Photo From the Attic: Picture of Serenity

By Roll Call Staff

Posted March 25, 2009 at 4:10pm

[IMGCAP(1)] This photograph was taken of the White House on March 23, 1929, months before the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. Magnolias, those harbingers of spring, frame the home of President Herbert Hoover.

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