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Photographer: Charles Willson Peale
Taken: 1772
Caption: Colonel George Washington
Additional Description: The earliest authenticated portrait of George Washington shows him wearing his colonel's uniform of the Virginia Regiment from the French and Indian War. The portrait was painted about 12 years after Washington's service in that war, and several years before he would reenter military service in the American Revolution.
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164121
File Size: 0.198 Megabytes

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