Pictures shared on social media by the vice president and by the Carter Center prominently showed other past presidents in attendance.

Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford faced off in 1976 in a bitter campaign but later bonded as few presidents have — and made a pact to speak at each other’s funerals.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who once banned the playing of “Hail to the Chief,” will be honored with three days of elaborate ceremonies in the nation’s capital.

While his home was always in the small Georgia town, Atlanta gave him the opportunities to cement a political and humanitarian legacy.

The gestures of remembrance have all been selected to reflect the 39th president’s rural roots and political career in Georgia and Washington, and his legacy of global advocacy.

Items from his family, the military, his political career and long post-presidency — and two he made himself.

Jimmy Carter redefined what a president can do after departing the White House, leaving a lasting imprint through his work overseas, particularly in the realm of public health.

In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.

After his presidency, Jimmy Carter became critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and likened the situation to apartheid.

Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad.