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Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C. – Vintage Print

Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C., [ca. 1890] — historic photograph
Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C., [ca. 1890]. 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: Red Room, 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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Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.

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Few rooms in the executive mansion are as recognizable as the Red Room, one of the formal parlors on the state floor, where its crimson furnishings gave it a name that stuck. This ca. 1890 view comes from Frances Benjamin Johnston's photographs of the White House, made at a time when the building's public rooms were seen as a showcase of national taste. Johnston's interior studies, which record furniture, wall coverings and room arrangements as they stood in the 1890s, are now valued as a visual record of how presidential entertaining spaces looked before later renovations.

Created / published[ca. 1890]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1900.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 81288.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1900. Rooms & spaces--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,273 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-196563

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