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Jerry Smith in Front of a North Portico Window

Photographer
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Date of Work
ca. 1889
Type
Photograph
Credit
Library of Congress
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Jerry Smith in Front of a North Portico Window

This portrait photograph is of White House staff member Jerry Smith holding his signature feather duster. Smith started working at the White House during the Ulysses S. Grant administration in the late 1860s, and served as butler, cook, doorman, and footman until his retirement some 35 years later. Shortly before dying at age 69 in 1904, Smith was visited at his home by President Theodore Roosevelt.

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