Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
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A Japanese spaniel, c. 2005.
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Biographies & Portraits
Animals, whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays, have long been a major part of White House...
Biographies & Portraits
Family life in the Roosevelt White House was lively and often hectic. In 1933, when FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt (ER) moved...
Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along...
Families taking up residence at the White House since the Theodore Roosevelt administration have encountered the public's insatiable appetite for...
Pet keeping in America evolved from Native Americans' and European settlers' domesticating animals as hunters, guardians, workers, and companions. Horses,...
As companions, the playmates of first children, or objects of beauty, status, and pleasure, the pets of the White House...
"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," said Harry Truman. Portraits of presidents with their dogs in...
With the growth of pet keeping and the widespread marketing of animals and pet products in American society by the...
Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along...