Gerald R. Ford
Childhood 
  1913-1914
  1915
  1916-1919
  1920-1923
  1924-1927
High School
University of Michigan
Yale University
World War II
Gerald Ford's Homes

Betty Bloomer Ford
Bloomer Family

Childhood & Youth
  1921-1937
  1938-1945

Gerald & Betty Ford
Wedding
Campaign for Congress
Congressional Years
  1950-1953
  1956-1958
  1959-1960
  1961-1962
  1964-1967
  1968-1971
  1972
Vice President

White House photos

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Betty Ford Historical Photographs, 1921 - 1937
Childhood and Youth

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H0004-4. Betty Bloomer, age 3. April 1921.
H0004-4. Betty Bloomer, age 3. April 1921.

H0015-3. Betty Bloomer at age 14. 1932.
H0015-3. Betty Bloomer at age 14. 1932.
H0015-1. Betty Bloomer catches a ball at an Ottawa Beach, MI, house party. 1934.
H0015-1. Betty Bloomer catches a ball at an Ottawa Beach, MI, house party. 1934.
H0056. Betty Bloomer dancing. 1934.
H0056-1. Betty Bloomer dancing. 1934.

H0002-4. Betty Bloomer at the Kent Country Club, Grand Rapids, MI. 1935.
H0002-4. Betty Bloomer at the Kent Country Club, Grand Rapids, MI. 1935.

H0062-1. Betty Bloomer. 1940.
H0062-1. Betty Bloomer senior class photograph that appeared in the Grand Rapids Central High School yearbook "Helios". 1936

H0048-3. Betty Bloomer (left) and Mary Snapp in "Scenes from Scaramouche" at the annual May Dance, Calla Travis School of Dance, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1936.
H0048-3. Betty Bloomer (left) and Mary Snapp in "Scenes from Scaramouche" at the annual May Dance, Calla Travis School of Dance, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1936.
H0004-3. Betty Bloomer. 1936.
H0004-3. Betty Bloomer. 1936.
H0069-1. Betty Bloomer (front left) in a Bennington College Summer School of the Dance class taught by Martha Hill (right center). Bennington, Vermont. 1937.
H0069-1. Betty Bloomer (front left) in a Bennington College Summer School of the Dance class taught by Martha Hill (right center). Bennington, Vermont. 1937.
H0063-1. Portrait of Betty Bloomer on the Grand Rapids Herald Society Page. The photo was used as part of the wedding announcement for William Bloomer, brother of Betty Bloomer. July 1937.
H0063-1. Portrait of Betty Bloomer on the Grand Rapids Herald Society Page. The photo was used as part of the wedding announcement for William Bloomer, brother of Betty Bloomer. July 1937.

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