2-752-413 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Washington Elm, Cambridge', 1874. The Washington Elm on Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It was supposedly under this tree that George Washington first took command of the American Army on 3 July 1775. The tree lived for approximately 210 years and died in 1923. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]