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...
Members of the White House domestic staff during the Hayes administration.
- Date of Work
- 1880s
- Credit
- Rutherford B. Hayes Library
Members of the White House domestic staff during the Hayes administration.
Members of the White House domestic staff during the Hayes administration.
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