Presiding Ladies of the White House / containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs
EAST ENTRANCE OF EXECUTIVE MANSION
Copyright 1903, by Bureau of National Literature & Art.
CONTAINING
BIOGRAPHICAL APPRECIATIONS TOGETHER WITH A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND A TREATISE ON ITS ETIQUETTE AND CUSTOMS
BY LILA G. A. WOOLFALL
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER
ILLUSTRATED WITH SYMBOLIC BORDERS AND REPRODUCTIONS IN PHOTOGRAVURE OF THE FIRST LADIES OF THE LAND
Published by Bureau of National Literature and Art Washington, D. C.
Transcriber’s Note: If you want to see the symbolic borders, you’ll need to look at the HTML version on the Project Gutenberg website.
Copyright, 1903, by BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE AND ART
Transcriber’s Note: Page numbers have been removed because there were so many blank pages in the original book. Links go directly to the relevant chapter or section.
Transcriber’s Note: Page numbers have been removed because there were so many blank pages in the original book. Links go directly to the relevant illustration.
Lila G. A. Woolfall
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Martha Washington
Abigail Adams
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Dorothy Paine Madison
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
Louisa Catherine Adams
Rachel Donelson Jackson
Angelica Van Buren
Anna Symmes Harrison
Letitia Christian Tyler
Sarah Childress Polk
Margaret Smith Taylor
Abigail Fillmore
Jane Appleton Pierce
Harriet Lane
Mary Todd Lincoln
Eliza McCardle Johnson
Julia Dent Grant
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
Lucretia Randolph Garfield
Mary Arthur McElroy
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Caroline Scott Harrison
Ida Saxton McKinley
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICIAL ETIQUETTE