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A corner of the East Room, White House – Antique Wall Art

A corner of the East Room, White House, c1904. — historic photograph
A corner of the East 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 corner of the East Room, White House

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The East Room is the largest room in the White House, and this view looks at one corner of it rather than the whole space, which is how Detroit Publishing Company photographers often framed interiors around 1904. The room was used for receptions, state dinners, and ceremonies, and by then it had already been furnished in the style of the early twentieth century, with its gilded and formal décor. Detroit Publishing Company produced large numbers of such views for sale to tourists, so the picture doubles as a record of how a national landmark was presented to the public at that time.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 017410. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141178

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