FDLP Resource Guides: Presidential Documents: Multimedia resources

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Presidents in Waiting (Smithsonian)
An exhibit on Vice Presidents who became President.
The American Presidency: a glorious burden (Smithsonian)
This exhibition examines the history, impact, and importance of the most powerful job in the world—through an interactive timeline of presidents, hands-on activities, reference resources, teacher materials, and more

U.S. Presidential Inaugurations: "I Do Solemnly Swear..." A Resource Guide (Library of Congress)
The Library of Congress digital collections include a wide variety of primary source materials documenting presidential inaugurations. This Web guide includes diaries and letters written by presidents and those who witnessed the inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.

Presidential Portraits (National Portrait Gallery)
The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it.
Presidents of the United States (Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress)
These images were selected to meet requests regularly received by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Vice Presidential Bust Collection
The United States Senate’s Vice Presidential Bust Collection honors the presidents of the Senate and forms the institution’s oldest continuing art collection.