This collection contains publications concerning the history of Mount Vernon and George Washington that were not published by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The MVLA collaborated with other authors and publishers to produce many of these titles, however the Association was not the copyright holder. These items have been merged together into this collection but are from different sources or accessions. Most of the publications were either originally collected by the Library at Mount Vernon, or were previously owned by Vice Regents of the Association. Others were given as gifts to the MVLA.
A good number of brochures or booklets represented in this collection were produced by different businesses or organizations in the travel industry as information for tourists to Mount Vernon. Other publications were written by scholars or historians who researched at Mount Vernon and later donated their work to the Library. Several books were donated by Estelle Philibert, a local historian of Alexandria, Virginia, who discussed Washington and Mount Vernon in some of her works. These books can be cross-referenced through the Agent Link in Archives Space or through the Notes sections of each individual book.
The collection is broken down into these series: Series 1. Articles Series 2. Books Series 3. Booklets and Ephemera Series 4. Children's Books
[Name and date of item], Publications - History of Mount Vernon and George Washington, [Series, Folder], Archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Adventure Road, Amoco Motor Club magazine. "A Lasting Tribute to our Colonial Heritage," author unknown. p. 5-6
Editorial reprinted from the Arizona Daily Star. Volume 70, No. 6. No author listed.
Article posted on cardboard, does not include the full article (first page only).
The American Heritage Society's Americana Magazine. Volume 4, Number 1. Article written by Ken and Pat Kraft.
The American Heritage Society's Americana Magazine. Volume 12, Number 2. Article written by Constance Stapleton.
Antiques - "Mount Vernon Centennial" July 1953 by Helen Comstock. Vol. LXIV, No. 1
Article written by Wendy J. Shadwell.
George Washington's Mount Vernon article, Antiques and Fine Arts, 6th anniversary edition, Vol. VI Issue 5, January-February 2006
Reprinted from Architecture February 1997. Article written by Vernon Mays. Copy produced by Quinn Evans Architects.
RL-995. Article written by Charles F. Deems, D.D., LL. D.
Article written by Mary McMahon.
Article about the opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Written by Annie Groer.
The Carpenter, Volume LXXXIV (84), No. 2. Article written by E. John Long.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, "The Preservation of Mount Vernon: A Record of a half century of patriotic work by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union," by Abby Gunn Baker. Vol. LXXIX, No. 4, Midwinter Number.
Colonial Homes Volume 23, No. 2. "George Washington: Farming by the Book" written by Annette Stramesi, photography by Erik Kvalsvik. "Mount Vernon Furniture Collection" written by Mervyn Kaufman, produced by Doretta S. Sperduto, photography by Erik Kvalsvik.
Colonial Homes Volume 20, No. 3. Article written by Diane DiPiero, photography by Richard Bryant/Arcaid, courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association except where noted.
The Commonwealth, "The Story of Mt. Vernon" by James Wharton, April 1953.
Confederate Veteran Volume XXXIV (34), No. 3, Nashville, Tennessee.
Volume No. 123, No. 2. Mount Vernon cover art. Article written by George W. Nordham.
Article featuring Mount Vernon by Jane Ford Lopez, February 1991. p. 49-53.
Catalog of products from Edwards Virginia Smokehouse with brief summary of their support in the restoration of the smokehouse at Mount Vernon. Volume 214.
By Benson J. Lossing. Volume 3, No. 5.
Volume XLV (45), Number 5. Issue concerning Mount Vernon and Washington.
GW Magazine, A Magazine for Alumni and Friends. Article written by George W. Nordham.
Volume XVIII (18), No. CVL (145). Includes accession number RL-2356, lacks pages 437-444.
Volume 34, Number 3. Article written by Edward O. Welles, Jr., photographs by Ted Vaughan.
Volume 45, Number 6.
Volume 41, Number 5. Article written by Charles Hosmer, Jr.
History in Motion: Gum Springs Historical Society. Volume 4, Number 1. Spring 1996. "Thirteenth anniversary of the Mount Vernon Slave Memorial" by Dr. Judith Saunders Burton. Also includes reprinting of Dorothy Gilliam's Washington Post columns "Remembrance" and "Memorial" dated February 6, 1982 and February 28, 1983.
Volume 45, Number 1. National Symbols: Presidential Homes - Directors of six presidential homes answer HN's questions.
Article, "Shrine on the Potomac" by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle. Photographs by Bradley Smith. Includes images of Mount Vernon employees cleaning and caring for the Mansion (Holland family).
Bicentennial issue of the magazine with articles on Mount Vernon and George Washington.
Volume 78, No. 1. Section I and Section II. The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Section II contains Mount Vernon article, full title - Mount Vernon: Five Historic Interiors - George Washington's country estate recalls today the full, leisurely life of an 18th Century gentleman.
Volume 82, No.1
Volume 161, Number 5. Article written by Martin Filler, photographs by Marina Schinz.
Includes article "The Blameless Hero," by the American Macaulay, Illustrated with Rare Portraits and Prints. Washington anecdotes and imagery throughout. Vol. XVII. No. 8, Whole number 262.
The Iron Worker "The Story of Mt. Vernon" by James Wharton, Spring 1954 Vol. XVIII, No. 2. p. 1-13
The Ladies' Home Journal with article "In Washington's Garden: from recent photographs taken at Mount Vernon for the Journal by Leet Brothers, through the courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union."
Life Magazine Fall 1987, Volume 10 Number 10. Multiple articles on the Bicentennial.
By Sherrill Schell and others. Volume 11, No. 5. Serial no. 244. With pictures reproduced from art photographs specially made for this number of The Mentor.
Volume 5, No. 4. Article written by Charles Fenyvesi.
Volume 38, Number 1. Article written by Charles C. Wall.
Volume 46, No. 6. Article written by Charles C. Wall.
Article by Worth E. Shoults. p. 602-628 with color illustrations.
Text copy of article not the full magazine. Article written by Lonnelle Aikman.
Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Georgiana Lockwood.
Volume XXI (21), Number 1. Article written by Justin Torres.
Issue 94, pages 25-31. Discusses Washington's World map project at Mount Vernon. 2017-A-085
Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Doris T. Stuart.
The Saturday Evening Post article "How the Girls Save Mount Vernon" by Gerald Johnson. With color images, multiple pages.
Volume 107, No. 21. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to George Washington's life.
Volume 105, No. 20. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's life.
Volume XI (11), Number 3. Article written by Ulrich Troubetzkoy.
Article only not full magazine. Article written by Walter L. Jones.
Volume XV (15), Number 2. Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Robert L. Scribner.
Virginia Cavalcade, volume 48 Autumn 1999 number 4. Multiple articles concerning George Washington and Mount Vernon including "The satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged" by Dorothy Twohig; "Every thing trim, handsome, and thriving" by Dennis Pogue; "Written in my own hand" by John Riley; "And procure for themselves a few amenities" by Mary V. Thompson; "George Washington in Virginia Cavalcade: A Bibliography"
Article written by Emily L. Schulz and Ellen McCallister Clark.
Edited and annotated by Richard Brookhiser.
Annotated copies of the annual report showing images that were used courtesy of the MVLA.
Article only. Article written by Norman Kahl.
The Quarterly Journal of the White House Historical Association, Number 49, Spring 2018. Article on social secretaries includes information on Letitia Baldridge and the State Dinner at Mount Vernon.
Printed for sale at Mount Vernon. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
Summary inserted in the front cover reads "Mrs. Ira A. Richardson's compilation of early pamphlets bound for reference during Council." Contents - Authenticated copy of the last will and testament of George Washington (1868), Some of the secret troubles of Washington when Commander-in-Chief by Pitkin, Christianity the key to the character of Washington by Slaughter (1886), The Maternal ancestry and nearest kin of Washington (1885), George Washington as an inventor and promoter of the useful arts (1891), and Washington's Rules for Civility and decent behavior ed. by J.M. Toner (1888).
With illustrations. Copyright 1897 by Brentano's. Press of J.J. Little and Co., Astor Place, New York.
Congressional Directory belonging to Mrs. Lillie McAllister Laughton (sp.), Washington, Government Printing Office, 1890.
Printed by P.J. Kenedy and Sons, New York, 1931. Foreword by Peter Guilday, Ph.D. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.
Accession number RL-3035
Edited by Donald M. Sweig with an Explanatory Text, Appendices, and Source Lists by Beth Mitchell and Donald M. Sweig. Published by the Office of Comprehensive Planning, Fairfax County, 1987.
Accession number RL-6171a
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville. ISBN 0-8139-0851-5 and 0-8139-0852-3.
University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London. ISBN 0-8262-1135-6.
Published by the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Edward M. Riley, Editor.
The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis. First Edition, 1933.
Copyright Rudolph E. Prussing, 1925. Chapters IV and V copyright by Charles Scribners Sons, 1921. Limited release sale, copy no. 504 and 582. Signed by the author. Publisher Pascal Covici, Chicago.
Published by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission of New Hampshire, Houghton Miffling Company, Boston and New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With illustrations.
With an introductory essay by Michael Wentworth. Published by the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA. Signed by the author. ISBN 0-934552-63-0. Copyright by the Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum.
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London. William M. Ferraro, Editor in Chief. This edition has been prepared by the staff of the Washington Papers sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the University of Virginia.
By James C. Rees with Stephen Spignesi. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-470-08887-6.
Photography by Robert C. Lautman. Collection photography by Edward Owen. Essays by Susan Gray Detweiler, Rudy J. Favretti, Allan Greenberg, Ronald L. Hurst, James C. Rees, and Gilbert T. Vincent. The Monacelli Press, New York. ISBN 0-58093-010-7.
Oxford University Press, Inc., Oxford and New York. ISBN 0-19-512114-7.
Previously published under the title The Home of Washington. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Published by The Fairfax Press.
Previously published as The Tomb of Washington, 1858. Full title The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Emracing a Full and Accurate Description, as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, together with Incidents pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Washington: Thomas McGill, Printer. 1860. Magnolia leaf sewn into the front page with note on origin dated April 18th, 1861.
Fragile condition. Pages loose.
Full title "The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Embracing the Birthplace, Genealogy, Courtship, and Marriage of Washington. With Illustrations." Washington: McGill and Witherow, Printers and Stereotypers. Copyright 1866. Fragile condition, loose cover and pages. Accession number 2019-A-006
John B. Alden, Publisher, New York.
62nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 86. The Only Authenticated Copy, Full and Complete, Embracing a Schedule of His Real Estate, and Explanatory Notes Thereto by the Testator; To Which is Added Important Historical Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes. Presented by Mr. Heyburn, August 5, 1911. United States Government Printing Office.
Harper and Brothers, New York. One copy given by the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants, 1976, Book plate 1984. One copy given by Estelle Philibert.
Collected and Arranged by John Frederick Schroeder, D.D. Third edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York.
Full title - Maxims of Washington, compiled for use in schools, libraries, and all American homes. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1909. Copyright 1894. Accession number RL-803, gift of Mrs. Henry Norris Platt, Vice Regent of Pennsylvania, 1970.
Published by the Long Island Historical Society, New York. George Washington and Mount Vernon: A Collection of Washington's Unpublished Agricultural and Personal Letters, edited with historical and genealogical introduction by Moncure Daniel Conway. Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, New York. Note on the title page of both copies reads "These manuscripts were acquired by Dr. Sol Feinstone and placed on permanent loan at Mount Vernon."
C.M. Saxton, Barker and Co., New York. New edition, revised and enlarged. Inscribed on the inside, Mrs. Emily Barker Gerry. N.Y.
D. Appleton and Company, New York. Printed notes inside both copies read "To the Public - The entire profits that may accrue, to either the author or the publishers, will be contributed to the Mount Vernon Fund."
Title "Mount Vernon, Arlington, and Woodlawn: History of these national shrines from the earliest titles of ownership to the present, with biographical sketches, portraits, and interesting reminiscences of the families, who founded them." Illustrated, Ben Franklin Press, Inc. Washington, D.C. First printing September 1922, Second printing, May 1923. Accession number 2019-A-018.
The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. Dedication to Ann Pamela Cunningham and the MVLA. One copy originally belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.
Full title, Mount Vernon: The Home of Washington, Descriptive, Historical, and Pictorial. With 160 Illustrations. John C. Yorston and Company, Cincinnati. Gift of Estelle Philibert.
Full title - Mount Vernon: The Legacy, The Story of Its Preservation and Care Since 1885. Copy signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. J.B. Lippincott Company, New York and Philadelphia. Book dedication to Frank Morse.
Illustrated. Doubleday, Page and Company, New York. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. One copy belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.
Illustrated. Blue Ribbon Books, New York. Second edition, 1930. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. Includes accession number RL-6253/s
Illustrated by numerous engravings. W.A. Townsend and Company, New York.
Full title - Mount Vernon and the Washington Family, A concise handbook on the ancestry, youth and family of George Washington, and history of his home. Third and Enlarged Edition. Illustrated and Indexed. Prepared for the busy reader who does not have time to peruse voluminous works on these subjects. Ziegler Printing Co. Inc.
Crowell-Collier Press, New York. Copyright 1968 The MacMillan Company. Signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. Book dedication to Charles C. Wall. Includes accession number RL-6253/P.
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. First edition. Dedicated to the Regent, Mrs. Beirne, and the Vice Regents of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
The MacMillan Company, New York.
D. Appleton and Company, New York.
Author appears as Mrs. Roger A. Pryor on the title page. The MacMillan Company, New York. Includes accession number RL-3816, a gift of Estelle Philibert.
With illustrations. By the author of "Sunlight throught the Mist," "The Martyr Land," and "Triumphs of Steam." (E. Burrows) John F. Shaw and Co., London. Inscribed page is damaged. Gift of Estelle Philibert, accession number RL-3454.
The Accokeek Foundation. First edition, June 1988. Includes accession number RL-6170c.
Full title - The Report of the Virginia Board of Visitors to Mount Vernon for the year 1901: Showing the History of the Ladies Mount Vernon Association of the Union and Virginia's Connection Therewith and Action of Congress and Legislature of Virginia Touching Removal of Remains of Washington. J.H. O'Bannon, Superintendent of Public Relations, Richmond. 1901. From the press of Clyde W. Saunders, Richmond.
Full title - Rosemont and Its Famous Daughter: The Story of Rosemont Plantation, Laurens County, South Carolina, and Ann Pamela Cunningham Who Saved Mount Vernon for a National Shrine. Published by M.R. Wilkes, first printing 200 copies.
Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, New York. Gift of Estelle Philibert.
Copyright by the Mary Washington Memorial Association. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With portrait and eight illustrations. Gift of Estelle Philibert.
Written and compiled by Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall. The Neale Publishing Company, Washington, D.C. Copyright 1908 by Robert L. Brownfield.
Later published as The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, 1860. Full title - The Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description of Mount Vernon as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, Together with Incidents Pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Thomas McGill Printer, Washington.
Symposium handbook, edited by Jane Benton Butler. The International Molinological Society or T.I.M.S. Section on George Washington's Treading Barn and Grist Mill. Gift of Derek Ogden.
Published by Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico. Copyright 1966 by Arthur Newton Pack. Includes accession number RL-6256/L.
Accession number RL-6256/a. The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.
Evander Childs, Steam Book and Job Printer, New York. 1856. Accession number 2016-A-011.
Potomac Gardens Incorporated.
Full title - Authenticated Copy of the Last Will and Testament of George Washington, of Mt. Vernon, Emracing a Schedule of his Real Estate and Notes Thereto by the Testator, to which is added Historical Notes and Biographical Sketches by the Publisher. A. Jackson, Publisher, Washington, D.C. 1868.
Cobblestone, Carus Publishing Company.
Full title - Copies of the Wills of General George Washington, the First President of the United States, and of Martha Washington, His Wife, and other interesting records of the County of Fairfax, Virginia wherein they lived and died. Second edition. Copyright 1904 by E. Richardson Holbrook. National Capital Press, Inc., Washington, D.C.
American Antiquarian Society. A Paper Read before the American Antiquarian Society at their Semi-Annual Meeting in Boston, April 30, 1879. Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA.
Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for October 1889. Boston.
George Washington Bicentennial, 1999. Washington's Virginia.
Stories of Cross and Flag No. 1. The Hampshire Art Press, Keene, N.H. 1913.
Produced by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.
Special Journey Supplement, We the People May 1989.
Alderman Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Virginia.
1 symposium program and 1 schedule of events leaflet
Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria 1800-1929. Republished with some additions through the courtesy of Scribner's Magazine.
Fairfax County Tourism and Convention Bureau, Vienna, VA. c. 1988.
Presented with the compliments of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria Print Shop.
John Borman and Son, Printers, Detroit, Michigan.
The National Art Service Co., Inc. Accession number 2016_A-033.
The National Trust, UK.
62nd Congress, 1st Session Senate Document No. 86.
Printed for the author, Trow's Printing and Bookbinding, New York.
Printed for the subscribers, Philadelphia. Copyrighted by the authors.
By Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22.
The Grave of Mary Ball Washington, The National Mary Washington Memorial Association, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by N.R. Ball, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Printed by the Citizens Committee on Natural Resources, Washington, D.C.
Booklet, "Mt. Vernon Avenue: A National Memorial Highway from Washington to Mt. Vernon, with some account of the natural and historical attractions along its proposed route." Illustrated, by John R. Reavis. Published under the auspices of the Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Washington, D.C. 1888. Gibson Bros. Printers and Bookbinders.
Mt. Vernon Ave., From the Captiol by Grants Statue, Lincoln Memorial, over the Memorial Bridge, by Arlington, through Alexandria - To the Tomb of Washington. Published by Authority Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Prepared by Alex J. Wedderburn, The Art Publishing Company, Washington, D.C., 1913.
Third edition revised. Printed at the Office of "Our Fireside," Baltimore, MD. All Orders Should be Addressed to A.J. Wedderburn.
Published by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Includes accession number RP-1007 and RL-1511
Copyright 1906, Southern Railway Company. Copyright 1921, M.L. Dinwiddie. Press of Harry W. Wade, Alexandria, VA. Published by Ye Olde Mount Vernon Inn, Mt. Vernon on the Potomac, VA.
The Accokeek Foundation.
Navy Department, Naval History Division, Washington.
Compiled by Polly Graham Latane and Joyce Graham. Cover desinged exclusively for Mount Vernon Shops, Mount Vernon, Virginia. 1932.
Editorial Offices: Alderman Library, University of Virginia. National Historical Publications Commission.
Published by the Accokeek Foundation. June 1962.
Speech of Hon. R. Walton Moore of Virginia in the House of Representatives. Government Printing Office, Washington.
Little Leather Library Corporation, New York.
Guide book. English Life Publications, Ltd. ISBN 0-85101-3503
A National Trust for Historic Preservation Field Study for the Bicentennial of the United States Capitol sponsored by the Georgetown Heritage Trust. Funded by Mobil Corporation.
The Mount Vernon Guide Company. Hayworth Pub. House, Washington, D.C. With advertisements. Includes RM-321, MISC-2992
Sawyer's Inc. Portland, Oregon.
4th printing, revised and enlarged. Published by Eleanor Lee Templeman. Includes accession numbers RL-1908 and RL-1874.
Happy Inns of America, Inc. brochure.
Gibson Brothers Printers, Washington, D.C. Includes accession numbers RL-827, RL-2913, 2017-A-015, 2022-A-021, and 2024-A-005
The Wakefield National Memorial Association, 1932. Printed by H.L. and J.B. McQueen, Inc. Washington, D.C.
Illustrated by William D. Eubank. Published by Whitney and White. Ranson, West Virginia.
Edited by John Mahey. The Peale Museum, January 1966.
A Paper Read Before the Mount Vernon Society of Detroit, by Mrs. Thomas Clapp Pitkin, December 2, 1892. Printed by the Society.
H.H.P. 118. Printed in the U.S.A.
The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1958.
Reproduced in facsimile from the original in the Huntington Library. With an introduction by Lawrence Martin. Huntington Library Publications, copyright 1932 printed by University of Chicago Press, reprint 1958.
Copyright by M.L. Lukens, 1907. Leet Bros. Publishers, Washington, D.C.
The Star Publishing Co., Wilmington, Delaware.
Published for The Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D.C. Copyrighted and produced by Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore.
Pictures by Seymour Fleishman. Scholastic Inc., New York. ISBN 0-590-41814-9.
Illustrated by Gloria Kamen. Doubleday and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. ISBN 0-385-15534-4 trade and 0-385-15535-2 prebound. Copyright 1981 by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
Illustrated by Moneta Barnett. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Third impression. Includes accession number RL-6256/b
U.S. Press Association, Washington, D.C. One copy printed "Compliments of the Continental Trust Company" with different cover and different size.
Pictures by Lynd Ward. Abingdon, Nashville and New York. Note: Was prepared with the cooperation and gracious assistance of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and is published with their approval." ISBN 0-687-39685-9.