This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Washington Birthday Folklore and a Century of Portraits
A sweeping reminiscence ties George Washington to inventions of national memory from the 18th to 20th centuries. It notes Washington’s potential third term, the Delaware crossing, and the 1932 Washington birthday anniversary movements. It details Sulgrave Manor funding, relics at Sulgrave and Wakefield sites, and the birth site at Pope’s Creek with Mount Vernon succession. It recalls the 1797 Philadelphia birthday celebration and the early capital’s evolution, plus portraits and a missing bust sold to Huntington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman
Coolidge
Washington
George Washington
Pope's Creek
Westmoreland County
Potomac River
Waakefield
Capital
Isk
Brreloes Creek
Popes Creek
Washinton
Nithaniel Pope
Anne Pope
Tatam Brothers
George Washington Parke Custis
Potomac Phitestone Nusiters
John Washington
Northamptonshire
England
Mary Badl
Lancaster County
Ballhomestead
Epping Forest
George Samuel
John Augustine
Charles
Elizabeth
Mildred
Augustine
George
Lawrence
Mount Vernon
Fredericksburg
Wakefield
Aa Bay
Stafford County
Ugo Buoncompagno
Gregory Iiit
Britain
America
Clowiddie
Virginia
Ohio Valley
Julian Eslendar
Alexandria
Philadelphia
Diplomatic Corps
Congress
Cornwallis
New Jersey
Jim
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Ralf
Messians
Trenton
Ball
Wallashington
Federal Hall
Wall Street
New York
Philadelpha
John Marshall
Oliver Wolcott
Treasury
Samuel Dexter
Benjamin Studdert
Navy
White House
John Adams
Capitol
United States of America
Gilbert Stuart
Henry C. Frick
Walter L. Ehrick
Chicago Art Institute
Stuart
Pierre Jean David
United States
France
Mitchell Kennerley
Anderson Galleries
Henry Js. Huntington
Kennerley