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[Mary Washington house, Fredericksburg, Va.] – Antique Wall Art

[Mary Washington house, Fredericksburg, Va.], [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph
[Mary Washington house, Fredericksburg, Va.], [between 1910 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Step back in time with [Mary Washington house, Fredericksburg, Va.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Mary Washington house, Fredericksburg, Va.]

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Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, lived in this Fredericksburg, Virginia, house from 1772 until her death in 1789, and it became a place of pilgrimage for visitors interested in the first president's family. This negative is a copy made from an earlier photographic print, so it records a view that circulated in the early twentieth century, when the Detroit Publishing Company sold landscape and historic-site pictures to travelers and schools. The house's association with Washington's upbringing and later memory made it one of the more popular views of the town, and the glass negative preserves how the building looked to visitors of that period.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1930]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreReproductions.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of a photographic print. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsWashington, Mary Ball,--1708-1789--Homes & haunts. Dwellings.United States--Virginia--Fredericksburg.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 690 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77100

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