Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
PO Box 3600Katherine Hoarn, Special Collections Librarian, updated by Lesley Parilla, Technical Services Librarian
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[Name and date of item], Historic Ephemera Collection, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.
This collection includes ephemera from 1796-1986, and contains a variety of formats that primarily relate to the portrayal of George Washington.
Portions of this collection have been digitized, as noted in the item-level descriptions.
This collection is organized into series by format and arranged chronologically.
Related books are available in the library catalog: George Washington 200th Anniversary 1732-1932 ; If you grew up with George Washingoton ; George and Martha ; A Picture Book of George Washington ; Original Portraits of Washington.
Advertisement series called Great Ideas of Western Man, featuring George Washington on knowledge in a free government. With artwork by Robert Schneeberg.
Printed ballot from 1796 titled "Federal Ticket. Friends to Washington's Policy." With manuscript annotations.
Silk bookmark pinned to printed paper tag for Thomas Stevens Coventry & London, inventor and manufacturer of the pure silk woven book markers, 400 different designs.
Printed folio broadside from the third session of the first Congress.
Folio broadside printing of the 1794 Embargo Act, passed at the first session of the third Congress. Printed with an act to authorize the settlement of the account of Lewis Dubois, for his services in the late army of the United States.
Printed folio broadside printed in Baltimore by John Hayes, in Public-Alley.
Printed in London by T. Bensley. An illustrated British printing of Washington's 1796 farewell address, includes a profile portrait of George Washington.
Resolutions passed by Congress for the erection of a marble monument in the capitol city of Washington in honor of the late General Washington.
Broadside listing the order of exercises and order of procession for the Celebration of Washington's Birthday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire of February 22, 1862. Published by Chronicle Card Press.
Incldues calendars for the years 1906, 1909. Includes images of George Washington.
Includes calendar for the year 1914
Includes calendars for the year 1925
Includes calendars for the years 1932, 1932, 1935, 1936 (thermometer removed), 1937 (thermomemter removed)
Includes calendars for the years 1946
Includes calendar for the year 1953 (thermometer removed)
Unused postcard featuring the quote "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world" from Washington's farewell address.
Unused postcard with the quote "The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotish, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations" from George Washington's farewell address.
Unused postcard featuring George Washington and an image of Mount Vernon, with the quote "Every portion of our county finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the Whole" from his farewell address.
Unused postcard with color image of George Washington and his candlestick.
Includes post card of George Washington with text "Becoming Father of a Country sure takes a lot out of a guy" and post card of Martha Washington with text "By George... I wish he would try sleeping around here once in a while!", valentines card with image of George Washington
Includes cartoon of George Washington lifting weights, cartoon of George Washington at Valley Forge, cartoon of George Washington coming out of a painting to eat cake.
Printed certificate featuring vignettes of George Washington, the Washington National Monument obelisk and pantheon, and the tomb at Mount Vernon. Lithograph by E. Weber & Co., Baltimore.
Cigar box showing George Washington on the cover as a boy chopping down a cherry tree. The interior label shows a portrait of Washington as an adult. Design & Trade Mark Registered No. 12278 Dec. 5th 92 by Geo. A. K. & Co.
First-day cover with authorized gold stamp replica of a portrait of George Washington designed by the United States Postal Service and liscensed by the Postal Commemorative Society.
Fragment of engraved wedding invitation, which reads "Mrs. Mary Washington requests your prescence at the marriage ceremony of Miss Martha Custis to Col. George Washington." This is a fictitious imagining of what an invitation could have looked like, if one existed, for the wedding of George and Martha Washington.
Complimentary invitation to the Regimental Ball in honor of the Veterans of New Hampshire held in Washington on December 18, 1855. Features colored embossed illustration of George Washington.
An invitation to take a seat on the platform on the occassion of the "Address on the Character of Washington, to be delivered by the Hon. Edward Everett, At the Academy of Music, on Thursday, May 12, 1859, at 8 o'clock."
Wood box with paper label attached to top, containing five wood puzzles with colored paper engravings on them. Includes a puzzle of "Mount Vernon-Washington's Residence."
Includes Historic Ideals, American History Illustrated 1975
7 magazine clippings with image of George Washington. Magazines include MAD salutes the bicentennial, Boy's Life, The Saturday Evening Post, National Distillers,
photo magazines titled Washington the Nation's Capital, Washington Baltimore and Ohio
Includes 14 menus of Washington's birthday banquet by the Sons of the Revolution. Years include 1928, 1946-1949, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1963,1964, 1965, 1972, 1974.
Includes George Washington and the America Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1976 pamphlet, George Washington 1732-1799 Pictures of little known events pamphlets printed in 1963 and 1965, Honor to George Washington 1732-1932 compliments of the Pennsylvania railroad, Honor to George Washington 1732-1932 of Bicentenial Commission pamphlet, and Our Presidents pamphlet.
3 Pamphlets about the caverns of luray and natural bridge
Portraits of George and Martha Washington engraved by G. F. Storm. Border, featuring engraving of Mount Vernon, Residence of Washington, by T. Pollock. Includes an engraved biography of George Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1838 by G. F. Storm & T. Pollock in the Clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Printed by C. S. Holland.
Engraving of a portrait of Washington, "The Father of Our Country." "From an acknowledged and much admired painting by Col. J. Trumbull." Engraved and printed by Illman & Sons.
Color print made in the U.S.A.
Includes print of You Will Become the Chief of Nations from the original painting by Henery Hintermeister
Reduced copy of a steel engraving of Martha Washington presented to subscribers of the fortieth part of "The American Portrait Gallery." The engraving was presented with the pamphlet "Martha Washington" by Benson J. Lossing (New York : J. C. Buttre, 48 Franklin Street, 1865).
Includes paper fan with image of George Washington and George Washington model kit.
Includes sheet music of George Washington's time Bicentennial, Father of the the land we love Bicentennial
Includes sheet music of Carry me back to old virginny with the image of "Washington selects the site of the Nation's Capital", 1791. Includes sheet music of Hail to the chief with the image of "Washington across the Deleware, Christmas, 1776".
Mount Vernon March sheet music
A school project done by Nancy Jeanne Budd sometime around 1933. Includes copies of portraits, a series of clippings by J.H. Galbraith, and various other clippings.
Made by the National Currency Souvenir Co., Washington, D.C. Stamped on verso, "Made of money destroyed by U.S. Treasury estimated at $3,000."
With paper label affixed to the back: "Made of United States Bank notes redeemed and macerated at the U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C. Estimated $15,000."
Block of four commemorative stamps with the quote "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations" from George Washington's farewell address.
Commemorative panel with U.S. mint stamp featuring a quotation from Washington's Farewell Address.
Scrapbook of stamps commemorating the people and events of the American founding era.
George Washington's birthday bicentennial stamps with first day of issue commemorative cancellations.
Includes 1 Martha Washington stamp of 1 cent and 4 Martha Washington stamps of 4 cents 1943, The Golden Stamp Book of George Washington 1975