[Woodlawn, home of Nelly Custis Lewis, Mount Vernon, Va.] – Historic Print
![[Woodlawn, home of Nelly Custis Lewis, Mount Vernon, Va.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/89/892070329897-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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Step back in time with [Woodlawn, home of Nelly Custis Lewis, Mount Vernon, Va.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Woodlawn, home of Nelly Custis Lewis, Mount Vernon, Va.]
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Woodlawn was the home of Nelly Custis Lewis, the adopted granddaughter of George and Martha Washington, and it stands a short distance from Mount Vernon in Virginia. Its Federal-style brick mansion was built in the early 1800s on land carved from the Washington estate, and it became a family seat for Nelly and her husband, Lawrence Lewis. This 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced many views of American places for travel sales in the years before 1915. The record also tags the site under Fort Belvoir, a reminder of how the surrounding land changed over the twentieth century.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. G 9096" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500693. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Estates. Dwellings.United States--Virginia--Fort Belvoir. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-74950 |
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