Collection The White House Social Secretary
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Booker T. Washington Dining with President Roosevelt, A Lithograph
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- Corbis
Booker T. Washington Dining with President Roosevelt, A Lithograph
A lithograph depicting Booker T. Washington dining with President Theodore Roosevelt.
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