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Mount Vernon Images Part of Photo Collection

The New York Public Library recently expanded access to more than 180,000 out-of-copyright items including this Mount Vernon photo.

PHOTO from The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library recently ”kicked things up a notch” with expanded access to more than 180,000 out-of-copyright items in their NYPL Digital Collections, releasing high-resolution assets, data, and more.

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Among the items is this photo issued in 1903, captioned “Tomb of America’s greatest citizen, Washington, at Mount Vernon.”

The photo is one of two, offering a 3-D view from the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, published by Underwood & Underwood.

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See more photos of Mount Vernon by using the NYPL’s search feature in the box at the upper right here.

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