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[The White House]: Red Room – Historic Print

[The White House]: Red Room, [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[The White House]: Red Room, [between 1909 and 1932]. 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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[The White House]: Red Room

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The Red Room is one of the six state parlors on the ground floor of the White House, and this view captures it in the years when the National Photo Company was documenting the building's interiors for public and commercial sale. The room takes its name from its red silk damask wall coverings, a color chosen for the formal receptions and small gatherings held there. Photographs like this one, taken between 1909 and 1932, offer a useful record of how the room was furnished in the early twentieth century, before later restorations returned it to a decor closer to the early 1800s.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by National Photo Co.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1940. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,130 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162885

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