Woodring children get preview of their Easter Basket. Washington, D.C., April 5. The Woodring children, sons and daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, were given a preview today of what to expect from the Easter Bunny on Sunday. The children, left to right: Cooper, Melissa and Marcus Coolidge are expected to roll their eggs at the White House on Easter Monday, 4/5/39 – Historic Photo Reproduction
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This historic photograph of Woodring children get preview of their Easter Basket. Washington, D.C., April 5. The Woodring children, sons and daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, were given a preview today of what to expect from the Easter Bunny on Sunday. The children, left to right: Cooper, Melissa and Marcus Coolidge are expected to roll their eggs at the White House on Easter Monday, 4/5/39 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Woodring children get preview of their Easter Basket. Washington, D.C., April 5. The Woodring children, sons and daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, were given a preview today of what to expect from the Easter Bunny on Sunday. The children, left to right: Cooper, Melissa and Marcus Coolidge are expected to roll their eggs at the White House on Easter Monday, 4/5/39
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This 1939 Washington photograph shows three children of Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring getting an early look at what the Easter Bunny has planned. The caption says the preview took place on April 5, ahead of Easter Sunday, and that the children were expected to roll eggs at the White House the following Monday. Harris & Ewing, the Washington studio whose work fills this collection, photographed many officials and their families, and pictures like this show how political households marked the holiday in the late 1930s. The caption gives the children a different surname from their father's, so their names are worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1939 April 5. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. note: Batch five. |
| Subjects | United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection |
| Original scan | 5,062 × 4,052 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 26420u Woodring children get preview of their Easter Basket |
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