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Charles Wilson Turner Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0322
Scope and Contents
Includes genealogical inquiries to Turner, postcards, and religious items.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1992; Date of "K. N. Peppers" by Jacques Maurice
Franklin Lafayette Riley Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0060
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence connected with the book Gen. Robert E. Lee After Appomattox edited by Dr. Riley; letters from Riley to his wife while he was with the American Expeditionary Force University in France in 1919; other correspondents include Edward Clifford Gordon, Mary Custis Lee and Jo Lane Stern. Also includes letters to his daughter (Frances Riley, later Frances Denton), her Daughters of the American Revolution card, and photographs and...
Dates:
Inclusive 1897-1927
G. Raymond Womeldorf Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0530
Scope and Contents
George (G.) Raymond Womeldorf was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1893 and raised on the family farm near east Lexington (Va.). He attended Washington and Lee University, graduating in 1917. During that year Womeldorf volunteered to join Washington and Lee University's ambulance unit, which would become U.S. Army Ambulance Service Section 534 and serve with distinction in France. During his deployment, Womeldorf was wounded in the right leg and gassed. He subsequently lost the leg just above...
Dates:
1917-1919
Quisenberry Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0500
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of the Quisenberry family from 1922-1963 including ephemera collected during their travels, photographs, school papers, items about their religious faith, as well as Lexington, Rockbridge County, Rockingham, and Shenandoah County, VA.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Thomas Connors Collection
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