The First Ladies

by Margaret Brown Klapthor, 1975

Betty Taylor Bliss

Hostess in her mother's stead, Betty Taylor Bliss probably posed for this daguerreotype about a decade after her White House days. Of Mrs. Taylor, a semi-invalid for years, no authentic likeness survives; contemporaries described her as slender and stately, a brunette in youth.

Daguerroeotype by J. E. McClees, Smithsonian Institution.

The First Ladies, by Margaret Brown Klapthor, 1975, page 33.