Photographs

The photographs in this section represent just a few of the hundreds of images available at the Digital Gallery of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Here you will find public domain images of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and photographic scenes from the Great Depression and World War II.

Images have been divided into separate pages to accompany the FDR Biography and the short essay, "FDR and Polio." The images showcased here have been cropped. Clicking on individual photographs will allow one to access the full image, as found in the FDR online archive. The photograph pages, which can also be accessed from the menu on the right-hand side of this page, are:

Childhood and Youth, 1888 to 1909
Early Political Career, 1910 to 1919
The 1920s, 1920 to 1927
Governor of New York, 1928 to 1932
The New Deal Years, 1933 to 1939
The War Years, 1940 to 1945
FDR and Polio