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Audiorecordings of "Decorative Arts Trust and Washington and Lee University," China Trade Symposium, 1982-09-09 - 1982-09-12

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Scope and Contents

These 15 audio cassettes contain the recordings of the talks given on Decorative Arts Trust and Washington and Lee University during the 1982 Chinan Trade Symposium. These talks occurred for the opening of the Reeves Center.

Dates: 1982-09-09 - 1982-09-12

Daniel Crump Buchanan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0145
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of Dr. Daniel Crump Buchanan on Japanese culture with some information on China, Korea, and other Asian countries generally organized by subject. The files on Japanese culture and history are arranged alphabetically by subject. They contain some significant memos and position papers on propaganda and psychological warfare against Japan during World War II. Other files on similar themes include "Espionage," "Target Operations", and "Reorientation." Also...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1935 - 1957

Helen Qubain collection

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0521
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photographs, documents, ephemera, published material, protest related artifacts and personal reminiscences of American citizen and Byrn Mwar College student Helen Qubain's personal experience as an exchange student at Nankai University in Tianjin, China and as witness and participant in the Tienanmen Square student protests of 1989.

Dates: 1988 - 1992

James Whitehead Papers, 1975 - 1992

 Series
Identifier: WLU-RG-34
Scope and Contents This series includes the persona papers of James Whitehead, former director of University Relations, assistant to the president, treasurer, and director of the Reeves Center at Washington and Lee University. These records are from his time as the director of the Reeves Center, and reflect different exhibitions, donor relations, and general correspondence during that time. Much of the collection is correspondence between Whitehead and other museum curators, directors of historical societies,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1975 - 1992

John Leighton Stuart typescript

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0309
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a typescript and publisher's proof of Fifty years in China: the memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, missionary and ambassador. It includes references to and a prefatory note by George Catlett Marshall, an introduction by noted Chinese educator Hu Shih, references to Pantops Academy (Charlottesville, Va.), Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.), and Yenching University in Beijing, China.

Dates: 1954

Joseph James Murray Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0302
Scope and Contents The diaries give a precise record of Joseph James Murray's four years as superintendent of home missions in Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as of his life as pastor, family man, traveller, lover of the arts and ornithologist while in Lexington, Virginia (1924-1968). Reminiscences include information about his family, including his wife, Jane Dickson Vardell Murray, and children, J. J. (Jimmy) Murray, Jr. and Jane Murray, and close friends, including Matthew Paxton, Nell Paxton, James G....
Dates: Inclusive 1920-1968

Louise Herreshoff Papers

 Collection — Box 1-6, Folder: 0-103
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0694
Scope and Contents This collection includes an important archive of letters, personal files, photos, and biographical information of esteemed painter Louise Herreshoff, her second husband Euchlin Reeves and their families. Euchlin Reeves was a graduate of Washington and Lee University (WLU) School of Law and is the namesake of WLU’s Reeves Center, home of the Reeves Collection – a large and internationally important ceramics collection (1500 – present) and Louise Herreshoff’s paintings, given by the couple to...
Dates: 1867 - 1977

William L. Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0508
Scope and Contents This collection consists of nine letters from William C. Watson, Jr. to William L. (Billy) Wilson between 1927 and 1941. Both were students and graduated of Washington and Lee University. After college, Watson went to work for Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and was employed in Canton, China, among other places in the Far East. Of note is a letter written to Wilson on December 10, 1939, which describes his experinces in Canton, China during the Japanese invasion of the city during the...
Dates: 1926 - 1941