests visited the White House to express support for legislation sponsored by U.S. Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs John Collier, which protected Pueblo land from encroaching agricultural interests.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Opens the 1932 Winter Olympics
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    New York
    In this photograph, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers opening remarks at the 1932 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York. This was the first Winter Olympics held in the United States; the first Summer Games held in the United States were hosted in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. This photograph was taken on February 4, 1932, nine months before Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States.
  • President Roosevelt Throws First Pitch
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    sports
    Washington, D.C.
    First Family
    Presidential Visit
    In this photograph, taken April 14, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt throws the opening pitch of the baseball season in Washington, D.C. The Washington Senators defeated the New York Yankees with a final score of 1-0. Pictured in the first row of the stands from left to right: presidential secretary Marvin Hunter McIntyre; the president's son Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; his wife, Ethel du Pont Roosevelt; President Roosevelt; New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy; Senators player Bucky Harris; Senators owner Clark Griffith; and American League president Will Harridge.
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of the Smoky Mountain National Park 
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    national parks
    This is a photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking at the dedication of the Smoky Mountain National Park on September 2, 1940. In his speech Roosevelt conveyed necessity of the national parks by stating "In this Park we shall conserve these trees . . . for the happiness of the American people. The old frontier that put the hard fibre in the American spirit and the long muscles on the American back, lives and will live in these untamed mountains to give to the future generations a sense of the land from which their forefathers hewed their homes." Roosevelt also supported the national parks by supporting the commemorative stamp series during National Park Year in 1934, urging the public to visit, and adding new parks into the system.
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill give a joint press conference 
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    Head of State
    Oval Office
    World War II
    In this black and white photograph, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt give a joint press conference in the Oval Office of the White House, December 23, 1941. Churchill's visit came in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States formally entering World War II earlier that month. The Prime Minister would go on to make numerous visits to Washington throughout the conflict.
  • President Roosevelt delivers his first inaugural address
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    inauguration
    This is a black and white photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his 1933 Inaugural Address from a speaker’s stand at the Capitol decorated with a distinctive eagle cartouche. Similar eagle motifs could be seen on his inaugural stand in 1941, as well as those of Calvin Coolidge in 1925, Herbert Hoover in 1929, and Harry S. Truman in 1949.
  • Girl Scout Margaret Lusby presents roses to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the National Tree Lighting
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    Christmas
    winter holidays
    National Christmas Tree lighting
    First Family
    In this black and white photograph, Girl Scout Margaret Lusby presents roses to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the National Tree Lighting on December 24,1933. The first lady of the country has served as the honorary National President of the Girl Scouts ever since Edith Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, began the tradition in 1917. Accompanying Mrs. Roosevelt are President Roosevelt and their granddaughter, “Sistie” (Anna Eleanor) Dall.
  • Herbert Hoover Greets Franklin Roosevelt
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    inauguration
    North Portico
    This photograph by Harris & Ewing shows outgoing President Herbert Hoover greeting President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt outside the North Portico of the White House on inauguration day.
  • President Roosevelt at the Dedication of the Jefferson Memorial
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    ceremony
    Washington, D.C.
    This black and white photograph is of President Roosevelt at the dedication of the Jefferson Memorial on April 13, 1943, which was the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. Roosevelt has his back mostly to the camera, and a large crowd fills the space between the podium and the Memorial itself.
  • The Roosevelts at FDR's First Inauguration
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    First Family
    inauguration
    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt posing for cameras at the bottom of the South Portico steps on the day of his first inauguration in 1933.
  • Roosevelts with British Royals in Hyde Park
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    State Visit
    Head of State
    This black and white photograph is from the royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain in 1939. As part of their trip to the United States, the British royals visited the Roosevelts in Hyde Park, where they attended services at St. James Church. From left to right in the photo after the clergy members are Queen Elizabeth, King George, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an aide of the president's assisting him with standing, Sara Delano Roosevelt, the president's mother, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • Roosevelt Family Leaving for Christmas Church Services
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    First Family
    holidays
    Christmas
    This black and white photograph is of the Roosevelt family leaving the White House for St. Thomas' Parish for Christmas services. Left to right in the photo are Mrs. Elizabeth Riley Roosevelt, sister-in-law of the President, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Roosevelt, mother of the president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt and his wife, Mrs. Betsy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Harry Hopkins, the Secretary of Commerce. The two children in front are Sara Delano Roosevelt, daughter of James Roosevelt, and Diana Hopkins.
  • Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Yalta
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    Head of State
    This black and white photograph is of the "Big Three" - leaders of the Allied forces in World War II. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin is on the left of the photo, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the center and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the right. The photograph was taken during the Yalta Conference in the Crimea in 1945. A number of topics were discussed by the leaders during the conference, including the post-war development of Europe and the ongoing fighting in the Pacific and possible Soviet involvement in the war against Japan.
  • Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Tehran
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    Head of State
    This black and white photograph is a wider view of the well-known photo of the "Big Three" - leaders of the Allied forces in World War II - at the Tehran Conference. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin is on the left of the photo, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the center and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the right. Members of the military from different nations, security and reporters including a film crew cover the steps, showing the chaotic scene of the actual photograph's taking.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Observes the Argentine Fleet
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    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the deck of the USS Indianapolis during his good will cruise to South America. Roosevelt was the first sitting president to travel outside of North America. In this image, he is watching ships from the Argentine fleet over the water. The Indianapolis was known as Roosevelt's "Ship of State," employed on a number of journeys taken by the president, although it is most famously known for delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, where it would be loaded onto the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that would drop the weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Indianapolis itself was sunk only four days after delivering the bomb, when it was struck by a Japanese submarine. The survivors waited for four days to be found and more than 800 of them died due to the initial sinking and subsequent exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks.
  • FDR Carves a Thanksgiving Turkey
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    First Family
    holidays
    Thanksgiving
    In this black and white photograph, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt watches as President Franklin D. Roosevelt carves the traditional Thanksgiving turkey during supper at Warm Springs, Georgia.
  • Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Tehran
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    Head of State
    This black and white photograph is of the "Big Three" - leaders of the Allied forces in World War II. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin is on the left of the photo, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the center and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the right. The photograph was taken during the Tehran conference in Iran in 1943. A number of topics were discussed by the leaders during the conference, including the launch of Operation Overlord, or the Normandy Invasion, the following year.
  • President Roosevelt Delivers His First Inaugural Address
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    Inauguration
    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his First Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 1933. The passage of the 20th Amendment later in the year meant Roosevelt was the last president to be inaugurated in March and the first to be inaugurated in January when he was re-elected in 1936.
  • FDR Takes Oath of Office
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    Inauguration
    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he takes the Oath of Office from Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes at his third Inaugural Ceremony on January 20, 1941.
  • President Roosevelt Delivering the 1939 State of the Union Address
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    State of the Union
    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 4, 1939.
  • Franklin Roosevelt Signs the Declaration of War Against Japan
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    World War II
    Bill Signing
    Oval Office
    West Wing
    In this black and white photograph, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown in the Oval Office signing the Congressional declaration of war against Japan one day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Franklin Roosevelt Throws Ceremonial First Pitch at Griffith Stadium
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    sports
    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game between the Washington Senators and the Boston Red Sox at Griffith Stadium on April 24,1934. Roosevelt threw a first pitch for the Senators many times in the early years of his presidency, and the most ceremonial first pitches of any president to date.
  • Roosevelt and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference
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    Head of State
    This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a candid moment aboard the HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. This conference was the first formal meeting between the two men to deal with the war in Europe, and resulted in the Atlantic Charter. While the Charter was a non-binding agreement, it established a common purpose and goals for the post-war world between the two nations. The United States would finally enter the Second World War four months after the conference, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • President Roosevelt Celebrates Christmas with His Grandsons
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    Christmas
    Holidays
    First Family
    This black and white photograph is of President Roosevelt celebrating Christmas in the White House with his grandchildren Franklin D. Roosevelt III (left) and John R. Boettiger (right).
  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and King at the Second Quebec Conference
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    Head of state
    This black and white photograph is of the Second Quebec Conference in Quebec City, Canada in September 1944. From left to right in the photo are Alexander Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone and Governor-General of Canada, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.