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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0025
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of the association, such as meeting minutes, budget information, membership records, constitution and bylaws, as well as information about preservation easements and county mills, the organization's promotional materials, newsletter, publications, photographs, and a survey, by questionaire, of the portraits painted before 1914 that are owned and located in Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia. The survey was conducted under the auspices of the APVA....
Dates:
1971-2003
Collection about Marion Montague Junkin
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0613
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a memorial volume and papers relating to Junkin and his works. Specifically there is a typescript concerning Marion Junkin's mural, The Struggle for Intellectual Freedom and a program for an exhibit of Junkin's work held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1939.
Dates:
1939 - 1979
Copy of a Photograph of a Theater Backdrop Painted by Cy Twombly
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0098
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of a photograph of a theater backdrop that was painted by Cy Twombly in Lexington, Virginia. The location and name of the theater production is unknown.
Dates:
Event: Date of original photograph
; Date of photographic copy unknown
Dale Cornelius Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0260
Scope and Contents
These papers include five binders containing copies of Cornelius' poems, plays, musical compositions, and paintings.
Dates:
Inclusive 1982-2001
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
MacMillan Albums
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0266
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three scrapbooks with contents compiled by Mary MacMillan and her son Charles MacMillan. The first contains scenes from a trip to Ireland, containing Mary MacMillan’s pencil sketches of scenes and prints of Ireland mostly by James Howard Burgess. The second contains poetry and calligraphy from Mary MacMillan and others as well as collections of dried and pressed marine marine algae or seaweed, watercolors sketches and cartoons. The third consists of mica...
Dates:
Inclusive 1843-1851