Building repair and reconstruction

Stereo slide shows the construction during the Truman Renovation at the south side of the White House. Scaffolding can be seen along the south side of the White House.

White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow (center) poses in the East Room of the White House with two unidentified men. In a printed note at the bottom of the photo is "Knipp & Company, Inc., Paneling and Carving."

President Harry S. Truman is standing on the lawn of the White House with the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion. From left to right: Senator Edward Martin; Senator Kenneth McKellar; Richard E. Dougherty; President Truman; Douglas Orr, American Institute of Architects; Representative Louis C. Rabaut; Representative Frank B. Keefe.

Photo of close-up of fireplace in Library; the tiles feature sketches of Washington, D. C. monuments. From an album of photographs by Abbie Rowe of the White House prior to the 1949 renovation.

Southwest view from the east basement entrance of White House during renovation. The Allis Chalmers Cletrac Diesel-powered shovel is being used to excavate below the basement floor. The earth is carried outside the opening in the south wall and loaded on trucks by a truck crane. Same as 71-285.

Window openings provide bursts of light into the cavernous interior of the White House, supported only by a web of temporary steel supports. The exterior walls rest on new concrete underpinnings, which allow earth-moving equipment to dig a new basement.

Southeast view in the main kitchen of the White House, after the renovation. Unidentified members of Congress and their wives are receiving a tour of the facilities.

Sumitomo Metal Industries in Anshan, Manchuria. Opening cut in wall and track laid into tube mill during Soviet occupancy to facilitate removal of equipment. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

White House beam that split under Margaret Truman's piano, on display at the Truman Library.

Northeast view in the Lincoln Room, after renovation of the White House. Congressional members and wives are examining the large Lincoln Bed.