Case II:
"From George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Mrs. Grant’s Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, to the etiquette of the Stars and Stripes and the U. S. Military: An American Sampler, 1746-1963."
View of Washington-City Taken from Georgetown (Prospect Hill), 19th century.
Digital scan of the original engraving, 21 cm x 28 cm.
The cover of Etiquette of the Stars and Stripes, 1929.
Courtesy was not limited to Old-World Europe. The early United States also had rules for proper behavior. The newly-formed government, in particular, developed a code of conduct that covered every topic from the coats that dignitaries should wear abroad to the minute details of behavior during ceremonial procedures to the types of modern luxuries good servicemen ought to indulge in. As a teenager, George Washington himself copied a work of civility, courtesy, and manners for gentlemen that was first compiled by French Jesuits in 1595 with the title, Bienséance de la Conversation Entre les Hommes.