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Martha Washington's Bedroom, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1901

Subjects
InteriorsResidences
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1901 (Early)
Front of Martha Washington's Bedroom, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1901, c. 1901 lithograph postcard
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Back of Martha Washington's Bedroom, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1901, c. 1901 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The room shown is Martha Washington's attic bedchamber at Mount Vernon, with a canopied four-poster bed hung with fringed white curtains, a wing chair and footstool, a covered stool, and a red-japanned chest of drawers with mirror and candlesticks against a sloped ceiling. It is the room she occupied after George Washington's death in 1799; its window overlooks his tomb, and she died there in 1802. The chamber belongs to the Mount Vernon mansion, the Potomac River plantation that the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association preserved and opened to visitors in the 1860s. The furnishings evoke the domestic life of the Washington household in the late 18th century.

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PublisherB. S. Reynolds Co.
MARTHA WASHINGTON'S BEDROOM, MOUNT VERNON, VA. MARTHA WASHINGTON'S BED ROOM, MT. VERNON, VA. This is the attic room which Mrs. Washington occu- pied after her husband's death. The window overlooks Washington's tomb. It was in this room that she died.
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PublisherB. S. Reynolds Co.
SeriesR-64940
ConditionVery good
Place depictedMount Vernon, VA
PublisherB. S. Reynolds Co., Washington, DC
NotesWhite border; color printing with visible halftone/line screen; light edge and corner wear. No postmark, stamp, or handwriting — unused card. Undivided-back era ("ADDRESS ONLY ON THIS SIDE"), white border on front; "C. T. AMERICAN ART" is the color process credit (C.T. Art-Colortone), printed vertically with small logo below. Published by B. S. Reynolds Co., 1202 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.; series R-64940. Light edge wear and toning.

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Martha Washington's Bedroom, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1901, postcard, c. 1901. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/martha-washingtons-bedroom-mount-vernon-va-circa-1901-1901. Accessed November 2, 2026.