Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
Shaving mirror
- Photographer
- Bruce M. White
- Medium
- photo
- Credit
- Bruce M. White for the White House Historical Association
Shaving mirror
This shaving mirror is one of a pair created from fragments of mirror glass that survived the White House fire. Dolley Madison and Elizabeth Monroe discovered and salvaged the glass.
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