Robert Todd Lincoln writes a warm note to B.B. French agreeing to sign the marriage register of French's daughter. Lincoln adds that he is sorry that his wife is in America.
In his Christmas Eve letter to Elizabeth Humphrey, recent widower Robert Smith Todd presses his courtship to his future wife. Humphrey later becomes the stepmother of Mary Todd.
Portrait of Robert Smith, a lawyer, a merchant, and a politician who served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and as a U. S. Representative from the state of Illinois.
Robert Price, of Kentucky, poses for a portrait wearing a light jacket. On verso: "A cousin of my fathers. His mother is a sister of Hon. J. T. Stuart- Mary Jane Stuart Price (Mrs. James Brauch Price) grandmother M. P. Scruggs, Dallas, Texas."
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Major General Curtis J. Herrick attend a ceremony at the Pentagon for Victor Gram, Defense Minister of Denmark.
Representative Louis Janczak holds up a sea lamprey as Senator Robert McClory and Representative Henry Lenard look on.Left to right: Senator Robert McClory, Representative Henry Lenard, and Representative Louis Janczak.