George Washington coach panel and label, Washington, D.C.
name: label: associated person
content: Washington, Martha
notes: label: Description
content: President George Washington’s state coach featured four side panels representing the seasons. This panel, encased in an oak frame, depicts “Spring.” Washington used the coach to travel between the capital and Mount Vernon and on two presidential tours, to the northern and southern states, in 1789 and 1791. Mrs. Mary Dunlap of Georgetown presented the panel to John Varden at the National Institute for the Promotion of Science. The Smithsonian accessioned the panel, along with the rest of the Patent Office’s historical relic collections, in 1883.
label: Description
content: Transfer from the United States Patent Office, undated
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Souvenir Nation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.016107
label: catalog number
content: 16107
label: accession number
content: 13152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coach panel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 15 in; 43.18 cm x 38.1 cm