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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.

$6.00     

 

Instruction with Amusement

Exhibit catalogue of Children at Dumbarton House 1790-1830.  44-pages discussing childhood during the early 19th century.

$3.00     

From East to West.

Full-color (56 page) exhibit catalogue of Dumbarton House’s Quaker Farmer exhibition.

$16.00     

Dolley at Dumbarton

Exhibition catalogue (20 pages) exploring Dolley Madison’s stop at Dumbarton House during the British invasion of Washington in 1814.

$4.00     

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. 

$5.00     

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.

 

$15.00     

$6.00     

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. 

 

$14.00     

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.

Written by Hugh Howard. 

 

$27.00     

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