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[Jerry with a feather duster, White House] – Antique Wall Art

[Jerry with a feather duster, White House], [photographed ca. 1889, printed 1992] — historic photograph
[Jerry with a feather duster, White House], [photographed ca. 1889, printed 1992]. 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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Rather than the building itself, this picture centers on a household worker: a man identified only as Jerry, holding a feather duster inside the White House. Photographs like this, taken around 1889, record the staff who kept the executive mansion running during the early Benjamin Harrison years, when much domestic work was still done by hand. The image survives as a glass negative, and this print was made from that negative in 1992, so it is a modern reproduction of an 1880s original.

Created / published[photographed ca. 1889, printed 1992]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1990-2000.
NotesPhotoprint made by LC Photoduplication Service.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--People--1880-1900. Government employees--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,266 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182404

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