Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Although she at first came to public attention because she was married to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor herself became a strong, influential personality during and after Franklin's years in office. After Franklin's death in 1945, Eleanor continued to be an important figure, even becoming one of the first five U.S. delegates to the United Nations.
Learn more about this tall first lady (she was 5 feet 11 inches tall!) by browsing this collection of historic pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Portraits and Close-Ups of Eleanor Roosevelt
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Eleanor Roosevelt in a school portrait, close-up (1898)
- Portrait (1898)
- Eleanor's engagement portrait (1904)
- Eleanor Roosevelt wearing her wedding dress (1905)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in a portrait (1915)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, wearing a hat and fur shawl, in New York City (1940)
- Close-Up at Pearl Harbor (1943)
- Portrait (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, close-up (1949)
- Close-up (1951)
Eleanor as a Young Girl
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Dressed up in Hyde Park (1904)
- Standing together in San Remo, Italy (1905)
- Sharing a moment (1905)
- FDR and Eleanor (wearing a fur shawl and puffy hat) standing together in Hyde Park (1905)
- Sitting together on a few steps in Hyde Park (1906)
- Laughing on a beach together (1920)
- Sitting together (1922)
- FDR and Eleanor dressed up with Caroline O'Day and another man (1930)
- FDR leaning out of a car and Eleanor leaning against a fence (1930)
- Standing on the back of a train together (1932)
- Sitting together on a couch in Washington D.C. (1933)
Eleanor With Her Family
(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt with baby Anna (1907)
- FDR and Eleanor with baby Anna sitting on a porch together (1907)
- Franklin and Eleanor Sitting with Anna and James (1908)
- Formal portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt with Anna and baby James (1908)
- FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt with their children (1919)
- Eleanor Roosevelt with Anna, Elliott, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., John, and Chief (the dog) at Campobello (1920)
- Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt wrestling (?) (1925)
- FDR with Eleanor and John (1930)
- FDR and Eleanor standing with Sara Delano Roosevelt (1931)
- FDR and Eleanor (sitting) with Elliot and his wife (standing) in Warm Springs (1932)
- FDR and Eleanor with Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt (1934)
- Eleanor Roosevelt with John on horseback (1935)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park (1940)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting cheek to cheek with Anna Roosevelt (1941)
- FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt with thirteen of their grandchildren (1945)
Eleanor Visiting Troops
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Eleanor Roosevelt standing with a young man during her trip to Christmas Island in the South West Pacific (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt awards a young man the Purple Heart in New Caledonia (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt laughing with General Johnson in Efate, New Hebrides (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt talking with four sailors in Bora Bora (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting with a group of young women in Sydney, Australia (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt being served at an Army kitchen on the Galapagos Islands (1944)
- Eleanor Roosevelt in Sydney, Australia
Eleanor Roosevelt in Action
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Eleanor Roosevelt shooting a pistol at Chazy Lake, New York (1934)
- Eleanor and Nancy Cook showing off their accuracy after shooting pistols at Chazy Lake, New York (1934)
- Walking and smiling during her visit to the National Youth Administration in Quoddy Village, Maine (1941)
- Eleanor visiting the Gila River Japanese-American Internment Center (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt with Mrs. Winston Churchill speaking on the radio room of C.B.C. in Quebec (1944)
- Dressed in black at the dedication of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945)
- Standing at the microphone at the International Assembly of Women meeting (1946)
- Standing with paper in her hand at the United Nations for Human Rights Commission meeting (1947)
- Seated with a large number of young men in uniform at USMA in West Point (1951)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, holding a pen and paper, with Hungarian Freedom Fighters at Camp Roeder in Salzburg, Austria (1957)
Eleanor Alone
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting at a writing desk in New York City (1932)
- Eleanor Roosevelt riding a horse (1934)
- Eleanor Roosevelt smiling while she votes in Hyde Park (1936)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala walking near some water at Val Kill in Hyde Park (1947)
- Eleanor Roosevelt surrounded by flowers in Belgium (1948)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting with Fala on her lap at Val Kill in Hyde Park (1948)
- Eleanor Roosevelt standing near her car outside the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (1949)
- Eleanor Roosevelt walking with Fala at Val Kill in Hyde Park (1951)
- Eleanor Roosevelt looking at a piece of paper (1956)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in a breeze (1957)
Eleanor With Famous People
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and Will Rogers in Los Angeles, California (1933)
- Eleanor Roosevelt standing and holding hands with Ruth Bryan Owen (1934)
- Eleanor with Princess Alice and Mrs. Winston Churchill (1944)
- Eleanor Roosevelt talking and walking with Eisenhower in Hyde Park (1945)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and DeGaulle at Franklin D. Roosevelt's grave (1945)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman holding up a United Nations flag (1950)
- Eleanor Roosevelt talking with Karl Menninger in Topeka, Kansas (1959)
- Eleanor Roosevelt standing with Harry Truman (1959)
- Eleanor and John F. Kennedy (1960)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy (1960)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy (1961)
Eleanor With Others
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
- Eleanor Roosevelt standing with Earl Miller (1920)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting on a beach with Earl Miller and Mrs. Hershey Martin (1930)
- Eleanor Roosevelt laughing with Westbrook Pegler and two other men (1938)
- Eleanor Roosevelt sitting with Malvina Thompson and Edith Helm looking over some papers (1941)
- Eleanor Roosevelt with another woman holding a can (1942)
- Eleanor sitting with another woman (1943)
- Eleanor Roosevelt with Fannie Hurst (1962)
