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Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0303
Scope and Contents The Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers consist of materials related to Nelson’s life as mathematician at Washington and Lee University; Nelson, Guy, Matthews, Archer, and Rennick family genealogy; an address by Nelson on his teaching experience during Robert E. Lee's presidency of Washington College; some family and miscellaneous correspondences; and photographs. Included and, perhaps, the primary aspect of the collection is Nelson’s notebook used during his time as both student and professor...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1848 - 1902

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

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

Anne Carter Lee Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0274
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records (copies of clippings and Lee family correspondence, photographs of Lee Chapel) pertaining to the re-interment of Anne Carter Lee (Annie) in Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia on September 29, 1994 from Warren County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1993-1994

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0025
Scope and Contents This collection contains records of the association, such as meeting minutes, budget information, membership records, constitution and bylaws, as well as information about preservation easements and county mills, the organization's promotional materials, newsletter, publications, photographs, and a survey, by questionaire, of the portraits painted before 1914 that are owned and located in Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia. The survey was conducted under the auspices of the APVA....
Dates: 1971-2003

Barbara Cary Johnston Willard Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0325
Scope and Contents

The scrapbook is a genealogical compendium of the Welsh family of Rockbridge County, Virginia and their descendants and includes many family photographs and documents.

Dates: Inclusive 1800-2006

Campbell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0393
Scope and Contents

Items in the collection include a scrapbook, a bound volume of the Ring-Tum Phi, a book of pressed leaves, Miller family birth records, photographs of Lexington and Campbell family members, newspapers, and personal letters.

Dates: Inclusive 1843-1950

Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0088
Scope and Contents

Includes 82 items collected by Charles Manson Crutchfield, including 38 photographs some of which are of Confederate generals and were taken by Michael Miley, postcards and printed materials, most of which concern Washington and Lee University and the surrounding city of Lexington, Virginia during the 1880's

Dates: Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889

Cleveland Hickman Jr. Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0165
Scope and Contents

This collection contains digital scans of 11 aerial photographs of Big and Little House mountain and Lexington, Virginia, which were taken by Washington and Lee Professor Emeritus Cleveland Hickman Jr.

Dates: 1970s?

Coray S. Brown family photograph collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-15
Identifier: WLU-PP-0167
Scope and Contents The Coray S. Brown family photograph collection ranges in date from 1875 to about 1960. The collection includes studio portraits and outdoor imagery of the Brown family, friends and acquaintances, groups and outdoor scenery from in and around the Lexington, Collierstown, Murat, North Buffalo, and Oxford Presbyterian Church communities in Rockbridge County. One of the highlights of the collection is Coray S. Brown's photo album which includes images from his time as a student at Washington...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1960

Davidson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0540
Scope and Contents This collection contains personal and business correspondence, an assortment of holiday and greeting cards (1930s-1940s), account books, family photographs, a range of printed matter, including travel guides and ephemera from the family of R. E. (Robert Edmund) and his wife Gunhild A. Davidson of the Bell’s Valley and Goshen communities of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Correspondence, primarily 1917-1949, includes letters from R. E. Davidson to Gunhild Vang (Davidson) during their...
Dates: 1870 - 1975

Edward Miley Eustler scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0430
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

Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0409
Scope and Contents This collection contains thirty-four digital files given to Washington and Lee University by Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. Thirty-two contain 2-D renderings of Lexington's Main Street in 1867, which he created for the 2013 Rockbridge Historical Society exhibit. Some of these files contain the renderings themselves while others are photographs of the exhibit panels, which are composed of a rendering accompanied by a historic or modern photograph of the same geographic location and some informational...
Dates: 2013; Other: Years of the subjects of the digital files; Lexington Main Street in 1867 and the 1860 and 1870 census for the Town of Lexington.

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

Frank E. White Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0330
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of research documents and photographs for Frank E. White's 2008 publication Sailor's Creek: Major General G. W. Custis Lee, Captured with Controversy.

Dates: 2008

Home Demonstration Clubs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0317
Scope and Contents

This collection includes minutes, scrapbooks, histories, photographs, and other items of twenty home demonstration clubs in the Rockbridge County, Virginia area.

Dates: Inclusive 1923-2006; Majority of material found within Bulk 1960-1989

James Hubert Price Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0090
Scope and Contents

The papers of James H. Price, Governor of Virginia (1938-1942), including correspondence during his gubernatorial years; addresses to the General Assembly and of various organizations; radio speeches to the people of Virginia; World War II Virginia civil defense materials; photographs.

Dates: Inclusive 1927-1943

John Paul Dull Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0072
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 16 letters from Dull to his wife, written while serving, first in the valley, then in eastern Virginia near Petersburg, with the Stonewall Brigade, 5th Division, in the army of the Confederate States of America; a photograph; and printed genealogy of the Koiner family.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Joseph Fauber Shaner Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0201
Scope and Contents

The collection consists mainly of photocopies of American Civil War letters written to and from Joseph Shaner and his family. It also includes a portion of Shaner's 1862 diary, his service records, one photograph, obituaries, history, reminiscences, and genealogies (1754-1978) pertaining to the Shaner family and other Rockbridge County families.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

McCormick-Goodhart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0615
Scope and Contents

This collection contains historic photographs and documents primarily related to Rockbridge County, Virginia and vicinity.

Dates: 1850 - 1950

McCown Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0181
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of business papers of the family including sale lists, indentures, land surveys, deeds, wills, promissory notes, and numerous receipts. It also includes 71 photographs from the collection of Samuel W. McCown, Jr. (WLU 1919).

Also incuded is a verse in remembrance of visit to Black Wall Cave, January 30, 1914, by H. M. Vest, which makes reference to several Rockbridge County, Virginia boys.

Dates: Inclusive 1811-1917

Michael Miley photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0268
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of contact prints made from Michael Miley's glass plate negatives, which are owned by the Library of Virginia.

Dates: Other: 199?

Photograph and Postcard of Ann Smith Academy

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0047
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a copy of a photograph of the Ann Smith Academy in Lexington, Virginia. The collection also includes the negative of the image, which was taken before 1899. The postcard is of the new structure of the Ann Smith Academy c.1910, which is now the Washington and Lee Chi Psi Fraternity house.

Dates: 1880 - 1900

Photograph of a Wall of Beatty's Mill

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0034
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a color photograph of a large sign painted on an exterior wall of Beatty's Mill in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The sign reads 'J. W. Beatty flour, feed, meal' and 'Ballard's Famous Insurance Feeds and Obelisk Flour.'

Dates: 1981

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Names
Miley, Michael, 1841-1918 5
Washington and Lee University 5
Alexander family 2
Anderson family 2
Anderson, Ellen Graham 2
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Ann Smith Academy 2
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 2
Nelson family 2
University Chapel . Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA ) 2
Wallace family 2
Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 2
Actors' Equity Association 1
Alexander, Aylett 1
American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, Va.) 1
Anderson, Mary Ann Alexander 1
Anderson, William Alexander 1
Archer family 1
Argabright, George 1
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) 1
Aylett family 1
Bent Mountain High School (Roanoke County, Va.) 1
Beverly Theater (Staunton, Va.) 1
Biltmore Forest School 1
Blackfriars Theatre (Staunton, Va.) 1
Brown Family 1
Brown, Andrew J. (Andrew Jackson), 1829/30-1892 1
Brown, Coray S. (Coray Swink), 1888 - 1969 1
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, Henry Donald 1
Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle) 1
Cohen, Ralph Alan 1
Confederate States of America 1
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 1
Davidson, Gunhild A., 1896-1960 1
Davidson, Lorraine 1
Davidson, Lula K. , 1866-1958 1
Davidson, R. E. (Robert Edmund), 1885-1958 1
Davidson, S. M. (Samuel Miller), 1855-1927 1
Desha, Jack C. 1
Dobin, Howard N. 1
Dold, Henry O. 1
Dooley, Edwin L., Jr. 1
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson) 1
Dönitz, Karl 1
Dull, John Paul 1
Eustler family 1
Eustler, Edward Miley 1
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert 1
Extension Homemakers Clubs (Rockbridge County, Va.) 1
FCE (Family Community Education), Rockbridge County, Virginia 1
FCE National Association for Family and Community Education 1
Fishburn, Julia Miller Junkin 1
Glasgow family 1
Goshen High School (Goshen, Virginia) 1
Guy family 1
Hall, Danny 1
Hall, Lorenza 1
Hall, Willie 1
Hart, Harvey 1
Hickman, Cleveland P., Jr. 1
Highland Belle FCE Club (Rockbridge County, Virginia) 1
Holstine, Henry 1
Home Demonstration Clubs (Rockbridge County, Va.) 1
Honolulu (Hawaii). Police Department 1
Hotinger, Rice 1
Ignico, Robert V. 1
Jackson family 1
James Madison University 1
Jenkins family 1
Johnston family 1
Junkin, Francis Thomas Anderson 1
King family 1
Kirby, Raymond J 1
Kirkpatrick family 1
Koiner family 1
Koiner, Rachel 1
Lackey, Harry 1
Lackey, Issac 1
Latane, John Holladay 1
Lee family 1
Lee, Annie Carter 1
Lee, George Washington Custis 1
Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Lexington Gazette. (Lexington, Va.) 1
Literacy Center (Lexington, Virginia) 1
Maple Grove Farm 1
Matthews Family 1
McCormick-Goodhart family 1
McCown family 1
McCown, Samuel W., Jr. 1
Miley & Son Photographic Studio 1
Miller family 1
Molière 1
Morrison, Hugh Stark 1
Muterspaw, Amos 1
Nelson, Alexander Lockhart, 1827-1910 1
Nuckols Family 1
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