This hand-colored wood engraving of the State Dining Room by an unknown artist was made during the Ulysses S. Grant administration. The wood engraving captures a State Dinner held for the Joint High Commissioners on March 9, 1871. The Commission was made up of delegates from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States and eventually led to the signing of the Treaty of Washington in 1871, which settled disputes between the three nations.

This hand-colored wood engraving by Thure De Thulstrup, a Swedish American illustrator renowned for his military depictions, was made in 1889 during the Grover Cleveland administration. The engraving depicts a state dinner hosted by President Cleveland in honor of the diplomatic corps on January 24, 1889. On the left is Chinese diplomat and politician Zhang Yinhuan, who attended the event in the old State Dining Room before it was renovated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.