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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Primary Collecting Areas:
George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Founding Era and Early Republic, Historic preservation, Decorative arts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Description:

The Fred W. Smith National Library includes general collections, special collections and archives as a resource for scholars, students, and those interested in George Washington, colonial America and the Revolutionary and founding eras.

The library's general collections include secondary source materials on the Washington and Custis families, and the colonial and founding eras.

The Special Collections materials highlight the lives of George and Martha Washington as well as their descendants through correspondence, financial materials, and original books from George and Martha Washington's library.

The archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association holds the historic institutional records of the organization dating back to its founding in 1853.

POC: Reference services
Phone: (703) 780-3600
Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Creator Bailey, Worth, 1908-1980 Level File

Full size object studies, 1940/1960 Drawer 59, Folder 4

Drawings include orginals and copies of: Two earthenware mil pans, drawn from archaeological fragments, June 1955; Design for glass flower container, after an 18th century engraving by Roubillac, February 25, 1954 and November 4, 1947; copy of Design for glass flower container from Worth Bailey by Robert Fisher, November 1952; A design for a glass vase from an 18th century print, 1947. Full size.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Measured Drawings and Blueprints of Mount Vernon, 1870/2016
  3. Other structures

Proposed Treatment of the Junction of South Ha Ha Wall with Ice House Façade; Plan of Mount Vernon showing highways and boundary lines, brick wall and tree lines, 1940 Drawer 50, Folder 10

Drawing in blueprint form showing plants and vegetation surrounding Ha Ha Wall and Ice House; Plotted by Robert Fisher, Plan 322 – 113A. Blueprint and original drawing. Scale of feet on drawing; 1" = 40'

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Measured Drawings and Blueprints of Mount Vernon, 1870/2016
  3. Gardens and Grounds

Study for Bowling Green Entrance Gate; 3/4" and Full Size Details of Guard House at Tomb, 1946 Drawer 57, Folder 9

Reproduction drawing for the study of the Bowling Green entrance gate by Worth Bailey, May 1946; Blueprint drawing with details from the Guard House at the tomb, by Walter Macomber, undated. 1 " = 1'; 3/4" = 1' and full size

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Measured Drawings and Blueprints of Mount Vernon, 1870/2016
  3. Other structures

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