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First in the homes of his countrymen [electronic resource] :George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt.

By: Brandt, Lydia Mattice [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813939261; 0813939267.Subject(s): Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | National monuments -- Social aspects -- United States | Nationalism and architecture -- United States | Nationalism and collective memory -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references 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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