After nearly a year of negotiation with the National Parks Service, the Women & Leadership Archives obtained nearly forty photographs of Piper Hall when owned by the Johnson family in the 1920s. These rarely seen images show for the first time what the interior of the house looked like before any major changes were made to the home in the 1940s.

The photos make up one part of a new display, located on the third floor of Cudahy Library (near the elevators), documenting the history of the house from its construction in 1909 to its stunning renovation in 2005. Check it out!