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Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0675
Content Description
8 Items dated 1863-1870 pertaining to Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson's estate and the Lexington Tannery.
Dates:
1863 - 1870
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0026
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the organization's volunteer handbook dated 1987.
Dates:
1987
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0072
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three original photographs, one postcard, and one copy of a postcard of the bronze Stonewall Jackson statue at his grave site at Stonewall Jackson Cemetery in Lexington, Va. The statue, designed by Edward V. Valentine of Richmond, Va., was unveiled on July 21, 1891. One of the original photos is a cabinet photograph by Lexington, Va. photographer Michael Miley, c. 1891-1900, one looks to be of four Washington and Lee University students standing by the grave, c....
Dates:
1891 - 1965
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0550
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains primarily a series of photographs of Dr. Stuart McCorkle throughout his adult life, ranging from informal prints to professionally made portraits. In addition, the collection originally included copies of books authored by McCorkle and have since been transferred within the Special Collections department. The financial material contains legal papers describing the gift left by both himself and his wife, now worth $1.9 million, to advance development of the...
Dates:
1928 - 1981
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0241
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Sanders' correspondence to his parents regarding life at Washington and Lee University, including his participation in the Arcades Club fraternity (now Delta Upsilon), sports, classes, jobs, and the Lexington Presbyterian Church as well as comments on campus drinking and mention of his brother Irwin Sanders and friend Richard Gooch. Includes his correspondence during his job with his uncle, Stuart Sanders, in Richmond at Sanders Brothers from 1931-1934 with...
Dates:
Inclusive 1918-1965; Majority of material found within Bulk 1926-1934
Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0017
Scope and Contents
This record group contains materials created by the Housing office during the course of its regular business, including records about its management.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Collection
Identifier: WLU-RG-0035
Scope and Contents
This record group contains materials created by the Student Executive Committee during the course of their regular job duties.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0014
Scope and Contents
This record group contains materials created by the Student Health office during the course of its regular business, including records about its management.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Date Not Yet Determined
Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0038
Scope and Contents
This record group contains papers and projects created by students as part of their coursework, such as honors theses and capstone papers.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Date Not Yet Determined
Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0060 - #0076
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents
This file consists of the subscription registry for Rockbridge Repository with notable citizen signatures. The Rockbridge Repository was a Republican publication headed by John McMullin, which included "official information, public documents, Congressional proceedings and debates, proceedings of the Virginia Assembly" as well as essays on literary, agricultural and commercial subjects. Price of subscription is two dollars per year. The signatures are of citizens in their own hands. File also...
Dates:
1803-09-03
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0116
Scope and Contents
This collection is an AMS notebook (120 p.) that contains clippings, financial reports, reports of teacher examinations, and lists of school committees. The notebook contains records from 1870-1876.
Dates:
Inclusive 1818-1886
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0547
Content Description
This collection contains one letter from Susie Campbell to her mother, dated March 24th, 1863. It also includes a rough transcription of the letter on copy paper.
Dates:
1860-03-24
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0151
Scope and Contents
This collection contains responses from McCormick's classmates and others to his proposal for a volume of reminiscences concerning Robert E. Lee's presidency of Washington College. Correspondents include William W. Carson and Fitzhugh Lee.
Dates:
1891 - 1930
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0090
Scope and Contents
Box 7 includes slides and books.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1785-2005
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0310
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
Collection of decals and small postcards from Washington and Lee University and Lexington, Virginia.
Dates:
Inclusive 1943-1944
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0299
Scope and Contents
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
