Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
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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