This image depicts the East Room of the White House decorated for a dinner honoring Prince Henry of Prussia on February 24, 1902 during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. Decorations included smilax festoons, white and pink azaleas, ferns, and palms. Red, white, and blue lights decorated the room, and the East Room’s chandeliers were draped in vines for a dinner referred to as “the crowning event” of Prince Henry’s 1902 visit to Washington, D.C.

This circa 1900 photograph features the East Room decorated with American flags for the 1900 Army and Navy Reception.

This circa 1861 color lithograph depicts the East Room of the White House. Except for the painted ceiling and marble mantelpiece added by President Franklin Pierce in 1854, the room is much as it was when Andrew Jackson decorated it in 1829.

This hand-colored wood engraving was published on April 6, 1861 during the early days of the Abraham Lincoln administration. The caption below the engraving describes a scene of office-seeking men gathered outside of the Cabinet Room waiting for a word with President Lincoln. This room, located on the Second Floor of the Executive Mansion, is referred to today as the Lincoln Bedroom - not because President Lincoln slept there, but because he used the room as an office and for cabinet meetings. The arched window and doorway of the East Sitting Hall, just outside of the Lincoln Bedroom, is depicted on the left.

This stereograph image depicts the East Room of the White House as it appeared circa 1881. The ornate Victorian chandeliers were replaced during the 1902 Roosevelt renovation.

This hand-colored wood engraving by an unknown artist was made around 1860 and depicts the banquet hosted by President James Buchanan for Japanese envoys during their visit to Washington, D.C. and their first trip to the United States. The banquet was held on May 24, 1860 and this engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper shows the delegation having dinner in the State Dining Room in the Executive Mansion. President Buchanan is seated at the center of the table.

This undated color photograph is of a stone engraving on the floor of the Entrance Hall of the White House. The years represent major dates in the construction and renovation of the White House.

This wood engraving of the East Room was published in the May 6, 1865 edition of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, a popular illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. It depicts the East Room of the White House shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

This wood engraving depicts Federal soldiers temporarily quartered in the East Room at the beginning of the Civil War.