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The Working White House: Lillian Rogers Parks

The Working White House: Lillian Rogers Parks

Lillian Rogers Parks holds a portrait of her mother, Maggie Rogers, who came to the White House in 1909 under President William Howard Taft and retired in 1939 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Parks recalled, “I grew up in the White House. I was 12 years old when I first started going there with my mother.”

Date of Work
1992
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Credit
Roland Freeman, Smithsonian Institution