[Parlor, Mount Vernon, Va.] – Antique Wall Art
![[Parlor, Mount Vernon, Va.], c[between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/da/da8dea3b7d51-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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[Parlor, Mount Vernon, Va.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Parlor, Mount Vernon, Va.]
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The parlor at Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia estate on the Potomac, is the room this view puts in front of us, and the record makes clear it is a copy of a Detroit Publishing Company print, made from a glass negative. The estate was Washington's home from 1754 until his death in 1799, and it became a preservation project in 1858 when the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association acquired it, a effort that drew wide public attention. Photographs like this one, taken between roughly 1910 and 1930, helped Americans picture the rooms where Washington lived and entertained, at a time when the house was becoming a national shrine.
| Created / published | c[between 1910 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | Reproductions.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of a photographic print copyrighted by Detroit Publishing Co. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts. Estates. Parlors. Dwellings.United States--Virginia--Mount Vernon (Estate) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 671 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-77133 |
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