Woodrow Wilson Archives at UNLProject Editor: Sarah Dieter
Photographs of President Woodrow Wilson
This section of the exhibit represents the different aspects of President Wilson's life. A number of the images here were taken at the Peace Conference in Paris, France, while others are more personal, being portraits or pictures of the President's family.
Photographs from the Paris Peace Conference
President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith exit the S.S. George Washington upon arrival in France for the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles. RG 12/14/12 |
A carriage carries President Wilson and French President Poincare as they greet the crowd on a ride through the city. RG 12/14/12 |
President Wilson holds open an automobile door for Edith Wilson at Quai d'Orsay in Paris. RG 12/14/12 |
Edith Wilson shares a carriage with Mrs. Poincare. RG 12/14/12 |
President Wilson sits front and center, posed on a ship among the Navy at this base in France. RG 12/14/12 |
President Wilson stands in his vehicle while men on horses line the streets and escort him through Paris. RG 12/14/12 |
President Wilson shakes hands with a military official. RG 12/14/12 |
Portraits and Scrapbook Images
Wilson as a professor at Wesleyan. MS 50 |
Woodrow Wilson in his robe as President of Princeton University. MS 50 |
Portrait of Woodrow Wilson at time of his candidacy for Governor of New Jersey. MS 50 |
President Wilson shakes the hand of newly elected Vice-President Thomas Marshall. MS 50 |
The large crowd at President Wilson's First Inaugural Address in 1912. The caption says, "The New President delivering his Inaugural Address from the steps of the Capitol after requesting that the cadets, who had been drawn up to keep the crowd back, should allow the people to approach close to the platform." MS 50 |
President Wilson Addresses Congress. The caption reads, "President Wilson Addressing the Congress in joint session on April 19 on the subject of the submarine controversy with Germany." MS 50 |
The President's Family
This scrapbook page shows a collection of various clippings of President Wilson's family.
They include his grandchildren (top), with a caption that says, "Left to right-Wilson Howe, grandchildren of President Wilson; Elizabeth Wilson [unclear]ginia Peyton Howe and Josephine Wilson Cohran, grandnieces," his wife (bottom left) with a caption that says, "The happpiest Woman in Washington on March 4. The new mistress of the White House," and his father (bottom right) with a caption that reads, "Woodrow Wilson's father, the Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, who was professor at Hampden Sidney College, VA. and a Presbyterian minister." MS 50 |
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