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Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0625
Content Description
This collection consists of a pocket sized leather bound notebook used initially by William A. Anderson, Orderly or First Sergeant of the 'Liberty Hall Volunteers,' Washington College's military company organized in April 1861 for service in the Confederate army. The notebook was used to keep the daily rolls of the company and documents such things as absences, sick lists, accoutrement details, and police lists of its original members. Anderson carried the notebook from the formation of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1861-04 - 1861-09
Collection — Box: RHS Collections #0079 - #0082
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0079
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of publications and records from the George C. Marshall Research Library, generally from the 1960s and 1970s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964 - 1974
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0020
Content Description
This collection consists of one bound manuscript volume which contains a list of all white voters of the 10th District of Virginia compiled and revised by U.S. Representative from Virginia Henry St. George Tucker, III and dated February 1, 1889. There are later undated revisions made to the original list.The list includes the names of white males of voting age with a U. S. Post Office address in the Virginia counties of Allegheny, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Cumberland, Fluvanna,...
Dates:
1889 February 1
Collection
Identifier: WLU-COLL-PP-0153
Scope and Contents
An original lithograph by Blelock and Company and a modern photograph of an earlier post-Civil War photograph of Jefferson Davis.
Dates:
1865 - 1868
File
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0362
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a lithograph of Antonio López de Santa Anna, who was the President of Mexico during the Mexican-American War. There is a handwritten note at the bottom which reads "Brought back from Mexico by General Robert E. Lee, when he returned from the War. Presented to the Library of Washington and Lee University by Mary Custis Lee October 25, 1913."
Dates:
circa 1847
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 0-10
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0679
Content Description
This small collection primarily contains a series of letters between various individuals and Anna C. Cole, mother of Lloyd R. Cole. Dated between 1940 and 1946, these letters largely detail the difficulties Capt. Lloyd R. Cole experienced throughout his service during World War II through his death in 1943 while prisoner of war (POW). In addition, the collection features several photographs of Capt. Lloyd R. Cole during the war, in addition to a photograph taken on his wedding day with his...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940
Collection — Box: RHS Collections #0079 - #0082, Folder: 1
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0080
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a copy of the "Lousia County Bicentennial Celebration: 1776 - 1976, A Heritage of Time," Volume No. 1.
Dates:
Event: 1972-07
Collection — Box: 1-6, Folder: 0-103
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0694
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an important archive of letters, personal files, photos, and biographical information of esteemed painter Louise Herreshoff, her second husband Euchlin Reeves and their families. Euchlin Reeves was a graduate of Washington and Lee University (WLU) School of Law and is the namesake of WLU’s Reeves Center, home of the Reeves Collection – a large and internationally important ceramics collection (1500 – present) and Louise Herreshoff’s paintings, given by the couple to...
Dates:
1867 - 1977
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0156
Scope and Contents
This collection includes student memorabilia of Lucius and Cave Desha, including programs, pamphlets and Michael Miley photographs of students and faculty.
Dates:
1868 - 1873
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0094
Collection — Box: RHS Collections #0079 - #0082
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0081
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of records related to the history of Lynchburg, including Lynchburg Historical Society - Museum Papers.
Dates:
1900
Collection
Identifier: MS 0004
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0474
Scope and Contents
Collection contains mainly correspondence about American civil war historical matters as well as a typed copy of a muster roll of the Colyell Guards (Company G., 9th Louisiana Infantry, Livingston Parrish), which were commanded by Captain J.S. Gardner, and a newspaper clipping.
Dates:
Inclusive 1926-1927
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0266
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three scrapbooks with contents compiled by Mary MacMillan and her son Charles MacMillan. The first contains scenes from a trip to Ireland, containing Mary MacMillan’s pencil sketches of scenes and prints of Ireland mostly by James Howard Burgess. The second contains poetry and calligraphy from Mary MacMillan and others as well as collections of dried and pressed marine marine algae or seaweed, watercolors sketches and cartoons. The third consists of mica...
Dates:
Inclusive 1843-1851
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0617
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three copies of a photo album created via the Snapfish service presumably by members of the Madeley family. Album contains genealogy of the Madeley family as respresented through reproduced family photographs.
Dates:
Unknown
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0082
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 19th century magazines with stories for the purpose of entertainment and general information, ranging across 7 different publications.
Dates:
1836-12 - 1896-03-07
Collection
Identifier: WLU-RG-0054
Scope and Contents
The Mame Warren Collection consists of 90 oral history interviews and historic photographs collected for her 1998 book project, 'Come cheer for Washington and Lee University: the University at 250 years!'. Warren conducted interviews with 90 individuals associated with Washington and Lee University, including former faculty, staff, coaches, employees, alumni, and friends. Each interview is boxed uniquely and includes audio cassette recordings, both master and user copies, and their...
Dates:
date unknown
Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0083 - #0087, Folder: 1
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0083
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one folder which contains copies of card catalog records for manuscript collections related to Rockbridge County and Lexington.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950 - 1970
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0591
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two single leaves from early manuscript (calligraphic) copies of the Qur'an (Koran) and two leaves from a manuscript copy of Dala'il al-Khayrat, a book of prayers for the prophet Muhammad by Moroccan Sufi scholar Muhammad ibn Sulayman Jazuli. Each leaf is written in Arabic. One Qu'ran leaf is from the Ottoman Period (c. 1847 AD) and retains its gold and color illumination. Its text contains the first sixteen verses of the Surat Al - Bagarah (the Cow). The second leaf...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1700 - 1900
Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0083 - #0087, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0084
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of historic maps of Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge County.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890 - 1950
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0236
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter written by Margaret Sangster inquiring about job openings most likely in a newspaper or magazine 'enterprise.' She mentions having experiences writing book reviews.
Dates:
Inclusive 1885-1890
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0101
Scope and Contents
This collection includes poems and prose (manuscript and printed copies); A May Night Masque, written in 1872 for Ann Smith Academy; notebooks and scrapbooks. There is a Greek New Testament given to Preston by her father, George Junkin, and a glass plate negative of George Junkin's portrait. Additionally, Preston's scrapbooks include one volume of her printed poems and stories and one volume of her sketches and manuscript poems. There is also a broadside, and several...
Dates:
Inclusive1839-1872
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0631
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondences between Mark Byrn Davis, Jr. and other Washington and Lee University alumni and related figures concerning the potential decision to institute co-education at Washington and Lee in 1984.
Dates:
1984
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0471
Scope and Contents
This brief handwritten note comments on Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 1898 book Cheerful Yesterdays. We believe it was written by Twain, but it is not signed.
Dates:
Inclusive 1898-1900
Collection
Identifier: WLU -Coll-PP-0138
Content Description
Print of Charles Willson Peale's 1779 oil portrait of Marquis de Lafayette. The original painting is owned by Washington and Lee University. This print was published by Washington and Lee University in the early 20th century.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
