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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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  • George Washington on his deathbed, 1799. Coloured engraving by J. Rodgers after Chapin, 1799.
  • George Washington's last birthday: Washington is shown preparing to escort Nelly Custis at her wedding on February 22 1799, as she descends a staircase at Mount Vernon, in her wedding gown. Photogravure after a painting by H. A. Ogden, 1899.
  • A battle between British forces and the Continental American army: a man on a horse carrying a cutlass (George Washington?) is surrounded by other men, some carrying standards. Pencil and ink wash by H. Brueckner, 1874.
  • George Washington on his deathbed. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Union Square, New York City: showing the George Washington statue (right). Photograph, ca. 1880.
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    Studies of nature (Volume 1).

    Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814. | Date: 1797
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    [George Washington correspondence].

    Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Date: 2008-
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    A catalogue of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenæum / compiled and annotated by Appleton P.C. Griffin ; with an appendix, The inventory of Washington's books drawn up by the appraisers of his estate; with notes in regard to the full titles of the several books and the later history and present ownership of those not in the Athenæum collection, by William Coolidge Lane.

    Boston Athenaeum. | Date: [1897]
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    The botanist : being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge : together with a discourse on the principle of vitality / by Benjamin Waterhouse.

    Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846. | Date: 1811
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    Studies of nature (Volume 3).

    Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814. | Date: 1797
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