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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 : 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
xi, 284 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  • Nationalism and collective memory > United States
  • Nationalism and architecture > United States
  • National monuments > Social aspects > United States
  • Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFD 17-802
ISBN
  • 9780813939254 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813939259 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2016023613
OCLC
950449261
Author
Brandt, Lydia Mattice, author.
Title
First in the Homes of his Countrymen : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt.
Publisher
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 17-802
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