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Anderson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...
Dates:
1755 - 1958
Essay, "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957"
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0664
Content Description
This collection is comprised of an eight page typescript essay titled "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957" by Estelle V. Anderson. The essay was written in 1973 and details African American schools, churches, and families of the Buffalo District of southwest Rockbridge County, Va., one of six former magisterial districts which included such communities and locales as Collierstown, Bolivar Mills or Murat, North and South Buffalo, Black's Creek, and Kyger's Hill. The essay includes...
Dates:
Essay; Event: Majority of material found within Period covered by the essay.
Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0331
Scope and Contents
There are two volumes of carbon copied letters from Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin to many notable Lexington, Virginia families as well as several photographs and pamphlets.
Dates:
Inclusive 1910-1913
Glasgow Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0210
Scope and Contents
Consists largely of correspondence within the Glasgow/Paxton/Anderson family. Correspondence related to Rebekah A. Glasgow dates from 1846 to 1903, and correspondence within the Paxton family dates from 1897 to 1900. Also includes limited correspondence from Ellen Glasgow.
Dates:
Inclusive 1846-1945
Real photograph postcard of Dunlap, Anderson, and Arnold
Collection
Identifier: WLU-COLL-PP-0151
Scope and Contents
Photograph postcard taken at the Tercentennial (300th anniversary) exposition of Jamestown, Va. in 1907. The last names of the three people are Dunlap (from Rockbridge), Anderson, and Arnold.
Dates:
1907
Rockbridge Historical Society collection of deeds
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-35
Identifier: WLU -Coll-0043
Scope and Contents
A collection of original land deeds and indentures from the vicinity of Rockbridge County, Virginia collected by the Rockbridge Historical Society.
Dates:
1748 - 1920
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