As inflation and high interest rates battered the housing market at the end of the 1970s, workers and suppliers mailed two-by-four offcuts to the White House to dramatize the industry’s distress. The wooden “letters” called for measures suc ↗
The hundreds of pieces of presidential ephemera showcased in a new book of photographs—some of it well-known, much more of it obscure—provide a window into our American past.