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White House State Dining Room / Frances Benjamin Johnston. – Antique Print

White House State Dining Room / Frances Benjamin Johnston., [between 1889 and 1906] — historic photograph
White House State Dining Room / Frances Benjamin Johnston., [between 1889 and 1906]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of White House State Dining Room / Frances Benjamin Johnston.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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White House State Dining Room / Frances Benjamin Johnston.

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Few photographs show the State Dining Room of the White House as it looked before the major interior overhaul of the early twentieth century, and this print by Frances Benjamin Johnston is one of them. Johnston, one of the first American women to work as a professional photographer, made a long series of pictures of the executive mansion's rooms in the 1890s and early 1900s, recording furnishings, decoration, and the formal settings used for state occasions. Her interiors are valued today because they capture the Victorian-era character of rooms that were soon remade, and the Library of Congress preserves them in its Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

Created / published[between 1889 and 1906]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1910.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 15.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1910. Dining rooms--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1910. Official residences--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,250 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181371

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