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State Dining Room Place Settings for State Dinner
- Photographer
- Thomas J. Abercrombie
- Date of Work
- September 1956
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- White House Historical Association
State Dining Room Place Settings for State Dinner
This photograph of the State Dining Room was taken by National Geographic Service photographers in September 1956 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. The large, grand tables are decorated with flowers, candelabra, silver vermeil, and fine State Service china for a State Dinner later in the evening.