Views White House fire ruins. On his way to lunch today President Hoover viewed the debris from the White House fire piled high on the executive office grounds
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1930
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 10,008 × 7,752 pixels
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