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Gingerbread at the White House: All Creatures Great and Small Gingerbread House

Gingerbread at the White House: All Creatures Great and Small Gingerbread House

To carry out First Lady Laura Bush’s theme of “All Creatures Great and Small,” the porches and grounds of the White House gingerbread featured marzipan figures of presidential pets. In addition to dogs and cats, the array included Caroline Kennedy’s pony and John Quincy Adams’s pet alligator.

Date of Work
December 2002
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Courtesy of Jennifer B. Pickens/George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA