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WLU Coll. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Type
Identifier: WLU Coll

Found in 635 Collections and/or Records:

Virginia Militia 144th Regiment Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0079
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a record book with accounts of fines, battalion count, and regiment count.

Dates: Inclusive 1843-1851

Virginia State Intercollegiate Oratorical Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0131
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of minutes, treasurer's reports, and disbursements from the Virginia State Intercollegiate Oratoricle Association.

Dates: 1913-03-24 - 1939-04-03

Virginia Tourism Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0614
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 10 different advertisement pieces dating from the 2nd half of the 20th Century that are from Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Rockbridge County, Virginia in general.

Dates: 1906 - 2000

Virginius Groner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0062
Scope and Contents

Nineteen photocopied pages of newspaper clippings, concerning General Virginus D. Groner, including articles from a variety of papers dealing with the struggle between General Groner and other Republicans including General William Mahone for control of the Republican Party in Virginia at the 1888 national nominating convention in Chicago and during the gubernatorial campaign of 1889 in Virginia.

Dates: 1888 - 1889

W. A. McComb Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0178
Scope and Contents

This account book was kept by W.A. McComb. In 1892 the Farmer's Alliance, of which he was a member, built a new hall to be used for its meetings as well as for a church and community center. Most of the entries in the account book were for expenses associated with the construction and use of the hall. It indicates that oyster suppers were held at the hall.

Dates: Inclusive 1892-1906

W. P. Nye correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0197
Scope and Contents

The collection contains eight letters from J. Ogden Murray to W.P. Nye (all dated 1914) about health, trips to Washington, D.C., politics, and finances. It also contains a letter to W.M. Brown from Mrs. J.E. Bond (1927) thanking him for the check he sent and providing additional history of Dr. Nye's collection and a book containing a record of relics.

Dates: 1914 - 1927

Walker-Wood Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0294
Scope and Contents These papers include many photographs and items concerning the Walker and Wood families, their homes, their activities; and material about the economic, social, educational, and religious life of the African-American community in Lexington, Virginia. Extensive notes have been provided by Alex Wood, identifying his family members in photos, marking records to indicate relevance or functional purpose, and occasionally providing his perspective on the contents of records. Numerous records...
Dates: Inclusive 1910-1975; Majority of material found within Bulk 1910-1940

Walter Curtis Ayers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0263
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of registers, indices, folios, plates, wills, charts and data related to the Benjamin Borden Grant of 92,100 acres of land.

Dates: Inclusive 1940-1963

Walter Henry Hoffman Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0161
Scope and Contents

This collection contains his student notebooks for courses in civil engineering (applied mathematics) taught by an unknown professor (possibly Willam Allan). Also contains an account book with records of his expenditures as a student from 1872-1876.

Dates: Inclusive 1872-1876

Walter Worthington Bowie Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0084
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 2 items: the muster roll of Captain Walter Bowie's Company G, 40th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, July 1, 1862 to Jan. 1, 1863; Miley photograph of Bowie.

Dates: Inclusive 1862-1863

Warren T. Taylor cemetery guide to the Teaford papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0338
Scope and Contents

The guide includes inscriptions from many Rockbridge County, Virginia cemeteries and an accompanying card file has names with genealogical information.

Dates: 1983

Washington and Custis Families account book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0138
Scope and Contents This collection consists of an account book kept by the Washington and Custis families. The account book is stained and faded, having been buried during the American Civil War. It consists of 36 leaves containing George Washington's formal record of the settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis estate and of his guardianship of his stepchildren, John Parke and Martha Parke Custis and are in Washington's handwriting, 1761-1773. It also provides the inventories and proposed division of the Daniel...
Dates: 1757-1773

Washington and Lee Campus Inn Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0357
Scope and Contents

This ledger containing information about hotel guests was recorded by John P. Lynch, property trustee.

Dates: Inclusive 1931-1933

Washington and Lee Dance Cards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0526
Scope and Contents

This collection contains dance cards from various dances held at Washington and Lee University.

Dates: Inclusive 1886-1923

Washington and Lee law student notebook

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0133
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a former Washington and Lee Unversity law student's class notes. The identity of the student is unknown.

Dates: Undated

Washington and Lee University Ambulance Unit Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0278
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence (1917-1919), histories, and memoirs of the Washington and Lee University Ambulance Unit during World War I.

Dates: Inclusive 1917-1962; Majority of material found within Bulk 1917-1919

Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection

 Collection — Box 1, Box: 1-21
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0668
Dates: Majority of material found within 1609 - 2016

Washington and Lee University Miscellaneous Archives

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0112
Scope and Contents

This collection includes early Washington and Lee University papers and miscellaneous materials supplementary to the university's trustee's papers - W&L University Archives - Record Group 2.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Washington College Bond Certificate

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0347
Scope and Contents

This bond certificate dated August 1869 in the amount of $250 is made out to Madison H. Effinger of Rockbridge County, Virginia, for the endowment of Washington College. The certificate is signed by J. M. Leech, University Treasurer, and John W. Brockenbrough, University Rector.

Dates: 1869-08

Welsh Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0203
Scope and Contents

This collection is primarily general family correspondence including Civil War letters (dated 1862-1864) from John P. Welsh, a Confederate infantry officer, and James L. Welsh. There are also 34 family letters on microfilm, 12 of which were written by John P. Welsh during his confinement in a Federal prison.

Dates: Inclusive 1817-1886

William A. Gordon Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0055
Scope and Contents

The memoirs include recollections of Gordon's childhood in Georgetown and Washington, D.C., of his relatives and friends, and of his career in the 1st Regiment of Engineers with the Army of Northern Virginia (1862-1865) as well as genealogical information.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1865 - 1886

William Alexander Graham Narrative

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0099
Scope and Contents

A narrative of William Alexander Graham's journeys, medical training, and career from 1816-1819, in Lexington, and Abingdon, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taken from his diaries and letters, including references to some well-known contemporary figures like actors James Wallack and Thomas Cooper and artist Benjamin West.There is a summary of included names and places in the control folder.

Dates: Inclusive 1816-1819

William and Anne Fleming Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0009
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers created by or related to William and Anne Fleming and several family members on Anne's side, including her parents, Israel and Elizabeth, and her brother, William.The subjects include Flemings accounts of his trips to Kentucky, his journal of the first Kentucky convention of which he served as chair, letters about business, Kentucky land claims, and family affairs. There are commissions, wills and estate inventories, land surveys and indentures, a...
Dates: circa 1754-1833, 2000

William Anderson Glasgow correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0355
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two letters, dated 1857 and 1858, to Mrs. E. H. Carrington on matters of business.

Dates: Inclusive 1857-1858

William Beverley Pettit Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0199
Scope and Contents This is a collection of correspondence between William B. Pettit and his wife Arabella ('Bell') with scattered letters from other friends and relatives. The letters that date from 1850 to March 1862 include correspondence between husband and wife while Pettit was away on business. The war letters begin in March 1862 and end with Pettit's last war letter to his wife on March 3, 1864. After that date there are letters from Pembroke, the Pettit's son, while he attended school at Ashland, Va....
Dates: Inclusive 1850-1918