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[Washington descending the Ohio in canoe with 3 other men. 1753-54] – Historic Reproduction

[Washington descending the Ohio in canoe with 3 other men. 1753-54] — historic print
[Washington descending the Ohio in canoe with 3 other men. 1753-54]. Historic print from the Washington collection.

(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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[Washington descending the Ohio in canoe with 3 other men. 1753-54]

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Washington is shown in a canoe with three companions in this woodcut, which depicts his journey down the Ohio River in late 1753 and early 1754. Virginia's lieutenant governor, Robert Dinwiddie, had sent the 21-year-old surveyor to deliver a warning to French officers building forts in the Ohio Country, and the trip through cold, ice-choked water was a hard one. The caption card records no date, so the print was likely made long after the event. Its place on a board of Revolutionary War battles reflects how later storytellers traced Washington's rise back to these early frontier missions.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,526 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120326

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