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[D.C. Wash. - White House - Negro boy holding hand of small white girl during Easter egg roll] – Antique Print

[D.C. Wash. - White House - Negro boy holding hand of small white girl during Easter egg roll], 1898 — historic photograph
[D.C. Wash. - White House - Negro boy holding hand of small white girl during Easter egg roll], 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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A Black boy and a young white girl walk hand in hand in this 1898 view of the Easter egg roll on the White House grounds, a pairing that sets it apart from the usual crowd scenes of the event. By then the egg roll had been a fixture on the presidential calendar for about two decades, drawing children from across Washington to roll colored eggs and play on the lawn. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who documented life in the capital and at the White House, made the print. The caption comes from an old, unverified card, so the exact moment and the children's identities remain uncertain.

Created / published1898
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,236 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123502

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