The image was taken by the Washington Photo Company, located at 607 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. with their name credit in the matrix of the photograph. Based on extant examples of other panoramic photographs, the Washington Photo Company specialized in event and group photography including a photograph of the crew of a G.M. Leonard Co. steamship and one dated 1921 of the\u00a0 Anti-Saloon League.<\/p>\n
Mount Vernon was originally constructed as a one-and-a-half-story building in 1734 by George Washington\u2019s father, Augustine Washington. George Washington took over the estate twenty years later in 1754 and, over the course of the next 45 years, expanded Mount Vernon from a modest residence into a grand 21-room estate, complete with formal gardens, a working farm, a distillery, and a gristmill. The mansion, with its symmetrical design, red-roofed portico, and cupola-topped central structure, exemplifies the Palladian and neoclassical architectural influences that came to define early American style\u2014marked by balance, simplicity, and inspiration drawn from classical antiquity. (The name of this style is derived from\u00a0 Andrea Palladio (1508\u20131580), a highly influential Italian Renaissance architect renowned for his synthesis of Roman classical architecture with contemporary innovations). After Washington\u2019s death, the estate fell into decline until it was preserved and opened to the public in 1860 by the Mount Vernon Ladies\u2019 Association, becoming one of the nation\u2019s first historic house museums.<\/p>\n
Text printed in image:<\/p>\n
1928 \u2013 F.W. Van Zile Party
\nWashington Photo Co., 607 Pa. Ave., N.W., D.C.<\/p>\n
Condition: Generally very good, with the usual overall light toning, wear, handling. Recently professionally mounted on archival matboard to flatten, and to support few short marginal tears.<\/p>\n
References:<\/p>\n
\u201cF. W. Van Zile.\u201d Mount Vernon Catalog. https:\/\/catalog.mountvernon.org\/digital\/collection\/p16829coll31\/search\/searchterm\/F.%20W.%20Van%20Zile%20Popular%20Tours\/field\/creato\/mode\/exact\/conn\/and. (30 June 2025).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mansion.\u201d Mount Vernon. https:\/\/www.mountvernon.org\/the-estate-gardens\/the-mansion. (30 June 2025).<\/p>\n
\u201cVan Zile\u201d Van Zile. https:\/\/www.vanzile.com\/. (30 June 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Mount Vernon Panoramic Photograph]<\/strong> A panoramic photograph of a large group of tourists gathered on the lawn in front of Mount Vernon, the historic home of George Washington. The image shows the participants dressed in formal attire with the colonnaded mansion and outbuildings prominently shown\u00a0 in the background. As indicated in the title in the matrix of the photograph, the trip was organized by F.W. Van Zile Travel Company in 1928, a business founded in 1911 in Rochester, New York, that specialized in excursions to various destinations, including Mount Vernon, over a period of several decades. There are at least three other examples of Van Zile panoramic photographs taken at Mount Vernon in the collection of the George Washington Presidential Library, Mount Vernon, two of which are dated, respectively 1932 and 1954. The Van Zile company remains active to this day, offering both corporate and vacation travel assistance.<\/p>\n Product description continues below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44405,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[932,975,923,565,1090],"product_tag":[61,59,8378,896,6057,4756,1589,6361,6065,10211,1667,10212,6653,1651,10209,10210,709],"class_list":{"0":"post-44400","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-americana","7":"product_cat-architectural-studies","8":"product_cat-historic-sites-buildings","9":"product_cat-mid-atlantic","10":"product_cat-photography","11":"product_tag-20th-century","12":"product_tag-american","13":"product_tag-antique-photograph","14":"product_tag-architecture","15":"product_tag-george-washington","16":"product_tag-group","17":"product_tag-historical","18":"product_tag-mansion","19":"product_tag-mount-vernon","20":"product_tag-mvla","21":"product_tag-panorama","22":"product_tag-panoramic-photograph","23":"product_tag-photo","24":"product_tag-photograph","25":"product_tag-tour-guide","26":"product_tag-van-zile","27":"product_tag-view","28":"post","29":"post-with-thumbnail","30":"post-with-thumbnail-large","32":"first","33":"instock","34":"purchasable","35":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/44400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/44400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44776,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/44400\/revisions\/44776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=44400"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=44400"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=44400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1928 F.W. Van Zile Party<\/strong>
\nWashington Photo Company, Washington, D.C.: 1928
\nPhotograph, uncolored
\n9.75 x 31.75, image
\n12.5 x 34.25, overall
\n$600<\/p>\n