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Virginia -- Williamsburg

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Blain Family Papers

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-7
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0066
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of the Blain family of Albemarle County and Williamsburg, Virginia, including the Civil War period diary (1861-63) of school teacher Mary Randolph Blain. The diary, written near the York River in Gloucester County, Va. provides a picture of civilian life both in that area and in Williamsburg, Va. where her parents lived during the period. Also included are two letters written from Randolph Harrison Blain, brother of the diarist and a member of the...
Dates: Inclusive 1861-1905; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1864
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

General History Related Ephemera, 1893 - 1935

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007677], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

This folder contains various printed ephemera relating to US history, US presidents, and a few farmers almanacs.

Dates: 1893 - 1935
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Quisenberry Family Papers

Philobilon Eine Zeitschrift fur Bucherfreunde Vol. 9 No. 5-6 1936 with The First Printing in Virginia inserted, 1936

 Item
Scope and Contents

This German journal has The First Printing in Virginia by Douglas C. McMurtie tipped into the center of the volume. The back of the insert says 'Designed, composed in Linotype Baskerville, and printed by C. Harold Lauck at the Journalism Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, U. S. A., for Philobiblon, a Book-Collector's Magazine published by Herbert Reicher, Vienna, Austria. December 1935'

Dates: 1936
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Academic Departments - Record Group 9 / Journalism Department / Journalism Laboratory Press Publications / Publications

Photograph of Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, Virginia

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0026
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an albumen photograph of the Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, Virginia c. 1875-1885. The image includes two people sitting on the ledge outside of the church.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1875 - 1885
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

The Beginnings of Printing in Virginia , 1935

 Item
Scope and Contents

There are three one-page advertisemnts announcing the publication of the above title.

Dates: 1935
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Academic Departments - Record Group 9 / Journalism Department / Journalism Laboratory Press Publications / Publications

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