Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies: A Selected Bibliography


Other images of presidents and first ladies held by the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress can be seen by consulting the heavily illustrated books listed in this selected bibliography.

Aikman, Lonnelle. The Living White House. 10th ed. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1996.

Caroli, Betty Boyd. America's First Ladies. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest, 1996.

Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. Popular Images of the Presidency: From Washington to Lincoln. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1991.

Freidel, Frank. The Presidents of the United States of America. 14th ed. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1995.

Guidas, John. The White House: Resources for Research at the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992.

Jensen, Amy (La Follette). The White House and Its Thirty-Five Families. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1970.

Mayo, Edith P., ed. The Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies. New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

Milhollen, Hirst Dillon, and Milton Kaplan. Presidents on Parade. New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, 1948.

Seale, William. The President's House: A History. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Society, 1986.


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