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NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
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President Polk and his cabinet assembled in the State Dining Room. An image of dual historical significance: the earliest photographic record of a White House interior and the first photograph of a U.S. President and his advisors. Seated, left to right: Attorney General John Y. Mason, Secretary of War William Marcy, President Polk, Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker; standing: Postmaster General Cave Johnson (center); Secretary of the navy George Bancroft. One of President Monroe's mantels imported from Italy can be seen in the background. Half-plate daguerreotype, approximately 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches, attributed to John Plumbe, Jr.
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended that the space now called the "Green Room" be used...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Read Digital Edition Foreword, Robert L. BreedenThe Design of Lafayette Park, William SealePresidents and the Potomac, Gilbert GudeA "Dark Horse"...
Sarah Childress was born to Joel and Elizabeth Childress on September 4, 1803, in Tennessee.1 Her father was a wealthy plantation owner,...
On November 2, 1795, James K. Polk was born in Pineville, North Carolina to Samuel and Jane Polk. The promise of greater...
On July 16, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, formally the Act for Establishing the Temporary and Permanent Seat of the Government...
As he left the White House in 1869, President Andrew Johnson supposedly exclaimed that he could “already smell the sweet mountain ai...
On April 15, 1848, the Pearl schooner was docked at the wharf located at the foot of Seventh Street in Washington, D....