Introductory material
Reading edition
GEORGE WASHINGTON
From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenæum and is known as the Athenæum portrait.
Autograph is from Washington's signature to a bill of exchange, from "Talks about Autographs" by George Birkbeck Hill.
VIGNETTE of the RESIDENCE of the WASHINGTON FAMILY
From "Homes of American Statesman," published by Alfred W. Putnam, New York.
LAWRENCE WASHINGTON
From an original painting in the possession of Lawrence Washington, Esq., Alexandria, Va., a great-great-great-nephew.
Autograph from MS. in New York Public Library, Lenox Building.
MISS MARY CARY
From an original painting owned by Dr. James D. Moncure of Virginia, one of her descendants.
No autograph can be found.
MISS MARY PHILIPSE
From Irving's "Washington," published by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Autograph from Appleton's "Cyclopædia of American Biography."
WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE
From the original painting by Emanuel Leutze in the New York Metropolitan Museum. The United States flag shown in the picture is an anachronism. The stars and stripes were first adopted by Congress in June, 1777; and any flag carried by Washington's army in December, 1776, would have consisted of the stripes with the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew in the blue field where the stars now appear.