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By Katie Roxberry, M.A. ’24, Museum Studies
The Detroit Publishing Company produced a set of postcards in 1912 that showcased the White House’s State Dining Room, Red Room and Green Room.
The postcards offered a glimpse inside the executive mansion for Americans unable to travel to Washington.
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What the images didn’t convey was how the rooms changed according to incoming presidents’ decorative tastes—a tradition that First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy changed when she moved in.
Before the Kennedy administration, presidential families imported, discarded and altered White House furniture and artifacts to suit their needs and desires.
Thomas Jefferson used the Entrance Hall to display artifacts from the Lewis and Clark expedition. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln exceeded Congress’s $20,000 refurbishment budget by almost $7,000 on new carpets, curtains and furniture.
Throughout the years, the Resolute Desk, a gift to President Rutherford B. Hayes from Queen Victori