Franklin D. Roosevelt wearing bowler hat and frock coat. Eleanor Roosevelt and FDR attending various political and social events, all outdoors
The Roosevelt family recreating. Eleanor Roosevelt with dogs and kids. Franklin D Roosevelt sitting in wicker chair on lawn, writing.
Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt talking outside house. FDR using cane for support.
Eleanor Roosevelt at various political rallies and functions, including her cutting ceremonial ribbon, christening a battleship, holding a newborn baby in a nursery, etc.
Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in open convertible, he wearing top hat and she holding flower bouquet. FDR wearing mortarboard cap and gown after commencement ceremony, talking with unidentified cardinal, Eleanor between them.
Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at a women's rallies (no real audio of speech).
A lighthouse and sailboat in New England, people standing on shore waving. Sailboat coasting in the water, Franklin D Roosevelt at the helm. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Roosevelt children. FDR writing at a desk. MS of FDR standing in doorway of home with a walking cane (stricken by polio). FDR and Eleanor standing outside their home. FDR swimming at Warm Springs, Georgia, (physcial therapy for polio). FDR driving a convertible, smoking a cigarette.
Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to teenagers. Teenagers standing and listening. Unidentified Teen Boy, Mrs. Roosevelt, I come from Eastern Colorado where the problem of dust storms has been particularly acute. And I d like to know if you think the problem of soil conservation is an important one. Eleanor Roosevelt, I think it s one of the most important problems we have. I think we ve made a beginning and some of us feel that the problem of soil conservation is basic to the problem of conserving our people. Because you will notice that where the soil is depleted, almost always you have a people that have lowered their standards of living. Therefore it is basic to the whole problem of the country.
Master 1495 - Tape 1 LS white people standing, talking outside row of wood houses on Sunday afternoon. MS sign: "We accept food tickets and cash relief checks." Great DOF MS old white men sitting on curb with fellow unemployed men, talking. Sideview MS businessman J.P. MORGAN raising right hand to testify before investigative committee (might be congressional, and if so, this was shot in 1933). TLS Budget Director LEW DOUGLAS -- wearing wool business suit, fedora hat, carrying leather briefcase-- descending stairs of nice walkup home. CU member of FDR brain trust RAYMOND MOLEY posing for cam; note the shifty eyes. LS/MSs U.S. President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt) working with aides in office at Hyde Park home. MSs grim-faced President Roosevelt attending funeral of confidante Louis McHenry Howe in 1936; FDR stands beside wife ELEANOR ROOSEVELT & holds onto arm of young white man for support; MSs U.S. Navy sailors carrying casket to gravesite. MS unemployed white man wearing snap brim hat walking w/ body placard on street: "Unemployed." H/a TLS crowd (behold the plethora of overcoats & fedoras) standing outside employment agency office; MS job postings for waitstaff, dishwashers; TLS crowd outside Geneva Employment Agency. TLS white men filing into missionary soup kitchen; MS sign stating as much; MS soup being ladled onto plate; MS down-on-their-luck men filing past cam as they enter soup kitchen. MS President Roosevelt sitting at desk, delivering address (low audio): "You people must have faith. You must not be stampeded by rumors or guesses. Let us unite in banishing fear. We have provided the machinery to restore our financial system, and it is up to you to support & make it work. It is your problem, my friends, no less than it is mine. Together, we cannot fail." MS NRA (National Recovery Administration) flag hanging over sidewalk. MS NRA poster in window of Chase Safe Deposit Company. Panning LS long line of men standing in line in city, queue snaking around corner. MS young white male CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) recruits handing papers to U.S. Army officers, boarding bus; TLS/MSs Rialto buses pulling away, eager boys waving & smiling. TLS CCC recruits setting up camp, making beds. Great head-on TLS crowd of white adults waving, cheering on street. Excellent extreme high angle TLS stockbrokers in pit; MS middle-aged white male stockbroker working frantically on floor of stock exchange. MS young white man wearing spiffy suit & fedora hat buying apple from down on his luck apple seller on city corner. MS artist drawing NRA poster. LSs large NRA parade in New York City.
Universal Newsreel "Mrs. Roosevelt Helps Dedicated Negro Boys Club" African-american men in uniform march in a parade. White police officers perform crowd control for the African American spectators. Men in uniform at attention. Pan across the building for the Boys Club. Men receiveing honors. CU of very cute African American boys. Eleanor Roosevelt says a few words.
TLS civilians & Nazi SA brown shirts saluting ADOLF HITLER; MS smiling Nazi SA soldier holding young son in arms in similar brown shirt uniform, both making fascist Nazi salute; TLS SA soldiers marching, saluting; TLS glowering Adolf Hitler saluting passing troops, ERNST ROEHM and HERMANN GOERING at his feet. TLS President Franklin D. Roosevelt & First Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT greeting Japanese diplomats at the White House. TLSs Japanese imperial army soldiers standing at attention, maneuvering at a military ceremony. TLSs Nazi SA stormtroopers on military parade in Berlin. MS Italian dictator BENITO MUSSOLINI saluting, watching Italian soldiers march; MS Black Shirts marching; MS soldiers standing at attention, saluting with knives thrust into the air. TLS/MSs students protesting Japanese warmongering in Beijing, China, 1936; MS young Chinese man speaking into megaphone.
TLS/MSs First Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT christening a ship. TLS/MSs Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to a large group of women in that high, affected nasally voice of hers.
MSs Franklin and ELEANOR ROOSEVELT riding in car, arriving at stop on campaign trail, 1936; MS/LSs FDR speaking to large outdoor crowd. MSs men reading postings outside employment agency. MSs men at unemployment agency. LS Supreme Court building. American flag waving from flagpole in FG.
1936 Presidential Campaign. FDR and wife Eleanor on train. Shot of white kids waving flags. Shot of black kids waving flags. Train starts to move. View from train passing crowds. MCU FDR on moving train, waving to crowd. Rallies with pro-FDR signs. CU Candidate Alf Landon in train car. View from train passing GOP crowd with live elephants. Republican crowds cheering. Landon shakes hands. Parade with Landon float. Election 1936. Crowds on street watch moving electric light headlines on re-election of President Roosevelt. Victorious FDR and Eleanor.
Presidential Inauguration 1933: MS Herbert Hoover & wife leaving the White House on FDR inauguration day 1933, they shake hands w/Eleanor Roosevelt then Hoover hops into backseat of car where FDR is waiting. MS/CU/MLS as FDR & Hoover ride to the inauguration.
Governor of New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and two of their sons standing by airplane, talking to adult Caucasian male press corps before flying to Democratic National Convention: "We have a perfect day for this trip. I'm very happy to be going out to Chicago. Everybody knows the reason why I'm so happy." Commercial monoplane taking off from airfield.
Low quality. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at Howard University.
FDR on presidential campaign trail, 1932: speaking from caboose of train, crowds, Eleanor accepting a large bouquet of flowers
Travelling shot of crowd at rail station on FDR campaign. FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt at formal ball during campaign.
Eleanor Roosevelt at various public events - meet and greet, boards a pullman train, a black porter attending to her, at a Boy Scout outing - weenie roast - hot dogs roasting on a stick. Eleanor kneeling by the fire, roasting and smiling.
Eleanor Roosevelt meeting with labor unions and taking a ride into a coal mine.
Eleanor Roosevelt visits hospice for the elderly; TLS/MSs Eleanor dancing the box-step at a dance, changing partners.
Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to reporter beside train "I'm very glad to be back. We had a perfectly delightful trip. We enjoyed every minute of it." Eleanor walking to car, stopping for a photographer before getting in.
Eleanor Roosevelt with FDR. First Lady Eleanor modeling clothes at a fashion photo shoot. Eleanor in an evening gown, spinning a bit. Eleanor and lady-friends riding horses through the woods, an African-American military officer accompanying them.
Marian Anderson performs at the Lincoln Memorial, April 9, 1939. Washington Mall, Washington Monument in background. Crowds gathered at the Memorial and reflecting pool. Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt descending steps to mic and waiting pianist. Marian Anderson performing, statue of Abraham Lincoln in background. Integrated crowd.
Eleanor Roosevelt testifying to Senate Subcommittee regarding comments she made on condition of the elderly.
Eleanor Roosevelt knitting while Franklin D Roosevelt looks over papers in backyard of Hyde Park home. Three of their grandchildren enter frame.
Franklin D Roosevelt, wife Eleanor Roosevelt, and the immediate family on the patio of their Hyde Park home, posing for camera. FDR talking to the camera, introducing the Roosevelt family, the camera panning to each of them as they introduced. FDR, Eleanor and their eldest grandchild, a cute little blond girl named Sissy. FDR asks, "What's our campaign slogan, Sissy?". Sissy replies, "Happy days are here again." Appears to have been taken during 1932 Presidential campaign.
January 20, 1937. Franklin D Roosevelt Inauguration. Panning shot of crowds huddled at the steps of the Capitol Building on a rainy day. Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevlet riding in convertible en route to Inauguration.
Eleanor Roosevelt and the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Washington DC Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in a White House den, also talking about the World's Fair (also using a script).
Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to teenagers. Teenagers standing and listening. Unidentified Teen Boy, Mrs. Roosevelt, we who come from the rural area are interested in finding out just what steps we can take to secure grater collaboration with urban youth on these problems that we face. Eleanor Roosevelt, Well I think what you are doing here, coming to a meeting of the American Youth Congress, and in getting together by yourselves and discussing your special problems and then in discussing how you can integrate those problems with the problems of industrial youth in urban areas of the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at the UN General Assembly regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (real audio of speech) "This may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation of the declaration of the Rights of Man by the French people in 1789, the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the United States, and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries. Our desire for peace lies behind this declaration. The realization that the flagrant violation of human rights by Nazi and Fascist countries sowed the seeds of the last world war has supplied the impetus for the work. Man must have freedom in which to develop his full stature. And through common effort, raise the level of human dignity."
Excerpt from Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention, July 18, 1940 with compilation of footage of her, FDR, book burning, etc. MS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, WINSON CHURCHILL, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. TLS crowd, sign, "Our Next President Franklin D. Roosevelt," crowd. MS FDR shaking hands w/man wiping his own sweaty face. TLS/HA crowd. MS scenes from FDR's campaign, whistle stops, views from train of crowd in rain, signing documents. CU FDR smiling. MS voting. LS New York City at night. MS German, Nazis burning books. MS people in lines. MCU President Roosevelt working. MS Eleanor talking to people etc. "I cannot possibly bring you a message from the President because he will give you his own message. But, as I am here, I want you to know that no one could not be conscious of the confidence which you have expressed in him. I know and you know that any man who is in an office of great responsibility today faces a heavier responsibility, perhaps, than any man has ever faced before in this country. Therefore, to be a candidate of either great political party is a very serious and solemn thing. You cannot treat it as you would treat an ordinary nomination in an ordinary time. We people in the United States have got to realize today that we face a grave and serious situation. Therefore, this year the candidate who is the President of the United States cannot make a campaign in the usual sense of the word. He must be on his job. So each and every one of you who give him this responsibility, in giving it to him assume for yourselves a very grave responsibility because you will make the campaign. You will have to rise above considerations which are narrow and partisan. You must know that this is the time when all good men and women give every bit of service and strength to their country that they have to give."
Eleanor Roosevelt being welcomed at a luncheon, taking seat at head table. Eleanor Roosevelt sitting and listening as she is introduced. She stands and smiles. Eleanor Roosevelt "I m very glad to be with you to preside over this roundtable because the subject that we re concerned with seems to me extremely important. You know it's a matter of history what women have done in the last hundred years. Now, we have to think through what our objectives are for the next hundred years. It seems to me that one of the things most closely felt and actually in the minds of every woman present here is how we are going to function so as to bring about a civilized and peaceful world. Now I m going to introduce the members of this roundtable who are to be joined, I hope, after they ve started the discussion all the delegates present who I m sure will have many things that are important to say. I d like to ask each person as they re introduced to stand up "
Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, NY. The Roosevelt clan standing by Christmas tree, posing for camera. Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt at dinner table.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) showing Eleanor destroyed buildings in London.
Eleanor Roosevelt visiting American troops in the South Pacific. MSs of Eleanor wearing Red Cross uniform visiting field hospitals and wounded soldiers.
FDR dies. Crowds at newsstand. People reading edition of the New York World-Telegram "Roosevelt Dies Suddenly". Montage of Franklin D Roosevelt funeral procession through Washington, DC, April 14, 1945. Flag-draped, horse-drawn casket on route. Mourners. Soldiers carrying casket into White House. FDR funeral at Hyde Park, New York, rifle salute, folding of American flag; presenting flag to Eleanor Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT & family out for a sail in sailboat, FDR smokes pipe. MS HARRY S. TRUMAN walking on path, shaking a hand.
Eleanor Roosevelt posing with other members of the United States delegation to the United Nations (1945-46). Eleanor at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Eleanor, Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights, opening the first session. Eleanor recognizing the Soviet delegate, who calls for refugees to be forced to return to their own countries. Eleanor says the delegate's point of order is out of order, the Soviet delegate stands and leaves. Eleanor walking to podium to speak to the UN General Assembly. Eleanor and the other US delegates, including Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R Michigan) sitting in the General Assembly.
Eleanor Roosevelt wearing a Red Cross uniform, speaking at a small rally, just as the Marines were ordered to leave Guadalcanal an officer found a pilot feeling very sad, looking depressed. He asked what s the matter with you? The pilot said I just can t go home, I haven t shot a Jap. And so the officer said, well listen I ll tell you what to do. You go up to that ridge over there and jump up all of a sudden and say - To hell with Hirohito! And they ll jump up, other people, all around and if you shoot first, you ll get a Jap. So he came by a little while later and the Marine was still looking very gloomy and he said did you do what I told you to do? Yes, sir. I ran up there and I did just as you told me to do. I said To hell with Hirohito and they jumped up just as you told me they would, but they all shouted To hell with Roosevelt!
Eleanor Roosevelt visiting various refugee camps and war-torn cities in post-war Europe. A woman gets to her knees and begs to Eleanor.
MS/CUs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table for press conference with Adlai Stevenson in Los Angeles, California. Eleanor Roosevelt presents her assessment of the Eisenhower administration's efforts to date: "In our domestic affairs we've had a theme song which has been peace and prosperity. For a long time we were told how wonderful everything was. Just lately in your papers I find there is a slight change in that theme song. They are now preparing us for three months of economic troubles... But just at this very moment I understand from the papers that Detroit's paper considers it a disaster area b/c..." mass unemployment among auto factory workers. "The peace and prosperity is perhaps being modified at the moment." Great smile from Mrs. Roosevelt.
MS former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT smiling, seated at table for press conference in Los Angeles, California. MSs Eleanor Roosevelt seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference. Mrs. Roosevelt says, "I think you know it was set up primarily to give information about the United Nations, and it has increased international education... more can always be done... you do need in greater part international education than we have n this country at present." An off-screen reporter asks Mrs. Roosevelt of her assessment of the Eisenhower administration to date. "I would say that as far as international affairs are concerned, we have fewer friends today than when the administration came into power. I should say we have met problems as they became crises. What we did not have was a preview of world situations and an effort to prevent the crises and find answers before you were in the crises. That would be my estimate of what has happened in our international affairs."
(MOS) TLS middle-aged white men in suits alighting Stevenson campaign bus in Los Angeles, California. Panning CU Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) alighting campaign bus, wearing light-colored suit. Panning TLS / traveling MS Adlai Stevenson walking and talking with former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT outside building. MS Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson smiling, talking, seated at table for press conference. MS white male reporters seated on couch, writing notes in notepad; pan right to middle-aged white male journalist cribbing, reading other reporter's notes. TLS Mrs. Roosevelt & Mr. Stevenson seated at table, still photographers taking pictures. MS white women exiting building, "Los Angeles International Airport" written on overhanging window. Panning MSs Eleanor Roosevelt smiling, walking, getting into awaiting Chrysler car; car pulls away, white woman at wheel.
MS former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT wearing fur stole, pearl necklace while exiting building at Los Angeles International Airport. Great CU Eleanor Roosevelt smiling, posing for cameras outside building. MS Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) wearing light-colored suit, alighting Delta airlines airplane, smiling and waving hat. Panning MS Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson walking through courtyard, smiling and talking and acknowledging camera. Panning MS Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Stevenson entering room for press conference, people standing and applauding. MSs Mrs. Roosevelt & Mr. Stevenson seated at table, posing for press photographers and newsreel cameras. MS Eleanor Roosevelt speaking: "I think he would make the best President. He's had the most experience for the questions I think that are most before us. And, as far as I can see, both in preparation and in experience, he would make the best President for the next four years."
Master 1493 - Tape 2 MSs former First Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at wood table marked only by prepared statement and microphone, Asian artwork-- including face of historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama-- on wall in BG; Eleanor Roosevelt wears thick glasses, pearl necklaces, plain dress, hair swept into bun while reading statement: "For some time, Senator Leman and I have been alarmed and concerned at the growing attacks upon organized labor and industrial peace and stability under the guise of so-called Right to Work Laws. The fact is that these laws do not guarantee any right to work. They are clearly and solely aimed at weakening the trade union movement and thus weakening the basic economy of the United States which is built upon mass consuming power. These laws are openly destructive of mature, sound collective bargaining. They prohibit management and labor from signing contracts with unions, which are in the best interest of both the company and the workers. They are clearly injurious to industrial peace."
MS former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. The two discuss civil rights. Mrs. Roosevelt says, "I think the Supreme Court decision has given our minorities a hope that one of their great opportunities, the opportunity of education, would really be open to them. But naturally any person who really studies the situation know that that opportunity can only come as other human rights are recognized and accepted."
Older Eleanor Roosevelt walking about airport, boarding airplane. Eleanor visiting politicians and children in India, Sweden, and Japan. MSs Eleanor talking with reporters or delivering speeches.
Eleanor Roosevelt in her late 70s, attending various public events, meeting political figures and children throughout the world.
MS/CUs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. Eleanor Roosevelt speaks: "I said that I thought the President (Eisenhower) always said the right things until his advisers step over him & frequently wither change what he said or simply didn t do what he had said." Applause, smiles. MS Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson laughing smiling, chatting. Mrs. Roosevelt says that she spoke at a Democratic function in the Bronx the previous night. Mr. Stevenson says Mrs. Roosevelt spoke in San Francisco that morning and will speak in Los Angeles that night before flying back to New York for further engagements including one at Hyde Park. He thanks her for her "extreme exertion" in helping the campaign. Mrs. Roosevelt says there was no exertion, that it was very easy. Mr. Stevenson: "Our definitions of exertion don t agree. This is the only respect in which I don t agree with Mrs. Roosevelt."
MS/CUs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. Adlai Stevenson speaks to Eleanor Roosevelt, saying that "we have been losing ground in the Cold War. The world is in a more disturbed situation now than it was a few years ago... I should like very much if you could let me have in a few words your views as to the areas of tension & the probability of improvement or further deterioration." Mrs. Roosevelt says she agrees with him entirely. "We've lost friends in many parts of the world." "That is one of the things we need badly: the feeling that we are ready to listen and learn as well as have some answers."
MSs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. Eleanor Roosevelt says Israel and the Middle East is the most dangerous point in the world. Adlai Stevenson says, "My own view is that it will not be likely that progress will be made in direct negotiations unless it has been made emphatically clear that the state of Israel is here to stay. That is cannot be erased and that we will not stand idly by and see this creation of the United Nations destroyed. And until the Arab states appreciate that this is a historical fact, it is not very likely that we'll make much progress in negotiations. That has been my view." Mrs. Roosevelt says, "I think had we taken that stand three years, we would now be through our difficulties instead of just beginning them..."
Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson at a tea social while the press snaps away.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Democratic Presidential candidate John F Kennedy talking and posing for the camera. Eleanor Roosevelt meeting with President John F. Kennedy and aides in Oval Office.
In Memoriam : Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Death has come to one of the world's most extraordinary and beloved women. The career of Eleanor Roosevelt is traced through this photographic record of a woman who's interests were as wide and as varied as her travels. From the days of her husband's attack of polio through the days in the White House to her subsequent career as world humanitarian, Eleanor Roosevelt was a true citizen of the world. Eleanor Roosevelt posing with Roosevelt family. Fireside chat? Eleanor seen in room with FDR. Eleanor knitting. CU President Roosevelt smiling. President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover greeting the Roosevelt s at the White House. Hoover and Roosevelt seated in back seat of open convertible. WS Capitol dome. President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt in parade route, inauguration day ? FDR and Mrs. Roosevelt waving to crowd. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at Girl Scout event. Eleanor seen speaking to girl scouts. World war two, Eleanor visiting military base. CU woman holding up camera, to take picture. Eleanor Roosevelt walking into hut, followed by nurses. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt exiting train in England, greeted by King George and Queen Elizabeth. CU Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wearing black straw hat with flowered trim. On the other side of the world, she was greeted by Prime Minister Nehru. Winston Churchill seen placing a wreath on the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor stands near by. Mrs. Roosevelt greets group of children. CU portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt seated next to children on sofa.
Adlai Stevenson speaking with reporters, announcing Eleanor Roosevelt's terminal illness. Eleanor Roosevelt dies. Funeral montage. Various political dignitaries arriving at the funeral mass in Hyde Park, NY, Nelson Rockefeller, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, John F Kennedy, and Jacqueline Kennedy. The priest and mass at final resting place. JFK, Lyndon Johnson (LBJ), and Harry Truman standing together at funeral.
