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[Exterior of Executive Office, White House, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[Exterior of Executive Office, White House, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1940] — historic photograph
[Exterior of Executive Office, White House, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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[Exterior of Executive Office, White House, Washington, D.C.]

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The building in this view sits just west of the White House, on the site the Executive Office Building occupies today. Completed in the 1880s as the State, War, and Navy Building, its mansard roofs and ornate Second Empire facade were a striking contrast to the White House's neoclassical lines. Over the following decades it grew into the home of presidential staff, so photographs like this one document a building that was becoming central to how the executive branch worked. The record gives no photographer or exact date, but the 1910-1940 span covers the years when Washington's government offices were expanding rapidly.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic. print.
GenrePhotographic. prints 1910-1940.
NotesJ261897 U.S. Copyright Office.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 431 px · prints to 5 × 1 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168323

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