Eleanor Roosevelt casts her ballot in Hyde Park, NY, in 1936 and 1960.

Mrs. Roosevelt was 36 when the 19th amendment was added to the Constitution.

The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified on August 18, 1920, prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex.

Image: Eleanor Roosevelt votes in Hyde Park, 11/03/1936 (ARC 196125), FDR Presidential Library

Image: Eleanor Roosevelt votes in Hyde Park, 11/06/1960 (ARC 195612), FDR Presidential Library

October is American Archives Month—and it’s also the birth month of Eleanor Roosevelt, born on October 11 in 1884. Did you know that FDR established the first Presidential Library? So for today, in honor of the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and in honor of American archives, we’re highlighting the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on our blog: http://go.usa.gov/Y8cF Image: Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Temple, July 1938. ARC Identifier 195615.
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October is American Archives Month—and it’s also the birth month of Eleanor Roosevelt, born on October 11 in 1884.

Did you know that FDR established the first Presidential Library? So for today, in honor of the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and in honor of American archives, we’re highlighting the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on our blog: http://go.usa.gov/Y8cF


Image: Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Temple, July 1938. ARC Identifier 195615.
See the original photograph in ”The Roosevelts: Public Figures, Private Lives,” a new exhibit opening this spring at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Franklin Roosevelt’s harsher critics sometimes compared him to a dictator. In 1934, the President and his staff turned this criticism into a lighthearted joke at FDR’s 52nd birthday party. Roosevelt is Caesar, and Eleanor Roosevelt is sitting behind the President dressed as the Oracle of Delphi. Find out who wore the toga in this blog post.
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See the original photograph in ”The Roosevelts: Public Figures, Private Lives,” a new exhibit opening this spring at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Franklin Roosevelt’s harsher critics sometimes compared him to a dictator. In 1934, the President and his staff turned this criticism into a lighthearted joke at FDR’s 52nd birthday party. Roosevelt is Caesar, and Eleanor Roosevelt is sitting behind the President dressed as the Oracle of Delphi. Find out who wore the toga in this blog post.