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First in the Homes of His Countrymen George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination / Lydia Mattice Brandt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brandt, Lydia Mattice, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National monuments--Social aspects--United States.
- National monuments.
- Nationalism and architecture--United States.
- Nationalism and architecture.
- Nationalism and collective memory--United States.
- Nationalism and collective memory.
- Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- In existence for roughly as long as the United States itself, Mount Vernon's image has remained strikingly relevant to many competing conceptions of our country's historical and architectural identity.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813939261
- 0813939267
- OCLC:
- 961874497
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