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CINCI1_130511_011.JPG: Anderson House
A Member's Gift
Anderson House was the winter residence of Larz Anderson (1866-1937), a career diplomat, and his wife, the former Isabel Weld Perkins (1876-1948). The mansion was designed by the Boston firm Little & Browne. It was constructed between 1902 and 1905 at a cost of $800,000.00. The Andersons used the mansion to entertain foreign dignitaries and guests.
The Andersons incorporated the Society's insignia throughout the mansion, intending to leave it to the Society for use as a meeting place. After Larz Anderson's death in 1937, Mrs. Anderson presented Anderson House, along with much of its original artwork and furnishings, to the Society. Today it serves as the Society's Headquarters, Library, and Museum.
The Museum features art and artifacts relating to the American Revolution, the history of the Society and Larz and Isabel Anderson. The Library, open by appointment, houses rare books, manuscripts, maps, graphic arts and reference collections focused on the people and events of the American Revolution and the art of war in the 18th century.
CINCI1_130511_022.JPG: The Society of the Cincinnati
The Nation's Oldest Patriotic Organization
The Society of the Cincinnati was organized at the close of the Revolutionary War by the officers of the Continental Army and Navy and their French counterparts who had served together in the struggle for American independence. From its founding the Society was organized into constituent branches in each of the original 13 states and France.
The purpose of the Society, according to the Institution adopted on May 13, 1783, was to create "One Society of Friends" dedicated to preserving the rights and liberties for which the founders had fought and perpetuating the brotherhood that had formed among the officers during the war.
The Society was also organized to assist members and their families to need, assuming a role that the early Congress, which lacked the power to tax, could not fill. In the first decades of the republic the Society was instrumental in securing legislation to provide pensions for Revolutionary War veterans.
CINCI1_130511_030.JPG: Cincinnati, Ohio
A City Names for the Society
In 1787, Congress organized the land between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes into the Northwest Territory and opened much of this vast area to American settlement. Congress appointed General Arthur St. Clair, a member of the Pennsylvania Society, as first governor of the territory. St. Clair made his headquarters at Fort Washington, located at a strategic point near the junction of the Ohio and Miami rivers. In 1790, he named the town near the fort in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Iowa were also named in the Society's honor.
CINCI1_130511_033.JPG: The Society Today
Devoted to the Principles and Ideals of Its Founders
Now in its third century, the Society of the Cincinnati has been perpetuated by the descendants of the Original Members and other eligible officers as a non-profit educational organizations devoted to the principles and ideals of its founders.
In addition to its Museum and Library at Anderson House, the Society supports scholarship, publications, historic preservation efforts and other programs to promote increased knowledge and appreciation of the great achievement of American Independence.
Every Original Member, and those officers who could have become Original Members, can be represented in the Society today. The Society also includes descendants of Continental and French officers who died in service during the Revolutionary War.
CINCI1_130511_037.JPG: Larz & Isabel Anderson
Devoted to Public and Volunteer Service
Larz Anderson held high-ranking diplomatic posts in London and Rome, and served as United States Minister in Brussels (1911-12) and Ambassador to Japan (1912-13). As a devoted member of the Society of the Cincinnati, he represented his great grandfather, Richard Clough Anderson, an aide to General Lafayette and an Original Member in the State of Virginia.
Isabel Anderson was an active Red Cross volunteer who served in front-line hospitals in Europe during World War I. She was the author of more than 45 books, including memoirs, travelogues, children's stories and plays.
The Anderson's divided their time between Anderson House and their other residences in Brookline, Massachusetts and Lake Winnepocket, New Hampshire. Avid and discriminating collectors, they filled their houses with fine and decorative art acquired during their extensive world travels.
CINCI1_130511_316.JPG: The Order of the Spanish-American War records a generous fight for freedom
CINCI1_130511_332.JPG: Key Room Wall Murals Conservation Project:
The Key Room wall murals, which were completed by artist H. Siddons Mowbray in 1909, are receiving conservation treatment to address flaking paint, layers of dirt and grime, and torn and cracked canvas, which has become detached from the walls in some places. Experts from Olin Conservation of Great Falls, Virginia, who conserved the ceiling mural in this room in 2007, are undertaking this extensive work. The conservation project will take approximately five months and will be complete in the spring of 2013.
These brilliant works of art chronicle iconic events in American history: the achievement of independence, the settlement of the frontier, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. The four wall murals celebrate the patriotic service of Larz Anderson's family in these events through imagines scenes painted with rich details and allegorical figures. The murals in Anderson House are the only examples of Mowbray's work in the District of Columbia.
CINCI1_130511_348.JPG: An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exacted rights and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing.
CINCI1_130511_352.JPG: The order of the loyal legion was born out of cruel civil war.
Note Fort Sumter in the background.
CINCI1_130511_362.JPG: To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of this vast event, as the mural friendships which have been formed under the pressure of common danger and in many instances, cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of the American army do hereby, in the most solemn manner associate, constitute and combine themselves into one society of friends.
CINCI1_130511_412.JPG: The city of Cincinnati chose its name to commemorate the Society of Cincinnati
CINCI2_130511_399.JPG: Captain John Barry
CINCI_130504_09.JPG: Some wedding photos were being taken
CINCI_130504_44.JPG: The Society of the Cincinnati:
The Society of the Cincinnati was founded in 1783 by the officers of the Continental Army to perpetuate their fellowship, preserve the memory of the Revolutionary War and promote the principles for which they had fought. The society is named after Cincinnatus, a hero of the Roman Empire who refused rewards for serving his nation and returned to his plow after leading the armies of Rome to victory.
George Washington, portrayed in this statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon returning to Mount Vernon after the Revolutionary War, was celebrated as the American Cincinnatus. He served as president general of the society from 1783 until his death in 1799 and remains a model of patriotic virtue.
Anderson House, the former home of Ambassador Larz and Isabel Anderson, has been the headquarters of the society since 1938. Modern members of the society -- descendants of the American and French officers whose service secured the independence of the United States -- work to preserve the memory and promote the ideals of the heroes of the Revolutionary War.
Wikipedia Description: Society of the Cincinnati
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The General Society of the Cincinnati is a historic association in the United States and France with limited and strict membership requirements.
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2013 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and
my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California).
Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.
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