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Metadata
Title |
Col Wood chaired in triumph |
Catalog Number |
39-497 thl |
Accession number |
39-497 thl |
Collection |
Handley Library Collection |
Object Name |
Engraving |
Description |
Colonel James Wood being chaired in triumph through the streets of Winchester as proxy for George Washington on his election to the House of Burgesses July 24, 1758. From Graham's Magazine, 1853. Reproduced in "Winchester, Virginia, and Its Beginnings 1743-1814", by Katherine Glass Greene, facing p. 96. (39-498 through 500 are not in PastPerfect.) |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Date |
July 24, 1758 |
Year Range from |
1758 |
Year Range to |
1853 |
People |
Wood, James, Colonel |
Search Terms |
elections men celebrations 1750s 18th century |