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Charles Page Photographic Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0093

Dates: 1906 - 1911

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Douglass Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0584

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two invitations to Balls at the Natural Bridge and an 1841 invitation from the Society of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute to attend the celebration of their entrance into their new hall. They are addressed to Nancy and Frances Douglass of Fancy Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: c. 1841, 1847, and undated

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Edward Miley Eustler Photographic Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0008

Scope and Contents Edward M. Eustler's photographic scrapbook (1910-1911) documents Eustler's experience as a student at Washington and Lee University. Eustler, then of Greensboro, North Carolina, compiled his photographic scrapbook with approximately 350 photographs taken between 1910 and 1911. Subjects of the photographs include campus and dorm life, athletics, architecture, local landmarks and historic sights, fraternity and club initiations, the Lexington, Virginia downtown area, the Virginia Military...

Dates: 1910 - 1911

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Historic Lexington Parade Videorecording

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0397

Scope and Contents The video starts with men in uniform entering Main Street, single file. It is believed that this is the Virginia Military Institute civilian band. (Following World War II, the civilian band was replaced by a cadet band.) In the opening sequence, Trinity United Methodist Church is visible in the background. The parade footage begins with a band (presumably the VMI civilian band), then a group of similarly attired men without instruments, followed by a series of vehicles. There are two fire...

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1930

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Houston Family Photograph Album

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0002

Scope and Contents A carte de visite album belonging to the Houston family of Lexington, Virginia. It contains images of Judge Thomas Dix Houston, the Ervine, White, Wilson, Leach, Weir, Buchanan, Shumate, Culton, and Bear families of Rockbridge and Augusta Counties in Virginia. It also contains an image of Virginia Military Institute professor James Woods Massie. There are photographs by Lexington and Shenandoah Valley photographers Michael Miley, Adam H. Plecker, Hugh Morrison, and Benjamin Clinedinst, and...

Dates: 1865 - 1875

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Libraries

Collection — Box: RHS Collections #0079 - #0082

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0079

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of publications and records from the George C. Marshall Research Library, generally from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1964 - 1974

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Photograph of Virginia Military Institute's Parade Ground

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0044

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a modern copy of a photograph of Virginia Military Institute's parade ground from the late 1880s. The image contains campus buildings, barns, and VMI cadets. The copy was made by Andre Studio in Lexington, Virginia in 1976.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robertson Family Photographs

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0335

Scope and Contents

This collection includes prints and negatives of the Robertson family as well as their home, family trips, Boy Scouts, Washington, D.C., and cousin Gordon Walker at Virginia Military Institute.

Dates: Inclusive 1930-1940

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0272

Scope and Contents

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1876-1882

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Roscoe Phelps Diary

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0496

Content Description The Roscoe Phelps diary is a bound manuscript entitled "Anecdotes of the Year 1900" written by Washington and Lee University student Richard Roscoe Phelps (Class of 1902). Phelps reports on life as an undergraduate student touching on courtship, recreation, hazing, off-campus boarding and regional travel and exploration of such places in Rockbridge County Virginia as House Mountain and “Lover’s Leap”. Other events covered include the vandalizing of "Old George", the George Washington statue...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1901

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Souvenir Calendar of Lexington, Va.

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0068

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a souvenir calendar of Lexington, Va. for 1901. It includes images of Washington and Lee, Virginia Military Institute, and Recumbant Lee statue by Edward V. Valentine.

Dates: Issued: 1901

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

"To the People of Rockbridge" Broadside

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0311

Scope and Contents This broadside by the Valley Railroad titled 'To the People of Rockbridge' outlines funding for the railroad to be built through the county. It asks the people of Rockbridge to help finance the railroad by buying stock in it. It makes the argument that the county's prosperity depends on the railroad. It says students at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute should no longer be expected to walk through the mire to travel to and from their families and that the...

Dates: 1871

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Tucker Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0024

Scope and Contents

This collection includes items of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932) including 18 letters, 16 of which are to J.R. Tucker, legal lecture notebooks, 54 printed speeches in Congress and before other organizations by both father and son, obituaries, in memoriams and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include Thomas Mann Randolph and George Washington.

Dates: Inclusive 1794-1934

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Charles Page Photographic Collection

Douglass Family Papers

Edward Miley Eustler Photographic Scrapbook

Historic Lexington Parade Videorecording

Houston Family Photograph Album

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Photograph of Virginia Military Institute's Parade Ground

Robertson Family Photographs

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

Roscoe Phelps Diary

Souvenir Calendar of Lexington, Va.

"To the People of Rockbridge" Broadside

Tucker Family Papers

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