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Provisional White House – Vintage Wall Art

Provisional White House, c1911 May 20. — historic photograph
Provisional White House, c1911 May 20.. 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 picture sits on a board of White House views, but its title, "Provisional White House," points somewhere else. Its caption card links it to Mexico in 1911, a year of upheaval and calls for peace. The treaty ending Porfirio Díaz's long rule was signed at Ciudad Juárez on May 21, 1911, and an interim government followed, so a building given a provisional label fits that moment. The record notes that its data is unverified, so the exact building and its context are worth confirming before drawing firm conclusions.

Created / publishedc1911 May 20.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ156172 U.S. Copyright Office Photograph copyrighted by Harry Blumenthal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mex.--Hist.--1911; Peace; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 828 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172020

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