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Kitchen, New White House – Historic Reproduction

Kitchen, New White House, c1902 Nov. 1906. — historic photograph
Kitchen, New White House, c1902 Nov. 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 Kitchen, New White House. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The kitchen shown here belongs to the White House as it stood after the 1902 renovation, when the building's interior was largely reworked and its service areas were modernized under the direction of the architecture firm McKim, Mead & White. The print, made by the Washington, D.C., photographer Clinedinst and copyrighted around 1906, records a working room of the executive mansion at a time when domestic staff, many of them African American, kept the household running. Its rows of pots and pans and the utilitarian layout show the everyday labor behind the presidential residence, a side of the house that formal portraits and state rooms rarely reveal.

Created / publishedc1902 Nov. 1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH23574 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyrighted by Clinedinst, Washington, D.C.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--Buildings--1900-1910. African Americans--Employment--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. Pots & pans--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. Kitchens--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,065 × 4,116 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-207959

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