Laddie Boy with His Portrait
In this black and white photograph, the Hardings family pet Airedale terrier, Laddie Boy, is sitting next to his radiotone portrait in silver. The portrait was presented that day to First Lady Florence Kling Harding by Alfred H. Retler. Hardings presidential campaign slogan was "Return to Normalcy" following the end of World War I, and Laddie Boy was the perfect representation of this shift. He even sat in on meetings and had his own cabinet chair. This photograph is from the Herbert E. French Collection, of the National Photo Company at the Library of Congress, which captured life in Washington, D.C., from the Wilson to the Hoover administrations.
- Photographer
- Herbert E. French
- Date of Work
- July 31, 1922
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- Library of Congress