2-702-490 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'George Washington', (1933). Portrait of George Washington (1732-1799), first President of the United States. After commanding the American Revolutionary army to victory over the British in the American War of Independence, Washington served as the first President of the newly independent United States from 1789-1797. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]