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Michael Miley photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0268
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of contact prints made from Michael Miley's glass plate negatives, which are owned by the Library of Virginia.

Dates: Other: 199?

Michael Reid Hanger Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0173
Scope and Contents This typescript of a diary by Private Michael Reid Hanger of the Rockbridge Rifles, which was part of the 4th, 5th, and 27th Virginia Infantry regiments at different times during the American Civil War, includes descriptions of military action within the Shenandoah Valley and Fairfax County, as well as the First Battle of Bull Run. Stonewall Jackson, Rockbridge County citizen and soldier James K. Edmondson, and several Washington College alumni are mentioned. Text of the diary is...
Dates: Inclusive 1861

Militia

 Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0083 - #0087, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0086
Scope and Contents

This collection includes information on Captain John McDowell's company and Captain John McKittrick's company.

Dates: 1943-10-25

Millboro and Kerr's Creek Turnpike Company records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0447
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an 1836 letter to Stockholders from the company's president, Alexander T. Barclay, and a report signed John C. Bowyer, dated 1838 December 5, to the Board of Public Works. Both of these documents are signed by the authors.

Dates: Inclusive 1836-1838

Mills

 Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0083 - #0087, Folder: 1-9
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0087
Scope and Contents

This collection contains essay, images, and historical background on mills in Rockbridge County.

Dates: 1955

Milton J. Elliott, IV Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0388
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a videorecording made by digitizing an original 8 mm film, which is owned by Milton J. Elliott, III, who was a student at W&L during the 1956 Mock Convention. The video is in color and is silent. The footage of the 1956 Mock Convention runs about 8 minutes and is primarily of the parade. Sections of the video showing the convention floor and platform are brief and quite dark. There is also footage of a group of students picknicking at Goshen (about 3 minutes)....
Dates: 1950 - 1956

Milton W. Humphreys Autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0051
Scope and Contents

Typescript autobiography includes excerpts about Milton W. Humphreys' student and teaching years at Washington College and Washington and Lee University from 1866-1875.

Dates: 1860 - 1875

Mining Industry

 Collection — Container: RHS Collection #0088 - #0093, Folder: 1-14
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0088
Dates: Majority of material found within 1000 - 2000

Minor Lee Rogers Memorial Program

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0665
Scope and Contents

This item is a program for the memorial service for Minor Lee Rogers, which was held on September 16, 1991.

Dates: 1991-09-16

Mock Convention - Record Group 36

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0036
Scope and Contents

This record group contains materials about Mock Convention at Washington and Lee created by members of the Mock Convention Planning Committee and other university employees while carrying out their job duties.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1908 - 2016

Money

 Collection — Container: RHS Collection #0088 - #0093, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0089
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 19th century bills and bank notes.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1840 - 1896

Morrison's Store Account Books and Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0626
Content Description

This collection consists of business related papers, including some correspondences from wholesale merchants, receipts, cancelled checks, various business related papers, and three patron account books documenting the business history of Andrew Wallace Morrison' s general store in Collierstown, Rockbridge County, Virginia between 1907 and 1947.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1907 - 1947

Mortimer Norton Wisdom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0308
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of copies of letters written by Mortimer Norton Wisdom, to his mother when he was a law student at Washington and Lee University from 1872-1873. There are also copies of exams given by John Randolph Tucker in 1873 and copies of speeches given by Wisdom in 1872.

Dates: Inclusive 1872-1873

Moses Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0505
Content Description

Norvelle O'Neal Moses operated the Lee Highway Filling Station and served as a general manager of the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Lexington, Va. The collection consists of his business and personal papers.

Dates: 1921 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1921 - 1938

 Mountain City Lodge No. 67 archives

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0507
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the archives of Lexington, Virginia's freemasonry organization, the Mountain City Lodge, No. 67 founded in 1857. The archive inludes early petitions for membership from the fraternal organization's founding era, management and financial records, membership records, a nearly complete run of the annually published bound volumes titled, "Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Virginia" between the late 1850s thhrough the early 1900s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1857 - 1990

Mountain City Lodge, No. 67, Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0021
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a contract between Lexington, Va.'s Mountain City Masonic Lodge and Washington and Lee University's Kappa Alpha fraternity to rent the lodge's banquet hall in the Tutwiler Building for a period of nine months. The contract is signed by W. Z. Johnstone and J. T. Wilson.The colleciton also contains an undated booklet titled "Bylaws of Mountain City Lodge, No. 67."

Dates: 1889, undated

Mountains

 Collection — Container: RHS Collection #0088 - #0093, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: RHS-0090
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a drawing of Rockbridge Hills and a pamphlet for "Committee to Save House Mountain."

Dates: 1893-05-23

Muchland Surrender of Admittance

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0452
Scope and Contents

Legal document from Robert Atkinson to Samuel Hunter and Richard Simpson.

Dates: 1709

Museums: American Frontier Culture

 Collection — Container: RHS Collection #0088 - #0093, Folder: 1
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0091
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one file with a copy of the Spring 1991 Augusta Historical Bulletin, published by the Augusta County Historical Society (founded in 1964).

Dates: 1991

Museums of Washington and Lee University - Record Group 34

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0034
Scope and Contents

This record group contains archived materials about and created by Washington and Lee University's museums, comprised of Lee Chapel and Museum, the Reeves Collection, and the university's art collection, during the course of its regular business, such as official publications and records of its management.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Music: Songs

 Collection — Container: RHS Collection #0088 - #0093, Folder: 1
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0092
Scope and Contents

This collection includes one file of sheet music, including a song entitled "Lexington" by Leslie Lyle Campbell, "The Marvelous Music Prodigy, Blind Tom, the Negro Boy Pianist," a book of Banjo Music for G.D. Letcher, and early 20th century dance scores and instructions.

Includes a Southern States Cooperative brochure, "Let's Sing," Southern States Book of Songs, no date.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1896 - 1987

Musical scores copy book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0424
Scope and Contents

This undated copy book contains many handwritten musical scores including both the notes and words. The names H. H. and L. E. Hare are written in the inside cover.

Dates: Other: No date

Myrtle Davis Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0606
Scope and Contents

This collection contains copies of sheet music and lyrics to a song written about Goshen Pass, Virginia. The song was copyrighted by Myrtle Davis in 1911.

Dates: 1911

Nathaniel Huntoon Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0180
Scope and Contents

The account and barter book contains handwriting samples and aphorisms. Account notations are in British currency. Rum and molasses are the predominant products listed. It also includes a poem on the American Revolutionary War effort of New Hampshire's soldiers by William Proctor. The poem includes a mention of General George Washington.

Dates: Inclusive 1759-1792

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Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 42
Miley, Michael, 1841-1918 27
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Junkin, George, 1798 - 1868 9
Leyburn, James Graham 9
Washington College 9
Confederate States of America 8
Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 8
Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Va.) 8
Anderson, William Alexander 7
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 7
Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle) 7
Lee family 7
Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883 7
Smith, Henry Louis 7
Tucker, John Randolph 7
Washington and Lee University. School of Law 7
Anderson family 6
Confederate States of America. Army. Liberty Hall Volunteers 6
Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington (Lexington, Va.) 6
Lee, Mary Custis 6
Letcher, Greenlee D. (Greenlee Davidson) 6
Letcher, John 6
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 6
Washington and Lee University. Trustees 6
Alexander family 5
Brockenbrough, John 5
Campbell family 5
Campbell, Henry Donald 5
Confederate States of America. Army 5
Freeman, Douglas Southall 5
New Monmouth Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Va.) 5
Preston, Margaret Junkin 5
Tompkins, Edmund Pendleton 5
Washington Academy (Lexington, Va.) 5
Washington and Lee University. Mock Convention 5
White, James J. (James Jones) 5
Ann Smith Academy 4
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 4
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 4
Crenshaw, Ollinger 4
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 4
Edmondson, James K., Colonel 4
First Baptist Church (Lexington, Va.) 4
Gilliam, Frank Johnson 4
Glasgow family 4
Graham family 4
Graham, Edward 4
Graham, John Alexander 4
Graham, William A. (William Alexander) 4
Groner, Duncan G. 4
Humphreys, D. C. (David Carlisle), 1855-1921 4
Hunter, David, 1802-1886 4
Jefferson, Thomas 4
Jordan, John 4
Lexington Gazette. (Lexington, Va.) 4
McDowell, James 4
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 4
Pendleton, William Nelson, 1809-1883 4
Powell, Lewis F. 4
Reid, Samuel McDowell 4
Wilson, William Lyne 4
Alexander, Archibald 3
Anderson, Ellen Graham 3
Barclay, Ted, II (Alexander Tedford) 3
Bowyer, John, General 3
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell) 3
Carter, Jimmy 3
Cole, Fred Carrington 3
Davidson, Charles A. (Charles Andrew) 3
Davidson, Greenlee 3
Davidson, James D. (James Dorman) 3
Davis, John W. (John William) 3
Denny, George Hutcheson 3
Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935 3
Dunlap Family 3
Flood, Henry D. (Henry Delaware) 3
Glasgow, William Anderson 3
Graham, William 3
Grigsby, Reuben 3
Henry, Patrick 3
Hotchkiss, Farris Pierson 3
Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863 3
James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.) 3
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 3
Johnston, William Preston 3
Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905 3
Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905 3
Letcher, S. H. (Samuel Houston) 3
Lexington Development Company (Lexington, Va.) 3
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 3
Madison, James 3
McDowell, William George, 1850-1921 3
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