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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

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

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

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

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

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

Photographs of Rice Hotinger Home

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0055
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two photographs of Rice Hotinger's home in Kerr's Creek, Virginia. One image includes vintage cars and chickens.

Dates: 1940 - 1950

Raymond J. Kirby collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0365
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three scrapbooks and sets of photographs taken by Raymond J. Kirby. The scrapbooks contain photographs and newspaper clippings related to the flooding that occurred as a result of Hurricane Camille in August 1969. The photographs document damage from both Rockbridge and Nelson Counties and the City of Lexington. The collection also includes approximately 170 photographs of the construction of the Route 11 corridor bypass around Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: 1953-1956, 1969

Robert V. Ignico Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0410
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 'Bi-Centennial Issue of Lexington Gazzette Commemorating the Settlement of the Rockbridge Section of Virginia by the White Men, A Tribute To The Scotch-Irish Pioneers', several greeting cards from the school, a collection 19 early football photos, a copy of the Washington and Lee University Bulletin (Volume XLVII, Number 4), a portrait of Robert V. Ignico 1919 as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force, and a scrapbook.

Dates: Inclusive 1919-1970

Virginia Historic Landmark Application: Maple Grove Farm, Rockbridge Co., Va.

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0500
Scope and Contents

Collection contains 17 color photographs of the Maple Grove Farm house, including interior and exterior, and a photocopy of the orginal application paperwork to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources. Paperwork includes a historical account of the property written by Pamela Simpson. The property is just outside of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: 1992

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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
Dold, Henry O. 1
Eustler family 1
Eustler, Edward Miley 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
Goshen High School (Goshen, Virginia) 1
Hall, Danny 1
Hall, Lorenza 1
Hall, Willie 1
Hart, Harvey 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
James Madison University 1
Johnston family 1
King family 1
Kirby, Raymond J 1
Kirkpatrick family 1
Lackey, Harry 1
Lackey, Issac 1
Lexington Gazette. (Lexington, Va.) 1
Literacy Center (Lexington, Virginia) 1
Maple Grove Farm 1
McCormick-Goodhart family 1
McCown family 1
McCown, Samuel W., Jr. 1
Muterspaw, Amos 1
Nelson family 1
Nuckols Family 1
Palmer Community Center 1
Peale, Charles Willson 1
Shaner family 1
Shaner, Joel C. 1
Shaner, Joseph Fauber 1
Shaw, Ethel 1
Shaw, Robin Sledge 1
Shields, Jefferson 1
Simpson, Pamela Hemenway 1
United States. Air Force 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division. 81st 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division. 88th 1
University Chapel . Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA ) 1
Vest, H. M. 1
Vest, Herbert 1
Virginia Association for Family and Community Education 1
Virginia Military Institute 1
Virginia. Department of Historic Resources 1
Washington and Lee University. Department of Athletics. Football 1
Welsh family 1
Wilhelm, Herb 1
Willard, Barbara Cary Johnston 1
Wilson, Alex 1
Woodward, Pollard, Mrs. 1
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