18C American Women in War & Democracy: First Lady Abigail Adams had the wash hung in the unfinished East Room of The White House

Friday, April 10, 2020

First Lady Abigail Adams had the wash hung in the unfinished East Room of The White House

Abigail Adams Supervises the Hanging of the Laundry in the Unfinished East Room of the White House, painting by Gordon Phillips sometime around 1950.

When the 2nd US President John Adams family moved into the White House, First Lady Abigail Adams hung the wash in the unfinished East Room, as imagined in this painting.

See: The White House Historical Association

Searching for WHY human society changes & what those living before us declare in their own words and in their design & images of themselves & of the world around them. Posting on the worldwide internet makes history less intimidating, easily accessible, & freely available for everyone.

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As a historian, I must rely on archaeologists, using a variety of scientific tools, to find & help explain earlier evidence beyond that obvious on the surface. Science is not truth. Just like history, science is a process in the pursuit of truth.

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