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245	00|aWashington Elm collection,|f1875-1921.
300	|a1 box
545	|aThe Washington Elm was a tree in Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts which lived approximately 210 years and died in 1923. Beginning as early as the 1830s, it became popular legend that "under this tree Washington first took command of the American Army", supposedly words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1925, the legend was openly discredited by the Cambridge Historical Society.
520	|aA piece of the Washington Elm of about 1875, authenticated by the Cambridge, Massachusetts City Forester, George Washington White, 8 x 30 x 5 cm.
520	8 |aWith exhibition label stating that this piece was: loaned by Milton J. Stone, Esq., but verso text cites City of Cambridge as donor.
520	8 |aAlso includes: clipping concerning elm from Boston Globe, August 2, 1926; manuscript label; and 2 photographs of the elm, 1875 and 1921.
524	|aWashington Elm Collection, 1875-1921 (MS Am 2861). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
546	|aIn English.
650	0|aAmerican elm.
651	0|aCambridge (Mass.)|xHistory.
655	7|aPhotographs.|2aat
655	7|aRealia.|2aat
700	1 |aStone, Milton J.,|eformer owner.
700	1 |aWhite, George Washington,|eassociated name.
710	2 |aZ-Closet Collection.
541	0 |cGift;|aCity of Cambridge, Massachusetts;|d1891 March 14;|eno accession number.|5hou
561	1 |aGift of the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1891.|5hou
852	8 |bHOU|cZ|hMS Am 2861