[The Potomac & Maryland hills, from Mt. Vernon, Va.] – Vintage Print
![[The Potomac & Maryland hills, from Mt. Vernon, Va.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/9378528c8327-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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This rare historic photograph captures [The Potomac & Maryland hills, from Mt. Vernon, Va.] in remarkable 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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[The Potomac & Maryland hills, from Mt. Vernon, Va.]
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The view looks out from Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia estate on the Potomac, across the river toward the Maryland hills. Taken on a glass dry plate sometime between 1900 and 1915, it comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sent photographers across the country to document scenery and landmarks and then sold the images as souvenir views. Mount Vernon was already a popular pilgrimage site by then, thanks to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, which had preserved the house and grounds since 1858. The picture shows the river landscape that Washington himself knew well, and it reflects the period's appetite for scenic views tied to national memory.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. G 9051" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500555. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts. Estates. Rivers.United States--Virginia--Mount Vernon (Estate)United States--Potomac River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-74882 |
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