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Washington College

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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
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / RHS-Coll-0078, Lexington, Virginia

Comics, 2012

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents FLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history
Dates: 2012
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0668, Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection / Washington and Lee University

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
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Ebenezer Dickey Junkin Scrapbook

Interior and exterior photographs of Lee House

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0185
Dates: 1869 - 1870
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Interior and exterior photographs of Lee House

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
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / J. Henry Smith Speeches

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
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0064, Robert E. Lee Papers / Letters to and about Robert E. Lee / Letters to and about Robert E. Lee / Correspondences

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
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Photograph of Frank Howard

Photographs of a woodcut print of Washington College

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0200
Dates: 1842 - 1845
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Photographs of a woodcut print of Washington College

Photographs of "Old George"

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0191
Dates: 1875 - 1966
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Photographs of "Old George"

Photographs of the Liberty Hall Academy ruins

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0187
Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1910
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Photographs of the Liberty Hall Academy ruins

Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives

204 West Washington Street

Leyburn Library

Lexington, VA 24450

https://library.wlu.edu/specialcollections

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