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White House kitchen – Antique Print

White House kitchen, c1904. — historic photograph
White House kitchen, 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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This rare historic photograph captures White House kitchen in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The White House kitchen, pictured here around 1904, shows the working heart of the executive mansion during the early years of the Theodore Roosevelt administration, a period when the building's domestic spaces were still being modernized. The photograph was made by Waldon Fawcett, a Washington-based photographer whose views of the capital's public buildings were widely reproduced in the early twentieth century. Kitchens were rarely the subject of official portraits, so this image offers a glimpse of the practical side of presidential life, where staff prepared meals for the family and for official guests. It is a useful record of household equipment and working conditions in the Executive Mansion at the turn of the century.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCopyright by Waldon Fawcett.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1910. Kitchens--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-207201

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