This is a photograph of a wedding cake created for the wedding of Jessie Woodrow Wilson to Francis Bowes Sayre. Jessie Wilson, the daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson, married Sayre in the East Room of the White House on November 25, 1913. The Wilson-Sayre wedding cake was decorated in the popular Art Nouveau style of the day with flowing, rhythmic lines and floral motifs, which embraced nature. The cake was served in the private Family Dining Room to only 20 of the couples’ closest friends and family as the dinner party continued in the State Dining Room for the remaining guests.

This black and white photograph of designer Sally Milgrim was taken circa 1920 - 1925 aboard a ship. Milgrim got her start in fashion by joining her husband’s suit-making business as a dressmaker in the 1910s. By the 1920s, her business proved to be so successful that she began creating custom designs for entertainers like Ethel Merman, Pearl White, and Mary Pickford. Milgrim’s line expanded to include eveningwear as well as ready-to-wear gowns and accessories. Milgrim’s attention to detail was apparent in her creations – she often incorporated embroidery, cross-stitch, ruffles, pleats, and embedded crystals. A high point in Milgrim’s career was when she was approached to design Eleanor Roosevelt’s inaugural gown for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inauguration.

This photograph, taken in 1909, shows one of President William H. Taft's horses standing near the White House stables. The horse was named in tribute of its former owner, Tate Sterrett, of Fassifern Farms in Hot Springs, Virginia. The High Victorian mansard-roofed structure is the last version of the White House Stables before they were demolished in 1911. This stable was built during the Ulysses S. Grant administration in 1871, and expanded for President Benjamin Harrison in 1891.

In this photograph, President William Howard Taft passes the dugout of the Washington Senators baseball team shortly before a game on August 13, 1912. The Senators were defeated by the Chicago White Sox with a final score of 3-5. The sinking of the Titanic earlier that year had prevented President Taft from tossing the ceremonial first pitch of the baseball season.