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Colonial Williamsburg Journal

Title Hemp Tents
Issue Volume 37 Number 01, (CWJ, Winter 2015)
Description The only two 18th c. tents known to survive are those of General George Washington: his private sleeping and office marquee, and the larger dining and meeting marquee.Tailors of CWF Department of Historic Trades have worked with Philadelphia's MoAR, to study and document the tents and fragments in the MoAR, Smithsonian Institution and the NPS at Yorktown.
Author Hutter, Mark D.
Pages 33