Mount Vernon

Object Details

General: Garden Club of America. Gardens of Colony and State; Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic before 1840. New York: Pub. for Garden Club of America by C. Scribner's Sons, 1931-34, p. 58. "Mount Vernon in 1807. From "The Stranger in America," by Chas. W. Janson." Courtesy of New York Historical Society. (Gardens and Gardeners of American Colonies of the Republic before 1840).; Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."; Historic plate number: "18."; Historic plate caption: "Mount Vernon, South; about 1800; Virginia."

Place: Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon, Virginia); United States of America -- Virginia -- Fairfax County -- Mount Vernon

Topic: Summer; Animals; People; Rivers; Lawns; Trees; Horses; Houses; Gardens -- Virginia -- Mount Vernon

See more items in: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Gardens / Virginia / VA001: Mount Vernon -- Mount Vernon

Sponsor: A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

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Bibliography: Garden has been featured in Alice G. B. Lockwood, ed. and comp., Gardens of Colony and State, Vol. 2 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons for the Garden Club of America, 1931-1934), pp. 55-65. Image on page 58.

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