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Date Created: c. 1825
Description: This chair was used at Arlington House. George Washington Parke Custis entertained frequently. It was part of his role as a gentleman but also his role as the “Child of Mount Vernon.” Guests included presidents and vice-presidents, senators, congressmen, supreme court justices as well as leading...
Description: Description: Bowback Windsor writing arm chair with a small drawer underneath the writing surface; screws are covered with wooden plugs; originally painted. The chair descended in the family of Mrs. Charles Levin Powell (nee Selina Lloyd), a close childhood friend of Mary Custis Lee. George...
Description: Painted by an unknown artist and presented to Mrs. Lee. It hung for many years under Washington's portrait in the parlor of Arlington House. It reflects the Custises’ and Lees’ fondness and appreciation for art and perhaps even their unconventionality. Mildred Lee inherited the painting which...
Description: Both Robert E. Lee and his oldest son, George Washington Custis Lee, were graduates of the US Military Academy, the finest engineering school in the country at the time. Drafting tools of this type were essential possessions of both men. R. E. Lee was an accomplished engineer. His improvements to...
Date Created: c. 1865-1870
Description: The fifth child of Robert and Mary Lee, Agnes kept a diary in the 1850s documenting life at Arlington. It was later published. Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee is still in print. Agnes was in love with a cousin, Orton Williams. It is believed that he proposed marriage to Agnes...
Date Created: c. 1790-1840
Description: Description: Pierced tin box within a turned and raised wooden frame, turned wooden corner posts, and an interior metal pan for hot charcoals. Prior to the installation of a furnace and central heating in the mid-1850s, fireplaces and stoves were used to heat the house, making Arlington a chilly...
Date Created: 1870-1875
Description: This carte-de-visite depicts Lee as president of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. George Washington Custis Lee, eldest son of Robert E. and Mary Lee, became president of newly renamed Washington and Lee University after the death of his father in 1870. Custis Lee served for over twenty...
![Martha [markie] Custis Williams-50435](http://www.nationalportal.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/collectionThumb/arlington_house_the_robert_e._lee_memorial/images/2010.0002.0011.jpg)
Date Created: c. 1839
Description: This portrait of Markie was painted by her father when she was about twelve years old. It is believed to have hung in Markie’s room upstairs at Arlington House between 1853 and 1861. Markie, a favorite cousin of the Lee family, moved to Arlington to help care for the elderly George Washington Parke...
Description: Photograph of the oldest daughter of Robert and Mary Lee, Mary, nicknamed “Sister.” She was an independent woman and defied convention for women of her day and traveled the world after the Civil War. She lived the longest of all the children, surviving until the end of World War I in 1918.
Date Created: c. 1861-1870
Description: Tinted photograph of an engraving that shows Mrs. Lee during or after the Civil War.
Date Created: c. 1866-1870
Description: Black and white photograph of Robert and Mary Lee's youngest daughter. Mildred, nicknamed “Precious Life” by her father, was still a child at the beginning of the Civil War. During the war she cared for her invalid mother and made clothing and bandages for Confederate soldiers. After the war...
Date Created: c. 1865-1870
Description: This carte-de-visite portrays Mrs. Lee during the time her husband was president of Washington College.
Date Created: c. 1871-1872
Description: This carte-de-visite is inscribed "Mrs. Genl. Lee, Mary Custis Lee, April 23rd 1880 [sic]". "L.L.S."
Date Created: c. 1860s
Description: Engravings of Robert E. and Mary Lee during their last years together. Both were in poor health in their declining years. Mary had rheumatoid arthritis and Robert had heart disease. Robert E. Lee, in particular, aged rapidly during his time at Washington College. The physical and emotional stress...
Description: This photograph was taken while Lee was president of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
Description: The photograph shows Robert E. Lee Jr. , the third son, sometime after the end of the Civil War. Robert Jr. became important in the Robert E. Lee historiography in the 1890’s with the publication of his Recollections and Letters of General Lee, an intimate memoir of his father. It is the only book...
Date Created: Late 18th century
Description: This table belonged to Martha Washington at Mount Vernon. It later belonged to Mrs. George Goldsborough, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. It is believed George Washington Parke Custis brought it to Arlington in 1802. After Martha Washington died, Custis spent over $4,000 at estate sales at...
Date Created: c.1800s
Description: This globe was found in the attic of Arlington House in 1928 during roof repair. Tradition has it that the globe has never left the property since the Lees lived there. This globe was probably used to teach world geography to Mrs. Lee as a girl and later to her own children. Since the Custises and...
Date Created: 1859
Description: Handwritten inside cover, “Presented to Charlie E. Thorne by Brig. General DeRussy at Arlington House which was left by the Rebel Genl. R.E. Lee, July 1864.”
Description: Grand-nephew of Robert E. Lee, his grandmother was Anne Marshall, Robert E. Lee’s eldest sister. She was a staunch Unionist who was married to a judge in Baltimore, MD. Lee wrote a letter to Anne on the day he resigned from the US Army. The letter described, in very personal terms, his reasons for...
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