The president's house – Historic Reproduction
![The president's house, Washington, D.C. : J.F. Jarvis, Publisher & Dealer, 155 Penna. Avenue, [189-] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fbc379b6fb4c-L.webp)
(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 president's house, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This stereograph is a card carrying two nearly identical photographs of the Executive Mansion, which produced a three-dimensional image when viewed through a stereoscope. Washington publisher J.F. Jarvis issued it from his shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, and the card is dated only to the 1890s. Stereo views like this were sold widely as parlor entertainment and let people far from the capital see famous buildings in apparent depth. The house had been the official residence of presidents since John Adams, and this card shows it as it looked at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | Washington, D.C. : J.F. Jarvis, Publisher & Dealer, 155 Penna. Avenue, [189-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Title from item. Gift of Detroit Public Library. |
| Subjects | White House (Washington, D.C.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,432 × 5,189 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-213097 |
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