Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
West Wing waiting room
- Date of Work
- 1946
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Harry S. Truman Library
West Wing waiting room
Working behind the scenes, many White House staffers are imbued with a “passion for anonymity.” They are frequently unidentified in historic photographs. An unidentified man at a desk in the West Wing waiting room in 1946.
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