This photograph is of the State Dining Room set up for a Halloween luncheon was taken on October 30, 1958. For this event, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower decorated the White House for Halloween for the first time. She hosted a lunch for the wives of staff members in the State Dining Room of the White House. Decorations included skeletons hanging from the wall lights, yellow jack-o'-lanterns hanging from the chandelier, shocks of dried corn in the corners of the room. The room's columns that decorated at their bases with brown corn stalks, pumpkins, and red apples. The tables had miniature witches on broomsticks and 16 silver bowls filled with yellow and bronze chrysanthemums. Also scattered on the tables were autumn leaves and autumn nuts, ears of dried corn, as well as dried gourds and dried squash.
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This photograph is of the State Dining Room set up for a Halloween luncheon was taken on October 30, 1958. For this event, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower decorated the White House for Halloween for the first time. She hosted a lunch for the wives of staff members in the State Dining Room of the White House. Decorations included skeletons hanging from the wall lights, yellow jack-o'-lanterns hanging from the chandelier, shocks of dried corn in the corners of the room. The room's columns that decorated at their bases with brown corn stalks, pumpkins, and red apples. The tables had miniature witches on broomsticks and 16 silver bowls filled with yellow and bronze chrysanthemums. Also scattered on the tables were autumn leaves and autumn nuts, ears of dried corn, as well as dried gourds and dried squash.
