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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0184
Scope and Contents

These autographed and signed letters are from Mrs. Wilson to Washington and Lee President Francis P. Gaines and his wife, Sadie duVergne Gaines. Included is an invitation and seating arrangement for a luncheon given by Mrs. Wilson for First Lady Jackie Kennedy. The letters show the close friendship between Mrs. Wilson and the Gaines family. The collection also includes a photograph of Edith Wilson.

Dates: Inclusive 1951-1961

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.

Edwin Luther Green Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0192
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a stamp dated July 18, 1854; 1891-1892 student handbook for Washington & Lee; four photographs; and various correspondence and articles to and by Dr. Green.

Dates: Inclusive 1865-1927

Ellinor Porcher Gadsden Papers

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0189
Scope and Contents This collection came from the estate of Ellinor Gadsden in 1985. Highlights of the collection include the letters of Alexander Swift(Sandie) Pendleton, a Washington College graduate who was a top aide to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson during the American Civil War. These approximately 70 letters were a major source for the book. Sandie was the uncle of the Gadsden sisters. Included in the collection are also a few items of Gen. William Nelson Pendleton who was Robert E. Lee's friend and...
Dates: Inclusive 1839-1975

Elsie Ball Wright Bowley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0242
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence (4 folders) by and about Elsie Bowley's sister, Jessie Ball du Pont, and her brother-in-law, A. I. du Pont, as well as letters and correspondence from Elsie's son, Thomas Ball Wright, Ball family members of the Northern Neck of Virginia and other members of the du Pont family. Also contains papers of General Albert J. Bowley, along with Elsie Bowley's business papers regarding her benefactions. Includes ca. 175 photographs (mainly family photos), most of which are not...
Dates: 1929-1972

Emily Houston Brown Walker Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0400
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook compiled by Emily Brown Walker of material related to her son, Ernest Brown Walker, Jr., who is a member of Washington and Lee University Class of 1938.

Dates: 1934-12-02 - 1936-10-17

Francis Baldwin Crawford Collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-6
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0564

Francis P. Gaines Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0140
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Gaines' correspondence, speeches, photographs, and printed matter, such as programs and newspaper clippings. Also included is Gaines family genealogy.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1803 - 1979

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

Frank J. Gilliam Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0494
Scope and Contents The items in the collection include articles written by Lula Gilliam Hopkins, photographs taken by Sally Mann, a 1954 copy of a Matthew Brady photograph of Robert E. Lee, several family photographs, a booklet from a dance held in 1914, a letter from Gilliam as W&L Dean of Students to student John Willcoxon (class of 1952) presenting him with an award, and Frank J. Gilliam's (class of 1917) Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pins. The collection also includes a scrapbook created by Gilliam as...
Dates: Inclusive 1914-1964

Franklin Lafayette Riley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0060
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence connected with the book Gen. Robert E. Lee After Appomattox edited by Dr. Riley; letters from Riley to his wife while he was with the American Expeditionary Force University in France in 1919; other correspondents include Edward Clifford Gordon, Mary Custis Lee and Jo Lane Stern. Also includes letters to his daughter (Frances Riley, later Frances Denton), her Daughters of the American Revolution card, and photographs and...
Dates: Inclusive 1897-1927

Frederick William McWane Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0313
Scope and Contents

This collection includes Washington and Lee University-related photographs, documents, and mementos from McWane's days as a student and member of Omicron Delta Kappa, as well as a citation for his later work with the Virginia State Ports Authority.

Dates: Inclusive 1909-1959; Majority of material found within Bulk 1909-1913

Friends and relations of Gilbert and Sullivan (FROGS) collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0188
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and approximately 50 humorous photos from five plays(Iolanthe, H.M.S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Mikado, and Patience) put on by FROGS. It also includes programs as well as script and casting information used by the individuals putting on the plays.

Dates: Inclusive 1964-1968

George Earle Chamberlain Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0247
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence concerning Chamberlain's work on several Washington and Lee University committees from 1904-1908, including committee work on a chapter house for Phi Kappa Psi and on the new Carnegie library. It also includes his two notebooks from law courses (1875-1876) taught by John Randolph Tucker. Lastly, there is an 1874 photograph of Chamberlain and two fraternity brothers, G. M. Effinger, Class of 1874, and Floyd Farrar, Class of 1875.

Dates: Inclusive 1874-1908; Majority of material found within Bulk 1904-1908

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

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

Helen Qubain collection

 File
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0521
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photographs, documents, ephemera, published material, protest related artifacts and personal reminiscences of American citizen and Byrn Mwar College student Helen Qubain's personal experience as an exchange student at Nankai University in Tianjin, China and as witness and participant in the Tienanmen Square student protests of 1989.

Dates: 1988 - 1992

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

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

James Bernard Merrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0343
Scope and Contents

This collection includes final exam booklets, class lists, and photographs from Merrick's time at Washington and Lee. There is also memorabilia of the Class of 1930, including a 40th reunion booklet, collected by Merrick.

Dates: Inclusive 1927-1970; Majority of material found within Bulk 1927-1930

James Graham Leyburn collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0288
Scope and Contents This collection contains many materials relating to the South African mission. Dr. Leyburn saved a number of newspaper articles concerning South Africa which are contained herein. Reports on various industries and other aspects of South Africa are included. Also within this collection are an assortment of Dr. Leyburn's speeches, some of which address South Africa. The remainder of the speeches concern the future of Washington and Lee University. Among the correspondence in...
Dates: 1902 - 1993

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

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Ann Smith Academy 3
Confederate States of America 3
Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935 3
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) 3
Preston, Margaret Junkin 3
Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 3
Alexander family 2
Anderson family 2
Anderson, Ellen Graham 2
Anderson, William Alexander 2
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 2
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Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 2
Junkin, Eleanor Rebecca 2
Lee, George Washington Custis 2
Lee, Mary Custis 2
Leyburn, James Graham 2
Miley & Son Photographic Studio 2
Nelson family 2
Riegel, O. W. (Oscar Wetherhold) 2
Robertson, A. Willis (Absalom Willis) 2
University Chapel . Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA ) 2
Wallace family 2
Actors' Equity Association 1
Adams, Samuel Hopkins 1
Alexander, Andrew 1
Alexander, Aylett 1
American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, Va.) 1
Amole, James P. 1
Anderson, Mary Ann Alexander 1
Anderson, William C. 1
Andre Studios (Lexington, Va.) 1
Archer family 1
Argabright, George 1
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) 1
Atkins, George 1
Atkinson, Edward 1
Atlantis (Space shuttle) 1
Aylett family 1
Ball family 1
Barker, Oscar B., Jr. 1
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 1
Batista, P. R., Mrs. 1
Bear family 1
Bell, William J. 1
Bent Mountain High School (Roanoke County, Va.) 1
Berry family 1
Beverly Theater (Staunton, Va.) 1
Biltmore Forest School 1
Blackfriars Theatre (Staunton, Va.) 1
Boude and Miley 1
Bowie, W. Russell 1
Bowie, Walter Worthington 1
Bowley, Albert J. (Albert Jesse) 1
Bowley, Elsie Ball Wright, 1886-1972 1
Brady, Matthew B. 1
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston 1
Briggs, Ward Wright, Jr., Dr. 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
Bryan, Charles Page 1
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount 1
Buchanan family 1
Burrow, Steele 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, Henry Donald 1
Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle) 1
Capito, C. Howard 1
Chamberlain, George E. (George Earle) 1
Christ Church (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Cohen, Ralph Alan 1
Confederate States of America. Army 1
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Liberty Hall Volunteers 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 12th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 40th 1
Connors, Thomas 1
Couper, William, Colonel, 1884-1964 1
Crawford Family 1
Crawford, Francis "Frank" Baldwin, 1864-1947 1
Culton Family 1
Cunningham, Phoebe 1
Curtiss (Ship) 1
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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
Davis and Sanford Artist Photographers (New York) 1
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