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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