Front:
309-Library, South End, Mt. Vernon, Va.
1B-H1267
Back:
The Library is the room which constituted
the headquarters of Washington, the manager
of a great estate. His personal correspon-
dence, official letters, the daily entries in his
diary and his accounts were all written at
the desk in this room. The desk was pur-
chased by the President in Philadelphia be-
fore he retired. The original thermometer-
barometers hang at either side of the desk.
The mahogany case, the globe and a pair of
the General's spectacles are original. Original
Washington books and others that belonged
to members of his immediate family are
grouped in the first of the four built-in book-
cases. Of the books in the other cases many
duplicate volumes that were owned by
Washington.
SCENIC ART SERIES, B. S. REYNOLDS Co., WASHINGTON, D. C.
