Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
President Herbert Hoover and Baseball - Photo 3
- Date of Work
- 1931
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Library of Congress
President Herbert Hoover and Baseball - Photo 3
President and Mrs. Hoover with Washington Senators star pitcher Walter Johnson on opening day of the baseball season, April 14, 1931.
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