TimeTravelers Passport Guide to Virginia Museums and Historic Sites
The Virginia TimeTravelers Passport and Guide
will make it easy for you to plan your visits in Virginia – and
serve as a souvenir and reminder of your adventures. Each
participating museum will be happy to stamp or sticker your book
during your visit. Visit more museums to collect them all! The
museums and historic sites are listed alphabetically, and their
regional location is indicated and color-coded. You will find an
index at the back of the book with the sites grouped by region, and
a fold-out map with major roadways to help guide you.
Instruction with Amusement
Exhibit
catalogue of Children at Dumbarton House 1790-1830. 44-pages
discussing childhood during the early 19th century.
Exhibition
catalogue (20 pages) exploring Dolley Madison’s stop at Dumbarton
House during the British invasion of Washington in 1814.
In Search of
Joseph Nourse: Exhibit Catalogue
54-page
exhibit catalogue detailing the life of Joseph Nourse, First
Register of the Treasury and first occupant of Dumbarton House.
Referred to as "America's first civil servant" Nourse was
a key figure in the history of Dumbarton House and the early federal
government.
Castles in Spain Anthony Morris’s Letters to His Children 1815-1817
376-page book
chronicling letters written by Anthony Morris to his children during
a trip to Spain.
Georgetown Houses of the Federal Period.
Black and
white soft-cover book, 130-pages, with descriptions of Federal
Period architecture in Georgetown, Washington, DC. Includes
Dumbarton House.
Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of
American Architecture
Part
scholarly detective story, part narrative history, this book
recreates the lives of these visionary men through the lens of the
remarkable Fiske Kimball. Kimball was also the consulting
architect for the restoration of Dumbarton House in the 1930s.
Hardcover.
