Resolute Desk: Media
Oval Office desk, White House, United States
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John F. Kennedy, Jr., playing under the Resolute Desk as his father works in the...
Stanley Tretick—LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-L9-63-1558-I, no. 13)
Pres. Ronald Reagan working in the Oval Office at the historic desk, which was a...
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (75856205)
A monograph published in 1857 depicting the abandonment of ships, including the Resolute,...
The British Library (Public Domain Mark)
An engraving depicting Queen Victoria's visit to the HMS Resolute, a ship...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-pga-03087)
When the HMS Resolute was decommissioned, the queen had the ship's wood...
© Photos.com/Getty Images
The U.S. president was the recipient of a surprise gift from the queen of England:...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery (object no. NPG.2019.11)
U.S. Secretary of State John Hay, signing, on behalf of the United States, the memorandum...
Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, vol. II, by Nelson A. Miles, 1899
John F. Kennedy, Jr., peering out of the trapdoor in the Resolute Desk in a photo...
Stanley Tretick—LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-L9-63-1558-I, no. 13)
Pres. Barack Obama signing an executive order—the White House Initiative on Educational...
White House Photo
A plaque on the desk explaining its amazing origin story from ice-bound ship to Oval...
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (176317522)
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