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A wallet sized paper huntin license and accompanying celluoid "resident license" button for hunting, fishing, and trapping in Rockbridge County, Virginia resident J. Culton Woods, of Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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A single silver print of a man standing with a shotgun in front of a canvas tent. The back of the photograph reads 'Campbell's Cabins, Fall of 1898' and 'Hunters: Thomas A. Sterrett, Howard Campbell, Sandy Waddell, Zach and Mac Johnstone, Harry Glasgow, Bud and Will Kinnear, Harry Moore, Rice Miller, Rufus Patterson, Frank McClung, Frank Sterrett, Doctor Pen. Tompkins, Mr. Harris, and A. E. Larrick.'

Scope and Contents A guide and the by - laws of the "Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain", which was a privately owned hunting and fishing preserve in Randolph County, West Virginia founded in 1887. This small volume was published in 1889. It is inscribed by William S. Edwards of Charleston, West Virginia, who was a member of the board of directors of the association. The volume includes printed maps of the vicitiniy of the preserve. Found in the volume is a segment of a photograph of a hunting party and...

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In this letter Robert H. Chilton seeks employment after the conclusion of the American Civil War. He mentions his previous employment as the Chief of Staff in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The recipient of the letter is unknown.