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[East parlor, White House] – Historic Reproduction

[East parlor, White House], c1903. — historic photograph
[East parlor, White House], c1903.. Historic photograph from the White House collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The East Room is the largest formal space in the White House, and this c1903 view shows it as a room of gilded plasterwork, tall windows and ornate chandeliers, the kind of interior that presidents and their guests passed through for receptions and state occasions. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news and feature pictures taken in Washington and New York in the early twentieth century, and it reflects the period's interest in showing official rooms to the public. Its subject is architectural rather than personal, so the picture is valuable for what it reveals about the decoration and furnishing of the building during the Theodore Roosevelt years, when the mansion was being reworked in ways that prompted wider public attention.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH26108 U.S. Copyright Office. George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 1.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1910. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. Chandeliers--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,251 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181393

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