Jefferson Everyday Shirt

Jefferson Everyday ShirtThomas Jefferson had a unique style of dress and comfort was important. Ellen Coolidge, his granddaughter wrote in 1826: "His dress was simple, and adapted to his ideas of neatness and comfort. He paid little attention to fashion, wearing what ever he liked best, and sometimes blending the fashions of several different periods. He did nothing to be in conformity with the fashion of the day." Jefferson and most men in the 18th century wore this type of

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In the 1835 edition of the Horticultural Register

offering him employment as a violinist in a town hundreds of miles away from his home in Saratoga Springs

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Thomas Jefferson favored the Campeche chair form for its classical associations and the comfortable posture it offered

William Byrd II documented this species in his Natural History of Virginia

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Although the common name 'cedar' is used for many differing evergreens

Coles describing American military bungling in the Niagara Campaign

Habit: Grows 8 to 10' high and spreads 10 to 12'

Habit: Leathery

mathematician and architect