Holiday at the White House. ... – Historic Print
![Holiday at the White House. ..., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fc/fc2238e07883-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: Holiday at the White House. ..., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A holiday scene at the White House is the particular subject here, though the caption card does not record which holiday or which year. The print is a halftone reproduction, a method that let photographs be printed in newspapers and magazines from the 1890s on, and it carries the imprint of Underwood & Underwood, a firm best known for stereoscopic views and press photographs in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Official holiday receptions at the executive mansion drew diplomats, officials and families, and photographers were often admitted to record the crowds and decorations. Because the date and details come from an unverified caption card, the scene is best read as a general record of how presidential holidays were presented to the public in that era.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159497 |
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