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- Description:
- Caption: Photograph taken in sitting room number 16 looking west into small bedroom number 17 at the northwest corner of the second floor of the White House. The studding between these rooms and the sub-flooring date from 1815-1818 when the White House was reconstructed after being burned by the ...
- Date:
- 1950-02-27T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: A bulldozer removing debris from the inside of the White House, during the renovation of the building. The bulldozer had to be taken apart and moved into the White House in pieces, as President Harry S. Truman would not allow a hole large enough to fit the bulldozer to be cut into the wa...
- Date:
- 1950-01-01T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: Two unidentified workmen are dismantling the bathtub in room B-17, in the northwest corner of the second floor of the White House during the renovation.
- Date:
- 1950-02-10T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: The bricks of the east wall of the Red Room, with doorways into the Blue Room, are exposed during the White House renovation. Below the arches are the bricked up doorways dating from about 1795. The doorways were shifted during the reconstruction from 1845-1818.
- Date:
- 1950-03-29T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: East wall of the State Dining Room with doorways into the Red Room. The design above, uncovered when the oak paneling was removed, dates from 1902. The old fireplace, bricked up since 1902,is also seen.
- Date:
- 1950-03-01T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: View above the northeast fireplace of the East Room of the White House, taken during the renovation. Some of the brickwork was cut out in installing the water pipes. The design above on the right dates from 1902.
- Date:
- 1950-02-27T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: Entertainer Harpo Marx (left) talks with President Harry S. Truman (right) at Fairfield Air Base in Suisan, California. President Truman stopped in California on his way to Wake Island to meet with General Douglas MacArthur. Harpo Marx was at the air base to entertain Korean War wounded ...
- Date:
- 1950-10-13T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: These joists at the northeast corner of the Red Room were uncovered during the renovation of the White House. The joists were cut into and weakened apparently to provide space for the pipes to the bathroom of Room 20 above.
- Date:
- 1950-04-14T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: Margaret Truman models her Easter bonnet during her visit to Key West, Florida, on vacation with her father. Press Secretary Charles Ross is at right in background.
- Date:
- 1950-04-06T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Description:
- Caption: North wall of the State Dining Room. The marks on the brick from west to east are an old stairway. In the opposite direction, the holes for supports of the later stairway, removed in 1902, can be seen.
- Date:
- 1950-03-01T00:00:00
- Partner:
- National Archives and Records Administration