The caption reads: "Elegant and spacious, this stair passage, with its pine wainscot, welcomes visitors to the home of the first president of the Continental Congress, where the Comte de Rochambeau headquartered in 1781, and the Marquis de Lafayette was entertained during his triumphal return to the United States in 1824."]]>
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According to the card's caption: "'Aunt Mary,' born a slave and one of the old cooks of Williamsburg, is now the custodian of the kitchen of the restored Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia."]]>

The structure to the right (across Francis Street) is the William Finnie House, one of the eighty-eight original buildings at Colonial Williamsburg. A gowned female costumed interpreter (once referred to as a "hostess") is shown standing in front of the house. The Finnie House is named after William Finnie, who resided in the home from the 1770s to early 1780s and held the office of quartermaster general of the Southern Department during the American Revolution. The Finnie House holds the distinction of retaining an appearance most closely matching its eighteenth-century form throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ]]>
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Caption reads: "Originally an apothecary shop in the early 18th-century, this structure has been restored to its early appearance, and is now furnished as a typical colonial barber and wig maker's establishment."

The composition of this postcard is based upon a photograph taken by Colonial Williamsburg's first staff photographer, Thomas Williams, in 1947 (image # 1947-W-737.) Mr. Sam Helfrich posed as the 18th-century barber sitting outside his shop.]]>
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The card's caption reads: "The Cabinetmaker and his assistant work with hand tools of the eighteenth century to produce fine chairs, tables, smaller items such as tea caddies and trays, and other superb examples of craftsmanship. This shop is one of the operating Craft Shops of Colonial Williamsburg open to the visitor."]]>
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The gardens feature a combination of boxwood hedges, formal parterres, and shrubs. Paths laid out in geometric formations offer various vistas of the house, outbuildings, and garden ornaments.]]>
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