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White House - East Drawing Room – Antique Print

White House - East Drawing Room, 1898 — historic photograph
White House - East Drawing Room, 1898. 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 - East Drawing Room in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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White House - East Drawing Room

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The East Drawing Room was one of the ground-floor state rooms where guests were received, and this stereograph shows it as it looked in 1898, before the major interior remodeling of 1902. Stereo cards like this one were viewed through a stereoscope, which fused two slightly offset photographs into a single three-dimensional scene, and they were popular parlor entertainment in the late 1800s. This example was copyrighted by T.W. Ingersoll and published by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, with copies sold door to door by canvassers, a common way such views reached middle-class homes.

Created / published1898
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Notes45864 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 126. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll. American and Foreign Views. Sold only by canvassers. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington D.C.)--1890-1900. Drawing rooms--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 2,683 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-271115

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