This circa 1889 black and white photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston depicts the Entrance Hall of the White House, including the Tiffany Screen. In 1882, Louis Comfort Tiffany created this glass screen to separate the Entrance Hall from the Cross Hall. The glass screen featured topaz, ruby, and amethyst jewels set into the glass alongside four eagles and a shield with the initials "US." The glass screen was removed and auctioned off during the Roosevelt renovation, and reinstalled in a Maryland hotel. The surviving glass was destroyed in a fire in 1923.

This photograph of the Entrance Hall by Frances Benjamin Johnston was taken in 1889 during the Benjamin Harrison administration. The Entrance Hall is located just beyond the front door of the North Portico in the Executive Mansion. In 1882 Chester A. Arthur commissioned the interior designs and decorative arts of Louis Comfort Tiffany to make the Entrance Hall more welcoming. In this photograph, Tiffany's colored glass screen was placed to make the hall more warm and welcoming to visitors as well as to keep the cold, winter draft of the front door from the drawing rooms beyond.