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Alexander White Pitzer Speech
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0223
Scope and Contents
This collection is a handwritten copy of a speech given by Alexander White Pitzer to the Synod of the Virginias at Charles Town, West Virginia in 1873 about the history of Washington and Lee University.
Dates:
1873
Alfred Leyburn Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0098
Scope and Contents
Contains c.55 items, of Dr. Alfred Leyburn and the Leyburn family of Lexington, Va., including 22 letters between Leyburn and his wife, Ann Eliza, 1835-36; patents of Edward J. Leyburn.
Dates:
1823 - 1899; Majority of material found within 1830-01-01 - 1839-01-01
Allen Wesley Moger Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a 5-page paper by Allen Moger concerning the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps (E.R.C.) at Washington and Lee University and letters received by Moger from students who were called to active duty from the E.R.C.
Dates:
Inclusive 1943-1945
Alphin Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0084
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs of the Alphin Family of Rockbridge County, Va. There are two copies of earlier family group photographs and one copy of photos of Katherine Alphin and Phoebe Hayslett Alphin. All family group images are identified and include surnames Alphin, Dickson, Hardy, Snider, McGuffin, Teaford, Kirkpatrick, Cook, and Hazlett.
Dates:
Creation of original photographs
Alpine, Va. Railroad Photograph
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a photo of a railroad in Alpine, Virginia, which is in Botetourt County.
Dates:
Unknown
American Civil War Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 90 miscellaneous items connected with the government and people of the Confederate States of America, including correspondence, official orders, almanacs, bonds, paper money, sheet music, memorabilia, and clippings.
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1865
American Shakespeare Center Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0371
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 65 Shakespeare plays, additional plays by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Molière; 12 Beta videotapes and audiocassettes; 26 cast scrapbooks with photographs; correspondence between Ralph Cohen and James Warren, founders of American Shakespeare Center, Hank Dobin, Washington and Lee University Dean (2005-2012), and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Shakespeare Center.
Dates:
Inclusive 1987- ongoing; Majority of material found within Bulk 1987-1995
An interior view of Washington and Lee University's Lewis Brooks Museum
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0189
Scope and Contents
An original photograph of the interior of Washington and Lee University's Lewis Brooks Museum of Natural History which was located in Chavis Hall (formerly Robinson Hall) on WLU's front campus. The museum was funded by donor Lewis Brooks of New York and the artifacts, which included prehisotric bones, flora and fauna from the pre-hisotric eras and geological specimens. The collection was compiled and arranged by professor Henry A. Ward of Rochester, New York. The museum space was open from...
Dates:
1905 - 1920
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
Andrew Hollinger Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll.-0481
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of eight bound diaries written by Andrew Hollinger and addressed to "The Team;" one binder of typed original poetry; and eight folders containing correspondences, materials related to Washington and Lee University, the ROTC Program, and Psi Upsilon fraternity, and a number of Hollinger's financial papers.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1969 - 1977
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- Lee, Robert E., General (Robert Edward) 42
- Miley, Michael, 1841-1918 27
- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) 18
- Lee Chapel (Washington and Lee University) 15
- Washington, George 15
- Virginia Military Institute 14
- Junkin, George, 1798 - 1868 10
- Lee, George Washington Custis 10
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- Gaines, Francis Pendleton 9
- Leyburn, James Graham 9
- Liberty Hall Academy 9
- Washington College 9
- Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 8
- Lee family 8
- Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Va.) 8
- Washington and Lee University. School of Law 8
- Anderson, William Alexander 7
- Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 7
- Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle) 7
- Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883 7
- Letcher, John 7
- Smith, Henry Louis 7
- Tucker, John Randolph 7
- Anderson family 6
- Confederate States of America. Army. Liberty Hall Volunteers 6
- Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington (Lexington, Va.) 6
- Letcher, Greenlee D. (Greenlee Davidson) 6
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 6
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- New Monmouth Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Va.) 5
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- Alexander, Archibald 4
- Ann Smith Academy 4
- Crenshaw, Ollinger 4
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 4
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- First Baptist Church (Lexington, Va.) 4
- Gilliam, Frank Johnson 4
- Glasgow family 4
- Glasgow, William Anderson 4
- Graham, Edward 4
- Graham, John Alexander 4
- Graham, William A. (William Alexander) 4
- Groner, Duncan G. 4
- Humphreys, D. C. (David Carlisle), 1855-1921 4
- Hunter, David, 1802-1886 4
- Jefferson, Thomas 4
- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 4
- Lee, Mary Custis 4
- Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905 4
- Lexington Gazette. (Lexington, Va.) 4
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 4
- Pendleton, William Nelson, 1809-1883 4
- Powell, Lewis F. 4
- Reid, Samuel McDowell 4
- Washington and Lee University. Mock Convention 4
- Wilson, William Lyne 4
- Anderson, Ellen Graham 3
- Barclay, Ted, II (Alexander Tedford) 3
- Barkley, Alben William 3
- Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 3
- Bowyer, John, General 3
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell) 3
- Carter, Jimmy 3
- Carter, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry) 3
- Cole, Fred Carrington 3
- Davidson, Charles A. (Charles Andrew) 3
- Davidson, Greenlee 3
- Davidson, James D. (James Dorman) 3
- Davis, John W. (John William) 3
- Denny, George Hutcheson 3
- Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935 3
- Dunlap Family 3
- Fishwick, Marshall William 3
- Flood, Henry D. (Henry Delaware) 3
- Graham, William 3
- Grigsby, Reuben 3
- Henry, Patrick 3
- Hotchkiss, Farris Pierson 3
- Hotinger family 3
- Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863 3
- James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.) 3
- Johnston, William Preston 3
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Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
204 West Washington Street
Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
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