Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Marian Anderson rehearsing with Leonard Bernstein in 1947.
- Photographer
- Ruth Orkin
- Date of Work
- 1947
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Library of Congress
Marian Anderson rehearsing with Leonard Bernstein in 1947.
Marian Anderson rehearsing with Leonard Bernstein in 1947.
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