Ida McKinley: Stereo card Mrs. McKinley in the Conservatory of the Executive Mansion
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Ida McKinley: Stereo card "Mrs. McKinley in the Conservatory of the Executive Mansion"Entry/Object ID
2015.00.08Description
Stereo card "Mrs. McKinley in the Conservatory of the Executive Mansion, Washington." There are details written on the back of the card: .... "Mrs. McKinley especially loves flowers, and this is her frequent resting place. Too frail to walk much among them, she has this chair (it is her favorite chair) brought downstairs from her room, and she sits here enjoying the flowers and the glow of the warm sunlight. Now and then she walks among them to look closer at some new bud or blossom and enjoy its fragrance and beauty, but she soon returns to this seat to rest. What could be more appropriate surrounding this frail, sweet woman than these delicately sweet blossoms! Here is the very perfume of the President's life....Collection
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