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George Washington Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0012
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three original George Washington letters and multiple copies and transcripts of letters. Originals include a letter from Washington to Capt. William Bronaugh dated January 18, 1775, a letter to the "Officers and Soldiers of the Militia in the Counties of Hunterdon, Burlington, Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland," 1777, encouraging them to fight for freedom, and a letter dated August 26, 1787, from George Washington to his nephew, George Augustine Washington, with...
Dates:
1775 - 1798
George William Bagby Broadside
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0634
Scope and Contents
Broadside of Dr. Bagby's lecture on Bacon and Greens: Or, the native Virginian; 1 sheet, 11 6/16 x 11 3/4 inches, Gary & Clemmitt Printers.
Dates:
1858 - 1866
Georgia Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0085
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers from the state of Georgia. it includes 84 miscellaneous items, such as legal documents concerning sales of slaves (1806-1855); Georgia naturalization paper (1809); law brief of a suit against the Habersham Iron Works and Manufacturing Co. (1843); requisitions and receipts for Civil War provisions (1864-1865); oath of allegiance (Sept. 1, 1865); broadside (July 31, 1863) There are four items from French settlers in Augusta, Savannah, and St. Mary's,...
Dates:
Inclusive 1806-1872
Gibbons Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0290
Dates:
1850 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1868
Giles B. Cooke Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0191
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the following correspondence: Letter to Rev. Cooke from G. T. Bearnegan (1874) thanking Cooke for his journal with reference to Petersburg in 1866; letter to Mr. Cooke from U.A. Jackson (1895) asking Cooke for information about Stonewall Jackson for the republishing of U.A. Jackson's book; letter from Rev. Cooke to Mrs. H.B. Lee (1924) asking for information about an incident in the life of General Lee that was similar to the incident that took the life of Stonewall...
Dates:
1874 - 1929
Givens Brown Strickler Journal
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0286
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of a diary by Givens Brown Strickler written while he was a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island during the American Civil War and four photographs of the diary.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
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
Glasgow Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0057
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items of the Glasgow family of Virginia, including correspondence and business papers of William Anderson Glasgow (1825-1910), of Fincastle, and his son, Francis Thomas Glasgow (1854-1927), both lawyers; and of Francis T. Glasgow (1829-1916), brother of William A. and his uncle, Joseph Reid Anderson (1813-1892), both of Richmond; legal briefs, contingent claims contracts, and vouchers, 1880-1885, of the firm of Glasgow and Glasgow, Fincastle, Va.; legal papers,...
Dates:
Inclusive 1858-1926
Grace Memorial Church Records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0367
Scope and Contents
This collection is the minutes of a February 4, 1884 committee meeting at the church describing the funeral of former Virginia governor John Letcher (1813-1884) the week before, and the decision to name a group consisting of Lexington, Virginia notables to write a sketch of Governor Letcher's life. This group included G. W. C. Lee, Francis H. Smith, J. T. Preston, A. T. Barclay, and Col. Edmund Pendleton.
Dates:
1884
Graham Family Bible
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0118
Scope and Contents
This collection is the family bible of Michael Graham, father of William Graham, which was printed in Edinburgh in 1752. It contains a genealogy page where Graham listed the birth dates of his children.
Dates:
1752
Graham Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0120
Content Description
A group of 5 'Pocket Kodak' photographs of members of the Graham Family, of Lexington, Va., dated March 1896. Images include Williamson Graham, Lizzie Graham, Maggie Graham (2), and an unknown member or friend of the family.
Dates:
Approximate, late 1800s
Graham Philanthropic Society Records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0149
Scope and Contents
This collection contains minute books, roll books, treasurer's books (chiefly from before 1917), library books (1840-1868), and constitutions of the student society, including accounts of debates on current political and social questions and records of student library use.
Dates:
1809 - 1942
Grant E. Mouser Stamp Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0408
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Greenlee Letcher Letter Books
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0696
Scope and Contents
These volumes contain numerous credit references for area businesses, lobbying for a bill in Congress related to descendants of George Washington, collection letters on behalf of landlords and other businesses, letters detailing local steel mills, a variety of letters on his purchase of Rockbridge Alum Springs, and some letters on the establishment of a local militia. Furthermore, the volumes contain letters about ongoings in Irish creek, Greenlee Letcher's excitement over presidential...
Dates:
1908-04-25 - 1916-12-29
Guest Register from the Estate Belfield
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0542
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the guest book of Belfield in Lexington, Virginia, which was the residence of former Washington & Lee University Dean of Students Frank J. Gilliam and his wife Louise. The guestbook is an original leather bound volume of Shakespeare, published in 1778, which has had one hundred and twenty original pages replaced with a like number of blank pages titled 'Guests at Belfield.' Guest signatures begin in 1931 and end in 1976. Approximately seventy-five pages of the...
Dates:
Date of original book, 1778; Date of guestbook inscriptions, 1931-1976
Gustave Toutant Beauregard Letter
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0082
Scope and Contents
This letter signed by Beauregard concerns the location of an unidentified missing person.
Dates:
1863-12-23
Guy M. Whitten Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0230
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Whitten's school papers from his time as a student at Washington College.
Dates:
Inclusive 1866-1870
H. L. Wilson Company records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0134
Scope and Contents
This collection conisists of account books, invoices, and receipts from the H. L. Wilson Company.
Dates:
1840 - 1868
Halford Ross Ryan Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0228
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the handwritten and the typed drafts of Mr. Ryan's book Persuasive Advocacy. It also includes rough drafts and information used for his article on Harry S. Truman and his book American Orators of the 20th Century. It includes galleys of his book American Orators Before 1900.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985 - 1993
Harrison Kinney Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0528
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of typescript copies of drafts of stories and articles, some with accompanying research documents, which were written by Kinney for the New Yorker magazine, 1949 - 1954. Also included are correspondences written to Kinney's friend and former professor O. W. 'Tom' Riegel, clippings, miscellaneous papers, and one photograph of the unveiling of the United States Marine Core monument. There is a transcript of a program for an event on April 15, 1988 by the National Press...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1949-1945
Harvard College Library Bookplates
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0360
Scope and Contents
This collection contains early bookplates from Harvard College Library.
Dates:
Inclusive 1900-1930
Haskins Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0127
Content Description
Two original photographs of young girls, each dated March 4th, 1896. One image includes Louise Haskins and May Haskins and the other shows Louise Haskins and Lucy Patton. Both small images are 'Pocket Kodaks.' The photographs are the same format and size and include same handwriting on their backs as collection WLU PP # 0120 - Graham Family Photographs.
Dates:
1896-03-04
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