MV Mailbox: A Peek at Mail From the Past
In light of the summer holidays Mount Vernon is taking a look at its vast collection of estate postcards from the 20th century. This one, sent from Mount Vernon on October 12, 1907 and received in...
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Some postcards are a little cryptic, and this one’s no exception. Sent from Washington, D.C., on May 16, 1909, it has a few indiscernible words and ambiguous punctuation, but one thing is clear: The...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: One Room, Two Drawings
The front of these two postcards might look like different rooms but they’re in fact the same chamber — George Washington’s bedroom — only in different decades. An elaborate and extensive series of...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: A Summery View
It’s the end of summer, so we thought we’d post a message to take readers back to the very beginning of the warmer months (and of course, back in time!) This postcard, which features a view of the...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1913
This week 99 years ago a father sent his child the above postcard, which depicts the Washingtons’ bedchamber. A caption across the top reads, “ROOM WHERE WASHINGTON DIED, SHOWING HIS BEDCHAMBER AT...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings From 1906
Approximately 106 years ago an unspecified visitor to Mount Vernon sent this post card to one Miss Irene Tringle in Madison, Wis. There was no message or name of sender on the back, which only has an...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1931
Approximately 81 years ago someone with rather unintelligible handwriting sent one Mrs. H a postcard from Mount Vernon. We took her address off the postcard on the chance that Mrs. H is still alive and...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings From 1910
Approximately 112 years ago on May 27, 1910, a Mrs. Sarah Mendenhall of Yeagertown, Pa., received a friendly postcard from a niece or nephew who visited Mount Vernon. The structure on the front of the...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1913
Almost one hundred years ago, Mrs. Thompson of Little Rock, Arkansas received this postcard from a friend or relative named Sue who was having “such a grand time” in Washington, D.C. The front of the...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1955
Summer at Mount Vernon means lots of vacationing tourists! Presumably on their own summer vacation, Mary and Henry sent this postcard on June 27, 1955 to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.J. Divens of...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1910
In 1910, an unknown visitor to Mount Vernon sent this postcard to Miss Catherine Reed of Natchez, Mississippi. The note reads: Saw this hall Aug. 16, 1910 Washington was a wealthy man and was President...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1919
One M.H. Taylor wrote to Miss Eleanor Pendleton on September, 16, 1919 from Mount Vernon with an interesting question; “How would you like to have to climb in your bed every night-with steps.” The...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1919
One M.H. Taylor wrote to Miss Eleanor Pendleton on September, 16, 1919 from Mount Vernon with an interesting question; “How would you like to have to climb in your bed every night-with steps.” The...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1908
Before the George Washington Memorial Parkway was constructed in the 1930s, visitors to Mount Vernon took a trolley or electric train to the estate. The author of this week’s postcard wrote to Ada...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1789
Happy Thanksgiving month! In 1789, George Washington proclaimed a national thanksgiving day to be held on November 26th so that Americans could be publically grateful for the new nation and conclusion...
View ArticleMV Mailbox: Greetings from 1908
On December 30, 1908 Anne Elliott mailed a postcard of Mount Vernon’s Banquet Hall (now called the Large Dining Room or New Room) to her friend Josie Colehower in Watsonville, CA. Her message was one...
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