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 Air field, 1919-21

  

 Child roller skating with pillows, 1924

  

 Children playing in a park, 1919-21

  

 Children playing jump rope in a park, 1919-21

  

 Debutantes playing horse shoes. Left to right, 

Elizabeth Beale, Virginia Edwards, Jan-Feb 1923

  

 Flat spare tires are numerous around Washington these days for the youthful

 football players who have found an easier way to inflate the pigskin 

than using their lungs. Billy Friel shown inflating his football. 1924

 

 Heated taxi cab, February 1936

  

 Ice skating at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, January 1922

  

 Painting portraits of Native Americans, 1936

  

Snow, Washington, DC, January 1922

The Roosevelts

From Harris & Ewing come these photos of Franklin and Eleanor.

 A serious President Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation 

on the European war crisis, Washington, DC, 3 September 1939

  

 Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with woman in a row, 1933-40

  

 Eleanor Roosevelt with grandchildren Buzzie and Sistie Dall, 1934

  

 Eleanor Roosevelt with two women, 1933-40

  

 First Lady appeals for Red Cross funds, Washington, DC, 21 May 1940

  

 First Lady christens Yankee Clipper, Washington, DC, 3 March 1939

  

 First Lady cuts president's birthday cake, 30 January 1940

  

 First Lady eats five cent meal, 14 May 1940. Climaxing a conference of "Daughters of the Great Depression," Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and other prominent women tonight ate a five-cent "relief" dinner. The five-cent meal was based on the actual per-person per-meal food budget of the average woman working on WPA.

  

 First Lady opens Better Homes Week at 

Girl Scouts' luncheon, Washington, DC, 26 April 1939

  

 General John J. Pershing and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt 

cut cake at Walter Reed Hospital, 1935

  

Making her rounds of the numerous president's birthday balls, Mrs. Roosevelt greets Janet Gaynor, petite movie star who came from Hollywood to entertain the merrymakers, 29 Jan 1938

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 Members of the Monaghan Men's Irish Dancing Class and their partners, 1905

  

 Members of the Monaghan Men's Irish Dancing Class and their partners, 1905

  

The Congressional Public Speaking class, composed of wives of congressmen,
is attempting to teach the ladies to search out material and present it effectively
under the direction of Mrs. Hugh Butler, public speaking teacher. 1939
 

Woman being serenaded, 1940
 

Trailer Camp, June 1937
 

Woodrow Wilson, 1910-1917
 

Worried citizens calling the State Department these days to inquire about  
the safety of relatives and friends in the China danger zone are connected with
Mrs. Madge Blessing, in charge of the "Welfare and Whereabouts File," August 1937

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 Eastern High School

  

 Genevieve Clark, 1912

  

 Seen lunching together at the senate restaurant in the Capitol today were Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of senator from Idaho, and Mme Hirosi Saito, wife of Japanese Ambassador. May 24, 1937

  

 Senator Hattie Caraway, Arkansas, left, and Senator Dixie Bibb Graves, Alabama. 1937

  

 Senator Joseph Guffey, (D. Pa.) today received from the Johnstown, PA quintuplets a unique invitation which he was asked to present to President Roosevelt requesting his attendance 

at the 50th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. 1938

  

 Society circus. Clowns on horseback, 1909-1923

  

 Striking Seamen picket Commerce Department. Washington, D.C. January 18, 1937

  

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and his wife, sat with other mothers and fathers 

watching their offspring say 'Merry Christmas' in their native tongues. December 1939

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 Mrs. Claude Pepper, 1937-39

  

 Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of the Democratic Senator from Florida, 

goes shopping on fashionable Connecticut Avenue. July 1937

  

 Mrs. Pepper, 1937

  

 One of the most beautiful of the Senate Ladies, Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of the Senator 

from Florida, needs little artificial makeup to enhance her beauty. 1937

  

 Mrs. Raymond Ashdown

  

 Noted in the diplomatic set for his expertness in concocting new salads, Mexican Ambassador Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera, is now teaching his daughter, Ermita, this culinary art. 1939

  

 Rep. E.E. Cox, Democrat of Georgia, and his daughter, Gene, whom he has appointed 

to serve as his personal page, this session in the house. Gene is 13 years old and 

will be the first girl in the history of Congress to serve as a page. 1939

  

 Rep. W.R. Poage of Texas working the ground in the Botanical Gardens. May 1937

  

 Representing the Rosebud Tribe of the Sioux Indians of South Dakota, Chief Joe Thin Elk 

and Chief Steven Brave Bird were in Washington today to describe conditions 

at Rosebud, South Dakota, before the Senate Committee. 1939

  

 San Diego, Calif., sent a delegation from its Chamber of Commerce 

to Washington today to plump for a national highway. 1939

  

 San Francisco by wagon from Staten Island, 1915

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 George Earle Chamberlain, Senator from Oregon, member, US Shipping Board, left. Mrs. A.F. Swensson, Miss Orella Chapman, Leila Campbell, Saide Maxwell, Philip B. Bates, 1914

  

 Peace. Three Mile Petition from 350,000 school children,  1914

[Just right of center in front, the balding guy is our old friend William Jennings Bryan]

  

 Preparedness parade. Schoolgirls, 1916

  

 Overturned street car, 1919

  

 Mrs. Thomas Sanders McMillan, who was last week elected to succeed her late husband in the National House of Representatives from the first district of South Carolina, photographed on her arrival at the Capitol today. November 1939

  

 Peggy Townsend, who will be crowned Cherry Blossom Queen at the festival to be held Friday, picked out a Cherry Tree to get her first glimpse of the beautiful blossoms in Potomac Park. 1939

    

 No caption, 1913-1917

  

 No caption, 1915-1917

  

 No caption, ca. 1940
[it really looks like she's texting someone on her iPhone, doesn't it?]

  

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