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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MONTI_070930_205.JPG: North privy
2. MONTI_070930_210.JPG: North Privy: Indoor privies or "necessaries" were rare in the United States. Monticello was an exception. This is one of two privies located at either end of the cellar passageway. The restoration of the interior is based on Jefferson's floor plan and a surviving original seat at Poplar Forest, his plantation in Bedford County, Virginia. The pit under the seat connects to a "sink" or tunnel that opens in the hillside. Other Privies: At least four other facilities served the mountaintop. Three, which Jefferson called "air-closets," were inside the house: two off the south passages on the first and second floors and a third adjoining his bedroom. These tiny spaces were shafts lighted by skylights and vented by flues. The shafts extended below the cellar floor where they joined a single masonry-lined "sink" that terminates about 125 feet east of the house. This tunnel, like the one adjoining the North Privy, provided ventilation and perhaps drainage. The sixth known privy, located on Mulberry Row, was described by Jefferson as "a necessary house of wood 8 feet square." Chamber pots supplemented these facilities. Using the Privies: Jefferson had his own privy and family members no doubt used the other two in the house. Apart from the privy on Mulberry Row likely used by workers, it is less certain which privies were available to guests and free and enslaved workers. The use of locks at some privies indicates that access was restricted. Cloth was probably used as toilet paper. Cleaning the Privies: Jefferson paid male slaves for performing the unpleasant task of "cleansing sewers" in their free time. From 1822, enslaved fieldworker Edward (Ned) Gillette and his brothers Moses and Israel successfully took on this extra work, earning a dollar a month. Female slaves typically cleaned the indoor privies and chamber pots.
3. MONTI_070930_292.JPG: The pendulum clock plum falls through a hole in the floor in the corner
4. MONTI_070930_333.JPG: Jefferson's grave was over there but they were repainting the fence and we weren't allowed to get near it.
5. MONTI_070930_431.JPG: Construction for a new visitor center
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Wikipedia Description: Monticello
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Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. The house is of Jefferson's own design and is situated on the summit of an 850-foot-high peak in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna Gap. Monticello, in Italian, means "little mountain."

An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse of the 5 cent coin of the United States of America coined from 1938 to 2003 (the image returns to the reverse on the 2006 coin design) and on the reverse of the United States of America two dollar bill that was printed from 1928 to 1966.

Monticello was designated a World Heritage Site in 1987, an honor it shares with the nearby University of Virginia.

History:

Work began on Monticello in 1768, and Jefferson moved into the South Pavilion (an outbuilding) in 1770. The original design was based on the classical style of Palladian architecture. When Jefferson left Monticello in 1784 for extended travels in Europe, the original design of the house was largely completed except for porticos and decorative interior woodwork. Upon his return, Jefferson expanded his vision for Monticello to incorporate features of Palladian buildings and ruins he admired overseas. Further work to the new design began in 1796. Construction of Monticello was substantially completed in 1809 with the erection of the dome.

Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 and Monticello was inherited by his eldest daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph. Financial difficulties led to Martha selling Monticello to James T. Barclay, a local apothecary, in 1831. Barclay sold it in 1834 to Uriah P. Levy, the first Jewish American to serve an entire career as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy. Levy greatly admired Jefferson. During the Civil War, ...More...
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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