Presidential File filing series (Library of Congress)
still image
graphic
Portrait photographs-1790-2010.
Portrait prints-1790-2010.
1790
2000
monographic
1790-present, bulk 1800-1960
15,000 photographs and prints.
Organized in one filing series with the call number prefix PRES FILE. This browsing file in the Prints & Photographs Division Reading Room is arranged alphabetically by surname of each president, with subdivisions by type of portrait and major activities.
Portraits and other pictures relating to the lives, careers, and families of U.S. presidents, including their homes and birthplaces, friends and associates in group portraits, political campaigns, inaugurations, and statues and cartoons. Most of the portraits depict presidents prior to Harry Truman, with extensive documentation for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Publication rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"
The portrait media range from engravings, lithographs, and etchings to original photographs and copies of paintings.
Digitized images of more than 1,500 items in the file and their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, by searching using the call number "PRES FILE,"
Gift, purchase, and copyright deposit; various sources; 1800s to present.
The reference aid "Presidents of the United States: Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress" is available online, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/057_intr.html
The reference aid "First Ladies of the United States: Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress" is available online, http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/list/058_intr.html
The reference aid "By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies" was available as part of the American Memory program from ca. 1998 to 2013.
The Presidential Index (a 12-drawer card file) lists portraits for which copy negatives have been made and provides cross references to some portraits housed in other collections.
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Washington, George,
1732-1799
Adams, John,
1735-1826
Jefferson, Thomas,
1743-1826
Madison, James,
1751-1836
Monroe, James,
1758-1831
Adams, John Quincy,
1767-1848
Jackson, Andrew,
1767-1845
Van Buren, Martin,
1782-1862
Harrison, William Henry,
1773-1841
Tyler, John,
1790-1862
Polk, James K. (James Knox),
1795-1849
Taylor, Zachary,
1784-1850
Fillmore, Millard,
1800-1874
Pierce, Franklin,
1804-1869
Buchanan, James,
1791-1868
Lincoln, Abraham,
1809-1865
Johnson, Andrew,
1808-1875
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),
1822-1885
Hayes, Rutherford B.,
1822-1893
Garfield, James A. (James Abram),
1831-1881
Arthur, Chester Alan,
1829-1886
Cleveland, Grover,
1837-1908
Harrison, Benjamin,
1833-1901
McKinley, William,
1843-1901
Roosevelt, Theodore,
1858-1919
Taft, William H. (William Howard),
1857-1930
Wilson, Woodrow,
1856-1924
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel),
1865-1923
Coolidge, Calvin
1872-1933
Hoover, Herbert,
1874-1964
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),
1882-1945
Truman, Harry S.,
1884-1972
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David),
1890-1969
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),
1917-1963
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines),
1908-1973
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous),
1913-1994
Ford, Gerald R.,
1913-2006
Carter, Jimmy,
1924-
Reagan, Ronald.
Bush, George,
1924-2018
Clinton, Bill,
1946-
Bush, George W. (George Walker),
1946-
Presidents
United States
Portraits
Presidents
United States
1790-2010
Presidents' spouses
United States
1790-2010
Government officials
1790-2010
Families
1790-2010
Dwellings
1790-2010
Inaugurations
1790-2010
Guide Record (Filing series: PRES FILE)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl .loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.80301
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