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White House, 1889--Easter Monday – Antique Wall Art

White House, 1889--Easter Monday, 1889 — historic photograph
White House, 1889--Easter Monday, 1889. 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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This rare historic photograph captures White House, 1889--Easter Monday in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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White House, 1889--Easter Monday

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The Easter Monday egg roll on the White House grounds is the event this picture records, a tradition that by 1889 had already drawn crowds of children and families to the lawn. Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first American women to work as a professional photographer and a frequent chronicler of Washington life, made the gelatin silver print during this period. The scene shows the executive mansion as a backdrop to the holiday gathering, a useful glimpse of how public the presidential grounds had become in the late 1800s.

Created / published1889
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1880-1890.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1900. Easter--1880-1890. Crowds--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195432

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