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

Brandt, Lydia Mattice,

First in the homes of his countrymen : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015). - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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National monuments--Social aspects--United States.
Nationalism and architecture--United States.
Nationalism and collective memory--United States.


Electronic Books.

E312 / .F577 2016