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Letter from Bess Wallace to Harry S. Truman

Collection HST-BWT: Bess W. Truman PapersSeries: Harry S. Truman Correspondence FilesFile Unit: March 16, 1919

Sunday, March 16, 1919 Dear Harry, According to the Star's latest information you are on your way to Le Mans and I'm wondering if any of these last letters will ever be delivered. It seems to take them long enough to get to you even when postal authorities know where you are exactly - and if you begin to move again, what will happen to the letters? Was mighty glad to get your letter of Feby. 18. Hadn't heard for such an age was afraid you were sick! Mary was worrying too, so I wrote her a card at once telling her I had had my letter in case she didn't get one in the same mail. You may invite the entire 35th Division to our wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to beyours as well as mine. I guess we might as well have the church full while we are at it. I rather think it will be anyway whether we invite them or not, judging from a few remarks I've heard. What an experience the review etc. must have been. I'll bet D Battery looked grand and no wonder they led the Division. I couldn't help spilling that little bit of "info" to C. C. I hope you don't mind. Were you at all overcome at greeting the Prince of Wales? He doesn't mean any more to me than the orneriest doughboy but I know I'd choke if I had to address him. It was splendid you got to shake hands with Pershing. I'll be just about ready alrighty when you come and then we can settle the last details. Mary said Mr. Morgan had a job waiting for you [full letter and transcription at link]

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[deadpresidents]

"March 16, 1853: On the 14th, Rutherford and I had our daguerreotypes taken. No difficulty in getting pictures to suit us. The large one is for ourselves, that as old age draws on we might see what we once were. Rutherford has that expression I love to see. 'Tis a mixed one, love, happiness, and a tinge of pride -- enough to give a noble, manly air. And he seems to have just said, "This is my wife." How dearly I will prize this picture. It will always bring sweet memories. And whatever shall be our lot, may he retain that look. It is a speaking one, but I cannot tell all it shows. To me the greatest and best expression is only love. I am pleased with mine. It has rather a meek, subdued air, clinging to its only support, -- remove that and it will droop.

In the miniature case which is taken for Aunt Lu, Ruddy says mine is the best picture of me he ever saw. It has a little more independence than the others, at least, a stiffer head or neck. It may be a prettier picture, but it does not show my heart so well. Dear Ruddy's darling face must be changed. It has the fierce look, so different from the first. Indeed I fear, when looking at it, he does not love me half so well; but that is only a daguerreotype story."

-- Entry made by Lucy Webb Hayes in Rutherford B. Hayes's diary describing the daguerreotypes that they had taken in March 1853. In response to Mrs. Hayes's entry, Rutherford B. Hayes added this note:

"What a dishonest artist he must be who can so misrepresent my features and expression as to give it a look which even seems to doubt between love and indifference towards you!"

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This Day in History: A Love Story of the Revolution

On this day in 1777, future President John Adams writes three letters to his wife, Abigail Adams. The partnership and marriage between those two Patriots—and the strains it endured because of the American Revolution—is one of those stories that more people should know.

As he wrote these letters, John was in Philadelphia, serving in the Continental Congress. Abigail was still at home in Massachusetts. Such distance between them was, unfortunately, all too common during their marriage. John could be gone for months at a time while serving in Congress—and it got even worse once he started traveling overseas to negotiate on America’s behalf. Those trips could take him away from home for years. Abigail could wait months just to get a letter.

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-abigail-john-adams

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Melania.

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Madame Alexander First Lady Cards

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Melania Trump and baby Barron.

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a quick little jackie kennedy doodle :3 pic + reference under cut !!

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First Ladies’ necklaces (description below)

Martha Washington, Abigail Adams and Elizabeth Monroe 

The Mount Vernon website writes:

Garnets were in vogue when Martha Washington received this necklace from England in 1759. The semi-precious stones, ranging in color from deep pinks to purplish-reds, were probably mined in Bohemia, while the necklace's style and mounting suggest a Parisian maker. It ultimately retailed in goldsmith Susanna Passavant's Ludgate Hill shop, where the Washingtons' agent in London purchased it. Mrs. Washington's fondness for garnets is evident from the number of necklaces, earrings, pins, hair ornaments and rings she assembled for herself and her daughter, Patsy (1757-1773), in the 1750s and 1760s. Properly faceted and set, this hard stone out-sparkled even more costly precious gems such as diamonds.

Faux Pearl necklace, the ribbon is a prop.

These Faux pearls, made of glass, were called Roman pearls and were worn to emulate the more expensive natural pearls.

It might be the same or a similar necklace as she wears in her 1766 portrait.

Pearls were associated with love and virtue, so it was probably made around her wedding in 1764.

It belongs to the Smithsonian

A golden topaz necklace worn by Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, the fifth First Lady.

These lavish jewelry suit Elizabeth Monroe, who seemed to favor the customs of European Royalty. She also owned amethyst tiara. It belongs to the Smithsonian

Write in the tags which one is the most beautiful

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[todaysdocument]

Eleanor Roosevelt chats with a U.S. soldier about conditions in England, 11/8/1942. 

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Image description: Three people in a building with rough support pillars and exposed beams: a Black sergeant, wearing a heavy calf-length coat, a helmet, and a belt of ammunition pouches; Mrs. Roosevelt, wearing a wide flat hat, a dark coat, and one of those fox furs that still has the legs on it; and a white man in a double-breasted coat and an officer’s cap.

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explain rn

okay so im watching this first ladies doc and on Eleanor Roosevelt's episode, there was a part where, when she was 14, three locks appeared on her bedroom door. now that's... not normal but this is also a strict ass household and maybe it was normal for the 1890s (spoiler it was not in any sense).

but then, the lady explaining it, says a friend visited and asked why there were three locks on her door.

Eleanor said, "To keep my uncles out."

...

fucking pardon what

#excuse me what did you just say #that's concerning #motherfucking concerning through the ROOF #like yeah is the only uncle i know TR and don't know the others yes but that doesn't mean motherfucking ANYTHING #eleanor roosevelt #first ladies #show/documentary name btw

[fashionbooksmilano]

The World in Vogue

Seven momentous decades of the namnes, the faces, and the writing that have held the public eye in  The Arts Society Literature Theatre Fashion Sports Worls Affairs

Secker & Warburg, London 1963, 416 pages, 25 x 33 cm.,

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 A stunning collection of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures from around the world, drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers. These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraits—in studios or on location—that caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Paul Rudnick, Truman Capote, Francis Wyndham, Jeffrey Steingarten, Joan Juliet Buck, William Norwich, Gloria Steinem, Georgina Howell, Vicki Woods, Marina Rust, Michael Specter, and Jonathan Van Meter tell you the stories behind these figures and events. Here are the glamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, Lauren Davis in Cartagena, and Minnie Cushing in Newport; Truman Capote writing about cruising the Yugoslavian coast with Lee Radziwill, Luciana Pignatelli, and the Agnellis; gardens from East Hampton to Corfu designed by landscape architect Miranda Brooks; Inès de La Fressange’s apartment in Paris; Gloria Steinem reporting on the 540 masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel; the gardens of Valentino’s seventeenth-century Château de Wideville, outside Paris; the designers, the best-dressed, and the stars at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum; Mick Jagger and his family in Mustique; Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama; Kate Moss, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ali MacGraw, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Cher, Iman and David Bowie, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Rampling, and many more. Richly illustrated in black-and-white and color, The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places is a stunning look at portraits, houses, gardens, and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.

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US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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