State Dining Room, Mount Vernon Mansion

Containers:

Box HPC - Cabinet Card - Box 1

Creator:

Johnson, N. G. (Newton G.) and Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

Language:

English .

Physical description:

Cabinet card of the new room in the Mount Vernon Mansion. A large screen covers the fireplace and hearth. A printed label on the reverse reads: State Dining Room, Mount Vernon Mansion, Or Banquet Hall, in which Washington gave his State Dinners, displaying Peal's [Rembrandt Peale] painting of Washington before Yorktown and the interesting old relic, the Mayflower Chair with its old-fashioned straight back, which was brought over in the ship Mayflower in 1620, and th Tripod with which Washington commenced life as a surveyor. Also, a bust of Washington by French sculptor Houdon. Copyright by the Mount Vernon Association.

Dimensions:

Cardboard mount: 6 1/2 in. x 4 1/4 in. (16.4 cm x 10.7 cm); Photographic print: 5 7/16 in. x 3 5/8 in. (13.8 cm x 9.25 cm)

Subjects:

Photographic prints
Cabinet photographs
Card Photographs
Albumen prints

Names:

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union
Johnson, N. G. (Newton G.)

Places:

Mount Vernon (Va.)
Mansion Interiors
New Room

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