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[Dining(?) room in the White House, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

[Dining(?) room in the White House, Washington, D.C.], [between 1889 and 1906] — historic photograph
[Dining(?) room in the White House, Washington, D.C.], [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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A window into the past: [Dining(?) room in the White House, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The catalogers were unsure which room this is, as the question mark after "Dining" in the title shows, but the picture clearly records a formal dining space inside the White House. Frances Benjamin Johnston, who photographed the mansion's interiors and furnishings in the 1890s and early 1900s, made it sometime between 1889 and 1906. Images like this one show how presidential rooms were furnished and used before the building's major renovation of 1902 reshaped many of them. The tables, chairs and fittings are the main subjects, so the print rewards close attention to late nineteenth-century taste and domestic ceremony.

Created / published[between 1889 and 1906]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1910.
NotesForms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1910. Dining rooms--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1910. Furnishings--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,309 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-203760

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