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Scope and Content Note
The papers of Theodore Alfred Bingham (1858-1934) span the years 1897-1903 and consist of newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to official functions at the White House, the death of President William McKinley in 1901, the visit of Heinrich, Prince of Prussia in 1902, and the unveiling of the statue of Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau in Lafayette Park near the White House in 1902. These events took place while Bingham was in charge of public buildings and grounds in Washington, D.C., under the United States Army Corps of Engineers Office of Public Buildings and Grounds.