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"Nan A. Rothschild" <[log in to unmask]>
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yes, I should've remembered that as I visited the site wearing my  
PANYC president's hat! Is there a skeletal report too? Or aren't the  
reports done yet?

thanks!
nan
Quoting Meta Janowitz <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hi Nan,
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> You know about the monitoring/excavation URS did on Trump's Spring St. site
> where there were burial vaults?  The report is in preparation now and there
> will be a session at the SHAs.  A number of coffin plates were recovered
> and right now various factions here are going round about on the subject of
> grave goods.  Some of the burials were probably of African Americans but
> most were of European ancestry, it seems.  One coffin lid seems to have had
> a viewing plate. Work was done on the coffin plates to make the names
> legible and there has been some research about the people thus identified.
>
> Meta
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Nan A. Rothschild

Research Professor
Barnard College
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Director of Museum Studies
Columbia University
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