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...
Presidential Inaugurations - Photo 5
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- Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, George Washington University
Presidential Inaugurations - Photo 5
A women's suffrage protest held the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913.
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