Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, Family Register – Historic Print
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This historic image of Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, Family Register brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, Family Register
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A family register bearing the words "Sacred to the Memory of George Washington" belongs to a genre of memorial keepsakes that flourished after his death in 1799, when printers and engravers produced decorative sheets for households to record births, marriages and deaths. Such registers typically combined an engraved allegorical border, often featuring urns, willows, or a portrait of Washington, with blank spaces for families to fill in their own records. Their popularity reflects how deeply Americans mourned the first president, and the sheets remain valuable to researchers as evidence of both domestic life and the public cult of Washington in the early republic.
| Original scan | 3,391 × 4,272 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02145u |
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