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Woodrow Wilson's daughters, I assume?

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2478431234/ for another picture of Eleanor and Jessie.

How unfortunate that the girls look just like their father.

They traveled with their father for a month's vacation on Bermuda shortly after he had been elected President of the U.S. NYT of Nov 17, 1912 describes the departure and first day aboard the Bermudian query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE6DE1E3AE633A... NYT of Dec 17, 1912 describes the vacation after their return on Dec 16. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2061EFA355E13738...

Woodrow Wilson had a daughter Eleanor. Image # 3244338 [ www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=1&... ] at Getty Images shows her and I think it's the same woman. Similar picture at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c31915 She married William Gibbs McAdoo in the White House on May 7, 1914. See hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15800 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36415 suggests that the young woman looking at her behind the man in foreground) is her sister, Jessie

Thanks for the information! We'll add it to the source data and reload the description.

Date inscribed on the negative (in reverse) appears to be from 1913, which would make this a few months after Woodrow Wilson assumed the Presidency on March 4, 1913. (View large.) William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, was widowed in 1912. In 1913 he began courting Eleanor, Wilson's youngest daughter, who accepted his proposal, even though at 50 he was 27 years older than she. Woodrow Wilson was not thrilled by the idea, but did not prevent the marriage. McAdoo and Eleanor were divorced in 1934.

Looks to me like President Woodrow Wilson's first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, on the right. Wikipedia article. She died in 1914. I'll let someone else figure out which of the Wilson daughters this is. Wilson's summer home in the first years of his presidency, which this must be from as the first Mrs. Wilson is still alive, was in Cornish, New Hampshire.

Ellen Axson Wilson and her daughter Jessie (for comparison's sake):

A story in the New York Times (July 6, 1913) reported that Wilson had seen the New Hampshire summer White House on that day, for the first time ever. On arrival, he kissed his wife, and his daughter, "Miss Eleanor." Eleanor is the girl in the photo. Daughter Jessie arrived later in the evening, with her fiance, Francis Sayre. Daughter Margaret, visiting in Madison, Wisconsin, was not present. Here is the NYT story: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E2DC153FE6...

Thanks for helping to sort out who is pictured and likely when. It does appear to be Pres. Wilson with Ellen Axson Wilson and daughter Eleanor. There's a nice photo of Jessie and Eleanor together that can be viewed in our online catalog: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36415 . We'll add information to the description when we update the record.

About the summer White House see The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 13, 1913, SECTION FIVE, Image 56 oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1913-07-13/ed-1/se...