• Woodrow Wilson
    Edmonston
    portrait
    This photograph is a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson taken at the Edmonston studio in Washington, D.C. In the photograph, President Wilson is seen wearing his trademark pince-nez glasses.
  • Jessie Wilson Sayre
    Edmonston
    weddings
    celebrations
    This photograph shows Jessie Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, on her wedding day, November 25, 1913. Jessie married Francis Bowes Sayre, a Harvard-educated lawyer who would go on to serve as the United States ambassador to Siam, now known as Thailand, and assistant secretary of state during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. The two were married in the White House and their first child, Francis Sayre, Jr., was born there as well.
  • Wilson-Sayre Wedding Party
    Edmonston
    wedding
    This is a photograph taken by Edmonston of the Wilson-Sayre wedding party taken on December 6, 1913. The bride Jessie Wilson is seated in the middle of the front row and behind her are the groom, Francis Sayre, and her parents, President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady Ellen Wilson.