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The White House: The Historic Furnishing & First Families. Abbeville Press: 2000. ISBN 0-7892-0624-2. Seale, William. The President's House. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 1986. ISBN 0-912308-28-1. Seale, William, The White House: The History of an American Idea. White House Historical Association: 1992 ...
The China Room is one of the rooms on the Ground Floor of the White House, the home of the president of the United States. The White House's collection of state china is displayed there. The collection ranges from George Washington's Chinese export china to Barack Obama's blue and white themed collection.
A total of two other copies were made before the molds were destroyed in 1974. The first copy, made for the White House Historical Society, was finished in 1975.This copy was later loaned to a six-week exhibit in Russia, which opened May 16, 1987, and was organized by Helen Boehm, Raisa Gorbacheva, Vassili Zakharon (Russian Minister of Culture), and sponsored by Armand Hammer (longtime friend ...
The White House staff, especially the Head Usher, and the longtime White House curator were essential in getting the job done. On the morning of Inauguration Day, with the help of the well-oiled ...
Jacqueline Kennedy made extensive renovations to the White House in 1961 and 1962. When the Kennedy family first moved into the White House, the Red Room (along with other rooms on the State Floor of the White House) were arranged and decorated using existing items by Sister Parish, Mrs. Kennedy's long-time friend and interior decorator. Parish ...
This problem with the White House china collection was rectified in 1958. Mamie Eisenhower, a fan of beautiful china, asked the Smithsonian Institution to assist her in researching and cataloguing correctly the White House china collection. [86] This led to the correct identification of the buff band china with the Lincoln administration. [70]
By 1969 the secretary was back in the White House collection and was loaned to the Smithsonian. [61] White House collection [62] Resolute desk: Rutherford B. Hayes: After receiving the desk in 1880, President Hayes placed it in the Green Room on exhibition until it was taken upstairs to his office on the second floor. [63]
Nixon chose to use the Theodore Roosevelt desk in this room. [3] As part of a larger installation of microphones across the president's spaces in the White House and associated buildings, four microphones were installed in the Theodore Roosevelt desk in April 1971.