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Harper’s Weekly Invites Its Readers Inside the White House 2

Harper’s Weekly Invites Its Readers Inside the White House 2

This illustration of the White House stables was based upon a photograph by Lewis Emory Walker, the chief photographer of the Treasury Department at the time, and is the first image of the White House in Harper’s to explicitly credit a photograph as its source.

Date of Work
April 17, 1869
Credit
Hathitrust, Harper's Weekly