Collection: Coolidge Images
Description
The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum contains materials documenting the private life of Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), beginning with his birth and formative years in Vermont, his student days at Amherst College, and his years as a young lawyer in Northampton, Massachusetts. Exhibits and manuscripts, written and pictorial, cover his political career from Northampton to Boston to the White House and his post-presidential years as a Northampton resident. The Collection also includes materials of a similar nature related to the life of Grace Goodhue Coolidge (1879-1957).
The Coolidge Collection was established in 1920, when Calvin Coolidge gave documents and memorabilia to Forbes Library in Northampton. Coolidge continued giving materials to the library throughout the remainder of his life. At the end of his administration, he sent his personal library from the White House to the Forbes Library. Included were the well-known Howard Chandler Christy portraits of Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace, and the infamous electric horse. The final impetus for the permanent home of the Coolidge Collection came in 1956. Acting upon the request of Grace Coolidge and the Trustees of Forbes Library, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted funds to establish a "Calvin Coolidge Memorial Room" as a separate entity within the library. Today, Forbes Library is the largest existing source of primary material on Calvin Coolidge and the only public library in the United States to hold a presidential collection.
The collection consists of manuscripts, speeches, letters, videos, recordings, microfilms, the official presidential papers and the personal papers of President Coolidge, tapes, off-the-record press conferences, photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, broadsides, and artifacts. The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum is managed by an Archivist/Curator and is available to researchers during open hours.
Images From the Archives includes only a small portion of the Coolidge collection. To see images beyond what is included here, please speak with a librarian.
Items in this Collection
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Governor Coolidge on opening day with the Red Sox
Identifier: cc 4334.
Governor Coolidge walks out on opening day April 15, 1920 with the Red Sox and Washington Senators at Fenway Park. The old left field Wall and Duffy's Cliff are visible behind them. The Red Sox… -
Calvin Coolidge preserving a tree
Identifier: CC: 2.4.26
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Format: photographic print.
Creator: Sears, Richard W..
Vice-President Calvin Coolidge preserving one of his favorite trees at his father's farm in Plymouth, Vermont. -
Calvin Coolidge chopping wood
Identifier: CC:2.4.12
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Format: Photograph.
Calvin Coolidge chopping wood with an axe while visiting his father's, Col. John C. Coolidge's farm in Plymouth, Vermont. -
Calvin Coolidge and scythe
Identifier: CC:2.4.17
calvin_coolidge_cutting_hay.
Format: Photograph.
Calvin Coolidge using a scythe on his father's farm in Plymouth, Vermont. -
Calvin Coolidge haying
Identifier: CC:2.4.19
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Format: Photograph.
Creator: Fineberg, Morris.
Calvin Coolidge and his sons John and Calvin, Jr. standing in a hay wagon. They are visiting the Plymouth, Vermont farm of his father, Col. John C. Coolidge (standing below the wagon). -
Calvin Coolidge cutting hay
Identifier: CC:2.4.25
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Format: Photograph.
Creator: Fineberg, Morris.
Vice-President Calvin Coolidge cuts hay in the fields on his father's farm in Plymouth, Vermont.