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[North portico of the White House as seen from the east] – Historic Print

[North portico of the White House as seen from the east], c1923. — historic photograph
[North portico of the White House as seen from the east], c1923.. 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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[North portico of the White House as seen from the east] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The north portico of the White House, shown here from the east, is the side of the mansion most visitors know from the north lawn and Pennsylvania Avenue, though this angle gives a different sense of its bulk and the curve of its colonnade. The photograph dates to about 1923 and was submitted for copyright on December 20 of that year, which places it during the Harding administration, a few months before Calvin Coolidge assumed the presidency after Harding's death in August 1923. Its copyright deposit is a useful record of how the executive residence was documented in the early 1920s, when the building was still widely photographed as a civic monument.

Created / publishedc1923.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ266324 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Submitted for copyright Dec. 20, 1923.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 867 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121550

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