Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Historical, Biographical, and PictorialW.A. Townsend, 1859 - 376 Seiten This book offers a more personal glimpse at the life of George Washington, as portrayed through the narrative of his home at Mount Vernon. Important house pieces, locations, and so forth are also discussed in their historical importance, and also meaning in the life of Washington. |
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... mansion for two or three days . While there I sketched many things with which Washington was associated in life , and , on my return , wrote a narrative . of the visit for Harper's New Monthly Magazine , entitled Mount Vernon as it Is ...
... mansion for two or three days . While there I sketched many things with which Washington was associated in life , and , on my return , wrote a narrative . of the visit for Harper's New Monthly Magazine , entitled Mount Vernon as it Is ...
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... Mansion and Grounds at Mount Vernon . 65. Garden - house .... 141 143 66. Century - plant and Lemon - tree .. 144 67. View in the Flower - garden at Mount Vernon - the Sago Palm .. 68. Ruins of the Conservatory at Mount Vernon .. 145 ...
... Mansion and Grounds at Mount Vernon . 65. Garden - house .... 141 143 66. Century - plant and Lemon - tree .. 144 67. View in the Flower - garden at Mount Vernon - the Sago Palm .. 68. Ruins of the Conservatory at Mount Vernon .. 145 ...
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... . Specimens of Washington's Plate 252 108. The Presidential Mansion . 109. Martha Washington . 110. Nelly Custis's Harpsichord .. 253 261 268 111. George Washington Lafayette ..... 112. G. W. P. Custis ILLUSTRATIONS . 11.
... . Specimens of Washington's Plate 252 108. The Presidential Mansion . 109. Martha Washington . 110. Nelly Custis's Harpsichord .. 253 261 268 111. George Washington Lafayette ..... 112. G. W. P. Custis ILLUSTRATIONS . 11.
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... mansions and broad and fertile plant- ations of Virginia , when the Old Dominion was as loyal to the second King George ... mansion , surrounded by the holly and more stately trees of the forest , in which lived Mary , the mother of the ...
... mansions and broad and fertile plant- ations of Virginia , when the Old Dominion was as loyal to the second King George ... mansion , surrounded by the holly and more stately trees of the forest , in which lived Mary , the mother of the ...
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... mansion near the Potomac , of which we have just spoken , a great patriot was born of a mother eight- and - twenty years of age , when the popular William Gooch was royal governor of Virginia ; and in an old family Bible , in Hanover ...
... mansion near the Potomac , of which we have just spoken , a great patriot was born of a mother eight- and - twenty years of age , when the popular William Gooch was royal governor of Virginia ; and in an old family Bible , in Hanover ...
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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