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Carte de visite photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Houston Family

 File — Box 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a student notebook containing the history of the Houston family written by H.I. Houston as well as a carte de visite photograph of the Houston family coat of arms taken by Adam Plecker, a regional traveling photographer.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1700 - 1960

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