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1. Bedroom and Sitting Room of the White House during the Renovation
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
2. Blue Room at the White House, Post-Renovation
Description:
Caption: The Blue Room after renovations at the White House were completed.
Date:
1952-07-15T00:00:00
Partner:
National Archives and Records Administration
3. Broadcast Room on Ground Floor of White House
Description:
Caption: The Broadcast Room on the ground floor of the White House, after the renovation.
Date:
1952-03-01T00:00:00
Partner:
National Archives and Records Administration
4. Broken Beam under Margaret Truman's Sitting Room
Description:
Caption: A photograph of a split beam under the room Margaret Truman occupied as a sitting room while in the White House. From the "Report of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion.
Date:
1949-01-01T00:00:00
Partner:
National Archives and Records Administration
5. Construction Equipment inside the White House
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
6. Diary Entry of President Harry S. Truman
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3:30 General Vandenburg reports to me that an atomic explosion has taken place in the neighborhood of Lake Balkal in Siberia. Not good news. This is explosion No. 2. Go over to the White House with Bess, Margie and Roy Lakin? It looks as if some progress is being made.
Date:
1951-09-30T00:00:00
Partner:
National Archives and Records Administration
7. Diary Entry of President Harry S. Truman
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Mr. Churchill is coming to dinner. He came, brought me his life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. John's father was Winston Churchill! We had a grand time at the dinner. General Marshall, Barkley, V.P., Atcheson [sic] Sec of State, C.J. Fred Vinson & Mrs. Vinson, the British Ambass...
Date:
1949-03-24T00:00:00
Partner:
National Archives and Records Administration
8. Dismantling a Bathtub in the White House
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
9. East Room of the White House
Description:
Caption: The East Room of the White House, with portraits of George and Martha Washington on the walls. From an album of photographs by Abbie Rowe of the White House after the 1949 renovation.
Date:
1952-08-01T00:00:00
Partner:
National Archives and Records Administration
10. East Wall of the Red Room
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