Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0393Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is off the interior of a bed room - a canpoy bed, chair, mirror and vantiy are seen. Above the image "49" is printed, below the image "23476 - En. Washington's Room, Mt. Vernon, Va." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
23476
WASHINGTON BED CHAMBER IN THE MANSION HOUSE, MOUNT VERNON, VA.
When we entere the Mansion House through the main entrance on its E. side, opposite to the river, and make the cicuit of tis rooms, which we can view only from their respective doorways, we find all of them furnisehd on a surprisingly complete degree with a throng of precious relics of General and Mrs. Washingotn. Furniture, bric-a-brac, pictures, books, personal belongings, with each item of which are associated intimate recollections of their distinguished first owners, are on every hand. Most interesting of all is Washington's bed chamber, into which we are now looking. It is in the second story of the S. wing, over looking the distant Potomac. The bed which we see is the one which General Washington used and upon which he died following a brief illness, Dec. 14, 1799. At the foot of the bed stands the chair upon which, at the moment of his death, lay the Bible from whic Mrs. Washington had been reading to him. Close at hand is the haircloth coach chest dated 1775, which Washington used during his campaigns. The mahogany table and all the other furnishings of the room are also original Mount Vernon pieces.
Mount Vernon owes its restoration and the excellent condition in which it exists today to the patriotic efforts of the "Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union," incorporated in 1856. This Association purchased the Mansion House and 202 acres of land around it from the last surviving heir of the General, John Augustine Washington. By self-sacrificing and untiring efforts the Association has been able to gradually restore the house and its surrounding outbuildings, grounds, gardens and fields from a state bordering on ruin to tehir original condition of beauty and to accumulate a fund sufficient toassure their preservation of the future.
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