WLU Coll PP. Print and Photographic Collections
Record Group
Identifier: WLU Coll PP
Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:
Adair-Hutton Department Store Fire Photograph
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0015
Scope and Contents
The image depicts the aftermath of the Adair-Hutton Department Store fire in Lexington, Virginia on December 16, 1949. The building was located on the southwest corner of Main and Washington Streets. There are onlookers and cars parked up the street. This photograph is a modern copy of the original, which was taken a few days after the fire.
Dates:
Event: 1949-12-16
Advertisement Trade Card for "Quignon-Rombach"
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0096
Dates:
Unknown date
Alphin Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0084
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs of the Alphin Family of Rockbridge County, Va. There are two copies of earlier family group photographs and one copy of photos of Katherine Alphin and Phoebe Hayslett Alphin. All family group images are identified and include surnames Alphin, Dickson, Hardy, Snider, McGuffin, Teaford, Kirkpatrick, Cook, and Hazlett.
Dates:
Creation of original photographs
Alpine, Va. Railroad Photograph
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a photo of a railroad in Alpine, Virginia, which is in Botetourt County.
Dates:
Unknown
An interior view of Washington and Lee University's Lewis Brooks Museum
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0189
Scope and Contents
An original photograph of the interior of Washington and Lee University's Lewis Brooks Museum of Natural History which was located in Chavis Hall (formerly Robinson Hall) on WLU's front campus. The museum was funded by donor Lewis Brooks of New York and the artifacts, which included prehisotric bones, flora and fauna from the pre-hisotric eras and geological specimens. The collection was compiled and arranged by professor Henry A. Ward of Rochester, New York. The museum space was open from...
Dates:
1905 - 1920
Black and White Photograph of Two Ladies Inside of the Luray Caverns (Va.), 1950s era
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0075
Scope and Contents
The image shows two ladies within the interior of the cave.
Dates:
1950 - 1960
Black and White Postcard of Home of J. E. A. Gibbs
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0051
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a black and white postcard of the home of James Edward Allen Gibbs, who co-invented the Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine c. 1860. The home is in Steele's Tavern, Virginia.
Dates:
Unknown
C. Howard Capito Collection of O. W. Link photographic materials
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0553
Scope and Contents
This collection of materials gathered by C. Howard Capito contains thirteen 13.5 x 11 inch original photographic prints by O. W. Link. These photographs depict Norfolk and Western Railway's steam locomotives.
It also contains one booklet published by the Norfolk and Western Railway entitled "Night Trick" on the Norfolk and Western Railway, which includes photographs by O. W. Link.
Dates:
1955 - 1958
Cabinet Cards of Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and other Confederate States of America generals
Collection — Folder 0011: [0000005910]
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0011
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two cabinet card photographs, one of the 1869 painting by Everett B. D. Julio, titled 'The Last Meeting,' of Confederate States of America generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson on their war horses at Chancellorsville, Virginia in 1863 and a highly retouched fictional compilation of the 'President and Generals of the CSA' by photographer D.H. Anderson. The Andrson photograph has Lee on his horse Traveller in the foreground. The images were inscibed and...
Dates:
Unknown
Cabinet Photograph of Bessie Gardner
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0115
Content Description
A cabinet photograph of Elizabeth Gardner 'Bessie,' who married Alfred I. duPont in 1887. The image was made by 'Davis & Sanford, Artist Photographers' of 246 Fifth Avenue, New York.'
Dates:
1887