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Washington and Lee University

 Organization

Found in 319 Collections and/or Records:

The Nabors Service League, 2000 - 2006

 File
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This record group contains materials created by the University's student and faculty organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and honorary societies, such as official publications by these groups and records about their management.

Dates: 2000 - 2006

The Traveller and Traveller, 1991-04 - 1994-05

 File
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This record group contains materials created by the University's student and faculty organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and honorary societies, such as official publications by these groups and records about their management.

Dates: 1991-04 - 1994-05

Theodore C. (Ted) DeLaney, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0525
Scope and Contents The Theodore C. (Ted) DeLaney, Jr. Collection is composed of materials from Dr. Ted DeLaney’s personal and professional life including genealogy and personal history; historical research, correspondences, and papers as historian and professor at Washington and Lee University. The collection is arranged in three series. Of note are Dr. Delaney's research on school desegregation in Lexington, Virginia and in Southwest Virginia and a series of video interviews with Dr. DeLaney completed in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Majority of material found within 1940 - 2020

These Are the Dreams, 1935

 Item
Scope and Contents

A collection of poems by Joe H.Ford, Jr., a student who died prematurely at age 18 while attending W & L. Illustrated.

Dates: 1935

Thomas C. Bamford Collection of Washington and Lee Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0548
Scope and Contents

Collection of decals and small postcards from Washington and Lee University and Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1943-1944

Three Ribbons

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004463], Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Three ribbons including one from the 15th Biennial Sigma Chi Fraternity Convention, one from Washington and Lee University, and one marked 'COMMITTEE.'

Dates: Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889

"To the People of Rockbridge" Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0311
Scope and Contents This broadside by the Valley Railroad titled 'To the People of Rockbridge' outlines funding for the railroad to be built through the county. It asks the people of Rockbridge to help finance the railroad by buying stock in it. It makes the argument that the county's prosperity depends on the railroad. It says students at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute should no longer be expected to walk through the mire to travel to and from their families and that the...
Dates: 1871

Tom Wolfe Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0231
Scope and Contents

In this short letter to Maurice D. Leach (Washington and Lee University librarian, 1968-1985) Wolfe discusses a talk he gave at Washington and Lee University.

Dates: 1973

Tom Wolfe Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0039
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a letter from Tom Wolfe to Professor Carlisle recommending Marshall Fishwick for the Alumni Distinguished Professorship.

Dates: 1963

"Trio" No. 1, 2, 3 - Programs and Reviews, 1954 - 1962

 File — Box 2: [Barcode: 0000004533], Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Includes Stewart's correspondence, programs that include his compositions, classroom materials, reviews and notices of his works, and materials from professorial organizations and conferences.

Dates: 1954 - 1962

Tucker Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0024
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, legal lecture notebooks, speeches, photographs, and ephemeral items (some political) associated with the Tucker family of Virginia. The bulk of the collection relates to the lives and work of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and his son, Henry St. George "Harry" Tucker (1853-1932). Items associated with Washington and Lee University, Tulane University, and Newcomb College are also in the collection. Several files contain pages from the "Johnston...
Dates: 1794-1934

TUSK, The W&L Republicans, 1977-05

 File
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This record group contains materials created by the University's student and faculty organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and honorary societies, such as official publications by these groups and records about their management.

Dates: 1977-05

Two Old Publications, 1839 - 1974

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000005317], Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

This file consists of two old publications and a Washington and Lee University broadside. The publication are entitled 'The University Monthly: A Journal of School and Home,' 1871, and 'Southern Literary Messenger,' August 1839.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1839 - 1974

Two photographs of Washington and Lee University's Morris House

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0188
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of the Morris House located on the front campus of Washignton and Lee University. One image is a second generation print from an earlier negative of a snow covered Morris House - possibly taken by Michale Miley around 1900. The second photo is a snapshot fro the late 1960s. The house in 2022 is used as a campus guest house.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1968

Two Tickets to Washington and Lee Final Ball, 1886-06-16

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004271], Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Includes 82 items collected by Charles Manson Crutchfield, including 38 photographs some of which are of Confederate generals and were taken by Michael Miley, postcards and printed materials, most of which concern Washington and Lee University and the surrounding city of Lexington, Virginia during the 1880's

Dates: Event: 1886-06-16

United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0204
Scope and Contents

Consists of miscellaneous correspondence related to the Lee Memorial Fund at Washington and Lee University in 1921. Includes newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning the Confederacy, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and primarily, the passing of a resolution naming Lincoln's birthday as a national holiday. Also includes correspondence with Douglas Southall Freeman and others.

Dates: Inclusive 1920-1939

University and Student Organizations and Societies - Record Group 39

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0039
Scope and Contents

This record group contains materials created by the University's student and faculty organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and honorary societies, such as official publications by these groups and records about their management.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

University Capital Planning - Record Group 27

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0027
Scope and Contents

This record group contains materials about the university's capital planning efforts.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Date Not Yet Determined