Collection Women and the White House
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- Photographer
- Frances Benjamin Johnston
- Date of Work
- 1902-1909
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- Library of Congress
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
This three-quarters length portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston shows Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, seated on a wicker chair holding a parasol.
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