First Ladies Hall, NMHT

Summary

View of one of the exhibits in the First Ladies Hall, National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, featuring at far right the addition of the gown of First Lady Mrs. Patricia Nixon. The following are also pictured from left to right: Florence King Harding, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Lou Henry Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, Jackqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and Claudia (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson.

Subject

• Coolidge, Grace Goodhue 1879-1957
• Eisenhower, Mamie Doud 1896-
• Harding, Florence Kling
• Hoover, Lou Henry
• Truman, Bess Wallace
• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 1929-1994
• Johnson, Lady Bird 1912-
• Nixon, Pat 1912-
• First Ladies Hall
• National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
• National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
• National Collections

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 20, Folder: 3

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1972

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Artifacts
• Mannequins (figures)
• Costume
• Clothing and dress
• Exhibitions
• Gifts
• First Ladies Gowns
• History
• Museum mannequins
• Presidents
• Costumes
• Presidents' spouses
• Women--History

Place

United States

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

72-7078

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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