
Queen Lili'uokalani as Anti-Imperialist Curator:Mount Vernon and the Archive of Washington Place
West Parlor of Mount Vernon as curated and decorated by the MVLA. Note the large rug with the United States seal and the framed painting of King Louis XVI. Photograph was published in An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon: The Home of Washington in 1899. (Mount Vernon Ladies' Association Collection, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, 1899. Courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.)