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Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0090
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Box 7 includes slides and books.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1785-2005
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0310
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This broadside of the poem 'The Battle Rainbow' by John R. Thompson was printed for the June 1862 Southern Literary Messenger.
Dates:
1862
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0628
Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0060 - #0076
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0070
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This file consists of a book by Mrs. Retta L. Horne entitled "The History of Decatur, V.A." Published in 1988 by the author. This book largely includes genealogical information.
Dates:
1988
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0481
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0464
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This collection consists of nine handwritten journal issues (vol.1, issues 1-9) of The School Journal: Devoted to Pure Literature, which was published in Harrington, North Carolina. It is noted that J. M. L. Harrington served as its editor.
Dates:
1864
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0511
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This collection consists of 1st editions of a selection of James Dickey's publications (some signed and/or inscribed); Dickey's contributions to books and pamphlets; journal articles by Dickey; interviews; criticism; anthologies; multimedia; photographs; broadsides (some framed, signed); miscellaneous items on his book and the film Deliverance; and publications related to Ward Briggs' book The Complete Poems of James Dickey (U. South Carolina,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1940 - 2013
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0525
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The Theodore C. (Ted) DeLaney, Jr. Collection is composed of materials from Dr. Ted DeLaney’s personal and professional life including genealogy and personal history; historical research, correspondences, and papers as historian and professor at Washington and Lee University. The collection is arranged in three series. Of note are Dr. Delaney's research on school desegregation in Lexington, Virginia and in Southwest Virginia and a series of video interviews with Dr. DeLaney completed in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Majority of material found within 1940 - 2020
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0492
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Letter in which Theodore Roosevelt responds to a previous letter by the president of Washington College, Henry Lewis Smith, declining an invitation to speak at the institution.
Dates:
1914
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0032
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This collection contains an accounting booklet of rents paid by Samuel and Thomas Rankin and others to a Thomas Bateson of Londonberry, Irelandand others. Clues in the booklet suggest that a flour mill was being rented. At some point the account book was sent to the Wilson family of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The collection includes contemporary notes on the booklet as well as acquisition information.
Dates:
Inclusive 1760-1796
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0548
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Collection of decals and small postcards from Washington and Lee University and Lexington, Virginia.
Dates:
Inclusive 1943-1944
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0299
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Contains 19th and early 20th century British and American theater memorabilia, including autographs of major actors, writers, and managers; and letters, broadsides, and photographs.
Dates:
Inclusive 1805-1923
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0004
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This collection includes primarily correspondence written to Carter, though there are some letters written by him. The majority of the correspondence concern Shenandoah and Spearhead publications. Correspondents include Washington and Lee faculty James Boatwright, Marshall Fishwick, Fitzgerald Flournoy, and James Leyburn. There are numerous letters from leading contemporary literary figures, such as Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, E. E....
Dates:
1948-1968
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0504
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This collection contains digital audio files of Thomas Henry Carter reading poetry from his chapbook Signs of the Times. The recording was made by Recorded Publications Laboratory in 1962.
Dates:
ca. 1961-1962
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0159
Content Description
This collection consists of five folio sized albums of photographs taken by Thomas Hills, professor and later chair of the Geology department at Vassar College, N.Y. The photographs document his combined family vacation and academic research tour of the African continent, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean coast of Europe in 1929. While on the African continent, he documented the mining industry, general landscape, cities, villages, and indigenous peoples with stops in South Africa (and...
Dates:
1929
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0454
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This collection consists of five letters, four of which are written by Neel to his friends and family. In a letter to his mother dated June 22, 1864, Neel writes about receiving orders to travel to Lynchburg to meet Union General Hunter's forces, which had just moved through Lexington, Virginia. In the letter to Hicks, Neel requests for Captain Hicks to speak on his behalf as he is a candidate for the Commissioner of Revenue in Bland County, Va. In a letter dated September 1861, Neel...
Dates:
Inclusive 1863-1865
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0033
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This collection consists of two documents. One dated 1806 Mar. 20, which certifies that the vessel Melpomene sails under the U.S. flag. It is printed in Spanish, English, and Dutch. It is also signed by James Madison, who was serving as Secretary of State at that time. There is also a letter dated 1821 Mar. 5 written in Monticello, Va. to John Graves at the Louisa County Court House, Va., which concerns the payment of a note by Jefferson.
Dates:
Inclusive 1806-1821
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0553
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This collection contains typescripts of letters from Thomas L. Broun to his sister Anne and brother Edwin. The letters discuss Broun's life as a member of the Kanawha Riflemen in the Confederate States of America's army during the American Civil War.
Dates:
1861 - 1865; Majority of material found within 1861-04 - 1861-10
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0093
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This collection includes letters to and from Owen in connection with his efforts to compile a Robert E. Lee bibliography, several Lee family letters, pictorial representations of the Lees, speeches, and clippings.
Dates:
1864-1920; Majority of material found within 1912-1920
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0007
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This collection includes four letters: Feb. 20, l904, Page to Samuel Graham on a social matter, and March 27, 1909, Lord Wolseley to Page in gratitude for being lent Nelson's book and praising Lee; September 30 and October 19, 1878 from Page to J. G. Steel on a business matter. It also includes a visitor's book, 1885-1899; Page's dinner party record from 1913-1919, while he was U. S. Ambassador to Italy. Additionally, it includes revised pages from the first edition of Page's book, ...
Dates:
Inclusive 1878-1919
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0235
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Autograph is dated Washington, July 25 [no year]. Ritchie wrote the letter to 'Martin' asking for his aid in communication in Richmond, Virginia.
Dates:
Other: July 25, no year given
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0358
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This notebook contains notes taken by Reed on lectures given by James J. White, professor of Greek at Washington College (1852-1893) as well as some scrapbook items, which have been pasted in.
Dates:
Inclusive 1858-1859
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0043
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This collection consists of three 1920s era color postcards. One is dated 1937, but the other two are undated. The 1937 card has an image of the Yorktown Monument in Yorktown, Virginia and an image of the Natural Bridge, as well as a poem titled 'Virginia.' It has a message on the back of the card to a Mr. and Mrs. Dowd from Finch. The other two cards contain no messages, but both have images of the Natural Bridge and poems titled respectively 'In Old Virginia' by B. B. Valentine and 'Down...
Dates:
1920 - 1940
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0032
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This collection consists of three color photographs. One is of the 'Landmark' building. One is of a house on the corner of 21st Street and Chestnut Street, and one is of the original Buena Vista Courthouse, which is now the Buena Vista Public Library. The buildings date from 1895-1910.
Dates:
1991
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0249
Scope and Contents
Contains printed brochures and photocopied newspaper accounts from the church's 250th anniversary in October 1996, as well as photocopied contents of a 1900 time capsule retrieved on October 12, 1996.
Dates:
1996
