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[Main entry hall in the White House] – Vintage Wall Art

[Main entry hall in the White House], [1902?] — historic photograph
[Main entry hall in the White House], [1902?]. 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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[Main entry hall in the White House] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The main entry hall of the White House, dated around 1902, shows the public front of the executive mansion just as it was being reworked. That year, under President Theodore Roosevelt, the building underwent a major renovation by the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, which stripped away many later Victorian furnishings and aimed to restore a more formal, classical character. The photograph records a space that visitors and officials passed through daily, so its furnishings and décor reflect the mansion's changing public image at the start of the twentieth century. The Library of Congress date is a question mark, so the exact year is worth checking against the renovation timeline.

Created / published[1902?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1910. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. Entrance halls--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,290 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181303

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