Collection The Ford White House 1974 - 1977
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the nation’s only unelected president and vice president, served thirteen terms in Congress before rising to...
Thomas Greene Bethune
- Credit
- National Portrait Gallery
Thomas Greene Bethune
Photograph of blind piano prodigy Thomas Greene Bethune "Blind Tom", the first African American artist to perform at the White House.
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