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The State Dining Room, White House, Detroit Photographic Co. – Historic Photo Reproduction

The State Dining Room, White House, Detroit Photographic Co. — historic photograph
The State Dining Room, White House, Detroit Photographic Co.. Historic photograph from the White House collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of The State Dining Room, White House, Detroit Photographic Co. brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The State Dining Room, White House, Detroit Photographic Co.

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The State Dining Room of the White House is the room where presidents host formal dinners for heads of state and other official guests, and this view comes from the Detroit Photographic Company, a firm known for its early color-tinted views of American sites. Photographs of the room from this period were relatively rare, so the image offers a glimpse of its furnishings and layout at a time when the building was far less visited by the public. Notice how the long table, the chairs, and the lighting reflect the mid-to-late nineteenth-century style of official entertaining.

Original scan8,191 × 6,617 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi
Reference11677u state dining room (detroit photographic)

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