Atatürk ousted the sultan. The Ottoman Empire was thereby fragmented and the Mosul oil fields became part of Iraq. George Washington Woodhouse collected artifacts and antiques that were connected to the history of the United States. In 1930 he acquired a famous oil portrait of Ulysses Grant. In 1936, in conjunction with one of George Washington's descendants, William Selden Washington, Woodhouse donated many documents on George Washington to the Library of Congress. This collection is still in the Library's permanent collection and can be found on their website. Woodhouse also joined forces with another descendant, William Lanier Washington, and began to sell items with the Washington family crest through Woodhouse's gallery in New York City. Lanier Washington was relatively famous at the time for having portions of his own private collection of George Washington memorabilia sold at two prominent auctions conducted by Sotheby's in 1917 and the American Art Association in 1920. The authenticity of some of the Lanier Washington historical items, both sold through auction, and through the Woodhouse gallery, was later questioned and in some cases proven to be fraudulent. George Washington Air Junction In 1928-1930, Woodhouse bought more than 1500 acres (6 km2) of land south of Washington D.C., much of it being the ancestral lands of George Washington and George Mason. He planned to build a large zeppelin airport on the grounds, the George Washington Air Junction. By 1935 he had to sell the land to pay for unpaid taxes and foreclosures of mortgages. Much of this land is now Huntley Meadows Park. Last years In 1953–1958 Woodhouse was involved in a lawsuit with former employee Tamara Bourkoun, who claimed that she had worked in his galleries for 46 weeks and had not been paid. Woodhouse claimed that her compensation was a tuition to the gallery's education courses and that she intended to become a fortune teller, which, at the time, was illegal in New York. The suit was decided in favor of Bourkoun. Woodhouse had to sell the last of the Washington Junction land to pay for her compensation. Henry Woodhouse died on January 6, 1970, in his home in New York City. References External links Jerry Kuntz - "I’m Working on a Million Dollar Deal": A Biographical Essay on Henry Woodhouse National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol 15 Published 1916 by James T White & Co NY Books by Henry woodhouse Aeronautics expert. Historian.