Washington's Home, Mount Vernon, Va. 1858 – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Washington's Home, Mount Vernon, Va. 1858, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington's Home, Mount Vernon, Va. 1858
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This picture shows Washington's home at Mount Vernon in Virginia, the plantation on the Potomac where George Washington lived and died. The caption gives 1858, a year that matters in the house's history because the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association bought the estate that year to save it from decay and commercial sale. The record notes that its date and details come from an unverified caption card, and the copyright notice points to a photograph made around 1926, so the image likely records the house as it looked in the early twentieth century. Viewers will notice the long colonnaded facade overlooking the river, a view that shaped how Americans pictured Washington's private life.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1926. |
| Subjects | J281282 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by J. Stewart Thomson, Paterson, N.J. K.37. cf. America's Yesterdays, pp. 18-19. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans--Ports.--1926; Photog. I.; Pres. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138236 |
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