Box 81
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Excavations. Notes and photographs, 1942-1943
File — Box: 81, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Included here are correspondence, photographs, site plans, research material, and clippings pertaining to Kimball's varied involvement with Shadwell, a tract of land southeast of Monticello across the Rivanna River. Kimball successfully led the effort to definitively establish Shadwell as Jefferson's birthplace. He conducted archaeological excavations on the property in 1941 and 1942 on behalf of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, unearthing evidence of several structures. On April...
Dates:
1942-1943
Historical research, 1942, 1948, undated
File — Box: 81, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Included here are correspondence, photographs, site plans, research material, and clippings pertaining to Kimball's varied involvement with Shadwell, a tract of land southeast of Monticello across the Rivanna River. Kimball successfully led the effort to definitively establish Shadwell as Jefferson's birthplace. He conducted archaeological excavations on the property in 1941 and 1942 on behalf of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, unearthing evidence of several structures. On April...
Dates:
1942, 1948, undated
Purchase and reconstruction sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Birthplace Memorial Commision, 1945-1954
File — Box: 81, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Included here are correspondence, photographs, site plans, research material, and clippings pertaining to Kimball's varied involvement with Shadwell, a tract of land southeast of Monticello across the Rivanna River. Kimball successfully led the effort to definitively establish Shadwell as Jefferson's birthplace. He conducted archaeological excavations on the property in 1941 and 1942 on behalf of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, unearthing evidence of several structures. On April...
Dates:
1945-1954