First Ladies' Private Lives
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
Mrs. Reagan Photograph
- Credit
- White House Historical Association
Mrs. Reagan Photograph
Created February 7, 1981.
Mrs. Reagan stands in the Red Room of the White House for this official photograph. Behind her is a portrait of Angelica Singleton Van Buren, and beside her a marble-topped center table made by Charles-Honoré Lannuier in New York and dating from about 1810. In 1982 the oak floors in the Red Room were refurbished, and a rug with a French design placed overtop. The silk wall coverings were replaced, and eight pieces of Red Room furniture in the room were conserved.
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