Two for a Nickel: Ephemera Concerning Thomas Jefferson and Monticello

  • Dates
    May-October 1999
  • Location
    University of Virginia Rotunda
  • Curated By
    Elliot Tally ’99

The Book Arts Press’s summer 1999 exhibition was presented in cooperation with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation at Monticello. The curator of the exhibition was Elliot Tally ’99.

In honor of the show’s opening, there was a Jefferson paper airplane flying contest on the Lawn in front of the Rotunda on Tuesday, 11 May 1999.

Graphic showing instructions for making a paper airplane out of a picture of two $2 bills, which are pictured below and labeled with the different fold edges
Instructions for folding a paper airplane from an image of two $2 bills