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1. Section of Al Noolen's exhibit of Presidents of the USA coins, Eugene Coin Show, Eugene, Oregon, circa 1971

Section of Al Noolen's exhibit of Presidents of the USA coins, Eugene Coin Show, Eugene, Oregon, circa 1971

2. President Roosevelt driving through Wawona

President Roosevelt driving through Wawona

Description: President Roosevelt amid "Nature's wonders"- driving through Wawona, big trees of California.

3. The President's Guard

The President's Guard

4. John Byrne greeted by President Ronald Reagan

John Byrne greeted by President Ronald Reagan

Description: "I'm greeted by President Reagan at the president's intimate breakfast for about 500 Presidential appointees in 1982."

5. Richard Nixon, Governor Paul Patterson, and A. L. Strand

Richard Nixon, Governor Paul Patterson, and A. L. Strand

Description: Richard Nixon visited OSC in 1954. August LeRoy Strand served as president of Oregon State University from 1942-1961. Strand helped create the Oregon State College Foundation in 1947 and introduced the idea of an OSU golf course.

6. Richard Nixon's visit to OSC with Governor Paul Patterson

Richard Nixon's visit to OSC with Governor Paul Patterson

7. Dwight Eisenhower and two unidentified men, circa 1955

Dwight Eisenhower and two unidentified men, circa 1955

Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower with two unidentified men in suits, holding book. The MV Seven Seas book is being looked at by the men. The MV Seven Seas was a cruise ship of the Europe-Canada line in the 1950s.

8. Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad

Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad

Description: This photograph of Lincoln and little "Tad" was taken in 1861, when the four years of war were yet to burden the heart of the great President. In 1865, only a few days before his assassination, Lincoln for the last time entered the Brady gallery in Washington, and again sat for his picture with "Tad". Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, in 1809. His father moved to Indiana in 1816, and to Illinois in 1830. As a boy Lincoln had very few advantages, but he grew up with all the vigor of the frontier. In 1832 he served as a private and as a captain in the Black Hawk War. Failing as a merchant, he studied law and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834, and again in 1836. In 1848 he was elected to the lower House of Congress on the Whig ticket, and in 1858 as candidate for the new Republican party, he was defeated by Douglas, the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. In spite of his defeat Lincoln's debates with Douglas made him a conspicuous figure and in 1860 won for him the Presidency as the nominee of the Republican party. Lincoln's life from 1861 to 1865 is bound up in the great struggle between the North and the South. In 1864 he was re-elected to the Presidency. He was shot and mortally wounded at Ford's Theater at Washington, April 14, 1865.

9. The Commander-in-chief

The Commander-in-chief

Description: Here the gaunt figure of the Great Emancipator confronted General McClellan in his headquarters two weeks after Antietam had checked Lee's invasion of Maryland and had enabled the President to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Brady's camera has preserved this remarkable occasion, the last time that these two men met each other. "We spent some time on the battlefield and conversed fully on the state of affairs. He told me that he was satisfied with all that I had done, that he would stand by me. He parted from me with the utmost cordiality", said General McClellan. The plan to follow up the success of Antietam in the effort to bring the war to a speedy conclusion must have been the thought uppermost in the mind of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army as he talked with his most popular General in the tent. A few days later came the order from Washington to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him South." McClellan was relieved in the midst of a movement to carry out the order.

10. Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Description: From a painting by G. P. A. Healy, in the Coran Gallery, Washington, D. C. Franklin Pierce was born in New Hampshire in 1804. He was a student at Bowdoin College with Hawthorne and Longfellow. He represented his state in both houses of Congress from 1833 to 1847. In the Mexican War he displayed bravery and skill, and was raised to the rank of brigadier-general. He died in 1869. Pierce's cabinet was the only one in our history in which there was no change.