President (Silent Cal) Calvin Coolidge & his wife Grace visited Rapid City, South Dakota in August of 1927. Coolidge posed next to a Sioux Indian from the nearby reservation where Custer's Last Stand took place. Coolidge was in South Dakota to dedicate the new Mount Rushmore Memorial as the carving began.

1970's portrait of the 36th President of the United States.  Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texan Democrat, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a televised ceremony at the White House.  Later that same year he signed the Economic Opportunity Act establishing the Office of Economic Opportunity to direct and coordinate a variety of educational, employment, and training programs which were the foundation of his "War on Poverty". 

July 20, 1945:  General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George Patton, and President Truman at the ceremony at the U.S. Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin, Germany, where the American Flag was first officially raised.  President Truman was in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference.  Photo from negative courtesy Harry S. Truman Library, U.S. Army.

Incredibly sharp photograph of President Harry S. Truman at his White House desk in 1947.  Undoubtedly, this was an official White House photo.  Truman became president when F.D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945.  Many doubted his leadership abilities at the time, but decisions made by Truman ensured the end of World War II; he approved the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945. 

A press photo from the 1956 Republican Presidential Campaign, the "Ike & Dick Ticket". Pictured are Mamie, Ike, Pat and Dick. 

Famed publicity photograph of President John F. Kennedy at his desk with son John, Jr.  This was one of many shots released to the media to help portray the informal life of the presidential family.  Taken in the 1960's.

Great color photograph of a somber President Lyndon Baines Johnson standing behind his White House desk. Note the pink Post-it Note on the document on his desk.

Excellent 1963 photograph of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President from 1963 through 1969.  A Texas statesman,  his vision of "A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere became his agenda for Congress.  When he left office, peace talks from Viet Nam were under way; he did not live to see them succeed, but died suddently of a heart attack at his Texas ranch on January 22, 1973. 

Photo taken April 9, 1962, as President John F. Kennedy greets members of the Washington D.C. Senators baseball team at the first game of the season.  In keeping with tradition, the President threw out the first ball at the Senators Spring opener at the D.C. Stadium in the team's second season as the American League's second Senators franchise.  The park was later renamed RFK Stadium after the late President's slain brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

Wonderful photograph of President Harry Truman taken in the replica of the oval office in the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Kansas.  Note the fake window behind him on the left.  Probably dates from about 1962 to 1968, a period when he frequented the Library.