Eleanor and Franklin (159 page)

Honeymoon photograph taken in the Italian Alps.

Eleanor and Franklin on the steps at Hyde Park. Their first child, Anna, was born in May 1906.

Anna, now a one-year-old, with her delighted parents. The dog's name was Duffy. 1907.

Four generations—Grandma Hall, Mrs. Stanley Mortimer (Aunt Tissie), Eleanor (standing), and Anna, who is looking at a copy of Theodore Roosevelt's magazine, the
Outlook
. About 1913.

Eleanor (right) loved to go on picnics. This is one at Campobello, August 1913.

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt reviewing the Victory Fleet on its return from Europe, December 26, 1918. Eleanor is second from the left.

The notification ceremony at Hyde Park, August 9, 1920, after FDR had been nominated for vice president. At Eleanor's right are Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, the McAdoos, Homer Cummings, and Governor and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith.

Family picture, 1920. Elliott sits just below his father. Franklin Jr. and John are in front with Chief, Anna's dog. Sitting on Eleanor's left is James, and in front of them, Anna.

Campaigning for Alfred E. Smith in 1924. A meeting at Eleanor's Sixty-fifth Street house in New York. Eleanor sits facing Louis Howe.

Nancy Cook, at Eleanor's right, and Marion Dickerman, at her left, became Eleanor's closest friends. Together they built a cottage and operated a furniture factory at Val-Kill. Marion ran Todhunter School where Eleanor was vice principal. Nancy Cook was director of the women's division of the New York State Democratic Committee, in which Eleanor became the key figure.

A Roosevelt family portrait on Hyde Park Terrace on September 15, 1931. (Left to right: Sara, FDR, Sistie, Anna, Buzzie. Back left to right: John, Betsy, James, Eleanor, Elliot, Curtis Dall, and Franklin Jr.)

The swimming pool at Val-Kill. From the left: FDR, Missy LeHand, and Eleanor.

New York City's ebullient Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, director of the Office of Civilian Defense, with Eleanor, after he had appointed her assistant director, calling her “America's No. 1 Volunteer.”