Literacy Artifacts

ID: 6563 ~ Source: Dr. Shannon Dawdy and the University of Chicago ~ Date: 2011

This file appears in: The Old Ursuline Convent

Photograph of fragmented objects on a gray backdrop next to a 10-centimeter scale, divided into one centimeter increments.

Graphite and slate pencils from St. Mary’s School at the Urusline Convent

This file appears in: The Old Ursuline Convent

The Old Ursuline Convent

By Phonenix McIntosh, edited by Elizabeth Williams

In 2011, Shannon Lee Dawdy, an archaeologist and professor with the University of Chicago’s Department of Anthropology, conducted an excavation with students and volunteers at the site of the Ursuline…