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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These files contain brochures, clippings, correspondence, specifications, and vouchers related to Kimball's work as a member of the Jefferson Memorial Commission. A significant portion of the material relates to the controversial selection of a site for the memorial on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in 1937, and the equally contentious selection of John Russell Pope's pantheon-like design for the memorial. The correspondence files contain many letters with Daniel Paul Higgins and Otto R....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Kimball served on the Committee on Sculpture which was charged with selecting a sculptor to complete a monumental bronze statue of Jefferson for the center of the marble rotunda. As such, Kimball and the committee developed a prospectus for the competition, selected finalists, and in October 1941, awarded Rudolph Evans the commission. Kimball was also concerned with the casting and installation of the central figure which was delayed until 1947 because of a war shortage of metals, and with...