Washington College
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Antebellum Days - History in and Around
File — Container: RHS Collection #0078, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
This file consist of a bound copy of the paper "Antebellum Days in and Around Lexington" by Mary Edgar McClung of Lexington High School. No date.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1818 - 1991
Comics, 2012
File — Box: 20, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
FLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history
Dates:
2012
Ebenezer Dickey Junkin Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0425
Scope and Contents
Presbyterian minister Ebenezer Dickey Junkin's pocket sized bound scrapbook of articles submitted to the Presbyterian Watchman and Observer newspaper by his father, George Junkin, D.D. between 1853-1856. George Junkin, under the pen name Theophilus, wrote the series of letters to the Richmond, Virginia publication on the role of the church in higher education. They include his commentary on the relationship between chuch and government. Junkin penned the letters during his tenure as President...
Dates:
Inclusive 1853-1856
Interior and exterior photographs of Lee House
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0185
Dates:
1869 - 1870
J. Henry Smith Speeches
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0258
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Washington College student J. Henry Smith's addresses to the college's "John Marshall Society" on Sept. 24, 1841; "Total Abstinence Society" on Sept. 23, 1842; a speech on "Patriotism" in celebration of George Washington's birthday as a representative of the "Rockbridge Union Volunteers" in 1842; and a speech on "Moral Education" given on Commencement Day, 1842.
Dates:
Inclusive 1841-1842
M. A. Gibbs to Robert E. Lee, 1866-02-10
Item — Box: 7A, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
This letter was written by M. A. Gibbs from Vicksburg, Mississippi on February 10, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. He requests in the letter that Lee admit his son into Washington College.
Dates:
1866-02-10
Photograph of Frank Howard
Collection
Identifier: WLU-COLL-PP-0158
Scope and Contents
This photograph is a platinum print of a Washington and Lee University (WLU) alumnus Frank Howard or possibly his younger brother Harry Howard. The siblings both attended WLU at the same time and graduated in the class of 1875.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Photographs of a woodcut print of Washington College
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0200
Photographs of the Liberty Hall Academy ruins
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0187
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1910