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First in the Homes of His Countrymen George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination

Title
First in the Homes of His Countrymen [electronic resource] : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt.
Author
Brandt, Lydia Mattice.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

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Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Uniform Title
  • First in the Homes of His Countrymen (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Alternative Title
First in the Homes of His Countrymen (Online)
Subject
  • National monuments > Social aspects > United States
  • Nationalism and architecture > United States
  • Nationalism and collective memory > United States
  • Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Prints and pilgrimage: 1790s1850s -- "Keep it the home of Washington!": the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1854-1890 -- Replicas, replicas, replicas: 1890s1920s -- Battles of "authenticity": replicas and research in the 1930s -- "In this changing and troubled world": social history and the American roadside, 1950s1980s.
OCLC
ssj0001736946
Author
Brandt, Lydia Mattice.
Title
First in the Homes of His Countrymen [electronic resource] : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Project Muse.
LCCN
2016023613
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