White House objects can help us better understand enslaved labor in the Atlantic World, used for centuries to produce popular commodities and consumer goods.
Maria Hester Monroe, youngest daughter of President James Monroe and First Lady Elizabeth Kortwright Monroe, married Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, private secretary to the President, on March 9, 1820.
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Tyler, the fifth child of President John Tyler and First Lady Letitia Christian Tyler, married William Nevison Waller, an attorney from Virginia, on January 31, 1842.
Ellen “Nellie” Wrenshall Grant, only daughter of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Dent Grant, married Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, an English singer, on May 21, 1874.
Alice Lee Roosevelt, eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, married Nicholas Longworth, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, on February 17, 1906.