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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 Date range 1947

Subseries 8.3. Souvenir Postcard Folders, 1947 Box 3, Folder 39

Fredericksburg, Virginia, The Boyhood Home of George Washington, 1947 Mount Vernon, Va., 1969; Greeting from Mount Vernon, Va., undated; Greetings from Mount Vernon, Va., Shrine of American Patriotism, undated; Greetings from Washington, D.C., The Nation's Capital, undated; Souvenir Folders of Washington, Mt. Vernon and Arlington, undated

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  2. Geo. Gregory Smart collection of Washington and Mount Vernon ephemera, 1793/2017
  3. Series 8: Stationary, 1861/1947

Superintendent's Letter Books, Diaries, and Monthly Reports - collection of bound volumes, 1885/1967 91 Volumes

Wall, Charles Cecil, 1903-1995

This collection includes bound volumes of primary sources by the Superintendent or Resident Director of Mount Vernon: the letter books and diaries of Superintendent Harrison H. Dodge from the 1885 to 1927, and the monthly reports to the Regent by Superintendent (later Resident Director) Charles Cecil Wall for the years 1948-1967. Dodge's letter books contain letterpress and handwritten copies of outgoing correspondence. These were bound into 32 volumes in 1968-1969. The majority of these letters are to the Regent, and some take the form of a monthly report. Dodge's diaries include handwritten day-to-day descriptions of the activities going on at Mount Vernon. Copies of Mr. Wall's monthly reports to the Regent were also bound in 1968 "for ready reference." (Council Minutes 1968) The monthly reports and some of Dodge's correspondence are also found in the Papers of the Superintendent and Resident Director.

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