DC -- White House Visitor Center:
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- WHVC_090113_001.JPG: The ceiling in the visitor center has developed a series of leaks. Here they work on fixing them.
- WHVC_090113_018.JPG: A pass to Abraham Lincoln's inaugural ball at, probably, the current National Portrait Gallery building. Note that inaugurations were in March back then.
- WHVC_090113_021.JPG: Inaugural ball ticket at what is now the National Building Museum
- WHVC_090113_039.JPG: This telegraph key is from the War Office. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often walked across the street to the War Department to receive reports from the battlefields.
- WHVC_090113_048.JPG: Hammond typewriter used by President Woodrow Wilson to type letters and specifics.
- WHVC_090113_080.JPG: The death of Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945 inspired this artist to show the White House with a gold star on it, the World War II sign for having had a war-related death in the home.
- WHVC_090113_090.JPG: With the White House in his possession and a Taft button on his lapel, Theodore Roosevelt and Assistant Secretary William Loch, arrive in Washington. The reference is to Roosevelt's second presidential term, a public trust during which he expected to produce significant domestic legislation in concert with Congress.
- WHVC_090113_093.JPG: A 1942 cartoon of an FDR news conference, with the President in control of the White House press. FDR shaped public perception with a record 998 such conferences in twelve years.
- WHVC_090113_133.JPG: "I Pray Heaven to Bestow
The best of blessings on
This House
And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it.
May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule
under This Roof.
From a letter of
John Adams
November
MDCCC (???)"
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt directed that the frieze panel on the State Dining Room mantel, blank since it was installed in 1902, be carved with an inscription from President John Adams' letter to his wife Abigail on November 2, 1800. These thoughts of the first White House occupant thus became a visible part of the history of the building.
Casting of inscription on the State Dining Room mantel, plaster, circa 1940, New York, from model...
- Wikipedia Description: President's Park
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
President's Park, located in Washington, D.C., United States, includes the White House, a visitor center, Lafayette Park, and the Ellipse. President's Park was the original name of Lafayette Park and Square. The current President's Park is administered by the National Park Service.
White House Visitor Center:
The White House Visitor Center is located in the north end of the Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce headquarters between 14th Street and 15th Street on Pennsylvania Avenue NW). The visitor center serves as a starting point for those going on a reserved tour of the White House. The various exhibits also provide an alternate visitor experience for those who did not schedule a tour. The themes of the six permanent exhibits include First Families, Symbols & Images, White House Architecture, White House Interiors, Working White House, and Ceremonies and Celebrations. A variety of other exhibits change frequently during the year.
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