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Napoleon clock and mantle in the Blue Room, White House – Vintage Print

Napoleon clock and mantle in the Blue Room, White House, c1904. — historic photograph
Napoleon clock and mantle in the Blue Room, White House, c1904.. 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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A window into the past: Napoleon clock and mantle in the Blue Room, White House, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A gilt mantel clock in the Blue Room, one of the oval reception rooms on the White House's State Floor, is the focus of this view. The clock is traditionally linked to the Napoleonic era, and its Empire styling suits the room's furnishings. The room was redone in 1902, when the Theodore Roosevelt administration oversaw a restoration by the architecture firm McKim, Mead & White that aimed to recall the early nineteenth-century White House. The Detroit Publishing Company made this photograph around 1904, when such interior views were popular with travelers and collectors. The record's attribution details come from an unverified caption card, so the clock's exact history is worth checking against other sources.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fireplaces; Clocks and watches; Wash. (D.C.)--White House; Geogr.; Shelf(2).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,172 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-150381

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