[Mt. Vernon, Va., the mansion and grounds] – Vintage Print
![[Mt. Vernon, Va., the mansion and grounds], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/83a60683720b-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Mt. Vernon, Va., the mansion and grounds]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Mt. Vernon, Va., the mansion and grounds]
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Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia estate on the Potomac, is the subject here, shown as a wide panoramic view of the mansion and its grounds. The image survives as a set of 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negatives from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that produced large numbers of photochrome and photographic views of American landmarks in the early twentieth century. Washington's home had been preserved by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association since 1858, and by the years around 1900 it had become a popular pilgrimage site, which is why a commercial photographer would bother to document its grounds at this scale. The record notes that the panorama's sections are arranged out of sequence in the digital catalog, so the full view has to be pieced together from the individual plates.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 5 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-18933, 18934, 18930, 18931 (or 18932). Four photos form one panorama with close variant of right section. The right sections do not match the right center section. They may belong to a different panorama or Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037006. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts. Dwellings. Estates.United States--Virginia--Mount Vernon (Estate) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-68310 |
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