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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.

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Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Date range 1879

Elizabeth Barry to Nancy Halsted, 1879 Box 94

A.L.S. Chicago. Mrs. Leiter to see chair in New York and will have designs drawn of it and the set owned by Mr. John Hamilton, which are facsimile of those formerly at Mount Vernon. Next thing for them to do is to have all the rooms renewed before furnishing and then furnish slowly with just the right pieces. She is canvassing state for money to furnish Illinois room. Wants to reproduce everything that was originally in the room. Details of work to be done in Illinois room. Original color to be used. Sends a circular she has had printed in city papers. ER-5, p. 165

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Early Records of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 1853/1951, bulk 1853/1875
  3. Series 6. Correspondence, 1852/1951
  4. Correspondence, 1878/1881

Elizabeth Broadwell to Susan Hudson, 1879 Box 94

A.L.S. Cincinnati. Explains what she and Mrs. Barry have decided on restoration of their state rooms. Tried to get original coat of paint, engaged Emmart & Quartley (Baltimore). Engaged a woodcarver Henry L. Fry to make Ohio coat of arms. Thought all ladies on her floor should know these plans. Cincinnati's Mount Vernon Society raised $2000 in entertainment to be used in furnishing Ohio room. ER-17, p. 259

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Early Records of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 1853/1951, bulk 1853/1875
  3. Series 6. Correspondence, 1852/1951
  4. Correspondence, 1878/1881

Ella B. Washington to Susan Hudson, 1879 Box 94

A.L.S. Nordington. While in New York she saw some unimportant Press comments on Mount Vernon. Refers to brief Council Wednesday through Friday. Thinks more time and deliberation should be given to Council at Mount Vernon. Engraving for Mount Vernon not well packed. Noticed Ohio room was completed. ER-14, p. 129

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Early Records of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 1853/1951, bulk 1853/1875
  3. Series 6. Correspondence, 1852/1951
  4. Correspondence, 1878/1881

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