In this photograph taken by Robert L. Knudsen on September 21, 1961, White House Curator Lorraine Waxman Pearce shows a fruit basket from the Abraham Lincoln State Service to an unidentified visitor in the Curator’s Office (today known as the Map Room) on the Ground Floor of the White House. The room served as the temporary location of the curator’s office, where new acquisitions were examined and cataloged before being displayed in rooms restored during the project.
The Map Room is located on the Ground Floor of the Executive Mansion and was named during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, when President Roosevelt used the room to monitor and intake classified information during World War II. The room was the original Situation Room. Today, the room acts as a sitting room but still displays maps in homage to its origins.
In this photograph taken by Robert L. Knudsen on September 21, 1961, White House Curator Lorraine Waxman Pearce shows a fruit basket from the Abraham Lincoln State Service to an unidentified visitor in the Curator’s Office (today known as the Map Room) on the Ground Floor of the White House. The room served as the temporary location of the curator’s office, where new acquisitions were examined and cataloged before being displayed in rooms restored during the project.
The Map Room is located on the Ground Floor of the Executive Mansion and was named during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, when President Roosevelt used the room to monitor and intake classified information during World War II. The room was the original Situation Room. Today, the room acts as a sitting room but still displays maps in homage to its origins.
