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2. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   The desk is decorated with carved moldings and carved floral swag designs. [3] [4] There are sets of drawers behind the cabinet doors on each side of the desk pedestals, [5] [6] and the desktop is covered with red leather. [7] Built at the same time as the Grinnell desk, the two desks together cost 380 pounds (equivalent to £47,780 in 2023). [8]

3. Hoosier cabinet - Wikipedia

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   A Hoosier cabinet or Hoosier is a type of cupboard or free-standing kitchen cabinet that also serves as a workstation. It was popular in the first few decades of the 20th century in the United States, since most houses did not have built-in kitchen cabinetry. The Hoosier Manufacturing Co. of New Castle, Indiana, was one of the earliest and ...

4. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   90 by 53.5 inches (229 by 136 cm) [ 4 ] This desk was created in 1903 for then President Theodore Roosevelt. It was first used in the Oval Office by William Howard Taft and remained there until the West Wing fire in 1929. It remained in storage until 1945 when Harry S. Truman placed it in the modern Oval Office.

5. Wooton desk - Wikipedia

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   The Wooton secretary desk rests on a four-legged quadruped support equipped with casters. The main body of the desk is filled with dozens of small drawers and nooks for papers and small objects. As in a "secrétaire à abattant," or fall front desk, the main working surface or desktop is hinged and lifted completely from the horizontal to the ...

6. Theodore Roosevelt desk - Wikipedia

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   The Theodore Roosevelt desk is a mahogany pedestal desk and is owned by the White House. [1][2] The 30 in (76 cm) high desk has a workspace which measures 90 in (230 cm) wide and 53.5 in (136 cm) deep. [1] The understated design is marked by elegant and masculine lines and is detailed with brass pulls. [2]

7. Richard Nixon hid one unlikely item in his Oval Office desk - AOL

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   Updated October 14, 2016 at 10:47 PM. While Richard Nixon always kept a yellow writing pad full of scribbles in hand, one of his most valuable possessions was actually secretly tucked away in his ...