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Mt. Vernon mansion, main hall – Antique Print

Mt. Vernon mansion, main hall, [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Mt. Vernon mansion, main hall, [between 1900 and 1920]. 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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Among the Detroit Publishing Company's views of George Washington's home, this one looks inward rather than at the grounds: it shows the main hall of Mount Vernon, the Potomac River estate in Virginia where Washington lived and died. The image survives as a pair of close variant glass negatives, a reminder that the company often made several exposures of a popular subject. Detroit Publishing's photographers, working in the decade or two before 1920, sold such views to tourists and publishers who wanted to bring the nation's historic houses into print. The staircase and hall interior were especially prized, since they conveyed the estate's colonial character to visitors who could not travel to Virginia.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegatives are close variants. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073489. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsWashington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts. Estates. Dwellings. Interiors. Stairways.United States--Virginia--Mount Vernon (Estate)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 775 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74320

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