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[The White House, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print

[The White House, Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1840] — historic print
[The White House, Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1840]. Historic print 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 window into the past: [The White House, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[The White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Dating to about 1840, this etching shows the executive mansion in the years after it had been restored from wartime damage. James Hoban designed the sandstone house in the 1790s, and British troops set fire to its interior in 1814 during the War of 1812. The walls were whitewashed afterward, which helped give the building the name it would carry in everyday use long before it became official. Prints like this one showed the capital's best-known residence to a public that mostly could not travel to Washington to see it.

Created / published[ca. 1840]
Medium1 print : etching.
GenreEtchings 1840.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1890. Official residences--Washington (D.C.)--1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,448 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216442

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