Title First in the homes of his countrymen : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Prints and pilgrimage: 1790s1850s -- "Keep it the home of Washington!": the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1854-1890 -- Replicas, replicas, replicas: 1890s1920s -- Battles of "authenticity": replicas and research in the 1930s -- "In this changing and troubled world": social history and the American roadside, 1950s1980s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject National monuments -- Social aspects -- United States Nationalism and architecture -- United States Nationalism and collective memory -- United States ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Nationalism and architecture Nationalism and collective memory SUBJECT Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087766 Subject United States Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813939254 0813939259 9780813939261 0813939267

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