Media Photo Kit - First Lady Betty Ford

H0004-4. Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Bloomer, age 3, with her teddy bear. April 1921.

H0015-3. Betty at age 14. 1932.

H0015-1. Betty playing ball at a house party for her sorority "The Good Cheers." Ottawa Beach, Michigan. 1934.

H0048-3. Betty (left) and Mary Snapp in "Scenes from Scaramouche" at a Calla Travis School of Dance annual May Dance. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1936.

H0069-1. Betty (front left) in a Bennington College Summer School of Dance class taught by Martha Hill (right center). Bennington, Vermont. 1937.

H0048-1. Betty Bloomer Warren dancing in "Fantasy". 1945.

H0039-1. Gerald Ford and Betty. 1948.

H0013-1. Gerald R. Ford, Jr., and Betty Ford walk out of Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI, following their marriage. October 15, 1948.

H0013-4. Gerald R. Ford, Jr., and Betty Ford pose in front of the ambo in Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI, following their marriage. October 15, 1948.

AV82-18-0216. Betty and her mother-in-law Dorothy Ford pose for a photo while attending a luncheon at Herpolsheimer's department store, where Betty had previously worked as a fashion coordinator. Grand Rapids, Michigan. July 20, 1949.

H0009-2. Betty joins husband Jerry (then a young Congresssman) and son Michael for some play in the yard outside their apartment at 1521 Mount Eagle Place, Alexandria, Virginia. 1952.

H0010-1. Betty holds second son Jack Ford while eldest son Michael plays a t a small table in their apartment at 1521 Mount Eagle Place, Alexandria, Virginia. 1952.

AV82-31-0022 600. Congressman Gerald Ford and wife Betty attend a Grand Rapids campaign event with presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie. October 1, 1952.

H0042-3. Congressman Gerald Ford, wife Betty and their children Mike, Jack, Susan, and Steve sit in the dining room of their home at 514 Crown View Drive, Alexandria, Virginia. 1958.

H0039-4. Congressman Gerald Ford and wife Betty dressed for a White House reception. April 18, 1961.

H0009-3. Betty watches as her children Steve and Susan ride on a glider in the back yard of their home at 514 Crown View Drive, Alexandria, Virginia. Her son Michael appears in the background. 1962.

AV82-18-1180. Congressman Gerald Ford and wife Betty pose for a photograph at an unidentified airport. Mrs. Ford was wearing a neck brace for pain. 1964.

H0034-3. Gerald R. Ford and Betty Ford talk while Mr. Ford tries some deep-sea fishing during a vacation trip to Free Town, Eleutheria, Bahamas, with other Republican Congressmen and their wives. April 1966.

H0033-1. President and Mrs. Richard Nixon with Gerald and Betty Ford in the Blue Room of the White House following Representative Ford's nomination to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President. October 12, 1973.

AV85-42. Gerald Ford takes the oath of office as Vice President, in a ceremony administered by Chief Justice Warren Burger and witnessed by Betty Ford, President Richard Nixon and a joint session of Congress. December 6, 1973.

A0512-17A. Betty Ford hosts her first press conference as First Lady in the White House State Dining Room.  September 4, 1974.

A0980-15. First Lady Betty Ford makes remarks at a Candidate's Luncheon sponsored by Republican Women Power of Illinois.  The theme of the luncheon was “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby!” Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, September 24, 1974.

A1170-18A President and Mrs. Ford read a petition, signed by all 100 members of the United States Senate, in the President's Suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD, following the First Lady's breast cancer surgery. October 2, 1974.

A1201-21A. President and Mrs. Ford toss a football, a gift from Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, in the hallway near the Presidential Suite at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD, following the First Lady’s breast cancer surgery. October 4, 1974.

A2723-18A. First Lady Betty Ford congratulates President Gerald Ford upon his signing of an executive order establishing a National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year.  January 9, 1975

A3455-21A. First Lady Betty Ford sports a button expressing her support for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment while taking some personal time as President Ford plays in the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic Celebrities Golf Tournament, Hollywood, Florida.   February 26, 1975.

A4669-13. First Lady Betty Ford greets newly-arrived Vietnamese children at the Camp Pendleton Refugee Camp in California.  May 21, 1975.

A5314-22. First Lady Betty Ford works at her desk in the East Wing, where a “Don’t Tread on Me” Equal Rights Amendment doormat hangs from the front of her desk.  June 30, 1975.

A5611-34A. First Lady Betty Ford participates in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Morley Safer.  July 21, 1975. 

A6531-22. President Ford stands by as First Lady Betty Ford prepares to cut the birthday cake at the dedication ceremony for the Oklahoma State Fair Grounds’ Independence Arch and Constitution Fountain. September 19, 1975.

A7012-6. First Lady Betty Ford makes remarks at the Greater Cleveland Congress of International Women’s Year (IWY). Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio.  October 25, 1975.

A7230-10A. First Lady Betty Ford answers questions from the press prior to touring the Guttman Institute for Early Detection of Breast Cancer, New York, New York.   November 7, 1975.

A9339-20A. On a campaign trip in Texas First Lady Betty Ford, aka “First Momma,” greets the crowd gathered at San Jacinto Battlefield Park for a Bicentennial celebration. April 21, 1976.

B0342-06A. First Lady Betty Ford offers a prayer for Jewish National Fund president Rabbi Maurice Sage who collapsed onstage from a heart attack just before presenting her with a Bible at the Fund’s gala dinner to inaugurate the American Bicentennial National Park in Israel.   June 22, 1976.

B2843-09A. First Lady Betty Ford dances on the Cabinet Room table on the day before departing the White House upon the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter.  January 19, 1977.

2008-NLF-020-1. The former First Lady sits in the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, created in honor of her strong support of and contributions to the Vail Valley community. August 1989.

2008-NLF-019. Betty Ford, Chairman and co-founder of the Betty Ford Center since 1982, exerted a hands-on leadership style until 2004, when she became Chairman Emeritus and her daughter Susan Ford Bales assumed the Chairman position. 1990.

2008-NLF-022-15. Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar (D-OH) greets Betty Ford as she arrives to testify before the Select Committee on Aging Sub

P26484-17. Former First Lady Betty Ford receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush. November 18, 1991.

P76975-28. Gerald and Betty Ford receive the Congressional Gold Medal from Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and Senator Strom Thurmond. Also shown in President Bill Clinton. October 27, 1999.

2007-NLF-043. With her four children behind her Mrs. Ford pauses at the casket of her husband of fifty-eight years during funeral events for President Ford at the U.S. Capitol. January 1, 2007.