George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 stettheimer poster These postcards trade in linen

These postcards trade in linen skies

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

The Cumberland Island Beacon a Tower Lost to Time drawn for a slender brick sentinel on Georgia's southernmost barrier island

fixing the martyred president in the public eye just as the war's last embers cooled

George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 stettheimer poster These postcards trade in linenGeorge Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 a late century commemorative engraving issued in the centennial afterglow of the first inauguration, returning the General to his Potomac portico as the Gilded Age sought a founder worth remembering. The image is less biography than civic liturgy, Mount Vernon rendered as a shrine for a republic still tallying its losses. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the