Happy Presidents’ Day (2026)!

I have been busy lately. For that reason I did not have time to do anything special for President's Day. I present a quote from an article I wrote about an interesting passage from the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge: As I looked on him and realized that he personally represented the glory and dignity of the United States I wondered how it felt to bear so much responsibility and little thought I should ever know. Calvin Coolidge reflecting on seeing then-President Benjamin […]

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[Note] Happy Presidents’ Day (2026)!

I celebrate Presidents Day 2026 with a Calvin Coolidge quote about Benjamin Harrison and a somewhat iconic photograph of the 47th President.

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Calvin Coolidge, Pres. U.S., 1872-1933 [no date recorded on caption card]

1 photographic print. | Full lgth., standing, facing left; holding bucket and stool, and cow he is preparing to milk.

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923, under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

#CalvinCoolidge #Cow #Milking #Farm #RuralScene #Photograph #news #photography #Rural
https://www.loc.gov/item/2002705768/

Calvin Coolidge- On Tour- with his wife c1924 April 22.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows Coolidge standing; facing right; standing on back of train

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923, under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

#CalvinCoolidge #Train #Photograph #Historical #ThCentury #April #Coolidge #Pullman #News #Photography
https://www.loc.gov/item/2003668050/

Cal. Coolidge & Dan McCuen dwarf 8/2/24 (date created or published later by Bain)
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows president Calvin Coolidge at his family farm in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2022)

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923, under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

#CalvinCoolidge #DanMcCuen #BainNewsService #Vermont #PlymouthNotch #FormalAttire #newsphotography #glassnegatives
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014717547/

Calvin Coolidge with kitten 8/2/24 (date created or published later by Bain)
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows president Calvin Coolidge at his family farm in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2022)

#CalvinCoolidge #Photograph #Kitten #PlymouthNotch #Vermont #BainNewsService #glassnegatives #news #photography #Calvin
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014717546/

Calvin Coolidge 8/2/24 (date created or published later by Bain)
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows president Calvin Coolidge at his family farm in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2022)

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923, under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

#CalvinCoolidge #Agriculture #Vermont #President #PlymouthNotch #Scythe #Historical #BainNewsService #glassnegatives #news #photography #Calvin
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014717545/

Calvin Coolidge [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923, under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

#CalvinCoolidge #Photograph #Portrait #Fedora #Doublebreasted #FormalAttire #EarlythCentury #BlackandWhite #BainNewsService #glassnegatives #news #photography #Calvin
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014712456/

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

#CalvinCoolidge #Photograph #Hat #Vintage #Portrait #MrsCalvinCoolidge #BainNewsService #Widebrimmedhat #Stripedshirt #photography #Calvin #glassnegatives #news
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014712455/

Coolidge [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), his children, Calvin Jr. and John, and his father John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. (1845-1926) working in field, piling hay into cart. Coolidge is wearing a long work smock. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018)

John Calvin Coolidge Sr. was an American politician and businessman from Vermont, and the father of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States. The senior Coolidge administered the presidential oath of office to his son at their family homestead in the early morning hours of August 3, 1923, following the death of President Warren G. Harding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin_Coolidge_Sr.

#CalvinCoolidge #Agriculture #Rural #Hay #work #glassnegatives #news #photography #Calvin #JohnCalvinCoolidgeSr
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014711076/