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The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organized thematically, the collection contains three series: Personal and Family Papers, Legal and Business Records; and Civic Life.","Born in Norge, VA, in 1907 to Charles Edward Gary Sr. (1871-1929) and Georgia Parker Gary Randall (circa 1886-d.1958), Charles Edward Gary Jr. attended the James City County Training School, followed by the Hampton Institute. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in tailoring and dry-cleaning, having as well played on the baseball team from 1928 through 1931 and joined Phi Alpha Kappa. In 1933, he additionally completed a degree in mortuary science from Frelinghusen University in Washington DC."," A longtime resident of the Williamsburg area, Mr. Gary owned and operated the West End Valet Shop, a tailoring and dry-cleaning service, for decades. Mr. Gary opened his business in 1934 and worked as the Williamsburg Inn's first valet from 1937 to 1949. He was then responsible for pressing clothing and cleaning employee uniforms. The West End Valet Shop, long situated at 607 Prince George Street, remained in full operation until 1973. Mr. Gary also worked as a notary public for several years."," Mr. Gary actively participated in the civic life of the Williamsburg community and of baptist churches in the area. He was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (I.B.P.O.E.W.), an African American fraternal order, for more than seventy years, being especially involved in the Old Capitol Lodge no. 629. Mr. Gary once served as the lodge's Exalted Ruler. Among many others, organizations in which Mr. Gary served include the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Board of Elections, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the Colonial Youth Center, the boy scouts, and the Frontiers Club."," In May 1944, Mr. Gary married Zelda DeBerry (d. 2010), a native of North Carolina and daughter of Rev. William DeBerry and Fanny Hammond DeBerry. Mrs. Gary studied nursing at Augustine College in Raleigh, NC, and anesthetics at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL. She worked in Williamsburg for the Blayton clinic and the Williamsburg-James City School System.","Accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in June 2015. Fully processed and described by Eve Bourbeau-Allard, graduate assistant in June 2015.","Added as an addition to the collection in 2022 by Veronica Parker.","These papers contain correspondence, photographs, business papers, artifacts, certificates, and other materials related to Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Mr. Gary was a prominent African American business owner in Williamsburg, operating for decades the West End Valet Shop off Prince George Street. The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. The collection thus contains materials relevant to the study of twentieth-century Williamsburg history and African American history.","Organized thematically, this series comprises documents relating to Mr. and Mrs. Gary's schooling, letters sent to Mr. Gary by relatives and friends during World War II, other wartime documents, numerous family photographs and negatives, as well as other miscellaneous materials. Again following a thematic organization, the vast majority of photographs feature unidentified individuals and are undated. When found inside an annotated or dated photo developing envelope, photographs and negatives have been kept together. A nitrate negative, an informal portrait of two men, has been placed in special storage for preservation reasons; consult SCRC staff member.","Includes a photocopy of label on original frame, which was removed for preservation purposes.","Two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Gary's nieces inserted.","Copy of letter sent by Mr. Gary to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Crichlow in Boston","Two letters written by Cordelia to Charles found in the same envelope. In one, dated 1943, Cordelia says she is glad Charles adapts well to army life, compared to her brothers' negative experiences. In the second letter, Cordelia reflects on happiness and their past. Also includes a birthday card from Cordelia. An additional letter from 1944, signed by E. C. Broadus, was found in an envelope bearing the same Washington D.C. adress as Cordelia's envelopes. Broadus discusses office work as an inventory clerk suplying furniture for a division at the Pentagon building, and her/his experience as an African American clerk supervising a white employee. Touches on race, education, and the meaning of the war.","Writing to Charles from Chicago, Zelda talks about her feelings for him and her thoughts about him joining the army. 3 letters and a valentine card.","Writing to Charles from Williamsburg, Zelda gives news of her errands and friends, and of Charles' family members and shop. 3 letters.","Letters and forms related to Wallace Randall Parker's application for soldier dependents' benefits. Charles's uncle, Parker also gives family news.","Two letters to Charles from his mother Georgia Randall giving news of her health and of their relatives. One letter from his niece Audrey Piggott and one from his sister Edith, who conveys news from home and says their mother is worried about him being in the army.","3 Letters and a postcard from a fellow soldier. Kinnamon sends news of Charles' family and shop, which he has visited while on furlough; gives advice on being in the army; promises to keep sending Charles the Virginia Gazette; plans on meeting in Lousiana; and details an itinerary from New Orleans to Williamsburg for Charles' furlough.","Private Carol Carter from the air force, talking about his experience since drafted; Postcard from private Robert Gibson; Richard F. Hammond, writing from the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown about his health and advising Charles to seek fellow Elks in New Orleans; Thank you note from Lieut. Byron C. Herbert Jr; Private George M. Jackson, giving news of health and problems with mail; Mary B. King, sending news of Williamsburg's friends and her husband's army address.","Postcard from soldier Randolph; V-Mail from Sgt Allen Vaughn, serving in the Pacific; two V-Mail messages from soldier Edward Ward, asking Charles to visit his girlfriend to bring her news; letters from private Richard \"Dick\" West about his Texas unit, which is to be broken up soon.","Notebook kept by Mr. Gary, likely while training for becoming an officer. Contains notes on teaching techniques, building morale, crafting lesson plans, analysis skills, map reading, and a diagram of the Allied high command.","Includes a document \"Instructions to Port Checkers for Tallying Oversea Shipments Received at N.O.P.E.\" and an application form for national service life insurance.","Two photographs, one of a couple and one of Mr. Gary and a friend in soldiers' uniforms.","5 items circa 1880s-1910s","Circa 1940s-1950s","4 items in cardboard frames. Signed by Ann Bruce, Betty [niece], Skipper, and Edythe [niece] to Mr. and Mrs. Gary.","One portrait in cardboard frame, to \"Nurse Gary\" from her nephew Clifton. Frame included other loose school portraits, one identified as Jerome Randolph Jr.","Likely a wedding photograph from circa 1950s. Cardboard frame included 5 loose portraits of children.","Includes one from class of 1980, signed Annette Richard, and one from class of 2005. Most unidentified and undated.","Labeled \"Service S[?], Williamsburg VA.\" Possibly a valet and service team at a Williamsburg hotel.","Most unidentified and undated.","Includes a few matching negatives.","Includes a photocopy of the original envelope labeled \"Mrs. Williams Xmas Party Gary.\" One negative identified as \"Little Eddie A. Sasl[is]\".","On Duke of Gloucester Street, circa 1970s-1980s.","Features nautical scenes and a show.","Various photographs and negatives found together in photo developing envelopes. Photocopies of original envelope included.","Larger materials","Recognizing two years of membership for Mr. Gary","Hamlet Public School District, NC, 1936; Saint Agnes Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC, 1939; North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, 1939; Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL, 1944. Folder also includes 3 flower prints kept behind the diplomas in original frames.","Photograph album pages with informal portraits, circa 1940s. Some photographs are identified. The folder also houses several documents relating to Mrs. Zelda Gary that were found loose in the album, including report cards from Hamlet Public Schools for the years 1932-1936, an employment offer, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company documents, a 1976 certificate of service from the Union Batptist Church, as well as loose photographs. Damaged album binding removed for preservation purposes.","Personal artifacts comprise Mr. Gary's World War II dog tag, an Eastern Connecticut State University watch, two address rubber stamps, and a 1933 Maryland Public Schools medal for the Playground Athletic League.","This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.","Monthly reports of spendings and earnings at the West End Valet Shop sent to Mr. Gary during his military service by the shop's secretary, H.J. Sasser. Also includes a letter with news of the shop.","Monthly reports from H.J. Sasser kept with two letters about the business and news of Williamsburg connections.","Monthly reports from H. J. Sasser and one letter.","Folder also includes a \"Home Plan Service Building Contract,\" inserted in the binder with the ledger pages. Original binder containing ledger pages from 1947 Oct.-1948 Dec. and the 1948 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Original binder containing ledger pages for the year 1949 separated for preservation reasons.","Some pages are missing.","Also includes personal spendings and loose computation sheets.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1951 Dec.-1952 Dec. and the 1952 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Also includes a loose 1948 check on the West End Valet Shop.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1953 Jan.-1954 Jan. and the 1953 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Copies of letters sent by Mr. Gary with information about orders and supplies.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary","Includes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article \"A Tailor-made Gift for CW.\"","Articles \"Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW\" and \"A Tailor-Made Gift for CW\" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg","Includes, among others, a 1956 guidebook \"Laws Relating to Notaries Public\" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.","Rolled-up and brittle item","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Buck Henry Randall Estate,\" of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.","Legal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.","Documentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.","Charles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.","Letter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Peagler File\" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.","Includes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041\" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.","Short testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.","Mostly regarding loans and deeds of trust","Suit label from the West End Valet Shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1965. The shop was owned and operated by Charles Gary. Mr. Gary made two suits for Mr. Jerry Van Voorhis between 1964 and 1965. This label is from one of those suits which Mr. Van Voorhis' used as his wedding suit in 1966. At the time of the label donation, the suit was still in the possession of Mr. Van Voorhis and was reported to be in excellent condition, a testament to the talent of Mr. Gary and his workmanship.","Artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's business and professional life comprise four West End Valet Shop rubber stamps, a table bell, a clothing label customized to Mr. Gary, a measuring tape, two signature rubber stamps, a notary public rubber stamp, and a notary public metal stamp.","This series encompasses materials and artifacts documenting Mr. Gary's active civic life in the Williamsburg area community. In addition to serving on a citizen advisory committee, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary participated in the services of several local baptist churches and was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (Old Capitol Lodge No. 629) for over 70 years. The bulk of this series relates to church and Order of Elks service. Of note are several typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches delivered by Mr. Gary in those contexts. Most are unsigned but accompanied of the official service programs listing speakers.","Certificates highlighting Mr. Gary's involvement and support of various institutions such as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the National Council of Negro Women, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Frontiers of America, and the New Zion Baptist Church.","Mostly from the Order of Elks","1975 voter registration record, and documents pertaining to Mr. Gary's appointment as an officer on the Board, including a 1983 manual \"Instructions for Officers of Elections.\"","Ceremony programs, as well as annotated typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given by Mr. Gary during Men's Day services at the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg and Shiloh Baptist Church. Includes welcome addresses and a 1967 speech entitled \"The Negro Man and his Family\" in which Mr. Gary reflects on the history of African American families in the United States, current social and racial issues, and biblical views on the importance of the family.","Speech delivered by Mr. Gary during a service with the Order of Elks held at Mount Ararat Baptist Church, discussing death, community service, the principles of the order, and the limits of wealth and materialism. Also includes a program of the ceremony.","Delivered at a Brotherhood [Order of Elks?] breakfast. Discusses employer and employee behavior, black and white patronage, racial pride; compares the fate of African American and Jewish businesses in America; and suggests avenues for the future.","Includes service programs, typescripts of introduction speeches, and biographical notes relating to various speakers at baptist churches: Rev. Ed. Bailey, Dr. Ollie Bowman, Dr. George W. Grayson, Rev. J. H. Moody.","Speakers Shade Joseph Palmer, R. G. Parker, and Owen F. Peagler.","Speakers Att. William T. Stone, Rev. James B. Tabb, Alfred K. Talbot Jr., Wilbert Wallace.","Typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given during anniversary, appreciation, and dedication services at various baptist churches in the Williamsburg area. Also includes some corresponding service programs.","Photocopy of a typescript of a speech discussing family in the Bible, religion and church in African American communities, family as a social formation in the United States, and the role of men and women in church and family. Undated and unsigned. Clipped to a 1970 note from Ollie M. Bowman, a professor at Hampton Institute and deacon in the Presbyterian church, who was perhaps the author or the sender of the speech.","Five items from different baptist churches in the Williamsburg area.","Found in a folder labeled \"Church Paperwork\"","Certificate of award, membership card, and undated bank form for deposit by authority of lodge.","36 photographs and several negative slides found in a photo developing enveloped labeled \"Elks.\"","Among other photographs are four formal group portraits.","Found in a photo developing envelope without any annotation, possibly of an Order of Elks ceremony.","Artifacts related to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise a 1936 Order of Elks delegate medal, a small Frontiers of America metal pin, another small metal pin with unreadable association, and an Order of Elks Old Capital Lodge rubber stamp.","Textile artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise an \"I.B.P.O.E. of W.\" stiched hat, an American Legion of Williamsburg, VA, hat, as well as an Order of Elks ceremonial collar.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)","Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001","Gary, Zelda DeBerry","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MS 00017","/repositories/2/resources/105"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs"],"geogname_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs"],"creator_ssm":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"creator_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"creators_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"places_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 2015.150 was found on college property and was received by Special Collections on 6/5/2015."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg","Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg","World War, 1939-1945","Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs"],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg","Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg","World War, 1939-1945","Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["5.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["5.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs"],"date_range_isim":[1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganized thematically, the collection contains three series: Personal and Family Papers, Legal and Business Records; and Civic Life.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organized thematically, the collection contains three series: Personal and Family Papers, Legal and Business Records; and Civic Life."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBorn in Norge, VA, in 1907 to Charles Edward Gary Sr. (1871-1929) and Georgia Parker Gary Randall (circa 1886-d.1958), Charles Edward Gary Jr. attended the James City County Training School, followed by the Hampton Institute. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in tailoring and dry-cleaning, having as well played on the baseball team from 1928 through 1931 and joined Phi Alpha Kappa. In 1933, he additionally completed a degree in mortuary science from Frelinghusen University in Washington DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e A longtime resident of the Williamsburg area, Mr. Gary owned and operated the West End Valet Shop, a tailoring and dry-cleaning service, for decades. Mr. Gary opened his business in 1934 and worked as the Williamsburg Inn's first valet from 1937 to 1949. He was then responsible for pressing clothing and cleaning employee uniforms. The West End Valet Shop, long situated at 607 Prince George Street, remained in full operation until 1973. Mr. Gary also worked as a notary public for several years.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Mr. Gary actively participated in the civic life of the Williamsburg community and of baptist churches in the area. He was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (I.B.P.O.E.W.), an African American fraternal order, for more than seventy years, being especially involved in the Old Capitol Lodge no. 629. Mr. Gary once served as the lodge's Exalted Ruler. Among many others, organizations in which Mr. Gary served include the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Board of Elections, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the Colonial Youth Center, the boy scouts, and the Frontiers Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e In May 1944, Mr. Gary married Zelda DeBerry (d. 2010), a native of North Carolina and daughter of Rev. William DeBerry and Fanny Hammond DeBerry. Mrs. Gary studied nursing at Augustine College in Raleigh, NC, and anesthetics at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL. She worked in Williamsburg for the Blayton clinic and the Williamsburg-James City School System.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Administrative History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Born in Norge, VA, in 1907 to Charles Edward Gary Sr. (1871-1929) and Georgia Parker Gary Randall (circa 1886-d.1958), Charles Edward Gary Jr. attended the James City County Training School, followed by the Hampton Institute. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in tailoring and dry-cleaning, having as well played on the baseball team from 1928 through 1931 and joined Phi Alpha Kappa. In 1933, he additionally completed a degree in mortuary science from Frelinghusen University in Washington DC."," A longtime resident of the Williamsburg area, Mr. Gary owned and operated the West End Valet Shop, a tailoring and dry-cleaning service, for decades. Mr. Gary opened his business in 1934 and worked as the Williamsburg Inn's first valet from 1937 to 1949. He was then responsible for pressing clothing and cleaning employee uniforms. The West End Valet Shop, long situated at 607 Prince George Street, remained in full operation until 1973. Mr. Gary also worked as a notary public for several years."," Mr. Gary actively participated in the civic life of the Williamsburg community and of baptist churches in the area. He was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (I.B.P.O.E.W.), an African American fraternal order, for more than seventy years, being especially involved in the Old Capitol Lodge no. 629. Mr. Gary once served as the lodge's Exalted Ruler. Among many others, organizations in which Mr. Gary served include the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Board of Elections, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the Colonial Youth Center, the boy scouts, and the Frontiers Club."," In May 1944, Mr. Gary married Zelda DeBerry (d. 2010), a native of North Carolina and daughter of Rev. William DeBerry and Fanny Hammond DeBerry. Mrs. Gary studied nursing at Augustine College in Raleigh, NC, and anesthetics at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL. She worked in Williamsburg for the Blayton clinic and the Williamsburg-James City School System."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGary Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gary Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAccessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in June 2015. Fully processed and described by Eve Bourbeau-Allard, graduate assistant in June 2015.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdded as an addition to the collection in 2022 by Veronica Parker.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:","Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in June 2015. Fully processed and described by Eve Bourbeau-Allard, graduate assistant in June 2015.","Added as an addition to the collection in 2022 by Veronica Parker."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThese papers contain correspondence, photographs, business papers, artifacts, certificates, and other materials related to Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Mr. Gary was a prominent African American business owner in Williamsburg, operating for decades the West End Valet Shop off Prince George Street. The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. The collection thus contains materials relevant to the study of twentieth-century Williamsburg history and African American history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrganized thematically, this series comprises documents relating to Mr. and Mrs. Gary's schooling, letters sent to Mr. Gary by relatives and friends during World War II, other wartime documents, numerous family photographs and negatives, as well as other miscellaneous materials. Again following a thematic organization, the vast majority of photographs feature unidentified individuals and are undated. When found inside an annotated or dated photo developing envelope, photographs and negatives have been kept together. A nitrate negative, an informal portrait of two men, has been placed in special storage for preservation reasons; consult SCRC staff member.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a photocopy of label on original frame, which was removed for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Gary's nieces inserted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of letter sent by Mr. Gary to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Crichlow in Boston\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters written by Cordelia to Charles found in the same envelope. In one, dated 1943, Cordelia says she is glad Charles adapts well to army life, compared to her brothers' negative experiences. In the second letter, Cordelia reflects on happiness and their past. Also includes a birthday card from Cordelia. An additional letter from 1944, signed by E. C. Broadus, was found in an envelope bearing the same Washington D.C. adress as Cordelia's envelopes. Broadus discusses office work as an inventory clerk suplying furniture for a division at the Pentagon building, and her/his experience as an African American clerk supervising a white employee. Touches on race, education, and the meaning of the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting to Charles from Chicago, Zelda talks about her feelings for him and her thoughts about him joining the army. 3 letters and a valentine card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting to Charles from Williamsburg, Zelda gives news of her errands and friends, and of Charles' family members and shop. 3 letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and forms related to Wallace Randall Parker's application for soldier dependents' benefits. Charles's uncle, Parker also gives family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters to Charles from his mother Georgia Randall giving news of her health and of their relatives. One letter from his niece Audrey Piggott and one from his sister Edith, who conveys news from home and says their mother is worried about him being in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 Letters and a postcard from a fellow soldier. Kinnamon sends news of Charles' family and shop, which he has visited while on furlough; gives advice on being in the army; promises to keep sending Charles the Virginia Gazette; plans on meeting in Lousiana; and details an itinerary from New Orleans to Williamsburg for Charles' furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate Carol Carter from the air force, talking about his experience since drafted; Postcard from private Robert Gibson; Richard F. Hammond, writing from the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown about his health and advising Charles to seek fellow Elks in New Orleans; Thank you note from Lieut. Byron C. Herbert Jr; Private George M. Jackson, giving news of health and problems with mail; Mary B. King, sending news of Williamsburg's friends and her husband's army address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcard from soldier Randolph; V-Mail from Sgt Allen Vaughn, serving in the Pacific; two V-Mail messages from soldier Edward Ward, asking Charles to visit his girlfriend to bring her news; letters from private Richard \"Dick\" West about his Texas unit, which is to be broken up soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook kept by Mr. Gary, likely while training for becoming an officer. Contains notes on teaching techniques, building morale, crafting lesson plans, analysis skills, map reading, and a diagram of the Allied high command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a document \"Instructions to Port Checkers for Tallying Oversea Shipments Received at N.O.P.E.\" and an application form for national service life insurance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs, one of a couple and one of Mr. Gary and a friend in soldiers' uniforms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items circa 1880s-1910s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCirca 1940s-1950s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items in cardboard frames. Signed by Ann Bruce, Betty [niece], Skipper, and Edythe [niece] to Mr. and Mrs. Gary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne portrait in cardboard frame, to \"Nurse Gary\" from her nephew Clifton. Frame included other loose school portraits, one identified as Jerome Randolph Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLikely a wedding photograph from circa 1950s. Cardboard frame included 5 loose portraits of children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one from class of 1980, signed Annette Richard, and one from class of 2005. Most unidentified and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLabeled \"Service S[?], Williamsburg VA.\" Possibly a valet and service team at a Williamsburg hotel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost unidentified and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a few matching negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a photocopy of the original envelope labeled \"Mrs. Williams Xmas Party Gary.\" One negative identified as \"Little Eddie A. Sasl[is]\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn Duke of Gloucester Street, circa 1970s-1980s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFeatures nautical scenes and a show.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious photographs and negatives found together in photo developing envelopes. Photocopies of original envelope included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarger materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecognizing two years of membership for Mr. Gary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHamlet Public School District, NC, 1936; Saint Agnes Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC, 1939; North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, 1939; Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL, 1944. Folder also includes 3 flower prints kept behind the diplomas in original frames.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph album pages with informal portraits, circa 1940s. Some photographs are identified. The folder also houses several documents relating to Mrs. Zelda Gary that were found loose in the album, including report cards from Hamlet Public Schools for the years 1932-1936, an employment offer, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company documents, a 1976 certificate of service from the Union Batptist Church, as well as loose photographs. Damaged album binding removed for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal artifacts comprise Mr. Gary's World War II dog tag, an Eastern Connecticut State University watch, two address rubber stamps, and a 1933 Maryland Public Schools medal for the Playground Athletic League.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonthly reports of spendings and earnings at the West End Valet Shop sent to Mr. Gary during his military service by the shop's secretary, H.J. Sasser. Also includes a letter with news of the shop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonthly reports from H.J. Sasser kept with two letters about the business and news of Williamsburg connections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonthly reports from H. J. Sasser and one letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder also includes a \"Home Plan Service Building Contract,\" inserted in the binder with the ledger pages. Original binder containing ledger pages from 1947 Oct.-1948 Dec. and the 1948 payroll separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal binder containing ledger pages for the year 1949 separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome pages are missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes personal spendings and loose computation sheets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal binder containing ledger pages from 1951 Dec.-1952 Dec. and the 1952 payroll separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a loose 1948 check on the West End Valet Shop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal binder containing ledger pages from 1953 Jan.-1954 Jan. and the 1953 payroll separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of letters sent by Mr. Gary with information about orders and supplies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article \"A Tailor-made Gift for CW.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles \"Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW\" and \"A Tailor-Made Gift for CW\" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes, among others, a 1956 guidebook \"Laws Relating to Notaries Public\" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRolled-up and brittle item\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments found in a folder labeled \"Buck Henry Randall Estate,\" of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocumentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments found in a folder labeled \"Peagler File\" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments found in a folder labeled \"Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041\" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly regarding loans and deeds of trust\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit label from the West End Valet Shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1965. The shop was owned and operated by Charles Gary. Mr. Gary made two suits for Mr. Jerry Van Voorhis between 1964 and 1965. This label is from one of those suits which Mr. Van Voorhis' used as his wedding suit in 1966. At the time of the label donation, the suit was still in the possession of Mr. Van Voorhis and was reported to be in excellent condition, a testament to the talent of Mr. Gary and his workmanship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts relating to Mr. Gary's business and professional life comprise four West End Valet Shop rubber stamps, a table bell, a clothing label customized to Mr. Gary, a measuring tape, two signature rubber stamps, a notary public rubber stamp, and a notary public metal stamp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series encompasses materials and artifacts documenting Mr. Gary's active civic life in the Williamsburg area community. In addition to serving on a citizen advisory committee, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary participated in the services of several local baptist churches and was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (Old Capitol Lodge No. 629) for over 70 years. The bulk of this series relates to church and Order of Elks service. Of note are several typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches delivered by Mr. Gary in those contexts. Most are unsigned but accompanied of the official service programs listing speakers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates highlighting Mr. Gary's involvement and support of various institutions such as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the National Council of Negro Women, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Frontiers of America, and the New Zion Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly from the Order of Elks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1975 voter registration record, and documents pertaining to Mr. Gary's appointment as an officer on the Board, including a 1983 manual \"Instructions for Officers of Elections.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCeremony programs, as well as annotated typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given by Mr. Gary during Men's Day services at the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg and Shiloh Baptist Church. Includes welcome addresses and a 1967 speech entitled \"The Negro Man and his Family\" in which Mr. Gary reflects on the history of African American families in the United States, current social and racial issues, and biblical views on the importance of the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeech delivered by Mr. Gary during a service with the Order of Elks held at Mount Ararat Baptist Church, discussing death, community service, the principles of the order, and the limits of wealth and materialism. Also includes a program of the ceremony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivered at a Brotherhood [Order of Elks?] breakfast. Discusses employer and employee behavior, black and white patronage, racial pride; compares the fate of African American and Jewish businesses in America; and suggests avenues for the future.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes service programs, typescripts of introduction speeches, and biographical notes relating to various speakers at baptist churches: Rev. Ed. Bailey, Dr. Ollie Bowman, Dr. George W. Grayson, Rev. J. H. Moody.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeakers Shade Joseph Palmer, R. G. Parker, and Owen F. Peagler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeakers Att. William T. Stone, Rev. James B. Tabb, Alfred K. Talbot Jr., Wilbert Wallace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given during anniversary, appreciation, and dedication services at various baptist churches in the Williamsburg area. Also includes some corresponding service programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of a typescript of a speech discussing family in the Bible, religion and church in African American communities, family as a social formation in the United States, and the role of men and women in church and family. Undated and unsigned. Clipped to a 1970 note from Ollie M. 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The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. The collection thus contains materials relevant to the study of twentieth-century Williamsburg history and African American history.","Organized thematically, this series comprises documents relating to Mr. and Mrs. Gary's schooling, letters sent to Mr. Gary by relatives and friends during World War II, other wartime documents, numerous family photographs and negatives, as well as other miscellaneous materials. Again following a thematic organization, the vast majority of photographs feature unidentified individuals and are undated. When found inside an annotated or dated photo developing envelope, photographs and negatives have been kept together. A nitrate negative, an informal portrait of two men, has been placed in special storage for preservation reasons; consult SCRC staff member.","Includes a photocopy of label on original frame, which was removed for preservation purposes.","Two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Gary's nieces inserted.","Copy of letter sent by Mr. Gary to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Crichlow in Boston","Two letters written by Cordelia to Charles found in the same envelope. In one, dated 1943, Cordelia says she is glad Charles adapts well to army life, compared to her brothers' negative experiences. In the second letter, Cordelia reflects on happiness and their past. Also includes a birthday card from Cordelia. An additional letter from 1944, signed by E. C. Broadus, was found in an envelope bearing the same Washington D.C. adress as Cordelia's envelopes. Broadus discusses office work as an inventory clerk suplying furniture for a division at the Pentagon building, and her/his experience as an African American clerk supervising a white employee. Touches on race, education, and the meaning of the war.","Writing to Charles from Chicago, Zelda talks about her feelings for him and her thoughts about him joining the army. 3 letters and a valentine card.","Writing to Charles from Williamsburg, Zelda gives news of her errands and friends, and of Charles' family members and shop. 3 letters.","Letters and forms related to Wallace Randall Parker's application for soldier dependents' benefits. Charles's uncle, Parker also gives family news.","Two letters to Charles from his mother Georgia Randall giving news of her health and of their relatives. One letter from his niece Audrey Piggott and one from his sister Edith, who conveys news from home and says their mother is worried about him being in the army.","3 Letters and a postcard from a fellow soldier. Kinnamon sends news of Charles' family and shop, which he has visited while on furlough; gives advice on being in the army; promises to keep sending Charles the Virginia Gazette; plans on meeting in Lousiana; and details an itinerary from New Orleans to Williamsburg for Charles' furlough.","Private Carol Carter from the air force, talking about his experience since drafted; Postcard from private Robert Gibson; Richard F. Hammond, writing from the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown about his health and advising Charles to seek fellow Elks in New Orleans; Thank you note from Lieut. Byron C. Herbert Jr; Private George M. Jackson, giving news of health and problems with mail; Mary B. King, sending news of Williamsburg's friends and her husband's army address.","Postcard from soldier Randolph; V-Mail from Sgt Allen Vaughn, serving in the Pacific; two V-Mail messages from soldier Edward Ward, asking Charles to visit his girlfriend to bring her news; letters from private Richard \"Dick\" West about his Texas unit, which is to be broken up soon.","Notebook kept by Mr. Gary, likely while training for becoming an officer. Contains notes on teaching techniques, building morale, crafting lesson plans, analysis skills, map reading, and a diagram of the Allied high command.","Includes a document \"Instructions to Port Checkers for Tallying Oversea Shipments Received at N.O.P.E.\" and an application form for national service life insurance.","Two photographs, one of a couple and one of Mr. Gary and a friend in soldiers' uniforms.","5 items circa 1880s-1910s","Circa 1940s-1950s","4 items in cardboard frames. Signed by Ann Bruce, Betty [niece], Skipper, and Edythe [niece] to Mr. and Mrs. Gary.","One portrait in cardboard frame, to \"Nurse Gary\" from her nephew Clifton. Frame included other loose school portraits, one identified as Jerome Randolph Jr.","Likely a wedding photograph from circa 1950s. Cardboard frame included 5 loose portraits of children.","Includes one from class of 1980, signed Annette Richard, and one from class of 2005. Most unidentified and undated.","Labeled \"Service S[?], Williamsburg VA.\" Possibly a valet and service team at a Williamsburg hotel.","Most unidentified and undated.","Includes a few matching negatives.","Includes a photocopy of the original envelope labeled \"Mrs. Williams Xmas Party Gary.\" One negative identified as \"Little Eddie A. Sasl[is]\".","On Duke of Gloucester Street, circa 1970s-1980s.","Features nautical scenes and a show.","Various photographs and negatives found together in photo developing envelopes. Photocopies of original envelope included.","Larger materials","Recognizing two years of membership for Mr. Gary","Hamlet Public School District, NC, 1936; Saint Agnes Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC, 1939; North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, 1939; Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL, 1944. Folder also includes 3 flower prints kept behind the diplomas in original frames.","Photograph album pages with informal portraits, circa 1940s. Some photographs are identified. The folder also houses several documents relating to Mrs. Zelda Gary that were found loose in the album, including report cards from Hamlet Public Schools for the years 1932-1936, an employment offer, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company documents, a 1976 certificate of service from the Union Batptist Church, as well as loose photographs. Damaged album binding removed for preservation purposes.","Personal artifacts comprise Mr. Gary's World War II dog tag, an Eastern Connecticut State University watch, two address rubber stamps, and a 1933 Maryland Public Schools medal for the Playground Athletic League.","This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.","Monthly reports of spendings and earnings at the West End Valet Shop sent to Mr. Gary during his military service by the shop's secretary, H.J. Sasser. Also includes a letter with news of the shop.","Monthly reports from H.J. Sasser kept with two letters about the business and news of Williamsburg connections.","Monthly reports from H. J. Sasser and one letter.","Folder also includes a \"Home Plan Service Building Contract,\" inserted in the binder with the ledger pages. Original binder containing ledger pages from 1947 Oct.-1948 Dec. and the 1948 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Original binder containing ledger pages for the year 1949 separated for preservation reasons.","Some pages are missing.","Also includes personal spendings and loose computation sheets.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1951 Dec.-1952 Dec. and the 1952 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Also includes a loose 1948 check on the West End Valet Shop.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1953 Jan.-1954 Jan. and the 1953 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Copies of letters sent by Mr. Gary with information about orders and supplies.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary","Includes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article \"A Tailor-made Gift for CW.\"","Articles \"Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW\" and \"A Tailor-Made Gift for CW\" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg","Includes, among others, a 1956 guidebook \"Laws Relating to Notaries Public\" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.","Rolled-up and brittle item","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Buck Henry Randall Estate,\" of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.","Legal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.","Documentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.","Charles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.","Letter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Peagler File\" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.","Includes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041\" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.","Short testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.","Mostly regarding loans and deeds of trust","Suit label from the West End Valet Shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1965. The shop was owned and operated by Charles Gary. Mr. Gary made two suits for Mr. Jerry Van Voorhis between 1964 and 1965. This label is from one of those suits which Mr. Van Voorhis' used as his wedding suit in 1966. At the time of the label donation, the suit was still in the possession of Mr. Van Voorhis and was reported to be in excellent condition, a testament to the talent of Mr. Gary and his workmanship.","Artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's business and professional life comprise four West End Valet Shop rubber stamps, a table bell, a clothing label customized to Mr. Gary, a measuring tape, two signature rubber stamps, a notary public rubber stamp, and a notary public metal stamp.","This series encompasses materials and artifacts documenting Mr. Gary's active civic life in the Williamsburg area community. In addition to serving on a citizen advisory committee, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary participated in the services of several local baptist churches and was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (Old Capitol Lodge No. 629) for over 70 years. The bulk of this series relates to church and Order of Elks service. Of note are several typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches delivered by Mr. Gary in those contexts. Most are unsigned but accompanied of the official service programs listing speakers.","Certificates highlighting Mr. Gary's involvement and support of various institutions such as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the National Council of Negro Women, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Frontiers of America, and the New Zion Baptist Church.","Mostly from the Order of Elks","1975 voter registration record, and documents pertaining to Mr. Gary's appointment as an officer on the Board, including a 1983 manual \"Instructions for Officers of Elections.\"","Ceremony programs, as well as annotated typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given by Mr. Gary during Men's Day services at the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg and Shiloh Baptist Church. Includes welcome addresses and a 1967 speech entitled \"The Negro Man and his Family\" in which Mr. Gary reflects on the history of African American families in the United States, current social and racial issues, and biblical views on the importance of the family.","Speech delivered by Mr. Gary during a service with the Order of Elks held at Mount Ararat Baptist Church, discussing death, community service, the principles of the order, and the limits of wealth and materialism. Also includes a program of the ceremony.","Delivered at a Brotherhood [Order of Elks?] breakfast. Discusses employer and employee behavior, black and white patronage, racial pride; compares the fate of African American and Jewish businesses in America; and suggests avenues for the future.","Includes service programs, typescripts of introduction speeches, and biographical notes relating to various speakers at baptist churches: Rev. Ed. Bailey, Dr. Ollie Bowman, Dr. George W. Grayson, Rev. J. H. Moody.","Speakers Shade Joseph Palmer, R. G. Parker, and Owen F. Peagler.","Speakers Att. William T. Stone, Rev. James B. Tabb, Alfred K. Talbot Jr., Wilbert Wallace.","Typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given during anniversary, appreciation, and dedication services at various baptist churches in the Williamsburg area. Also includes some corresponding service programs.","Photocopy of a typescript of a speech discussing family in the Bible, religion and church in African American communities, family as a social formation in the United States, and the role of men and women in church and family. Undated and unsigned. Clipped to a 1970 note from Ollie M. Bowman, a professor at Hampton Institute and deacon in the Presbyterian church, who was perhaps the author or the sender of the speech.","Five items from different baptist churches in the Williamsburg area.","Found in a folder labeled \"Church Paperwork\"","Certificate of award, membership card, and undated bank form for deposit by authority of lodge.","36 photographs and several negative slides found in a photo developing enveloped labeled \"Elks.\"","Among other photographs are four formal group portraits.","Found in a photo developing envelope without any annotation, possibly of an Order of Elks ceremony.","Artifacts related to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise a 1936 Order of Elks delegate medal, a small Frontiers of America metal pin, another small metal pin with unreadable association, and an Order of Elks Old Capital Lodge rubber stamp.","Textile artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise an \"I.B.P.O.E. of W.\" stiched hat, an American Legion of Williamsburg, VA, hat, as well as an Order of Elks ceremonial collar."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)","Gary, Zelda DeBerry"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)","Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001","Gary, Zelda DeBerry"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"persname_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001","Gary, Zelda DeBerry"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":142,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T22:51:35.250Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_105","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_105","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_105","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_105","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_105.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers","title_ssm":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"title_tesim":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["circa 1870s-2000s","1940-1980"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1940-1980"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1870s-2000s"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MS 00017","/repositories/2/resources/105"],"text":["MS 00017","/repositories/2/resources/105","Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs","African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg","Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg","World War, 1939-1945","Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organized thematically, the collection contains three series: Personal and Family Papers, Legal and Business Records; and Civic Life.","Born in Norge, VA, in 1907 to Charles Edward Gary Sr. (1871-1929) and Georgia Parker Gary Randall (circa 1886-d.1958), Charles Edward Gary Jr. attended the James City County Training School, followed by the Hampton Institute. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in tailoring and dry-cleaning, having as well played on the baseball team from 1928 through 1931 and joined Phi Alpha Kappa. In 1933, he additionally completed a degree in mortuary science from Frelinghusen University in Washington DC."," A longtime resident of the Williamsburg area, Mr. Gary owned and operated the West End Valet Shop, a tailoring and dry-cleaning service, for decades. Mr. Gary opened his business in 1934 and worked as the Williamsburg Inn's first valet from 1937 to 1949. He was then responsible for pressing clothing and cleaning employee uniforms. The West End Valet Shop, long situated at 607 Prince George Street, remained in full operation until 1973. Mr. Gary also worked as a notary public for several years."," Mr. Gary actively participated in the civic life of the Williamsburg community and of baptist churches in the area. He was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (I.B.P.O.E.W.), an African American fraternal order, for more than seventy years, being especially involved in the Old Capitol Lodge no. 629. Mr. Gary once served as the lodge's Exalted Ruler. Among many others, organizations in which Mr. Gary served include the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Board of Elections, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the Colonial Youth Center, the boy scouts, and the Frontiers Club."," In May 1944, Mr. Gary married Zelda DeBerry (d. 2010), a native of North Carolina and daughter of Rev. William DeBerry and Fanny Hammond DeBerry. Mrs. Gary studied nursing at Augustine College in Raleigh, NC, and anesthetics at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL. She worked in Williamsburg for the Blayton clinic and the Williamsburg-James City School System.","Accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in June 2015. Fully processed and described by Eve Bourbeau-Allard, graduate assistant in June 2015.","Added as an addition to the collection in 2022 by Veronica Parker.","These papers contain correspondence, photographs, business papers, artifacts, certificates, and other materials related to Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Mr. Gary was a prominent African American business owner in Williamsburg, operating for decades the West End Valet Shop off Prince George Street. The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. The collection thus contains materials relevant to the study of twentieth-century Williamsburg history and African American history.","Organized thematically, this series comprises documents relating to Mr. and Mrs. Gary's schooling, letters sent to Mr. Gary by relatives and friends during World War II, other wartime documents, numerous family photographs and negatives, as well as other miscellaneous materials. Again following a thematic organization, the vast majority of photographs feature unidentified individuals and are undated. When found inside an annotated or dated photo developing envelope, photographs and negatives have been kept together. A nitrate negative, an informal portrait of two men, has been placed in special storage for preservation reasons; consult SCRC staff member.","Includes a photocopy of label on original frame, which was removed for preservation purposes.","Two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Gary's nieces inserted.","Copy of letter sent by Mr. Gary to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Crichlow in Boston","Two letters written by Cordelia to Charles found in the same envelope. In one, dated 1943, Cordelia says she is glad Charles adapts well to army life, compared to her brothers' negative experiences. In the second letter, Cordelia reflects on happiness and their past. Also includes a birthday card from Cordelia. An additional letter from 1944, signed by E. C. Broadus, was found in an envelope bearing the same Washington D.C. adress as Cordelia's envelopes. Broadus discusses office work as an inventory clerk suplying furniture for a division at the Pentagon building, and her/his experience as an African American clerk supervising a white employee. Touches on race, education, and the meaning of the war.","Writing to Charles from Chicago, Zelda talks about her feelings for him and her thoughts about him joining the army. 3 letters and a valentine card.","Writing to Charles from Williamsburg, Zelda gives news of her errands and friends, and of Charles' family members and shop. 3 letters.","Letters and forms related to Wallace Randall Parker's application for soldier dependents' benefits. Charles's uncle, Parker also gives family news.","Two letters to Charles from his mother Georgia Randall giving news of her health and of their relatives. One letter from his niece Audrey Piggott and one from his sister Edith, who conveys news from home and says their mother is worried about him being in the army.","3 Letters and a postcard from a fellow soldier. Kinnamon sends news of Charles' family and shop, which he has visited while on furlough; gives advice on being in the army; promises to keep sending Charles the Virginia Gazette; plans on meeting in Lousiana; and details an itinerary from New Orleans to Williamsburg for Charles' furlough.","Private Carol Carter from the air force, talking about his experience since drafted; Postcard from private Robert Gibson; Richard F. Hammond, writing from the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown about his health and advising Charles to seek fellow Elks in New Orleans; Thank you note from Lieut. Byron C. Herbert Jr; Private George M. Jackson, giving news of health and problems with mail; Mary B. King, sending news of Williamsburg's friends and her husband's army address.","Postcard from soldier Randolph; V-Mail from Sgt Allen Vaughn, serving in the Pacific; two V-Mail messages from soldier Edward Ward, asking Charles to visit his girlfriend to bring her news; letters from private Richard \"Dick\" West about his Texas unit, which is to be broken up soon.","Notebook kept by Mr. Gary, likely while training for becoming an officer. Contains notes on teaching techniques, building morale, crafting lesson plans, analysis skills, map reading, and a diagram of the Allied high command.","Includes a document \"Instructions to Port Checkers for Tallying Oversea Shipments Received at N.O.P.E.\" and an application form for national service life insurance.","Two photographs, one of a couple and one of Mr. Gary and a friend in soldiers' uniforms.","5 items circa 1880s-1910s","Circa 1940s-1950s","4 items in cardboard frames. Signed by Ann Bruce, Betty [niece], Skipper, and Edythe [niece] to Mr. and Mrs. Gary.","One portrait in cardboard frame, to \"Nurse Gary\" from her nephew Clifton. Frame included other loose school portraits, one identified as Jerome Randolph Jr.","Likely a wedding photograph from circa 1950s. Cardboard frame included 5 loose portraits of children.","Includes one from class of 1980, signed Annette Richard, and one from class of 2005. Most unidentified and undated.","Labeled \"Service S[?], Williamsburg VA.\" Possibly a valet and service team at a Williamsburg hotel.","Most unidentified and undated.","Includes a few matching negatives.","Includes a photocopy of the original envelope labeled \"Mrs. Williams Xmas Party Gary.\" One negative identified as \"Little Eddie A. Sasl[is]\".","On Duke of Gloucester Street, circa 1970s-1980s.","Features nautical scenes and a show.","Various photographs and negatives found together in photo developing envelopes. Photocopies of original envelope included.","Larger materials","Recognizing two years of membership for Mr. Gary","Hamlet Public School District, NC, 1936; Saint Agnes Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC, 1939; North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, 1939; Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL, 1944. Folder also includes 3 flower prints kept behind the diplomas in original frames.","Photograph album pages with informal portraits, circa 1940s. Some photographs are identified. The folder also houses several documents relating to Mrs. Zelda Gary that were found loose in the album, including report cards from Hamlet Public Schools for the years 1932-1936, an employment offer, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company documents, a 1976 certificate of service from the Union Batptist Church, as well as loose photographs. Damaged album binding removed for preservation purposes.","Personal artifacts comprise Mr. Gary's World War II dog tag, an Eastern Connecticut State University watch, two address rubber stamps, and a 1933 Maryland Public Schools medal for the Playground Athletic League.","This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.","Monthly reports of spendings and earnings at the West End Valet Shop sent to Mr. Gary during his military service by the shop's secretary, H.J. Sasser. Also includes a letter with news of the shop.","Monthly reports from H.J. Sasser kept with two letters about the business and news of Williamsburg connections.","Monthly reports from H. J. Sasser and one letter.","Folder also includes a \"Home Plan Service Building Contract,\" inserted in the binder with the ledger pages. Original binder containing ledger pages from 1947 Oct.-1948 Dec. and the 1948 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Original binder containing ledger pages for the year 1949 separated for preservation reasons.","Some pages are missing.","Also includes personal spendings and loose computation sheets.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1951 Dec.-1952 Dec. and the 1952 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Also includes a loose 1948 check on the West End Valet Shop.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1953 Jan.-1954 Jan. and the 1953 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Copies of letters sent by Mr. Gary with information about orders and supplies.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary","Includes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article \"A Tailor-made Gift for CW.\"","Articles \"Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW\" and \"A Tailor-Made Gift for CW\" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg","Includes, among others, a 1956 guidebook \"Laws Relating to Notaries Public\" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.","Rolled-up and brittle item","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Buck Henry Randall Estate,\" of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.","Legal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.","Documentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.","Charles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.","Letter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Peagler File\" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.","Includes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041\" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.","Short testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.","Mostly regarding loans and deeds of trust","Suit label from the West End Valet Shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1965. The shop was owned and operated by Charles Gary. Mr. Gary made two suits for Mr. Jerry Van Voorhis between 1964 and 1965. This label is from one of those suits which Mr. Van Voorhis' used as his wedding suit in 1966. At the time of the label donation, the suit was still in the possession of Mr. Van Voorhis and was reported to be in excellent condition, a testament to the talent of Mr. Gary and his workmanship.","Artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's business and professional life comprise four West End Valet Shop rubber stamps, a table bell, a clothing label customized to Mr. Gary, a measuring tape, two signature rubber stamps, a notary public rubber stamp, and a notary public metal stamp.","This series encompasses materials and artifacts documenting Mr. Gary's active civic life in the Williamsburg area community. In addition to serving on a citizen advisory committee, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary participated in the services of several local baptist churches and was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (Old Capitol Lodge No. 629) for over 70 years. The bulk of this series relates to church and Order of Elks service. Of note are several typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches delivered by Mr. Gary in those contexts. Most are unsigned but accompanied of the official service programs listing speakers.","Certificates highlighting Mr. Gary's involvement and support of various institutions such as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the National Council of Negro Women, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Frontiers of America, and the New Zion Baptist Church.","Mostly from the Order of Elks","1975 voter registration record, and documents pertaining to Mr. Gary's appointment as an officer on the Board, including a 1983 manual \"Instructions for Officers of Elections.\"","Ceremony programs, as well as annotated typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given by Mr. Gary during Men's Day services at the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg and Shiloh Baptist Church. Includes welcome addresses and a 1967 speech entitled \"The Negro Man and his Family\" in which Mr. Gary reflects on the history of African American families in the United States, current social and racial issues, and biblical views on the importance of the family.","Speech delivered by Mr. Gary during a service with the Order of Elks held at Mount Ararat Baptist Church, discussing death, community service, the principles of the order, and the limits of wealth and materialism. Also includes a program of the ceremony.","Delivered at a Brotherhood [Order of Elks?] breakfast. Discusses employer and employee behavior, black and white patronage, racial pride; compares the fate of African American and Jewish businesses in America; and suggests avenues for the future.","Includes service programs, typescripts of introduction speeches, and biographical notes relating to various speakers at baptist churches: Rev. Ed. Bailey, Dr. Ollie Bowman, Dr. George W. Grayson, Rev. J. H. Moody.","Speakers Shade Joseph Palmer, R. G. Parker, and Owen F. Peagler.","Speakers Att. William T. Stone, Rev. James B. Tabb, Alfred K. Talbot Jr., Wilbert Wallace.","Typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given during anniversary, appreciation, and dedication services at various baptist churches in the Williamsburg area. Also includes some corresponding service programs.","Photocopy of a typescript of a speech discussing family in the Bible, religion and church in African American communities, family as a social formation in the United States, and the role of men and women in church and family. Undated and unsigned. Clipped to a 1970 note from Ollie M. Bowman, a professor at Hampton Institute and deacon in the Presbyterian church, who was perhaps the author or the sender of the speech.","Five items from different baptist churches in the Williamsburg area.","Found in a folder labeled \"Church Paperwork\"","Certificate of award, membership card, and undated bank form for deposit by authority of lodge.","36 photographs and several negative slides found in a photo developing enveloped labeled \"Elks.\"","Among other photographs are four formal group portraits.","Found in a photo developing envelope without any annotation, possibly of an Order of Elks ceremony.","Artifacts related to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise a 1936 Order of Elks delegate medal, a small Frontiers of America metal pin, another small metal pin with unreadable association, and an Order of Elks Old Capital Lodge rubber stamp.","Textile artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise an \"I.B.P.O.E. of W.\" stiched hat, an American Legion of Williamsburg, VA, hat, as well as an Order of Elks ceremonial collar.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)","Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001","Gary, Zelda DeBerry","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MS 00017","/repositories/2/resources/105"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs"],"geogname_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs"],"creator_ssm":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"creator_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"creators_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001"],"places_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 2015.150 was found on college property and was received by Special Collections on 6/5/2015."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg","Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg","World War, 1939-1945","Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs"],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg","Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg","World War, 1939-1945","Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["5.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["5.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Artifacts","Business records","Certificates","Correspondence","Photographs"],"date_range_isim":[1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganized thematically, the collection contains three series: Personal and Family Papers, Legal and Business Records; and Civic Life.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organized thematically, the collection contains three series: Personal and Family Papers, Legal and Business Records; and Civic Life."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBorn in Norge, VA, in 1907 to Charles Edward Gary Sr. (1871-1929) and Georgia Parker Gary Randall (circa 1886-d.1958), Charles Edward Gary Jr. attended the James City County Training School, followed by the Hampton Institute. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in tailoring and dry-cleaning, having as well played on the baseball team from 1928 through 1931 and joined Phi Alpha Kappa. In 1933, he additionally completed a degree in mortuary science from Frelinghusen University in Washington DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e A longtime resident of the Williamsburg area, Mr. Gary owned and operated the West End Valet Shop, a tailoring and dry-cleaning service, for decades. Mr. Gary opened his business in 1934 and worked as the Williamsburg Inn's first valet from 1937 to 1949. He was then responsible for pressing clothing and cleaning employee uniforms. The West End Valet Shop, long situated at 607 Prince George Street, remained in full operation until 1973. Mr. Gary also worked as a notary public for several years.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Mr. Gary actively participated in the civic life of the Williamsburg community and of baptist churches in the area. He was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (I.B.P.O.E.W.), an African American fraternal order, for more than seventy years, being especially involved in the Old Capitol Lodge no. 629. Mr. Gary once served as the lodge's Exalted Ruler. Among many others, organizations in which Mr. Gary served include the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Board of Elections, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the Colonial Youth Center, the boy scouts, and the Frontiers Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e In May 1944, Mr. Gary married Zelda DeBerry (d. 2010), a native of North Carolina and daughter of Rev. William DeBerry and Fanny Hammond DeBerry. Mrs. Gary studied nursing at Augustine College in Raleigh, NC, and anesthetics at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL. She worked in Williamsburg for the Blayton clinic and the Williamsburg-James City School System.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Administrative History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Born in Norge, VA, in 1907 to Charles Edward Gary Sr. (1871-1929) and Georgia Parker Gary Randall (circa 1886-d.1958), Charles Edward Gary Jr. attended the James City County Training School, followed by the Hampton Institute. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in tailoring and dry-cleaning, having as well played on the baseball team from 1928 through 1931 and joined Phi Alpha Kappa. In 1933, he additionally completed a degree in mortuary science from Frelinghusen University in Washington DC."," A longtime resident of the Williamsburg area, Mr. Gary owned and operated the West End Valet Shop, a tailoring and dry-cleaning service, for decades. Mr. Gary opened his business in 1934 and worked as the Williamsburg Inn's first valet from 1937 to 1949. He was then responsible for pressing clothing and cleaning employee uniforms. The West End Valet Shop, long situated at 607 Prince George Street, remained in full operation until 1973. Mr. Gary also worked as a notary public for several years."," Mr. Gary actively participated in the civic life of the Williamsburg community and of baptist churches in the area. He was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (I.B.P.O.E.W.), an African American fraternal order, for more than seventy years, being especially involved in the Old Capitol Lodge no. 629. Mr. Gary once served as the lodge's Exalted Ruler. Among many others, organizations in which Mr. Gary served include the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Board of Elections, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the Colonial Youth Center, the boy scouts, and the Frontiers Club."," In May 1944, Mr. Gary married Zelda DeBerry (d. 2010), a native of North Carolina and daughter of Rev. William DeBerry and Fanny Hammond DeBerry. Mrs. Gary studied nursing at Augustine College in Raleigh, NC, and anesthetics at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL. She worked in Williamsburg for the Blayton clinic and the Williamsburg-James City School System."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGary Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gary Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAccessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in June 2015. Fully processed and described by Eve Bourbeau-Allard, graduate assistant in June 2015.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdded as an addition to the collection in 2022 by Veronica Parker.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:","Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in June 2015. Fully processed and described by Eve Bourbeau-Allard, graduate assistant in June 2015.","Added as an addition to the collection in 2022 by Veronica Parker."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThese papers contain correspondence, photographs, business papers, artifacts, certificates, and other materials related to Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Mr. Gary was a prominent African American business owner in Williamsburg, operating for decades the West End Valet Shop off Prince George Street. The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. The collection thus contains materials relevant to the study of twentieth-century Williamsburg history and African American history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrganized thematically, this series comprises documents relating to Mr. and Mrs. Gary's schooling, letters sent to Mr. Gary by relatives and friends during World War II, other wartime documents, numerous family photographs and negatives, as well as other miscellaneous materials. Again following a thematic organization, the vast majority of photographs feature unidentified individuals and are undated. When found inside an annotated or dated photo developing envelope, photographs and negatives have been kept together. A nitrate negative, an informal portrait of two men, has been placed in special storage for preservation reasons; consult SCRC staff member.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a photocopy of label on original frame, which was removed for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Gary's nieces inserted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of letter sent by Mr. Gary to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Crichlow in Boston\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters written by Cordelia to Charles found in the same envelope. In one, dated 1943, Cordelia says she is glad Charles adapts well to army life, compared to her brothers' negative experiences. In the second letter, Cordelia reflects on happiness and their past. Also includes a birthday card from Cordelia. An additional letter from 1944, signed by E. C. Broadus, was found in an envelope bearing the same Washington D.C. adress as Cordelia's envelopes. Broadus discusses office work as an inventory clerk suplying furniture for a division at the Pentagon building, and her/his experience as an African American clerk supervising a white employee. Touches on race, education, and the meaning of the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting to Charles from Chicago, Zelda talks about her feelings for him and her thoughts about him joining the army. 3 letters and a valentine card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting to Charles from Williamsburg, Zelda gives news of her errands and friends, and of Charles' family members and shop. 3 letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and forms related to Wallace Randall Parker's application for soldier dependents' benefits. Charles's uncle, Parker also gives family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters to Charles from his mother Georgia Randall giving news of her health and of their relatives. One letter from his niece Audrey Piggott and one from his sister Edith, who conveys news from home and says their mother is worried about him being in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 Letters and a postcard from a fellow soldier. Kinnamon sends news of Charles' family and shop, which he has visited while on furlough; gives advice on being in the army; promises to keep sending Charles the Virginia Gazette; plans on meeting in Lousiana; and details an itinerary from New Orleans to Williamsburg for Charles' furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate Carol Carter from the air force, talking about his experience since drafted; Postcard from private Robert Gibson; Richard F. Hammond, writing from the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown about his health and advising Charles to seek fellow Elks in New Orleans; Thank you note from Lieut. Byron C. Herbert Jr; Private George M. Jackson, giving news of health and problems with mail; Mary B. King, sending news of Williamsburg's friends and her husband's army address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcard from soldier Randolph; V-Mail from Sgt Allen Vaughn, serving in the Pacific; two V-Mail messages from soldier Edward Ward, asking Charles to visit his girlfriend to bring her news; letters from private Richard \"Dick\" West about his Texas unit, which is to be broken up soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook kept by Mr. Gary, likely while training for becoming an officer. Contains notes on teaching techniques, building morale, crafting lesson plans, analysis skills, map reading, and a diagram of the Allied high command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a document \"Instructions to Port Checkers for Tallying Oversea Shipments Received at N.O.P.E.\" and an application form for national service life insurance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs, one of a couple and one of Mr. Gary and a friend in soldiers' uniforms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items circa 1880s-1910s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCirca 1940s-1950s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items in cardboard frames. Signed by Ann Bruce, Betty [niece], Skipper, and Edythe [niece] to Mr. and Mrs. Gary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne portrait in cardboard frame, to \"Nurse Gary\" from her nephew Clifton. Frame included other loose school portraits, one identified as Jerome Randolph Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLikely a wedding photograph from circa 1950s. Cardboard frame included 5 loose portraits of children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one from class of 1980, signed Annette Richard, and one from class of 2005. Most unidentified and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLabeled \"Service S[?], Williamsburg VA.\" Possibly a valet and service team at a Williamsburg hotel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost unidentified and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a few matching negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a photocopy of the original envelope labeled \"Mrs. Williams Xmas Party Gary.\" One negative identified as \"Little Eddie A. Sasl[is]\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn Duke of Gloucester Street, circa 1970s-1980s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFeatures nautical scenes and a show.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious photographs and negatives found together in photo developing envelopes. Photocopies of original envelope included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarger materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecognizing two years of membership for Mr. Gary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHamlet Public School District, NC, 1936; Saint Agnes Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC, 1939; North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, 1939; Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL, 1944. Folder also includes 3 flower prints kept behind the diplomas in original frames.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph album pages with informal portraits, circa 1940s. Some photographs are identified. The folder also houses several documents relating to Mrs. Zelda Gary that were found loose in the album, including report cards from Hamlet Public Schools for the years 1932-1936, an employment offer, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company documents, a 1976 certificate of service from the Union Batptist Church, as well as loose photographs. Damaged album binding removed for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal artifacts comprise Mr. Gary's World War II dog tag, an Eastern Connecticut State University watch, two address rubber stamps, and a 1933 Maryland Public Schools medal for the Playground Athletic League.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonthly reports of spendings and earnings at the West End Valet Shop sent to Mr. Gary during his military service by the shop's secretary, H.J. Sasser. Also includes a letter with news of the shop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonthly reports from H.J. Sasser kept with two letters about the business and news of Williamsburg connections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonthly reports from H. J. Sasser and one letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder also includes a \"Home Plan Service Building Contract,\" inserted in the binder with the ledger pages. Original binder containing ledger pages from 1947 Oct.-1948 Dec. and the 1948 payroll separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal binder containing ledger pages for the year 1949 separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome pages are missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes personal spendings and loose computation sheets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal binder containing ledger pages from 1951 Dec.-1952 Dec. and the 1952 payroll separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a loose 1948 check on the West End Valet Shop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal binder containing ledger pages from 1953 Jan.-1954 Jan. and the 1953 payroll separated for preservation reasons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of letters sent by Mr. Gary with information about orders and supplies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article \"A Tailor-made Gift for CW.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles \"Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW\" and \"A Tailor-Made Gift for CW\" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes, among others, a 1956 guidebook \"Laws Relating to Notaries Public\" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRolled-up and brittle item\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments found in a folder labeled \"Buck Henry Randall Estate,\" of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocumentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments found in a folder labeled \"Peagler File\" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments found in a folder labeled \"Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041\" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly regarding loans and deeds of trust\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit label from the West End Valet Shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1965. The shop was owned and operated by Charles Gary. Mr. Gary made two suits for Mr. Jerry Van Voorhis between 1964 and 1965. This label is from one of those suits which Mr. Van Voorhis' used as his wedding suit in 1966. At the time of the label donation, the suit was still in the possession of Mr. Van Voorhis and was reported to be in excellent condition, a testament to the talent of Mr. Gary and his workmanship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts relating to Mr. Gary's business and professional life comprise four West End Valet Shop rubber stamps, a table bell, a clothing label customized to Mr. Gary, a measuring tape, two signature rubber stamps, a notary public rubber stamp, and a notary public metal stamp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series encompasses materials and artifacts documenting Mr. Gary's active civic life in the Williamsburg area community. In addition to serving on a citizen advisory committee, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary participated in the services of several local baptist churches and was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (Old Capitol Lodge No. 629) for over 70 years. The bulk of this series relates to church and Order of Elks service. Of note are several typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches delivered by Mr. Gary in those contexts. 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The collection comprises business ledgers and other West End Valet Shop records over several years, as well as legal documents pertaining to the Valet Shop and Gary family estates such as leases and deeds. Personal materials pertain especially to Mr. Gary's schooling, his miltiary service during World War II, family photographs, and some of Mrs. Zelda Gary's personal papers. An active member of the Williamsburg community, Mr. Gary served in several civic, fraternal, and religious organizations. Centering on his involvement in local baptist churches and in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World - Old Capitol Lodge, Mr. Gary's papers include speeches he prepared for religious and I.B.P.O.E.W. meeting touching on religion, family, and race issues in America. The collection thus contains materials relevant to the study of twentieth-century Williamsburg history and African American history.","Organized thematically, this series comprises documents relating to Mr. and Mrs. Gary's schooling, letters sent to Mr. Gary by relatives and friends during World War II, other wartime documents, numerous family photographs and negatives, as well as other miscellaneous materials. Again following a thematic organization, the vast majority of photographs feature unidentified individuals and are undated. When found inside an annotated or dated photo developing envelope, photographs and negatives have been kept together. A nitrate negative, an informal portrait of two men, has been placed in special storage for preservation reasons; consult SCRC staff member.","Includes a photocopy of label on original frame, which was removed for preservation purposes.","Two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Gary's nieces inserted.","Copy of letter sent by Mr. Gary to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Crichlow in Boston","Two letters written by Cordelia to Charles found in the same envelope. In one, dated 1943, Cordelia says she is glad Charles adapts well to army life, compared to her brothers' negative experiences. In the second letter, Cordelia reflects on happiness and their past. Also includes a birthday card from Cordelia. An additional letter from 1944, signed by E. C. Broadus, was found in an envelope bearing the same Washington D.C. adress as Cordelia's envelopes. Broadus discusses office work as an inventory clerk suplying furniture for a division at the Pentagon building, and her/his experience as an African American clerk supervising a white employee. Touches on race, education, and the meaning of the war.","Writing to Charles from Chicago, Zelda talks about her feelings for him and her thoughts about him joining the army. 3 letters and a valentine card.","Writing to Charles from Williamsburg, Zelda gives news of her errands and friends, and of Charles' family members and shop. 3 letters.","Letters and forms related to Wallace Randall Parker's application for soldier dependents' benefits. Charles's uncle, Parker also gives family news.","Two letters to Charles from his mother Georgia Randall giving news of her health and of their relatives. One letter from his niece Audrey Piggott and one from his sister Edith, who conveys news from home and says their mother is worried about him being in the army.","3 Letters and a postcard from a fellow soldier. Kinnamon sends news of Charles' family and shop, which he has visited while on furlough; gives advice on being in the army; promises to keep sending Charles the Virginia Gazette; plans on meeting in Lousiana; and details an itinerary from New Orleans to Williamsburg for Charles' furlough.","Private Carol Carter from the air force, talking about his experience since drafted; Postcard from private Robert Gibson; Richard F. Hammond, writing from the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown about his health and advising Charles to seek fellow Elks in New Orleans; Thank you note from Lieut. Byron C. Herbert Jr; Private George M. Jackson, giving news of health and problems with mail; Mary B. King, sending news of Williamsburg's friends and her husband's army address.","Postcard from soldier Randolph; V-Mail from Sgt Allen Vaughn, serving in the Pacific; two V-Mail messages from soldier Edward Ward, asking Charles to visit his girlfriend to bring her news; letters from private Richard \"Dick\" West about his Texas unit, which is to be broken up soon.","Notebook kept by Mr. Gary, likely while training for becoming an officer. Contains notes on teaching techniques, building morale, crafting lesson plans, analysis skills, map reading, and a diagram of the Allied high command.","Includes a document \"Instructions to Port Checkers for Tallying Oversea Shipments Received at N.O.P.E.\" and an application form for national service life insurance.","Two photographs, one of a couple and one of Mr. Gary and a friend in soldiers' uniforms.","5 items circa 1880s-1910s","Circa 1940s-1950s","4 items in cardboard frames. Signed by Ann Bruce, Betty [niece], Skipper, and Edythe [niece] to Mr. and Mrs. Gary.","One portrait in cardboard frame, to \"Nurse Gary\" from her nephew Clifton. Frame included other loose school portraits, one identified as Jerome Randolph Jr.","Likely a wedding photograph from circa 1950s. Cardboard frame included 5 loose portraits of children.","Includes one from class of 1980, signed Annette Richard, and one from class of 2005. Most unidentified and undated.","Labeled \"Service S[?], Williamsburg VA.\" Possibly a valet and service team at a Williamsburg hotel.","Most unidentified and undated.","Includes a few matching negatives.","Includes a photocopy of the original envelope labeled \"Mrs. Williams Xmas Party Gary.\" One negative identified as \"Little Eddie A. Sasl[is]\".","On Duke of Gloucester Street, circa 1970s-1980s.","Features nautical scenes and a show.","Various photographs and negatives found together in photo developing envelopes. Photocopies of original envelope included.","Larger materials","Recognizing two years of membership for Mr. Gary","Hamlet Public School District, NC, 1936; Saint Agnes Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC, 1939; North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, 1939; Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, IL, 1944. Folder also includes 3 flower prints kept behind the diplomas in original frames.","Photograph album pages with informal portraits, circa 1940s. Some photographs are identified. The folder also houses several documents relating to Mrs. Zelda Gary that were found loose in the album, including report cards from Hamlet Public Schools for the years 1932-1936, an employment offer, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company documents, a 1976 certificate of service from the Union Batptist Church, as well as loose photographs. Damaged album binding removed for preservation purposes.","Personal artifacts comprise Mr. Gary's World War II dog tag, an Eastern Connecticut State University watch, two address rubber stamps, and a 1933 Maryland Public Schools medal for the Playground Athletic League.","This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.","Monthly reports of spendings and earnings at the West End Valet Shop sent to Mr. Gary during his military service by the shop's secretary, H.J. Sasser. Also includes a letter with news of the shop.","Monthly reports from H.J. Sasser kept with two letters about the business and news of Williamsburg connections.","Monthly reports from H. J. Sasser and one letter.","Folder also includes a \"Home Plan Service Building Contract,\" inserted in the binder with the ledger pages. Original binder containing ledger pages from 1947 Oct.-1948 Dec. and the 1948 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Original binder containing ledger pages for the year 1949 separated for preservation reasons.","Some pages are missing.","Also includes personal spendings and loose computation sheets.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1951 Dec.-1952 Dec. and the 1952 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Also includes a loose 1948 check on the West End Valet Shop.","Original binder containing ledger pages from 1953 Jan.-1954 Jan. and the 1953 payroll separated for preservation reasons.","Copies of letters sent by Mr. Gary with information about orders and supplies.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.","Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary","Includes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article \"A Tailor-made Gift for CW.\"","Articles \"Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW\" and \"A Tailor-Made Gift for CW\" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg","Includes, among others, a 1956 guidebook \"Laws Relating to Notaries Public\" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.","Rolled-up and brittle item","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Buck Henry Randall Estate,\" of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.","Legal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.","Documentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.","Charles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.","Letter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Peagler File\" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.","Includes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.","Documents found in a folder labeled \"Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041\" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.","Short testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.","Mostly regarding loans and deeds of trust","Suit label from the West End Valet Shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1965. The shop was owned and operated by Charles Gary. Mr. Gary made two suits for Mr. Jerry Van Voorhis between 1964 and 1965. This label is from one of those suits which Mr. Van Voorhis' used as his wedding suit in 1966. At the time of the label donation, the suit was still in the possession of Mr. Van Voorhis and was reported to be in excellent condition, a testament to the talent of Mr. Gary and his workmanship.","Artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's business and professional life comprise four West End Valet Shop rubber stamps, a table bell, a clothing label customized to Mr. Gary, a measuring tape, two signature rubber stamps, a notary public rubber stamp, and a notary public metal stamp.","This series encompasses materials and artifacts documenting Mr. Gary's active civic life in the Williamsburg area community. In addition to serving on a citizen advisory committee, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary participated in the services of several local baptist churches and was a member of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (Old Capitol Lodge No. 629) for over 70 years. The bulk of this series relates to church and Order of Elks service. Of note are several typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches delivered by Mr. Gary in those contexts. Most are unsigned but accompanied of the official service programs listing speakers.","Certificates highlighting Mr. Gary's involvement and support of various institutions such as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the National Council of Negro Women, the Williamsburg James City County Chamber of Commerce, the Frontiers of America, and the New Zion Baptist Church.","Mostly from the Order of Elks","1975 voter registration record, and documents pertaining to Mr. Gary's appointment as an officer on the Board, including a 1983 manual \"Instructions for Officers of Elections.\"","Ceremony programs, as well as annotated typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given by Mr. Gary during Men's Day services at the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg and Shiloh Baptist Church. Includes welcome addresses and a 1967 speech entitled \"The Negro Man and his Family\" in which Mr. Gary reflects on the history of African American families in the United States, current social and racial issues, and biblical views on the importance of the family.","Speech delivered by Mr. Gary during a service with the Order of Elks held at Mount Ararat Baptist Church, discussing death, community service, the principles of the order, and the limits of wealth and materialism. Also includes a program of the ceremony.","Delivered at a Brotherhood [Order of Elks?] breakfast. Discusses employer and employee behavior, black and white patronage, racial pride; compares the fate of African American and Jewish businesses in America; and suggests avenues for the future.","Includes service programs, typescripts of introduction speeches, and biographical notes relating to various speakers at baptist churches: Rev. Ed. Bailey, Dr. Ollie Bowman, Dr. George W. Grayson, Rev. J. H. Moody.","Speakers Shade Joseph Palmer, R. G. Parker, and Owen F. Peagler.","Speakers Att. William T. Stone, Rev. James B. Tabb, Alfred K. Talbot Jr., Wilbert Wallace.","Typescripts and handwritten drafts of speeches given during anniversary, appreciation, and dedication services at various baptist churches in the Williamsburg area. Also includes some corresponding service programs.","Photocopy of a typescript of a speech discussing family in the Bible, religion and church in African American communities, family as a social formation in the United States, and the role of men and women in church and family. Undated and unsigned. Clipped to a 1970 note from Ollie M. Bowman, a professor at Hampton Institute and deacon in the Presbyterian church, who was perhaps the author or the sender of the speech.","Five items from different baptist churches in the Williamsburg area.","Found in a folder labeled \"Church Paperwork\"","Certificate of award, membership card, and undated bank form for deposit by authority of lodge.","36 photographs and several negative slides found in a photo developing enveloped labeled \"Elks.\"","Among other photographs are four formal group portraits.","Found in a photo developing envelope without any annotation, possibly of an Order of Elks ceremony.","Artifacts related to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise a 1936 Order of Elks delegate medal, a small Frontiers of America metal pin, another small metal pin with unreadable association, and an Order of Elks Old Capital Lodge rubber stamp.","Textile artifacts relating to Mr. Gary's civic involvement comprise an \"I.B.P.O.E. of W.\" stiched hat, an American Legion of Williamsburg, VA, hat, as well as an Order of Elks ceremonial collar."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)","Gary, Zelda DeBerry"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)","Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001","Gary, Zelda DeBerry"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World","West End Valet Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"persname_ssim":["Gary, Charles Edward Jr. , 1907-2001","Gary, Zelda DeBerry"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":142,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T22:51:35.250Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_105"}},{"id":"vilxv_repositories_3_resources_849","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Charles F. 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Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","The collection is arranged into four series:","Administrative files, 1893-1992 Research files, 1872-1996 Maps, 1894-1989 Photographs, 1892-1992","Obituary for Donald W. Thomas, Daily News-Record, January 11, 1962.","Obituary for Charles Grattan Price Jr. , Daily News-Record, June 14, 1996.","In 1892, a group of promoters including Jedediah Hotchkiss incorporated to build a railway to carry coal from West Virginia mines to Gloucester Point, Virginia. Initially called the Chesapeake, Shendun, and Western Railroad, the name was quickly changed to Chesapeake \u0026 Western Railroad. Using part of the old Washington, Cincinnati \u0026 St. Louis Railroad right-of-way, and with $150,000 from the city of Harrisonburg to ensure that the railroad would pass through it, a 26-mile single-track, standard-gauge line was completed from Elkton to Bridgewater and began operating on March 23, 1896. In the next few years, substantial Chesapeake \u0026 Western stock was purchased by New York investor Thomas Stokes, who hoped to develop the coal mines in western Rockingham County but became mired in financial difficulties. His brother, W.E.D Stokes, purchased control of the Chesapeake \u0026 Western and also organized a new railroad, the Tidewater and West Virginia, in 1900. The Tidewater changed its name in 1901 to the Chesapeake Western Railway, leased the Chesapeake Western line for 99 years, and in 1902 completed 13 miles of rail from Bridgewater to the new town of Stokesville in North River Gap. Trains carried passengers as well as freight between Elkton and Stokesville. Plans were drawn up to continue the line into West Virginia but were not implemented.","For just over a decade, Stokesville boomed as timber, tanbark, and to a much more limited extent, coal, in the area were exploited. Stokes operated the Chesapeake Western with offices in Harrisonburg until his death in 1926. His estate continued to operate the railway until 1938. In 1928, the line from Mount Solon to North River Gap was abandoned for financial reasons. In 1933, the nine miles from Bridgewater to Mount Solon were also dropped. When the Stokes' heirs put the Chesapeake Western up for sale in 1938, Donald W. Thomas (1890-1962), a former Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad employee who had been the general manager of the railway since 1926, fought a bid from Japanese scrap metal buyers and bought the line. At this point Thomas became Chesapeake Western's president and general manager, positions he held until November 1954. In 1943, Thomas also bought the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio's Valley Road of Virginia line which ran between Harrisonburg and Lexington. The line south of Staunton was taken up and sold for scrap, but the road between Harrisonburg and Staunton was improved and became an important link in the Chesapeake Western system because of the connection with the Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Railroad at Staunton. The Chesapeake Western linked with the Norfolk \u0026 Western at Elkton.","In 1954, the Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad purchased Chesapeake Western Railway, but the name was retained and was operated as a separate corporation. By about 1980, however, little or no rolling stock carried the CW logo any longer. Norfolk \u0026 Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as Norfolk Southern Corporation on June 1, 1982. Not long after that merger, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located at Chesapeake Drive in Harrisonburg on July 28, 1982, and company offices and operations were eventually absorbed by the Norfolk Southern. ","Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996), local railroad historian and enthusiast as well as a former employee of and photographer for Chesapeake Western Railway, authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992). The title refers to Chesapeake Western's nickname - Crooked \u0026 Weedy - given to it by locals. The book is dedicated to Don W. Thomas who conducted much of the preliminary research into Virginia railroads. Thomas was unable to complete a written history himself due to an illness that culminated in blindness.","Melvin Sigafoose was an engineer for Chesapeake Western Railway.","Materials were largely foldered and organized prior to being transferred to Special Collections. Those groupings and creator/donor provided descriptions were retained during processing.","Chesapeake Western Railway Company Records, 1916-1982, SC 0154, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.","The collection comprises photographs and negatives, maps, annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection, which document the functions and activities of Chesapeake Western, were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway .","The collection was created and used in large part to support Thomas and Price's research on the Chesapeake Western specifically and Virginia railroads generally. The culmination of that research is Price's book  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992).","Series 1: Administrative files, 1893-1992, comprises materials that are official records created by or for Chesapeake Western Railway. The series includes correspondence, annual reports and other official reports, time tables, forms, tickets, passes, and ephemera, as well as a financial docket that documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Includes photographs.","Series 2: Research files, 1872-1996, includes newspaper clippings, articles, news story transcriptions, correspondence requesting research assistance, and assorted printed material related to Virginia railroad history and the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Wip Robinson's December 24, 1970 interview of Charles Grattan Price Sr. is included. The interview does not concern Chesapeake Western Railway.","C. Grattan Price Sr. reminisces about childhood Christmases and other early memories in Rockingham County in the late 19th century.","The content of the interview does not relate to the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Regarding the history of rail transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Concerns history of transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Includes transcribed newspaper articles and lists of instances railways were mentioned in newspapers.","Includes originals, transcripts, facsimiles, and photocopies.","Includes The Rockingham Recorder (Vol. I, No. 1-2);  Railroads of the Shenandoah Valley, \"The Old Church on the Hill\", The Churches of Harrisonburg ; and others.","The newspaper articles transcribed date to 1895. The transcripts themselves likely date to circa 1950s.","Four copies","Report \u0026 Documents Submitted by the Committee Appointed to Confer with the Authorities of the City of Wheeling, Respecting the Late Law of Virginia, Granting the Right of Way to the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Co. through that State. Passed 6th March, 1847","Series 3: Maps, 1894-1989, includes maps specific to Chesapeake Western Railway as well as maps of Virginia and West Virginia railway routes. Two 1894 linen-backed maps were created by cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss of Staunton.","Map Showing Route of the Chesapeake Western Ry. to the Coal Fields of West Virginia via Pocohontas County and to the Tidewater Connection at Gordonsville, Virginia","Includes ten copies.","Norfolk and Western Railway Company; The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; Wabash Railroad Company; The Connecting Railway Company - Sandusky Line: Map Showing Lines of Railroad and Territory Involved","Series 4: Photographs, 1892-1992, comprises original photographs, facsimiles, negatives, and postcards that primarily document Chesapeake Western Railway. Photographs feature railroad workers including African American workers, construction, locomotives and equipment, train stations, and landscapes along the rail routes. Photographs also document damage to bridges and trestles as a result of flooding. There are a small number of non-Chesapeake Western Railway photographs and negatives included.","The bulk of the photographs were used in C. Grattan Price Jr.'s book  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy  and are organized according to book chapter. Original photographs used in the book have typed captions affixed to the back. Some are mounted on board. Facsimile photographs used in  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy , which are also duplicates of the originals, are printed on photo paper and include publication specifications. The facsimile photographs are dated according to the approximate date of the content captured in the photograph not the date the facsimile was created (circa 1990). The date ranges were applied based on the captions accompanying the photographs.","The group of numbered photographs and negatives are identified and dated in an accompanying document of captions.","A group of photographs also document locations in West Virginia and western Virginia where Chesapeake Western planned to expand.","Photographers that are identified include H. Reid, C. Grattan Price Jr., and Walter S. Daggy.","From personal collections other than C. Grattan Price Jr.","Includes duplicates.","Bulk of photographs document a formal dinner party. Don W. 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In the next few years, substantial Chesapeake \u0026 Western stock was purchased by New York investor Thomas Stokes, who hoped to develop the coal mines in western Rockingham County but became mired in financial difficulties. His brother, W.E.D Stokes, purchased control of the Chesapeake \u0026 Western and also organized a new railroad, the Tidewater and West Virginia, in 1900. The Tidewater changed its name in 1901 to the Chesapeake Western Railway, leased the Chesapeake Western line for 99 years, and in 1902 completed 13 miles of rail from Bridgewater to the new town of Stokesville in North River Gap. Trains carried passengers as well as freight between Elkton and Stokesville. Plans were drawn up to continue the line into West Virginia but were not implemented.","For just over a decade, Stokesville boomed as timber, tanbark, and to a much more limited extent, coal, in the area were exploited. Stokes operated the Chesapeake Western with offices in Harrisonburg until his death in 1926. His estate continued to operate the railway until 1938. In 1928, the line from Mount Solon to North River Gap was abandoned for financial reasons. In 1933, the nine miles from Bridgewater to Mount Solon were also dropped. When the Stokes' heirs put the Chesapeake Western up for sale in 1938, Donald W. Thomas (1890-1962), a former Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad employee who had been the general manager of the railway since 1926, fought a bid from Japanese scrap metal buyers and bought the line. At this point Thomas became Chesapeake Western's president and general manager, positions he held until November 1954. In 1943, Thomas also bought the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio's Valley Road of Virginia line which ran between Harrisonburg and Lexington. The line south of Staunton was taken up and sold for scrap, but the road between Harrisonburg and Staunton was improved and became an important link in the Chesapeake Western system because of the connection with the Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Railroad at Staunton. The Chesapeake Western linked with the Norfolk \u0026 Western at Elkton.","In 1954, the Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad purchased Chesapeake Western Railway, but the name was retained and was operated as a separate corporation. By about 1980, however, little or no rolling stock carried the CW logo any longer. Norfolk \u0026 Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as Norfolk Southern Corporation on June 1, 1982. Not long after that merger, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located at Chesapeake Drive in Harrisonburg on July 28, 1982, and company offices and operations were eventually absorbed by the Norfolk Southern. ","Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996), local railroad historian and enthusiast as well as a former employee of and photographer for Chesapeake Western Railway, authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992). The title refers to Chesapeake Western's nickname - Crooked \u0026 Weedy - given to it by locals. The book is dedicated to Don W. Thomas who conducted much of the preliminary research into Virginia railroads. Thomas was unable to complete a written history himself due to an illness that culminated in blindness.","Melvin Sigafoose was an engineer for Chesapeake Western Railway."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Charles Grattan Price Jr. and Don W. 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Those groupings and creator/donor provided descriptions were retained during processing."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eChesapeake Western Railway Company Records, 1916-1982, SC 0154, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Chesapeake Western Railway Company Records, 1916-1982, SC 0154, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection comprises photographs and negatives, maps, annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection, which document the functions and activities of Chesapeake Western, were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection was created and used in large part to support Thomas and Price's research on the Chesapeake Western specifically and Virginia railroads generally. The culmination of that research is Price's book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e (1992).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Administrative files, 1893-1992, comprises materials that are official records created by or for Chesapeake Western Railway. The series includes correspondence, annual reports and other official reports, time tables, forms, tickets, passes, and ephemera, as well as a financial docket that documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railway in July 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railway in July 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railway in July 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Research files, 1872-1996, includes newspaper clippings, articles, news story transcriptions, correspondence requesting research assistance, and assorted printed material related to Virginia railroad history and the Chesapeake Western Railway.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWip Robinson's December 24, 1970 interview of Charles Grattan Price Sr. is included. The interview does not concern Chesapeake Western Railway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eC. 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The transcripts themselves likely date to circa 1950s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour copies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport \u0026amp; Documents Submitted by the Committee Appointed to Confer with the Authorities of the City of Wheeling, Respecting the Late Law of Virginia, Granting the Right of Way to the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Co. through that State. Passed 6th March, 1847\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Maps, 1894-1989, includes maps specific to Chesapeake Western Railway as well as maps of Virginia and West Virginia railway routes. Two 1894 linen-backed maps were created by cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss of Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap Showing Route of the Chesapeake Western Ry. to the Coal Fields of West Virginia via Pocohontas County and to the Tidewater Connection at Gordonsville, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes ten copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNorfolk and Western Railway Company; The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; Wabash Railroad Company; The Connecting Railway Company - Sandusky Line: Map Showing Lines of Railroad and Territory Involved\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4: Photographs, 1892-1992, comprises original photographs, facsimiles, negatives, and postcards that primarily document Chesapeake Western Railway. Photographs feature railroad workers including African American workers, construction, locomotives and equipment, train stations, and landscapes along the rail routes. Photographs also document damage to bridges and trestles as a result of flooding. There are a small number of non-Chesapeake Western Railway photographs and negatives included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the photographs were used in C. Grattan Price Jr.'s book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\u003c/emph\u003e and are organized according to book chapter. Original photographs used in the book have typed captions affixed to the back. Some are mounted on board. Facsimile photographs used in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\u003c/emph\u003e, which are also duplicates of the originals, are printed on photo paper and include publication specifications. The facsimile photographs are dated according to the approximate date of the content captured in the photograph not the date the facsimile was created (circa 1990). The date ranges were applied based on the captions accompanying the photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe group of numbered photographs and negatives are identified and dated in an accompanying document of captions.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA group of photographs also document locations in West Virginia and western Virginia where Chesapeake Western planned to expand.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographers that are identified include H. Reid, C. Grattan Price Jr., and Walter S. Daggy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom personal collections other than C. Grattan Price Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes duplicates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulk of photographs document a formal dinner party. Don W. Thomas is in attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes duplicates.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection comprises photographs and negatives, maps, annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection, which document the functions and activities of Chesapeake Western, were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway .","The collection was created and used in large part to support Thomas and Price's research on the Chesapeake Western specifically and Virginia railroads generally. The culmination of that research is Price's book  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992).","Series 1: Administrative files, 1893-1992, comprises materials that are official records created by or for Chesapeake Western Railway. The series includes correspondence, annual reports and other official reports, time tables, forms, tickets, passes, and ephemera, as well as a financial docket that documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Includes photographs.","Series 2: Research files, 1872-1996, includes newspaper clippings, articles, news story transcriptions, correspondence requesting research assistance, and assorted printed material related to Virginia railroad history and the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Wip Robinson's December 24, 1970 interview of Charles Grattan Price Sr. is included. The interview does not concern Chesapeake Western Railway.","C. Grattan Price Sr. reminisces about childhood Christmases and other early memories in Rockingham County in the late 19th century.","The content of the interview does not relate to the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Regarding the history of rail transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Concerns history of transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Includes transcribed newspaper articles and lists of instances railways were mentioned in newspapers.","Includes originals, transcripts, facsimiles, and photocopies.","Includes The Rockingham Recorder (Vol. I, No. 1-2);  Railroads of the Shenandoah Valley, \"The Old Church on the Hill\", The Churches of Harrisonburg ; and others.","The newspaper articles transcribed date to 1895. The transcripts themselves likely date to circa 1950s.","Four copies","Report \u0026 Documents Submitted by the Committee Appointed to Confer with the Authorities of the City of Wheeling, Respecting the Late Law of Virginia, Granting the Right of Way to the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Co. through that State. Passed 6th March, 1847","Series 3: Maps, 1894-1989, includes maps specific to Chesapeake Western Railway as well as maps of Virginia and West Virginia railway routes. Two 1894 linen-backed maps were created by cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss of Staunton.","Map Showing Route of the Chesapeake Western Ry. to the Coal Fields of West Virginia via Pocohontas County and to the Tidewater Connection at Gordonsville, Virginia","Includes ten copies.","Norfolk and Western Railway Company; The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; Wabash Railroad Company; The Connecting Railway Company - Sandusky Line: Map Showing Lines of Railroad and Territory Involved","Series 4: Photographs, 1892-1992, comprises original photographs, facsimiles, negatives, and postcards that primarily document Chesapeake Western Railway. Photographs feature railroad workers including African American workers, construction, locomotives and equipment, train stations, and landscapes along the rail routes. Photographs also document damage to bridges and trestles as a result of flooding. There are a small number of non-Chesapeake Western Railway photographs and negatives included.","The bulk of the photographs were used in C. Grattan Price Jr.'s book  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy  and are organized according to book chapter. Original photographs used in the book have typed captions affixed to the back. Some are mounted on board. Facsimile photographs used in  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy , which are also duplicates of the originals, are printed on photo paper and include publication specifications. The facsimile photographs are dated according to the approximate date of the content captured in the photograph not the date the facsimile was created (circa 1990). The date ranges were applied based on the captions accompanying the photographs.","The group of numbered photographs and negatives are identified and dated in an accompanying document of captions.","A group of photographs also document locations in West Virginia and western Virginia where Chesapeake Western planned to expand.","Photographers that are identified include H. Reid, C. Grattan Price Jr., and Walter S. Daggy.","From personal collections other than C. Grattan Price Jr.","Includes duplicates.","Bulk of photographs document a formal dinner party. Don W. Thomas is in attendance.","Includes duplicates."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following items were removed from the collection and cataloged separately:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIssues of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eShenandoah Valley Express\u003c/emph\u003e (1995), the newsletter of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Club\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eChesapeake and Western Railroad Company Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Operating Department\u003c/emph\u003e (1901)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following items were removed from the collection and cataloged separately:","Issues of  Shenandoah Valley Express  (1995), the newsletter of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Club","Chesapeake and Western Railroad Company Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Operating Department  (1901)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_c3f5aecbc4c039852bc909e1cc20ba35\"\u003eThe collection comprises photographs, maps, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection comprises photographs, maps, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway ."],"names_coll_ssim":["Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk Southern Corporation","Price, Charles Grattan, III"],"names_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk Southern Corporation","Price, Charles Grattan, III","Price, Charles Grattan, Jr., 1919-1996","Thomas, Don W. (Don William), 1890-1962","Price, Charles Grattan, Sr., 1883-1981","Robinson, Wip, 1910-1990","Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899","Daggy, Walter S., 1896-1988","Reid, H."],"corpname_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk Southern Corporation"],"persname_ssim":["Price, Charles Grattan, III","Price, Charles Grattan, Jr., 1919-1996","Thomas, Don W. (Don William), 1890-1962","Price, Charles Grattan, Sr., 1883-1981","Robinson, Wip, 1910-1990","Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899","Daggy, Walter S., 1896-1988","Reid, H."],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":117,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:23:04.783Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_730","ead_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_730","_root_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_730","_nest_parent_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_730","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/JMU/repositories_4_resources_730.xml","title_ssm":["Charles Grattan Price Jr. and Don W. Thomas collection on the Chesapeake Western Railway"],"title_tesim":["Charles Grattan Price Jr. and Don W. Thomas collection on the Chesapeake Western Railway"],"unitdate_ssm":["1872-1996"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1872-1996"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC 0358","/repositories/4/resources/730"],"text":["SC 0358","/repositories/4/resources/730","Charles Grattan Price Jr. and Don W. Thomas collection on the Chesapeake Western Railway","Railroads -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History","Railroads -- Virginia -- History","Photographs","Annual reports","Maps (documents)","Letters (correspondence)","Research (documents)","Newspaper clippings","Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","The collection is arranged into four series:","Administrative files, 1893-1992 Research files, 1872-1996 Maps, 1894-1989 Photographs, 1892-1992","Obituary for Donald W. Thomas, Daily News-Record, January 11, 1962.","Obituary for Charles Grattan Price Jr. , Daily News-Record, June 14, 1996.","In 1892, a group of promoters including Jedediah Hotchkiss incorporated to build a railway to carry coal from West Virginia mines to Gloucester Point, Virginia. Initially called the Chesapeake, Shendun, and Western Railroad, the name was quickly changed to Chesapeake \u0026 Western Railroad. Using part of the old Washington, Cincinnati \u0026 St. Louis Railroad right-of-way, and with $150,000 from the city of Harrisonburg to ensure that the railroad would pass through it, a 26-mile single-track, standard-gauge line was completed from Elkton to Bridgewater and began operating on March 23, 1896. In the next few years, substantial Chesapeake \u0026 Western stock was purchased by New York investor Thomas Stokes, who hoped to develop the coal mines in western Rockingham County but became mired in financial difficulties. His brother, W.E.D Stokes, purchased control of the Chesapeake \u0026 Western and also organized a new railroad, the Tidewater and West Virginia, in 1900. The Tidewater changed its name in 1901 to the Chesapeake Western Railway, leased the Chesapeake Western line for 99 years, and in 1902 completed 13 miles of rail from Bridgewater to the new town of Stokesville in North River Gap. Trains carried passengers as well as freight between Elkton and Stokesville. Plans were drawn up to continue the line into West Virginia but were not implemented.","For just over a decade, Stokesville boomed as timber, tanbark, and to a much more limited extent, coal, in the area were exploited. Stokes operated the Chesapeake Western with offices in Harrisonburg until his death in 1926. His estate continued to operate the railway until 1938. In 1928, the line from Mount Solon to North River Gap was abandoned for financial reasons. In 1933, the nine miles from Bridgewater to Mount Solon were also dropped. When the Stokes' heirs put the Chesapeake Western up for sale in 1938, Donald W. Thomas (1890-1962), a former Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad employee who had been the general manager of the railway since 1926, fought a bid from Japanese scrap metal buyers and bought the line. At this point Thomas became Chesapeake Western's president and general manager, positions he held until November 1954. In 1943, Thomas also bought the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio's Valley Road of Virginia line which ran between Harrisonburg and Lexington. The line south of Staunton was taken up and sold for scrap, but the road between Harrisonburg and Staunton was improved and became an important link in the Chesapeake Western system because of the connection with the Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Railroad at Staunton. The Chesapeake Western linked with the Norfolk \u0026 Western at Elkton.","In 1954, the Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad purchased Chesapeake Western Railway, but the name was retained and was operated as a separate corporation. By about 1980, however, little or no rolling stock carried the CW logo any longer. Norfolk \u0026 Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as Norfolk Southern Corporation on June 1, 1982. Not long after that merger, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located at Chesapeake Drive in Harrisonburg on July 28, 1982, and company offices and operations were eventually absorbed by the Norfolk Southern. ","Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996), local railroad historian and enthusiast as well as a former employee of and photographer for Chesapeake Western Railway, authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992). The title refers to Chesapeake Western's nickname - Crooked \u0026 Weedy - given to it by locals. The book is dedicated to Don W. Thomas who conducted much of the preliminary research into Virginia railroads. Thomas was unable to complete a written history himself due to an illness that culminated in blindness.","Melvin Sigafoose was an engineer for Chesapeake Western Railway.","Materials were largely foldered and organized prior to being transferred to Special Collections. Those groupings and creator/donor provided descriptions were retained during processing.","Chesapeake Western Railway Company Records, 1916-1982, SC 0154, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.","The collection comprises photographs and negatives, maps, annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection, which document the functions and activities of Chesapeake Western, were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway .","The collection was created and used in large part to support Thomas and Price's research on the Chesapeake Western specifically and Virginia railroads generally. The culmination of that research is Price's book  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992).","Series 1: Administrative files, 1893-1992, comprises materials that are official records created by or for Chesapeake Western Railway. The series includes correspondence, annual reports and other official reports, time tables, forms, tickets, passes, and ephemera, as well as a financial docket that documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Includes photographs.","Series 2: Research files, 1872-1996, includes newspaper clippings, articles, news story transcriptions, correspondence requesting research assistance, and assorted printed material related to Virginia railroad history and the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Wip Robinson's December 24, 1970 interview of Charles Grattan Price Sr. is included. The interview does not concern Chesapeake Western Railway.","C. Grattan Price Sr. reminisces about childhood Christmases and other early memories in Rockingham County in the late 19th century.","The content of the interview does not relate to the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Regarding the history of rail transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Concerns history of transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Includes transcribed newspaper articles and lists of instances railways were mentioned in newspapers.","Includes originals, transcripts, facsimiles, and photocopies.","Includes The Rockingham Recorder (Vol. I, No. 1-2);  Railroads of the Shenandoah Valley, \"The Old Church on the Hill\", The Churches of Harrisonburg ; and others.","The newspaper articles transcribed date to 1895. The transcripts themselves likely date to circa 1950s.","Four copies","Report \u0026 Documents Submitted by the Committee Appointed to Confer with the Authorities of the City of Wheeling, Respecting the Late Law of Virginia, Granting the Right of Way to the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Co. through that State. Passed 6th March, 1847","Series 3: Maps, 1894-1989, includes maps specific to Chesapeake Western Railway as well as maps of Virginia and West Virginia railway routes. Two 1894 linen-backed maps were created by cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss of Staunton.","Map Showing Route of the Chesapeake Western Ry. to the Coal Fields of West Virginia via Pocohontas County and to the Tidewater Connection at Gordonsville, Virginia","Includes ten copies.","Norfolk and Western Railway Company; The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; Wabash Railroad Company; The Connecting Railway Company - Sandusky Line: Map Showing Lines of Railroad and Territory Involved","Series 4: Photographs, 1892-1992, comprises original photographs, facsimiles, negatives, and postcards that primarily document Chesapeake Western Railway. Photographs feature railroad workers including African American workers, construction, locomotives and equipment, train stations, and landscapes along the rail routes. Photographs also document damage to bridges and trestles as a result of flooding. There are a small number of non-Chesapeake Western Railway photographs and negatives included.","The bulk of the photographs were used in C. Grattan Price Jr.'s book  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy  and are organized according to book chapter. Original photographs used in the book have typed captions affixed to the back. Some are mounted on board. Facsimile photographs used in  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy , which are also duplicates of the originals, are printed on photo paper and include publication specifications. The facsimile photographs are dated according to the approximate date of the content captured in the photograph not the date the facsimile was created (circa 1990). The date ranges were applied based on the captions accompanying the photographs.","The group of numbered photographs and negatives are identified and dated in an accompanying document of captions.","A group of photographs also document locations in West Virginia and western Virginia where Chesapeake Western planned to expand.","Photographers that are identified include H. Reid, C. Grattan Price Jr., and Walter S. Daggy.","From personal collections other than C. Grattan Price Jr.","Includes duplicates.","Bulk of photographs document a formal dinner party. Don W. Thomas is in attendance.","Includes duplicates.","The following items were removed from the collection and cataloged separately:","Issues of  Shenandoah Valley Express  (1995), the newsletter of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Club","Chesapeake and Western Railroad Company Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Operating Department  (1901)","The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The collection comprises photographs, maps, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. 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Thomas, Daily News-Record, January 11, 1962.\u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref\u003eObituary for Charles Grattan Price Jr. , Daily News-Record, June 14, 1996.\u003c/bibref\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Obituary for Donald W. Thomas, Daily News-Record, January 11, 1962.","Obituary for Charles Grattan Price Jr. , Daily News-Record, June 14, 1996."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eIn 1892, a group of promoters including Jedediah Hotchkiss incorporated to build a railway to carry coal from West Virginia mines to Gloucester Point, Virginia. Initially called the Chesapeake, Shendun, and Western Railroad, the name was quickly changed to Chesapeake \u0026amp; Western Railroad. Using part of the old Washington, Cincinnati \u0026amp; St. Louis Railroad right-of-way, and with $150,000 from the city of Harrisonburg to ensure that the railroad would pass through it, a 26-mile single-track, standard-gauge line was completed from Elkton to Bridgewater and began operating on March 23, 1896. In the next few years, substantial Chesapeake \u0026amp; Western stock was purchased by New York investor Thomas Stokes, who hoped to develop the coal mines in western Rockingham County but became mired in financial difficulties. His brother, W.E.D Stokes, purchased control of the Chesapeake \u0026amp; Western and also organized a new railroad, the Tidewater and West Virginia, in 1900. The Tidewater changed its name in 1901 to the Chesapeake Western Railway, leased the Chesapeake Western line for 99 years, and in 1902 completed 13 miles of rail from Bridgewater to the new town of Stokesville in North River Gap. Trains carried passengers as well as freight between Elkton and Stokesville. Plans were drawn up to continue the line into West Virginia but were not implemented.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor just over a decade, Stokesville boomed as timber, tanbark, and to a much more limited extent, coal, in the area were exploited. Stokes operated the Chesapeake Western with offices in Harrisonburg until his death in 1926. His estate continued to operate the railway until 1938. In 1928, the line from Mount Solon to North River Gap was abandoned for financial reasons. In 1933, the nine miles from Bridgewater to Mount Solon were also dropped. When the Stokes' heirs put the Chesapeake Western up for sale in 1938, Donald W. Thomas (1890-1962), a former Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railroad employee who had been the general manager of the railway since 1926, fought a bid from Japanese scrap metal buyers and bought the line. At this point Thomas became Chesapeake Western's president and general manager, positions he held until November 1954. In 1943, Thomas also bought the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio's Valley Road of Virginia line which ran between Harrisonburg and Lexington. The line south of Staunton was taken up and sold for scrap, but the road between Harrisonburg and Staunton was improved and became an important link in the Chesapeake Western system because of the connection with the Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad at Staunton. The Chesapeake Western linked with the Norfolk \u0026amp; Western at Elkton.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1954, the Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railroad purchased Chesapeake Western Railway, but the name was retained and was operated as a separate corporation. By about 1980, however, little or no rolling stock carried the CW logo any longer. Norfolk \u0026amp; Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as Norfolk Southern Corporation on June 1, 1982. Not long after that merger, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located at Chesapeake Drive in Harrisonburg on July 28, 1982, and company offices and operations were eventually absorbed by the Norfolk Southern. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCharles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996), local railroad historian and enthusiast as well as a former employee of and photographer for Chesapeake Western Railway, authored \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e (1992). The title refers to Chesapeake Western's nickname - Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy - given to it by locals. The book is dedicated to Don W. Thomas who conducted much of the preliminary research into Virginia railroads. Thomas was unable to complete a written history himself due to an illness that culminated in blindness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMelvin Sigafoose was an engineer for Chesapeake Western Railway.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Administrative History","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["In 1892, a group of promoters including Jedediah Hotchkiss incorporated to build a railway to carry coal from West Virginia mines to Gloucester Point, Virginia. Initially called the Chesapeake, Shendun, and Western Railroad, the name was quickly changed to Chesapeake \u0026 Western Railroad. Using part of the old Washington, Cincinnati \u0026 St. Louis Railroad right-of-way, and with $150,000 from the city of Harrisonburg to ensure that the railroad would pass through it, a 26-mile single-track, standard-gauge line was completed from Elkton to Bridgewater and began operating on March 23, 1896. In the next few years, substantial Chesapeake \u0026 Western stock was purchased by New York investor Thomas Stokes, who hoped to develop the coal mines in western Rockingham County but became mired in financial difficulties. His brother, W.E.D Stokes, purchased control of the Chesapeake \u0026 Western and also organized a new railroad, the Tidewater and West Virginia, in 1900. The Tidewater changed its name in 1901 to the Chesapeake Western Railway, leased the Chesapeake Western line for 99 years, and in 1902 completed 13 miles of rail from Bridgewater to the new town of Stokesville in North River Gap. Trains carried passengers as well as freight between Elkton and Stokesville. Plans were drawn up to continue the line into West Virginia but were not implemented.","For just over a decade, Stokesville boomed as timber, tanbark, and to a much more limited extent, coal, in the area were exploited. Stokes operated the Chesapeake Western with offices in Harrisonburg until his death in 1926. His estate continued to operate the railway until 1938. In 1928, the line from Mount Solon to North River Gap was abandoned for financial reasons. In 1933, the nine miles from Bridgewater to Mount Solon were also dropped. When the Stokes' heirs put the Chesapeake Western up for sale in 1938, Donald W. Thomas (1890-1962), a former Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad employee who had been the general manager of the railway since 1926, fought a bid from Japanese scrap metal buyers and bought the line. At this point Thomas became Chesapeake Western's president and general manager, positions he held until November 1954. In 1943, Thomas also bought the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio's Valley Road of Virginia line which ran between Harrisonburg and Lexington. The line south of Staunton was taken up and sold for scrap, but the road between Harrisonburg and Staunton was improved and became an important link in the Chesapeake Western system because of the connection with the Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Railroad at Staunton. The Chesapeake Western linked with the Norfolk \u0026 Western at Elkton.","In 1954, the Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad purchased Chesapeake Western Railway, but the name was retained and was operated as a separate corporation. By about 1980, however, little or no rolling stock carried the CW logo any longer. Norfolk \u0026 Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as Norfolk Southern Corporation on June 1, 1982. Not long after that merger, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located at Chesapeake Drive in Harrisonburg on July 28, 1982, and company offices and operations were eventually absorbed by the Norfolk Southern. ","Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996), local railroad historian and enthusiast as well as a former employee of and photographer for Chesapeake Western Railway, authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1992). The title refers to Chesapeake Western's nickname - Crooked \u0026 Weedy - given to it by locals. The book is dedicated to Don W. Thomas who conducted much of the preliminary research into Virginia railroads. Thomas was unable to complete a written history himself due to an illness that culminated in blindness.","Melvin Sigafoose was an engineer for Chesapeake Western Railway."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Charles Grattan Price Jr. and Don W. 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Those groupings and creator/donor provided descriptions were retained during processing."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eChesapeake Western Railway Company Records, 1916-1982, SC 0154, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Chesapeake Western Railway Company Records, 1916-1982, SC 0154, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection comprises photographs and negatives, maps, annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, and research materials related to the Chesapeake Western Railway. The materials in this collection, which document the functions and activities of Chesapeake Western, were compiled by Don W. Thomas, former president and general manager of Chesapeake Western, and C. Grattan Price Jr., author of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection was created and used in large part to support Thomas and Price's research on the Chesapeake Western specifically and Virginia railroads generally. The culmination of that research is Price's book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e (1992).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Administrative files, 1893-1992, comprises materials that are official records created by or for Chesapeake Western Railway. The series includes correspondence, annual reports and other official reports, time tables, forms, tickets, passes, and ephemera, as well as a financial docket that documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railway in July 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railway in July 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Railway in July 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Research files, 1872-1996, includes newspaper clippings, articles, news story transcriptions, correspondence requesting research assistance, and assorted printed material related to Virginia railroad history and the Chesapeake Western Railway.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWip Robinson's December 24, 1970 interview of Charles Grattan Price Sr. is included. The interview does not concern Chesapeake Western Railway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eC. 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Two 1894 linen-backed maps were created by cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss of Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap Showing Route of the Chesapeake Western Ry. to the Coal Fields of West Virginia via Pocohontas County and to the Tidewater Connection at Gordonsville, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes ten copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNorfolk and Western Railway Company; The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; Wabash Railroad Company; The Connecting Railway Company - Sandusky Line: Map Showing Lines of Railroad and Territory Involved\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4: Photographs, 1892-1992, comprises original photographs, facsimiles, negatives, and postcards that primarily document Chesapeake Western Railway. Photographs feature railroad workers including African American workers, construction, locomotives and equipment, train stations, and landscapes along the rail routes. Photographs also document damage to bridges and trestles as a result of flooding. There are a small number of non-Chesapeake Western Railway photographs and negatives included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the photographs were used in C. Grattan Price Jr.'s book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\u003c/emph\u003e and are organized according to book chapter. Original photographs used in the book have typed captions affixed to the back. Some are mounted on board. Facsimile photographs used in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\u003c/emph\u003e, which are also duplicates of the originals, are printed on photo paper and include publication specifications. The facsimile photographs are dated according to the approximate date of the content captured in the photograph not the date the facsimile was created (circa 1990). The date ranges were applied based on the captions accompanying the photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe group of numbered photographs and negatives are identified and dated in an accompanying document of captions.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA group of photographs also document locations in West Virginia and western Virginia where Chesapeake Western planned to expand.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographers that are identified include H. Reid, C. Grattan Price Jr., and Walter S. Daggy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom personal collections other than C. Grattan Price Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes duplicates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulk of photographs document a formal dinner party. Don W. 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The series includes correspondence, annual reports and other official reports, time tables, forms, tickets, passes, and ephemera, as well as a financial docket that documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Documents the sale of Chesapeake Western Railway to Norfolk \u0026 Western Railway in July 1954.","Includes photographs.","Series 2: Research files, 1872-1996, includes newspaper clippings, articles, news story transcriptions, correspondence requesting research assistance, and assorted printed material related to Virginia railroad history and the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Wip Robinson's December 24, 1970 interview of Charles Grattan Price Sr. is included. The interview does not concern Chesapeake Western Railway.","C. Grattan Price Sr. reminisces about childhood Christmases and other early memories in Rockingham County in the late 19th century.","The content of the interview does not relate to the Chesapeake Western Railway.","Regarding the history of rail transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Concerns history of transportation in the Shenandoah Valley.","Includes transcribed newspaper articles and lists of instances railways were mentioned in newspapers.","Includes originals, transcripts, facsimiles, and photocopies.","Includes The Rockingham Recorder (Vol. I, No. 1-2);  Railroads of the Shenandoah Valley, \"The Old Church on the Hill\", The Churches of Harrisonburg ; and others.","The newspaper articles transcribed date to 1895. The transcripts themselves likely date to circa 1950s.","Four copies","Report \u0026 Documents Submitted by the Committee Appointed to Confer with the Authorities of the City of Wheeling, Respecting the Late Law of Virginia, Granting the Right of Way to the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Co. through that State. Passed 6th March, 1847","Series 3: Maps, 1894-1989, includes maps specific to Chesapeake Western Railway as well as maps of Virginia and West Virginia railway routes. Two 1894 linen-backed maps were created by cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss of Staunton.","Map Showing Route of the Chesapeake Western Ry. to the Coal Fields of West Virginia via Pocohontas County and to the Tidewater Connection at Gordonsville, Virginia","Includes ten copies.","Norfolk and Western Railway Company; The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; Wabash Railroad Company; The Connecting Railway Company - Sandusky Line: Map Showing Lines of Railroad and Territory Involved","Series 4: Photographs, 1892-1992, comprises original photographs, facsimiles, negatives, and postcards that primarily document Chesapeake Western Railway. Photographs feature railroad workers including African American workers, construction, locomotives and equipment, train stations, and landscapes along the rail routes. Photographs also document damage to bridges and trestles as a result of flooding. There are a small number of non-Chesapeake Western Railway photographs and negatives included.","The bulk of the photographs were used in C. Grattan Price Jr.'s book  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy  and are organized according to book chapter. Original photographs used in the book have typed captions affixed to the back. Some are mounted on board. Facsimile photographs used in  The Crooked \u0026 Weedy , which are also duplicates of the originals, are printed on photo paper and include publication specifications. The facsimile photographs are dated according to the approximate date of the content captured in the photograph not the date the facsimile was created (circa 1990). The date ranges were applied based on the captions accompanying the photographs.","The group of numbered photographs and negatives are identified and dated in an accompanying document of captions.","A group of photographs also document locations in West Virginia and western Virginia where Chesapeake Western planned to expand.","Photographers that are identified include H. Reid, C. Grattan Price Jr., and Walter S. Daggy.","From personal collections other than C. Grattan Price Jr.","Includes duplicates.","Bulk of photographs document a formal dinner party. Don W. Thomas is in attendance.","Includes duplicates."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following items were removed from the collection and cataloged separately:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIssues of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eShenandoah Valley Express\u003c/emph\u003e (1995), the newsletter of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Club\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eChesapeake and Western Railroad Company Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Operating Department\u003c/emph\u003e (1901)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following items were removed from the collection and cataloged separately:","Issues of  Shenandoah Valley Express  (1995), the newsletter of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Club","Chesapeake and Western Railroad Company Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Operating Department  (1901)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. 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Va.) -- History","Railroads -- Virginia -- History","Photographs","Memorandums","Letters (correspondence)","Telegrams","Newspaper clippings","Printed Ephemera","Magazines (periodicals)","Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor's video recording of his family's visit to the Shenandoah Central have been digitized and are available online via  JSTOR . Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copies of this photograph have not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copies of this postcard have not been scanned.","The collection is arranged into three series. All series are arranged chronologically.","Correspondence, 1916-1997 Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997 Photographs, 1952-1954","At the suggestion of Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway, C. Grattan Price Jr., Harrisonburg insurance agent and railroad enthusiast, wrote to the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad in August 1952 about purchasing a narrow gauge steam locomotive and tender as well as narrow gauge cars. Price, along with fellow railfans Wade W. Menefee Jr. and Dr. Paul S. Hill, intended to build a narrow gauge railroad on Hill's farm in Penn Laird, Virginia as a scenic operating museum line. Narrow gauge railways differ from standard railways in that the distance between rails is 3 feet compared to the standard 4 feet, 3 1/2 inches.","Dr. Paul S. Hill (1907-1986) was a surgeon in Harrisonburg. He attended Washington \u0026 Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School. Hill served as a major with the Medical Corps during World War II. Wade W. Menefee Jr. (1924-2004) was a graduate of Virginia Tech and a World War II veteran. Upon his return from military service, Menefee managed W. M. Menefee \u0026 Son, a local feed, fuel, and general supply company. Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996) graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a veteran of World War II during which time he served as a railway shop superintendent and was a member of the U.S. Army's military railway service in France. Price was a partner in the insurance firm C. G. Price \u0026 Sons, Inc. until his retirement in 1978. He also authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1991). He was a resident of Harrisonburg and lived on Franklin Street until 1958 when he moved to Ott street where he lived the remainder of his life. ","In November 1952, Price, Menefee, and Hill entered into a partnership agreement forming the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Hill served as Shenandoah Central's president, Price was vice president and general manager, and Menefee was secretary-treasurer. Soon after its formation, Shenandoah Central purchased Tweetsie (aka Locomotive #12), a historic narrow gauge steam locomotive, and two narrow gauge passenger cars from ET\u0026WNC. Prior to its purchase by Shenandoah Central, Tweetsie was a working engine from 1917 to 1950 in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, plying the area's Great Smoky Mountains. Shenandoah Central purchased a third car from Pennsylvania's East Broad Top Railroad. After several failed attempts to locate and acquire rail, Chesapeake Western Railway loaned Shenandoah Central the necessary rail to build the one-mile scenic track which would be known as the Tweetsie Route. Norfolk \u0026 Western provided the ties and ballast. ","Shenandoah Central Railroad held its Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 to mark the official opening of the Tweetsie Route and the inaugural run of the Stonewall Jackson train. The Stonewall Jackson comprised a coach, a combination car, and a screened observation car with Tweetsie pulling the cars. During the Stonewall Jackson's first run, Dr. Paul Hill was Tweetsie's conductor, C. Grattan Price Jr. was engineer, and Wade W. Menefee Jr. was fireman. The ceremony included remarks by Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway; F. S. Baird, vice president of the Norfolk \u0026 Western; Sherman Pippin, retired ET\u0026WNC engineer who was the engineer on Tweetsie's last run in 1950; and C. Grattan Price and Wade Menefee Jr. on behalf of the Shenandoah Central Railroad among others. Music was provided by the Harrisonburg High School band and included the songs \"Dixie\" and \"I've Been Working on the Railroad.\" Major General Carl R. Gray Jr, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, drove the golden spike.","After two operating seasons, which saw more than 15,000 visitors, the partners were forced to place Tweetsie and the cars up for sale due to insufficient patronage and resulting loss of money. Additionally, flooding from Hurricane Hazel which hit Virginia in October 1954 damaged the track and roadbed beyond what was financially feasible for the partners to repair.","Actor and singer-songwriter Gene Autry inquired about purchasing Tweetsie and related equipment in April 1955. He intended to use the locomotive and equipment in his television and movie projects. Autry even planned to come to Harrisonburg in the spring of 1955 to finalize the arrangements, a visit that was eagerly anticipated by community members and local press. However, by the end of August 1955, the Autry Deal was dead due to the cost to transport the locomotive and equipment from Virginia to Autry's Melody Ranch in California as well as the cost to lay the rails.","During the spring of 1955, singer, musical actor, and automobile enthusiast James Melton also expressed interest in Tweetsie for display in his antique automobile museum, James Melton Autorama, in Hypoluxo, Florida.","Grover C. Robbins Jr. of Lenoir, North Carolina ultimately purchased the Tweetsie locomotive and equipment on August 25, 1955 for $17,000. The Tweetsie Railroad is still in operation in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.","Special Collections staff provided the donor with archival folders prior to transferring materials. The collection was largely received in foldered groupings (correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings) by the donor. Much of the correspondence was received grouped together according to correspondent and bound with staples, likely an arrangement kept by C. Grattan Price Jr. These groupings as well as the staples were left intact to maintain original order.","Duplicate copies of magazines were not retained.","Photographs with affixed labels or extensive writing on the backs are interfiled with paper to prevent bleeding onto surrounding photographs. Photograph titles are based largely on the descriptions provided by C. Grattan Price Jr. All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor Jr.'s video recording of his family's trips to the Shenandoah Central are digitized. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned.","The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed articles, and promotional materials concerning the purchase of Tweetsie, narrow gauge locomotive #12, and related equipment by the Shenandoah Central Railroad in 1952; the opening of the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird, Virginia in 1953; and the eventual sale of Tweetsie and equipment in 1955.","Photographs primarily document Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train on the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird and include passengers and railroad workers.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), primarily comprises correspondence relating to the purchase and subsequent sale of the Tweetsie narrow gauge locomotive, cars, and related equipment and infrastructure. One file of legal and financial documents containing annual reports, agreements, and tax documents is also included. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and according to correspondent.","The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad Company correspondence file also includes bills of lading, inspection and repair reports, and designs for locomotive #12. A souvenir program celebrating ET\u0026WNC's 85th anniversary is also included.","The Shenandoah Central Railroad file contains correspondence as well as the railroad's first annual report, a contract between George W. Anderson of Bridgewater and Shenandoah Central Railroad for railroad ties, and a list comprising the guests of honor attending the Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 as well as a list of contributors and non-contributors.","Correspondence between Price and cartoonist and railroad enthusiast Carl Fallberg concerns Fallberg's 1953 cartoon drawing of the Shenandoah Central Railroad commissioned by Price. Mulitple copies of the cartoon are included.","Correspondence with Gene Autry concerns Autry's intended option to purchase the Tweetsie locomotive for use on his California ranch and in movies. Autry ultimately backed out on the purchase agreement due to the cost to transport and erect the narrow gauge locomotive and equipment. Financial agreements, legal documents, telegrams, and memoranda concerning the Autry Deal supplement the correspondence.","Additional correspondence includes Price's offer to various movie studios including Warner Brothers, Republic Productions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Walt Disney to purchase Tweetsie and their respective responses. The new theme park Disneyland was undergoing construction at this time and Price was advised that Walt Disney might be interested in purchasing the locomotive and cars to incorporate into the new theme park. Disney responded that all of the locomotives and trains were being built on-site and scaled down to 5/8 the size. Price also wrote to Los Angeles-area newspapers urging them to write a human interest story about Tweetsie.","A single file of legal and financial documents is included in this series and filed after the correspondence. Shenandoah Central's first and second annual report, legal agreements, and tax documents are included.","Series 2: Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997, comprises magazine articles, printed news stories, and newspaper clippings concerning Tweetsie, the Tweetsie Route, and the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Press releases, promotional ephemera, brochures, and invitations and name tags for the Golden Spike Ceremony are included. A 1997 print of Gil Reid's 1954 watercolor \"Tweetsie,\" created to support Rockingham Public Library's capital campaign fund, is included ","Of particular interest is a five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Price's friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","C. Grattan Price Jr.'s undated draft manuscript \"All Steam and a Yard Wide\" provides an incomplete historical account Shenandoah Central Railroad, its partners, and Tweetsie.","Five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Charles Grattan Price Jr.'s friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","Series 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.","Text on photo: ELIZABETHTON, TENN OCT 20, 1949 - handwritten.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie's\" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET\u0026WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Over the river and through the wood\" went \"Tweetsie\" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: L to R - Hill, Price Menefee - handwritten; THE THREE OWNERS OF THE SHENANDOAH CENTRAL RAILROAD TAKEN ON \"GOLD SPIKE DAY\" 5/29/53 L. TO R.: DR. PAUL S. HILL (PRESIDENT), C. GRATTAN PRICE, JR. (VICE PRES. \u0026 GEN. MGR.), WADE W. MENEFEE, JR. (SEC.-TREAS.) - handwritten and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price Jr. Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; C. Grattan Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - address label.","Text on photo: Dr. Paul S. Hill, Pres. (Conductor) C. Grattan Price, Jr., V.P. \u0026 G.M. (Engineer) Wade W. Menefee, Jr., Sec.-Treas. (Fireman) Taken at the end of first run following Golden Spike ceremony May 29, 1953 at \"Central Park.\" - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Driving of the Golden Spike, Shandoah Central Railroad, Lakeside Station (Penn Laird, Va.), 4:30 P.M. May 29, 1953 by Major-General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administrator of the U.S. (former Vice-Pres., Chicago \u0026 Northwestern Ry., and Chief, Military Railway Service, European Theater, W.W.II). L to R - C.G. Price, Jr., Vice-Pres. \u0026 Gen. Mgr., Shenandoah Central R.R., W.W. Menefee, Jr., Sect'y.-Treas., Shenandoah Central R.R., L.W. Huncke, Pres., Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Kansas City, Kas. (donors of track-laying), F.S. Baird, Vice-Pres. (Traffic), Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry., Sherman Pippin, Engineer of last train when E.T.\u0026W.N.C.R.R. abandoned narrow-gauge division in 1950. (Equipment bought by Shenandoah Central R.R.), General Gray, A.W. St. Clair, Gen'l. Mgr., Southern Ry. System - Lines East, C.R. Wilburn, Vice-Pres., Operations, East Broad Top R.R., Dr. P.S. Hill, Pres., Shenandoah Central R.R., (Mr. D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry. temporarily absent when picture taken.) Photo by: N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Please return to: C.G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Crowd before start of ceremony, Photo by Southern Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry., speaking. Photo by Bob Riley - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Harrisonburg High School Band plays as invited guests board first train, after ceremony. 5/29/53 Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","F. S. Baird, Vice-Pres., Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry. Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Sherman Pippin, retired E.T.\u0026W.N.C. R.R. engineer. He was engineer on last run of their narrow-gauge division in October, 1950. Taken at S.C.R.R.'s Golden Spike Ceremony May 29, 1953, Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by H. Reid 8549 Wayland St. Norfolk, VA. - stamped.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Engineman: C. Grattan Price, Jr., Fireman: M. H. Dofflemyer (Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12) (1954) - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. compares time with Engineman Grattan Price, Jr. as Fireman Myron Dofflemyer looks on. Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12 (1954) - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. \"lifts transportation.\" - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. at rear end of \"The Stonewall Jackson\" - America's last narrow-gauge \"name\" train. - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo By Ward Allan Howe 310 Riverside Drive New York, 25, N. Y. - stamped; 5-30-54 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: W. E. Warden, Jr. 1216 Shamrock La. Waynesboro, Va. - stamped; August 1954 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels; May 71 Railroad Pages 30, 31 #2134.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central R. R. - approaching Massanutten Summit - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central Railroad \"The Stonewall Jackson,\" pulled by famous \"Tweetsie,\" crossing Cub Run Bridge. - handwritten; Photo by H. Reid - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels.","Text on photo: Taken on line between Cub Run Bridge and Massanutten Summit May 30, 1954 - handwritten; Photo by Lee-Gitchell Studio - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on postcard: Ride One of America's Last Old-Time Narrow-Gauge Trains! Shenandoah Central Railroad U. S. Route 33 at Penn Laird Six Miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia - printed; Everett Waddey Company - Richmond, Virginia; printed.","Text on postcard: Famous Locomotive \"Tweetsie\" pulls old-time narrow-gauge train on 1-mile Shenandoah Central Railroad each Sunday and holiday from late May to early October at Penn Laird, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, six miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on U. S. Route 33. Come take a \"Trip to Yesteryear.\" - printed; Hannau Color Productions, 605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. - printed.","Two books were removed from the collection and cataloged individually as part of Special Collections rare book holdings: Mallory Hope Ferrell's  Tweetsie Country: The East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad  (1976) and Clyde J. Dellinger's  Tweetsie and The Clinchfield Railroads: Crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains  (1975).","The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Tweetsie (Locomotive)","East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company","East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company","Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company","Southern Railway System","Shenandoah Central Railroad (1952-1956)","Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk and Western Railway Company","North Carolina. Department of Conservation and Development. 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All series are arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist numeration=\"arabic\" type=\"ordered\"\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eCorrespondence, 1916-1997\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003ePrinted and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003ePhotographs, 1952-1954\u003c/item\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged into three series. All series are arranged chronologically.","Correspondence, 1916-1997 Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997 Photographs, 1952-1954"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAt the suggestion of Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway, C. Grattan Price Jr., Harrisonburg insurance agent and railroad enthusiast, wrote to the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026amp;WNC) Railroad in August 1952 about purchasing a narrow gauge steam locomotive and tender as well as narrow gauge cars. Price, along with fellow railfans Wade W. Menefee Jr. and Dr. Paul S. Hill, intended to build a narrow gauge railroad on Hill's farm in Penn Laird, Virginia as a scenic operating museum line. Narrow gauge railways differ from standard railways in that the distance between rails is 3 feet compared to the standard 4 feet, 3 1/2 inches.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Paul S. Hill (1907-1986) was a surgeon in Harrisonburg. He attended Washington \u0026amp; Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School. Hill served as a major with the Medical Corps during World War II. Wade W. Menefee Jr. (1924-2004) was a graduate of Virginia Tech and a World War II veteran. Upon his return from military service, Menefee managed W. M. Menefee \u0026amp; Son, a local feed, fuel, and general supply company. Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996) graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a veteran of World War II during which time he served as a railway shop superintendent and was a member of the U.S. Army's military railway service in France. Price was a partner in the insurance firm C. G. Price \u0026amp; Sons, Inc. until his retirement in 1978. He also authored \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e (1991). He was a resident of Harrisonburg and lived on Franklin Street until 1958 when he moved to Ott street where he lived the remainder of his life. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn November 1952, Price, Menefee, and Hill entered into a partnership agreement forming the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Hill served as Shenandoah Central's president, Price was vice president and general manager, and Menefee was secretary-treasurer. Soon after its formation, Shenandoah Central purchased Tweetsie (aka Locomotive #12), a historic narrow gauge steam locomotive, and two narrow gauge passenger cars from ET\u0026amp;WNC. Prior to its purchase by Shenandoah Central, Tweetsie was a working engine from 1917 to 1950 in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, plying the area's Great Smoky Mountains. Shenandoah Central purchased a third car from Pennsylvania's East Broad Top Railroad. After several failed attempts to locate and acquire rail, Chesapeake Western Railway loaned Shenandoah Central the necessary rail to build the one-mile scenic track which would be known as the Tweetsie Route. Norfolk \u0026amp; Western provided the ties and ballast. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShenandoah Central Railroad held its Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 to mark the official opening of the Tweetsie Route and the inaugural run of the Stonewall Jackson train. The Stonewall Jackson comprised a coach, a combination car, and a screened observation car with Tweetsie pulling the cars. During the Stonewall Jackson's first run, Dr. Paul Hill was Tweetsie's conductor, C. Grattan Price Jr. was engineer, and Wade W. Menefee Jr. was fireman. The ceremony included remarks by Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway; F. S. Baird, vice president of the Norfolk \u0026amp; Western; Sherman Pippin, retired ET\u0026amp;WNC engineer who was the engineer on Tweetsie's last run in 1950; and C. Grattan Price and Wade Menefee Jr. on behalf of the Shenandoah Central Railroad among others. Music was provided by the Harrisonburg High School band and included the songs \"Dixie\" and \"I've Been Working on the Railroad.\" Major General Carl R. Gray Jr, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, drove the golden spike.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter two operating seasons, which saw more than 15,000 visitors, the partners were forced to place Tweetsie and the cars up for sale due to insufficient patronage and resulting loss of money. Additionally, flooding from Hurricane Hazel which hit Virginia in October 1954 damaged the track and roadbed beyond what was financially feasible for the partners to repair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eActor and singer-songwriter Gene Autry inquired about purchasing Tweetsie and related equipment in April 1955. He intended to use the locomotive and equipment in his television and movie projects. Autry even planned to come to Harrisonburg in the spring of 1955 to finalize the arrangements, a visit that was eagerly anticipated by community members and local press. However, by the end of August 1955, the Autry Deal was dead due to the cost to transport the locomotive and equipment from Virginia to Autry's Melody Ranch in California as well as the cost to lay the rails.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDuring the spring of 1955, singer, musical actor, and automobile enthusiast James Melton also expressed interest in Tweetsie for display in his antique automobile museum, James Melton Autorama, in Hypoluxo, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGrover C. Robbins Jr. of Lenoir, North Carolina ultimately purchased the Tweetsie locomotive and equipment on August 25, 1955 for $17,000. The Tweetsie Railroad is still in operation in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["At the suggestion of Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway, C. Grattan Price Jr., Harrisonburg insurance agent and railroad enthusiast, wrote to the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad in August 1952 about purchasing a narrow gauge steam locomotive and tender as well as narrow gauge cars. Price, along with fellow railfans Wade W. Menefee Jr. and Dr. Paul S. Hill, intended to build a narrow gauge railroad on Hill's farm in Penn Laird, Virginia as a scenic operating museum line. Narrow gauge railways differ from standard railways in that the distance between rails is 3 feet compared to the standard 4 feet, 3 1/2 inches.","Dr. Paul S. Hill (1907-1986) was a surgeon in Harrisonburg. He attended Washington \u0026 Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School. Hill served as a major with the Medical Corps during World War II. Wade W. Menefee Jr. (1924-2004) was a graduate of Virginia Tech and a World War II veteran. Upon his return from military service, Menefee managed W. M. Menefee \u0026 Son, a local feed, fuel, and general supply company. Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996) graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a veteran of World War II during which time he served as a railway shop superintendent and was a member of the U.S. Army's military railway service in France. Price was a partner in the insurance firm C. G. Price \u0026 Sons, Inc. until his retirement in 1978. He also authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1991). He was a resident of Harrisonburg and lived on Franklin Street until 1958 when he moved to Ott street where he lived the remainder of his life. ","In November 1952, Price, Menefee, and Hill entered into a partnership agreement forming the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Hill served as Shenandoah Central's president, Price was vice president and general manager, and Menefee was secretary-treasurer. Soon after its formation, Shenandoah Central purchased Tweetsie (aka Locomotive #12), a historic narrow gauge steam locomotive, and two narrow gauge passenger cars from ET\u0026WNC. Prior to its purchase by Shenandoah Central, Tweetsie was a working engine from 1917 to 1950 in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, plying the area's Great Smoky Mountains. Shenandoah Central purchased a third car from Pennsylvania's East Broad Top Railroad. After several failed attempts to locate and acquire rail, Chesapeake Western Railway loaned Shenandoah Central the necessary rail to build the one-mile scenic track which would be known as the Tweetsie Route. Norfolk \u0026 Western provided the ties and ballast. ","Shenandoah Central Railroad held its Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 to mark the official opening of the Tweetsie Route and the inaugural run of the Stonewall Jackson train. The Stonewall Jackson comprised a coach, a combination car, and a screened observation car with Tweetsie pulling the cars. During the Stonewall Jackson's first run, Dr. Paul Hill was Tweetsie's conductor, C. Grattan Price Jr. was engineer, and Wade W. Menefee Jr. was fireman. The ceremony included remarks by Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway; F. S. Baird, vice president of the Norfolk \u0026 Western; Sherman Pippin, retired ET\u0026WNC engineer who was the engineer on Tweetsie's last run in 1950; and C. Grattan Price and Wade Menefee Jr. on behalf of the Shenandoah Central Railroad among others. Music was provided by the Harrisonburg High School band and included the songs \"Dixie\" and \"I've Been Working on the Railroad.\" Major General Carl R. Gray Jr, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, drove the golden spike.","After two operating seasons, which saw more than 15,000 visitors, the partners were forced to place Tweetsie and the cars up for sale due to insufficient patronage and resulting loss of money. Additionally, flooding from Hurricane Hazel which hit Virginia in October 1954 damaged the track and roadbed beyond what was financially feasible for the partners to repair.","Actor and singer-songwriter Gene Autry inquired about purchasing Tweetsie and related equipment in April 1955. He intended to use the locomotive and equipment in his television and movie projects. Autry even planned to come to Harrisonburg in the spring of 1955 to finalize the arrangements, a visit that was eagerly anticipated by community members and local press. However, by the end of August 1955, the Autry Deal was dead due to the cost to transport the locomotive and equipment from Virginia to Autry's Melody Ranch in California as well as the cost to lay the rails.","During the spring of 1955, singer, musical actor, and automobile enthusiast James Melton also expressed interest in Tweetsie for display in his antique automobile museum, James Melton Autorama, in Hypoluxo, Florida.","Grover C. Robbins Jr. of Lenoir, North Carolina ultimately purchased the Tweetsie locomotive and equipment on August 25, 1955 for $17,000. The Tweetsie Railroad is still in operation in Blowing Rock, North Carolina."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), SC 0327, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), SC 0327, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSpecial Collections staff provided the donor with archival folders prior to transferring materials. The collection was largely received in foldered groupings (correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings) by the donor. Much of the correspondence was received grouped together according to correspondent and bound with staples, likely an arrangement kept by C. Grattan Price Jr. These groupings as well as the staples were left intact to maintain original order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuplicate copies of magazines were not retained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs with affixed labels or extensive writing on the backs are interfiled with paper to prevent bleeding onto surrounding photographs. Photograph titles are based largely on the descriptions provided by C. Grattan Price Jr. All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor Jr.'s video recording of his family's trips to the Shenandoah Central are digitized. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Special Collections staff provided the donor with archival folders prior to transferring materials. The collection was largely received in foldered groupings (correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings) by the donor. Much of the correspondence was received grouped together according to correspondent and bound with staples, likely an arrangement kept by C. Grattan Price Jr. These groupings as well as the staples were left intact to maintain original order.","Duplicate copies of magazines were not retained.","Photographs with affixed labels or extensive writing on the backs are interfiled with paper to prevent bleeding onto surrounding photographs. Photograph titles are based largely on the descriptions provided by C. Grattan Price Jr. All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor Jr.'s video recording of his family's trips to the Shenandoah Central are digitized. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed articles, and promotional materials concerning the purchase of Tweetsie, narrow gauge locomotive #12, and related equipment by the Shenandoah Central Railroad in 1952; the opening of the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird, Virginia in 1953; and the eventual sale of Tweetsie and equipment in 1955.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs primarily document Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train on the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird and include passengers and railroad workers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Correspondence, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), primarily comprises correspondence relating to the purchase and subsequent sale of the Tweetsie narrow gauge locomotive, cars, and related equipment and infrastructure. One file of legal and financial documents containing annual reports, agreements, and tax documents is also included. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and according to correspondent.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026amp;WNC) Railroad Company correspondence file also includes bills of lading, inspection and repair reports, and designs for locomotive #12. A souvenir program celebrating ET\u0026amp;WNC's 85th anniversary is also included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Shenandoah Central Railroad file contains correspondence as well as the railroad's first annual report, a contract between George W. Anderson of Bridgewater and Shenandoah Central Railroad for railroad ties, and a list comprising the guests of honor attending the Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 as well as a list of contributors and non-contributors.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Price and cartoonist and railroad enthusiast Carl Fallberg concerns Fallberg's 1953 cartoon drawing of the Shenandoah Central Railroad commissioned by Price. Mulitple copies of the cartoon are included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Gene Autry concerns Autry's intended option to purchase the Tweetsie locomotive for use on his California ranch and in movies. Autry ultimately backed out on the purchase agreement due to the cost to transport and erect the narrow gauge locomotive and equipment. Financial agreements, legal documents, telegrams, and memoranda concerning the Autry Deal supplement the correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAdditional correspondence includes Price's offer to various movie studios including Warner Brothers, Republic Productions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Walt Disney to purchase Tweetsie and their respective responses. The new theme park Disneyland was undergoing construction at this time and Price was advised that Walt Disney might be interested in purchasing the locomotive and cars to incorporate into the new theme park. Disney responded that all of the locomotives and trains were being built on-site and scaled down to 5/8 the size. Price also wrote to Los Angeles-area newspapers urging them to write a human interest story about Tweetsie.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA single file of legal and financial documents is included in this series and filed after the correspondence. Shenandoah Central's first and second annual report, legal agreements, and tax documents are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997, comprises magazine articles, printed news stories, and newspaper clippings concerning Tweetsie, the Tweetsie Route, and the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Press releases, promotional ephemera, brochures, and invitations and name tags for the Golden Spike Ceremony are included. A 1997 print of Gil Reid's 1954 watercolor \"Tweetsie,\" created to support Rockingham Public Library's capital campaign fund, is included \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOf particular interest is a five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Price's friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eC. Grattan Price Jr.'s undated draft manuscript \"All Steam and a Yard Wide\" provides an incomplete historical account Shenandoah Central Railroad, its partners, and Tweetsie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Charles Grattan Price Jr.'s friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: ELIZABETHTON, TENN OCT 20, 1949 - handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Tweetsie's\" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Tweetsie\" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Tweetsie\" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET\u0026amp;WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Over the river and through the wood\" went \"Tweetsie\" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: L to R - Hill, Price Menefee - handwritten; THE THREE OWNERS OF THE SHENANDOAH CENTRAL RAILROAD TAKEN ON \"GOLD SPIKE DAY\" 5/29/53 L. TO R.: DR. PAUL S. HILL (PRESIDENT), C. GRATTAN PRICE, JR. (VICE PRES. \u0026amp; GEN. MGR.), WADE W. MENEFEE, JR. (SEC.-TREAS.) - handwritten and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price Jr. Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; C. Grattan Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Dr. Paul S. Hill, Pres. (Conductor) C. Grattan Price, Jr., V.P. \u0026amp; G.M. (Engineer) Wade W. Menefee, Jr., Sec.-Treas. (Fireman) Taken at the end of first run following Golden Spike ceremony May 29, 1953 at \"Central Park.\" - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Driving of the Golden Spike, Shandoah Central Railroad, Lakeside Station (Penn Laird, Va.), 4:30 P.M. May 29, 1953 by Major-General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administrator of the U.S. (former Vice-Pres., Chicago \u0026amp; Northwestern Ry., and Chief, Military Railway Service, European Theater, W.W.II). L to R - C.G. Price, Jr., Vice-Pres. \u0026amp; Gen. Mgr., Shenandoah Central R.R., W.W. Menefee, Jr., Sect'y.-Treas., Shenandoah Central R.R., L.W. Huncke, Pres., Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Kansas City, Kas. (donors of track-laying), F.S. Baird, Vice-Pres. (Traffic), Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Ry., Sherman Pippin, Engineer of last train when E.T.\u0026amp;W.N.C.R.R. abandoned narrow-gauge division in 1950. (Equipment bought by Shenandoah Central R.R.), General Gray, A.W. St. Clair, Gen'l. Mgr., Southern Ry. System - Lines East, C.R. Wilburn, Vice-Pres., Operations, East Broad Top R.R., Dr. P.S. Hill, Pres., Shenandoah Central R.R., (Mr. D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry. temporarily absent when picture taken.) Photo by: N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Please return to: C.G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Crowd before start of ceremony, Photo by Southern Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry., speaking. Photo by Bob Riley - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Harrisonburg High School Band plays as invited guests board first train, after ceremony. 5/29/53 Photo by N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eF. S. Baird, Vice-Pres., Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Ry. Photo by N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Sherman Pippin, retired E.T.\u0026amp;W.N.C. R.R. engineer. He was engineer on last run of their narrow-gauge division in October, 1950. Taken at S.C.R.R.'s Golden Spike Ceremony May 29, 1953, Photo by N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by H. Reid 8549 Wayland St. Norfolk, VA. - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Engineman: C. Grattan Price, Jr., Fireman: M. H. Dofflemyer (Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12) (1954) - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. compares time with Engineman Grattan Price, Jr. as Fireman Myron Dofflemyer looks on. Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12 (1954) - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. \"lifts transportation.\" - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. at rear end of \"The Stonewall Jackson\" - America's last narrow-gauge \"name\" train. - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo By Ward Allan Howe 310 Riverside Drive New York, 25, N. Y. - stamped; 5-30-54 - handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: W. E. Warden, Jr. 1216 Shamrock La. Waynesboro, Va. - stamped; August 1954 - handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels; May 71 Railroad Pages 30, 31 #2134.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central R. R. - approaching Massanutten Summit - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central Railroad \"The Stonewall Jackson,\" pulled by famous \"Tweetsie,\" crossing Cub Run Bridge. - handwritten; Photo by H. Reid - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Taken on line between Cub Run Bridge and Massanutten Summit May 30, 1954 - handwritten; Photo by Lee-Gitchell Studio - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on postcard: Ride One of America's Last Old-Time Narrow-Gauge Trains! Shenandoah Central Railroad U. S. Route 33 at Penn Laird Six Miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia - printed; Everett Waddey Company - Richmond, Virginia; printed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on postcard: Famous Locomotive \"Tweetsie\" pulls old-time narrow-gauge train on 1-mile Shenandoah Central Railroad each Sunday and holiday from late May to early October at Penn Laird, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, six miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on U. S. Route 33. Come take a \"Trip to Yesteryear.\" - printed; Hannau Color Productions, 605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. - printed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed articles, and promotional materials concerning the purchase of Tweetsie, narrow gauge locomotive #12, and related equipment by the Shenandoah Central Railroad in 1952; the opening of the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird, Virginia in 1953; and the eventual sale of Tweetsie and equipment in 1955.","Photographs primarily document Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train on the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird and include passengers and railroad workers.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), primarily comprises correspondence relating to the purchase and subsequent sale of the Tweetsie narrow gauge locomotive, cars, and related equipment and infrastructure. One file of legal and financial documents containing annual reports, agreements, and tax documents is also included. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and according to correspondent.","The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad Company correspondence file also includes bills of lading, inspection and repair reports, and designs for locomotive #12. A souvenir program celebrating ET\u0026WNC's 85th anniversary is also included.","The Shenandoah Central Railroad file contains correspondence as well as the railroad's first annual report, a contract between George W. Anderson of Bridgewater and Shenandoah Central Railroad for railroad ties, and a list comprising the guests of honor attending the Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 as well as a list of contributors and non-contributors.","Correspondence between Price and cartoonist and railroad enthusiast Carl Fallberg concerns Fallberg's 1953 cartoon drawing of the Shenandoah Central Railroad commissioned by Price. Mulitple copies of the cartoon are included.","Correspondence with Gene Autry concerns Autry's intended option to purchase the Tweetsie locomotive for use on his California ranch and in movies. Autry ultimately backed out on the purchase agreement due to the cost to transport and erect the narrow gauge locomotive and equipment. Financial agreements, legal documents, telegrams, and memoranda concerning the Autry Deal supplement the correspondence.","Additional correspondence includes Price's offer to various movie studios including Warner Brothers, Republic Productions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Walt Disney to purchase Tweetsie and their respective responses. The new theme park Disneyland was undergoing construction at this time and Price was advised that Walt Disney might be interested in purchasing the locomotive and cars to incorporate into the new theme park. Disney responded that all of the locomotives and trains were being built on-site and scaled down to 5/8 the size. Price also wrote to Los Angeles-area newspapers urging them to write a human interest story about Tweetsie.","A single file of legal and financial documents is included in this series and filed after the correspondence. Shenandoah Central's first and second annual report, legal agreements, and tax documents are included.","Series 2: Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997, comprises magazine articles, printed news stories, and newspaper clippings concerning Tweetsie, the Tweetsie Route, and the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Press releases, promotional ephemera, brochures, and invitations and name tags for the Golden Spike Ceremony are included. A 1997 print of Gil Reid's 1954 watercolor \"Tweetsie,\" created to support Rockingham Public Library's capital campaign fund, is included ","Of particular interest is a five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Price's friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","C. Grattan Price Jr.'s undated draft manuscript \"All Steam and a Yard Wide\" provides an incomplete historical account Shenandoah Central Railroad, its partners, and Tweetsie.","Five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Charles Grattan Price Jr.'s friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","Series 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.","Text on photo: ELIZABETHTON, TENN OCT 20, 1949 - handwritten.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie's\" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET\u0026WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Over the river and through the wood\" went \"Tweetsie\" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: L to R - Hill, Price Menefee - handwritten; THE THREE OWNERS OF THE SHENANDOAH CENTRAL RAILROAD TAKEN ON \"GOLD SPIKE DAY\" 5/29/53 L. TO R.: DR. PAUL S. HILL (PRESIDENT), C. GRATTAN PRICE, JR. (VICE PRES. \u0026 GEN. MGR.), WADE W. MENEFEE, JR. (SEC.-TREAS.) - handwritten and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price Jr. Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; C. Grattan Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - address label.","Text on photo: Dr. Paul S. Hill, Pres. (Conductor) C. Grattan Price, Jr., V.P. \u0026 G.M. (Engineer) Wade W. Menefee, Jr., Sec.-Treas. (Fireman) Taken at the end of first run following Golden Spike ceremony May 29, 1953 at \"Central Park.\" - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Driving of the Golden Spike, Shandoah Central Railroad, Lakeside Station (Penn Laird, Va.), 4:30 P.M. May 29, 1953 by Major-General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administrator of the U.S. (former Vice-Pres., Chicago \u0026 Northwestern Ry., and Chief, Military Railway Service, European Theater, W.W.II). L to R - C.G. Price, Jr., Vice-Pres. \u0026 Gen. Mgr., Shenandoah Central R.R., W.W. Menefee, Jr., Sect'y.-Treas., Shenandoah Central R.R., L.W. Huncke, Pres., Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Kansas City, Kas. (donors of track-laying), F.S. Baird, Vice-Pres. (Traffic), Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry., Sherman Pippin, Engineer of last train when E.T.\u0026W.N.C.R.R. abandoned narrow-gauge division in 1950. (Equipment bought by Shenandoah Central R.R.), General Gray, A.W. St. Clair, Gen'l. Mgr., Southern Ry. System - Lines East, C.R. Wilburn, Vice-Pres., Operations, East Broad Top R.R., Dr. P.S. Hill, Pres., Shenandoah Central R.R., (Mr. D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry. temporarily absent when picture taken.) Photo by: N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Please return to: C.G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Crowd before start of ceremony, Photo by Southern Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry., speaking. Photo by Bob Riley - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Harrisonburg High School Band plays as invited guests board first train, after ceremony. 5/29/53 Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","F. S. Baird, Vice-Pres., Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry. Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Sherman Pippin, retired E.T.\u0026W.N.C. R.R. engineer. He was engineer on last run of their narrow-gauge division in October, 1950. Taken at S.C.R.R.'s Golden Spike Ceremony May 29, 1953, Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by H. Reid 8549 Wayland St. Norfolk, VA. - stamped.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Engineman: C. Grattan Price, Jr., Fireman: M. H. Dofflemyer (Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12) (1954) - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. compares time with Engineman Grattan Price, Jr. as Fireman Myron Dofflemyer looks on. Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12 (1954) - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. \"lifts transportation.\" - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. at rear end of \"The Stonewall Jackson\" - America's last narrow-gauge \"name\" train. - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo By Ward Allan Howe 310 Riverside Drive New York, 25, N. Y. - stamped; 5-30-54 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: W. E. Warden, Jr. 1216 Shamrock La. Waynesboro, Va. - stamped; August 1954 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels; May 71 Railroad Pages 30, 31 #2134.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central R. R. - approaching Massanutten Summit - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central Railroad \"The Stonewall Jackson,\" pulled by famous \"Tweetsie,\" crossing Cub Run Bridge. - handwritten; Photo by H. Reid - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels.","Text on photo: Taken on line between Cub Run Bridge and Massanutten Summit May 30, 1954 - handwritten; Photo by Lee-Gitchell Studio - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on postcard: Ride One of America's Last Old-Time Narrow-Gauge Trains! Shenandoah Central Railroad U. S. Route 33 at Penn Laird Six Miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia - printed; Everett Waddey Company - Richmond, Virginia; printed.","Text on postcard: Famous Locomotive \"Tweetsie\" pulls old-time narrow-gauge train on 1-mile Shenandoah Central Railroad each Sunday and holiday from late May to early October at Penn Laird, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, six miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on U. S. Route 33. Come take a \"Trip to Yesteryear.\" - printed; Hannau Color Productions, 605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. - printed."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo books were removed from the collection and cataloged individually as part of Special Collections rare book holdings: Mallory Hope Ferrell's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTweetsie Country: The East Tennessee \u0026amp; Western North Carolina Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e (1976) and Clyde J. Dellinger's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTweetsie and The Clinchfield Railroads: Crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains\u003c/emph\u003e (1975).\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Two books were removed from the collection and cataloged individually as part of Special Collections rare book holdings: Mallory Hope Ferrell's  Tweetsie Country: The East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad  (1976) and Clyde J. Dellinger's  Tweetsie and The Clinchfield Railroads: Crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains  (1975)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_b6b9619e80b1268cd52dc20414033cac\"\u003eThe Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954."],"names_coll_ssim":["Tweetsie (Locomotive)","Price, Charles Grattan, III","Price, Charles Grattan, Jr., 1919-1996","Menefee, Wade W., Jr. (Wade Whitfield), 1924-2004","Hill, Paul S., Dr. (Paul Swanson), 1907-1986"],"names_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Tweetsie (Locomotive)","East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company","East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company","Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company","Southern Railway System","Shenandoah Central Railroad (1952-1956)","Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk and Western Railway Company","North Carolina. 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Graham (William Graham), 1912-1994","Aydelott, Gale B.","Clodfelter, Frank, 1911-","Reid, Gil, 1918-2007","Riley, Bob","Reid, H.","Gorman","Howe, Ward Allan, 1900-1977","Warden, W. 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Va.) -- History","Railroads -- Virginia -- History","Photographs","Memorandums","Letters (correspondence)","Telegrams","Newspaper clippings","Printed Ephemera","Magazines (periodicals)","Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor's video recording of his family's visit to the Shenandoah Central have been digitized and are available online via  JSTOR . Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copies of this photograph have not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copy of this photograph has not been scanned.","Duplicate copies of this postcard have not been scanned.","The collection is arranged into three series. All series are arranged chronologically.","Correspondence, 1916-1997 Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997 Photographs, 1952-1954","At the suggestion of Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway, C. Grattan Price Jr., Harrisonburg insurance agent and railroad enthusiast, wrote to the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad in August 1952 about purchasing a narrow gauge steam locomotive and tender as well as narrow gauge cars. Price, along with fellow railfans Wade W. Menefee Jr. and Dr. Paul S. Hill, intended to build a narrow gauge railroad on Hill's farm in Penn Laird, Virginia as a scenic operating museum line. Narrow gauge railways differ from standard railways in that the distance between rails is 3 feet compared to the standard 4 feet, 3 1/2 inches.","Dr. Paul S. Hill (1907-1986) was a surgeon in Harrisonburg. He attended Washington \u0026 Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School. Hill served as a major with the Medical Corps during World War II. Wade W. Menefee Jr. (1924-2004) was a graduate of Virginia Tech and a World War II veteran. Upon his return from military service, Menefee managed W. M. Menefee \u0026 Son, a local feed, fuel, and general supply company. Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996) graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a veteran of World War II during which time he served as a railway shop superintendent and was a member of the U.S. Army's military railway service in France. Price was a partner in the insurance firm C. G. Price \u0026 Sons, Inc. until his retirement in 1978. He also authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1991). He was a resident of Harrisonburg and lived on Franklin Street until 1958 when he moved to Ott street where he lived the remainder of his life. ","In November 1952, Price, Menefee, and Hill entered into a partnership agreement forming the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Hill served as Shenandoah Central's president, Price was vice president and general manager, and Menefee was secretary-treasurer. Soon after its formation, Shenandoah Central purchased Tweetsie (aka Locomotive #12), a historic narrow gauge steam locomotive, and two narrow gauge passenger cars from ET\u0026WNC. Prior to its purchase by Shenandoah Central, Tweetsie was a working engine from 1917 to 1950 in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, plying the area's Great Smoky Mountains. Shenandoah Central purchased a third car from Pennsylvania's East Broad Top Railroad. After several failed attempts to locate and acquire rail, Chesapeake Western Railway loaned Shenandoah Central the necessary rail to build the one-mile scenic track which would be known as the Tweetsie Route. Norfolk \u0026 Western provided the ties and ballast. ","Shenandoah Central Railroad held its Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 to mark the official opening of the Tweetsie Route and the inaugural run of the Stonewall Jackson train. The Stonewall Jackson comprised a coach, a combination car, and a screened observation car with Tweetsie pulling the cars. During the Stonewall Jackson's first run, Dr. Paul Hill was Tweetsie's conductor, C. Grattan Price Jr. was engineer, and Wade W. Menefee Jr. was fireman. The ceremony included remarks by Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway; F. S. Baird, vice president of the Norfolk \u0026 Western; Sherman Pippin, retired ET\u0026WNC engineer who was the engineer on Tweetsie's last run in 1950; and C. Grattan Price and Wade Menefee Jr. on behalf of the Shenandoah Central Railroad among others. Music was provided by the Harrisonburg High School band and included the songs \"Dixie\" and \"I've Been Working on the Railroad.\" Major General Carl R. Gray Jr, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, drove the golden spike.","After two operating seasons, which saw more than 15,000 visitors, the partners were forced to place Tweetsie and the cars up for sale due to insufficient patronage and resulting loss of money. Additionally, flooding from Hurricane Hazel which hit Virginia in October 1954 damaged the track and roadbed beyond what was financially feasible for the partners to repair.","Actor and singer-songwriter Gene Autry inquired about purchasing Tweetsie and related equipment in April 1955. He intended to use the locomotive and equipment in his television and movie projects. Autry even planned to come to Harrisonburg in the spring of 1955 to finalize the arrangements, a visit that was eagerly anticipated by community members and local press. However, by the end of August 1955, the Autry Deal was dead due to the cost to transport the locomotive and equipment from Virginia to Autry's Melody Ranch in California as well as the cost to lay the rails.","During the spring of 1955, singer, musical actor, and automobile enthusiast James Melton also expressed interest in Tweetsie for display in his antique automobile museum, James Melton Autorama, in Hypoluxo, Florida.","Grover C. Robbins Jr. of Lenoir, North Carolina ultimately purchased the Tweetsie locomotive and equipment on August 25, 1955 for $17,000. The Tweetsie Railroad is still in operation in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.","Special Collections staff provided the donor with archival folders prior to transferring materials. The collection was largely received in foldered groupings (correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings) by the donor. Much of the correspondence was received grouped together according to correspondent and bound with staples, likely an arrangement kept by C. Grattan Price Jr. These groupings as well as the staples were left intact to maintain original order.","Duplicate copies of magazines were not retained.","Photographs with affixed labels or extensive writing on the backs are interfiled with paper to prevent bleeding onto surrounding photographs. Photograph titles are based largely on the descriptions provided by C. Grattan Price Jr. All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor Jr.'s video recording of his family's trips to the Shenandoah Central are digitized. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned.","The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed articles, and promotional materials concerning the purchase of Tweetsie, narrow gauge locomotive #12, and related equipment by the Shenandoah Central Railroad in 1952; the opening of the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird, Virginia in 1953; and the eventual sale of Tweetsie and equipment in 1955.","Photographs primarily document Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train on the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird and include passengers and railroad workers.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), primarily comprises correspondence relating to the purchase and subsequent sale of the Tweetsie narrow gauge locomotive, cars, and related equipment and infrastructure. One file of legal and financial documents containing annual reports, agreements, and tax documents is also included. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and according to correspondent.","The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad Company correspondence file also includes bills of lading, inspection and repair reports, and designs for locomotive #12. A souvenir program celebrating ET\u0026WNC's 85th anniversary is also included.","The Shenandoah Central Railroad file contains correspondence as well as the railroad's first annual report, a contract between George W. Anderson of Bridgewater and Shenandoah Central Railroad for railroad ties, and a list comprising the guests of honor attending the Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 as well as a list of contributors and non-contributors.","Correspondence between Price and cartoonist and railroad enthusiast Carl Fallberg concerns Fallberg's 1953 cartoon drawing of the Shenandoah Central Railroad commissioned by Price. Mulitple copies of the cartoon are included.","Correspondence with Gene Autry concerns Autry's intended option to purchase the Tweetsie locomotive for use on his California ranch and in movies. Autry ultimately backed out on the purchase agreement due to the cost to transport and erect the narrow gauge locomotive and equipment. Financial agreements, legal documents, telegrams, and memoranda concerning the Autry Deal supplement the correspondence.","Additional correspondence includes Price's offer to various movie studios including Warner Brothers, Republic Productions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Walt Disney to purchase Tweetsie and their respective responses. The new theme park Disneyland was undergoing construction at this time and Price was advised that Walt Disney might be interested in purchasing the locomotive and cars to incorporate into the new theme park. Disney responded that all of the locomotives and trains were being built on-site and scaled down to 5/8 the size. Price also wrote to Los Angeles-area newspapers urging them to write a human interest story about Tweetsie.","A single file of legal and financial documents is included in this series and filed after the correspondence. Shenandoah Central's first and second annual report, legal agreements, and tax documents are included.","Series 2: Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997, comprises magazine articles, printed news stories, and newspaper clippings concerning Tweetsie, the Tweetsie Route, and the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Press releases, promotional ephemera, brochures, and invitations and name tags for the Golden Spike Ceremony are included. A 1997 print of Gil Reid's 1954 watercolor \"Tweetsie,\" created to support Rockingham Public Library's capital campaign fund, is included ","Of particular interest is a five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Price's friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","C. Grattan Price Jr.'s undated draft manuscript \"All Steam and a Yard Wide\" provides an incomplete historical account Shenandoah Central Railroad, its partners, and Tweetsie.","Five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Charles Grattan Price Jr.'s friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","Series 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.","Text on photo: ELIZABETHTON, TENN OCT 20, 1949 - handwritten.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie's\" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET\u0026WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Over the river and through the wood\" went \"Tweetsie\" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: L to R - Hill, Price Menefee - handwritten; THE THREE OWNERS OF THE SHENANDOAH CENTRAL RAILROAD TAKEN ON \"GOLD SPIKE DAY\" 5/29/53 L. TO R.: DR. PAUL S. HILL (PRESIDENT), C. GRATTAN PRICE, JR. (VICE PRES. \u0026 GEN. MGR.), WADE W. MENEFEE, JR. (SEC.-TREAS.) - handwritten and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price Jr. Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; C. Grattan Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - address label.","Text on photo: Dr. Paul S. Hill, Pres. (Conductor) C. Grattan Price, Jr., V.P. \u0026 G.M. (Engineer) Wade W. Menefee, Jr., Sec.-Treas. (Fireman) Taken at the end of first run following Golden Spike ceremony May 29, 1953 at \"Central Park.\" - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Driving of the Golden Spike, Shandoah Central Railroad, Lakeside Station (Penn Laird, Va.), 4:30 P.M. May 29, 1953 by Major-General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administrator of the U.S. (former Vice-Pres., Chicago \u0026 Northwestern Ry., and Chief, Military Railway Service, European Theater, W.W.II). L to R - C.G. Price, Jr., Vice-Pres. \u0026 Gen. Mgr., Shenandoah Central R.R., W.W. Menefee, Jr., Sect'y.-Treas., Shenandoah Central R.R., L.W. Huncke, Pres., Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Kansas City, Kas. (donors of track-laying), F.S. Baird, Vice-Pres. (Traffic), Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry., Sherman Pippin, Engineer of last train when E.T.\u0026W.N.C.R.R. abandoned narrow-gauge division in 1950. (Equipment bought by Shenandoah Central R.R.), General Gray, A.W. St. Clair, Gen'l. Mgr., Southern Ry. System - Lines East, C.R. Wilburn, Vice-Pres., Operations, East Broad Top R.R., Dr. P.S. Hill, Pres., Shenandoah Central R.R., (Mr. D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry. temporarily absent when picture taken.) Photo by: N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Please return to: C.G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Crowd before start of ceremony, Photo by Southern Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry., speaking. Photo by Bob Riley - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Harrisonburg High School Band plays as invited guests board first train, after ceremony. 5/29/53 Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","F. S. Baird, Vice-Pres., Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry. Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Sherman Pippin, retired E.T.\u0026W.N.C. R.R. engineer. He was engineer on last run of their narrow-gauge division in October, 1950. Taken at S.C.R.R.'s Golden Spike Ceremony May 29, 1953, Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by H. Reid 8549 Wayland St. Norfolk, VA. - stamped.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Engineman: C. Grattan Price, Jr., Fireman: M. H. Dofflemyer (Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12) (1954) - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. compares time with Engineman Grattan Price, Jr. as Fireman Myron Dofflemyer looks on. Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12 (1954) - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. \"lifts transportation.\" - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. at rear end of \"The Stonewall Jackson\" - America's last narrow-gauge \"name\" train. - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo By Ward Allan Howe 310 Riverside Drive New York, 25, N. Y. - stamped; 5-30-54 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: W. E. Warden, Jr. 1216 Shamrock La. Waynesboro, Va. - stamped; August 1954 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels; May 71 Railroad Pages 30, 31 #2134.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central R. R. - approaching Massanutten Summit - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central Railroad \"The Stonewall Jackson,\" pulled by famous \"Tweetsie,\" crossing Cub Run Bridge. - handwritten; Photo by H. Reid - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels.","Text on photo: Taken on line between Cub Run Bridge and Massanutten Summit May 30, 1954 - handwritten; Photo by Lee-Gitchell Studio - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on postcard: Ride One of America's Last Old-Time Narrow-Gauge Trains! Shenandoah Central Railroad U. S. Route 33 at Penn Laird Six Miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia - printed; Everett Waddey Company - Richmond, Virginia; printed.","Text on postcard: Famous Locomotive \"Tweetsie\" pulls old-time narrow-gauge train on 1-mile Shenandoah Central Railroad each Sunday and holiday from late May to early October at Penn Laird, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, six miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on U. S. Route 33. Come take a \"Trip to Yesteryear.\" - printed; Hannau Color Productions, 605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. - printed.","Two books were removed from the collection and cataloged individually as part of Special Collections rare book holdings: Mallory Hope Ferrell's  Tweetsie Country: The East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad  (1976) and Clyde J. Dellinger's  Tweetsie and The Clinchfield Railroads: Crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains  (1975).","The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Tweetsie (Locomotive)","East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company","East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company","Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company","Southern Railway System","Shenandoah Central Railroad (1952-1956)","Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk and Western Railway Company","North Carolina. Department of Conservation and Development. 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For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was donated to Special Collections in July 2021 by C. Grattan \"Butch\" Price III, son of C. Grattan Price Jr."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Narrow gauge railroads -- United States","Steam locomotives -- History","Railroads -- History","Railroad trains -- History","Railroads -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History","Railroads -- Virginia -- History","Photographs","Memorandums","Letters (correspondence)","Telegrams","Newspaper clippings","Printed Ephemera","Magazines (periodicals)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Narrow gauge railroads -- United States","Steam locomotives -- History","Railroads -- History","Railroad trains -- History","Railroads -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. 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All series are arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist numeration=\"arabic\" type=\"ordered\"\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eCorrespondence, 1916-1997\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003ePrinted and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003ePhotographs, 1952-1954\u003c/item\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged into three series. All series are arranged chronologically.","Correspondence, 1916-1997 Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997 Photographs, 1952-1954"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAt the suggestion of Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway, C. Grattan Price Jr., Harrisonburg insurance agent and railroad enthusiast, wrote to the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026amp;WNC) Railroad in August 1952 about purchasing a narrow gauge steam locomotive and tender as well as narrow gauge cars. Price, along with fellow railfans Wade W. Menefee Jr. and Dr. Paul S. Hill, intended to build a narrow gauge railroad on Hill's farm in Penn Laird, Virginia as a scenic operating museum line. Narrow gauge railways differ from standard railways in that the distance between rails is 3 feet compared to the standard 4 feet, 3 1/2 inches.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Paul S. Hill (1907-1986) was a surgeon in Harrisonburg. He attended Washington \u0026amp; Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School. Hill served as a major with the Medical Corps during World War II. Wade W. Menefee Jr. (1924-2004) was a graduate of Virginia Tech and a World War II veteran. Upon his return from military service, Menefee managed W. M. Menefee \u0026amp; Son, a local feed, fuel, and general supply company. Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996) graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a veteran of World War II during which time he served as a railway shop superintendent and was a member of the U.S. Army's military railway service in France. Price was a partner in the insurance firm C. G. Price \u0026amp; Sons, Inc. until his retirement in 1978. He also authored \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"The Crooked \u0026amp; Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway\u003c/emph\u003e (1991). He was a resident of Harrisonburg and lived on Franklin Street until 1958 when he moved to Ott street where he lived the remainder of his life. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn November 1952, Price, Menefee, and Hill entered into a partnership agreement forming the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Hill served as Shenandoah Central's president, Price was vice president and general manager, and Menefee was secretary-treasurer. Soon after its formation, Shenandoah Central purchased Tweetsie (aka Locomotive #12), a historic narrow gauge steam locomotive, and two narrow gauge passenger cars from ET\u0026amp;WNC. Prior to its purchase by Shenandoah Central, Tweetsie was a working engine from 1917 to 1950 in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, plying the area's Great Smoky Mountains. Shenandoah Central purchased a third car from Pennsylvania's East Broad Top Railroad. After several failed attempts to locate and acquire rail, Chesapeake Western Railway loaned Shenandoah Central the necessary rail to build the one-mile scenic track which would be known as the Tweetsie Route. Norfolk \u0026amp; Western provided the ties and ballast. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShenandoah Central Railroad held its Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 to mark the official opening of the Tweetsie Route and the inaugural run of the Stonewall Jackson train. The Stonewall Jackson comprised a coach, a combination car, and a screened observation car with Tweetsie pulling the cars. During the Stonewall Jackson's first run, Dr. Paul Hill was Tweetsie's conductor, C. Grattan Price Jr. was engineer, and Wade W. Menefee Jr. was fireman. The ceremony included remarks by Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway; F. S. Baird, vice president of the Norfolk \u0026amp; Western; Sherman Pippin, retired ET\u0026amp;WNC engineer who was the engineer on Tweetsie's last run in 1950; and C. Grattan Price and Wade Menefee Jr. on behalf of the Shenandoah Central Railroad among others. Music was provided by the Harrisonburg High School band and included the songs \"Dixie\" and \"I've Been Working on the Railroad.\" Major General Carl R. Gray Jr, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, drove the golden spike.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter two operating seasons, which saw more than 15,000 visitors, the partners were forced to place Tweetsie and the cars up for sale due to insufficient patronage and resulting loss of money. Additionally, flooding from Hurricane Hazel which hit Virginia in October 1954 damaged the track and roadbed beyond what was financially feasible for the partners to repair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eActor and singer-songwriter Gene Autry inquired about purchasing Tweetsie and related equipment in April 1955. He intended to use the locomotive and equipment in his television and movie projects. Autry even planned to come to Harrisonburg in the spring of 1955 to finalize the arrangements, a visit that was eagerly anticipated by community members and local press. However, by the end of August 1955, the Autry Deal was dead due to the cost to transport the locomotive and equipment from Virginia to Autry's Melody Ranch in California as well as the cost to lay the rails.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDuring the spring of 1955, singer, musical actor, and automobile enthusiast James Melton also expressed interest in Tweetsie for display in his antique automobile museum, James Melton Autorama, in Hypoluxo, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGrover C. Robbins Jr. of Lenoir, North Carolina ultimately purchased the Tweetsie locomotive and equipment on August 25, 1955 for $17,000. The Tweetsie Railroad is still in operation in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["At the suggestion of Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway, C. Grattan Price Jr., Harrisonburg insurance agent and railroad enthusiast, wrote to the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad in August 1952 about purchasing a narrow gauge steam locomotive and tender as well as narrow gauge cars. Price, along with fellow railfans Wade W. Menefee Jr. and Dr. Paul S. Hill, intended to build a narrow gauge railroad on Hill's farm in Penn Laird, Virginia as a scenic operating museum line. Narrow gauge railways differ from standard railways in that the distance between rails is 3 feet compared to the standard 4 feet, 3 1/2 inches.","Dr. Paul S. Hill (1907-1986) was a surgeon in Harrisonburg. He attended Washington \u0026 Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School. Hill served as a major with the Medical Corps during World War II. Wade W. Menefee Jr. (1924-2004) was a graduate of Virginia Tech and a World War II veteran. Upon his return from military service, Menefee managed W. M. Menefee \u0026 Son, a local feed, fuel, and general supply company. Charles Grattan Price Jr. (1919-1996) graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a veteran of World War II during which time he served as a railway shop superintendent and was a member of the U.S. Army's military railway service in France. Price was a partner in the insurance firm C. G. Price \u0026 Sons, Inc. until his retirement in 1978. He also authored  \"The Crooked \u0026 Weedy\": A History of Virginia's Chesapeake Western Railway  (1991). He was a resident of Harrisonburg and lived on Franklin Street until 1958 when he moved to Ott street where he lived the remainder of his life. ","In November 1952, Price, Menefee, and Hill entered into a partnership agreement forming the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Hill served as Shenandoah Central's president, Price was vice president and general manager, and Menefee was secretary-treasurer. Soon after its formation, Shenandoah Central purchased Tweetsie (aka Locomotive #12), a historic narrow gauge steam locomotive, and two narrow gauge passenger cars from ET\u0026WNC. Prior to its purchase by Shenandoah Central, Tweetsie was a working engine from 1917 to 1950 in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, plying the area's Great Smoky Mountains. Shenandoah Central purchased a third car from Pennsylvania's East Broad Top Railroad. After several failed attempts to locate and acquire rail, Chesapeake Western Railway loaned Shenandoah Central the necessary rail to build the one-mile scenic track which would be known as the Tweetsie Route. Norfolk \u0026 Western provided the ties and ballast. ","Shenandoah Central Railroad held its Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 to mark the official opening of the Tweetsie Route and the inaugural run of the Stonewall Jackson train. The Stonewall Jackson comprised a coach, a combination car, and a screened observation car with Tweetsie pulling the cars. During the Stonewall Jackson's first run, Dr. Paul Hill was Tweetsie's conductor, C. Grattan Price Jr. was engineer, and Wade W. Menefee Jr. was fireman. The ceremony included remarks by Don W. Thomas, president of the Chesapeake Western Railway; F. S. Baird, vice president of the Norfolk \u0026 Western; Sherman Pippin, retired ET\u0026WNC engineer who was the engineer on Tweetsie's last run in 1950; and C. Grattan Price and Wade Menefee Jr. on behalf of the Shenandoah Central Railroad among others. Music was provided by the Harrisonburg High School band and included the songs \"Dixie\" and \"I've Been Working on the Railroad.\" Major General Carl R. Gray Jr, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, drove the golden spike.","After two operating seasons, which saw more than 15,000 visitors, the partners were forced to place Tweetsie and the cars up for sale due to insufficient patronage and resulting loss of money. Additionally, flooding from Hurricane Hazel which hit Virginia in October 1954 damaged the track and roadbed beyond what was financially feasible for the partners to repair.","Actor and singer-songwriter Gene Autry inquired about purchasing Tweetsie and related equipment in April 1955. He intended to use the locomotive and equipment in his television and movie projects. Autry even planned to come to Harrisonburg in the spring of 1955 to finalize the arrangements, a visit that was eagerly anticipated by community members and local press. However, by the end of August 1955, the Autry Deal was dead due to the cost to transport the locomotive and equipment from Virginia to Autry's Melody Ranch in California as well as the cost to lay the rails.","During the spring of 1955, singer, musical actor, and automobile enthusiast James Melton also expressed interest in Tweetsie for display in his antique automobile museum, James Melton Autorama, in Hypoluxo, Florida.","Grover C. Robbins Jr. of Lenoir, North Carolina ultimately purchased the Tweetsie locomotive and equipment on August 25, 1955 for $17,000. The Tweetsie Railroad is still in operation in Blowing Rock, North Carolina."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), SC 0327, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), SC 0327, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSpecial Collections staff provided the donor with archival folders prior to transferring materials. The collection was largely received in foldered groupings (correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings) by the donor. Much of the correspondence was received grouped together according to correspondent and bound with staples, likely an arrangement kept by C. Grattan Price Jr. These groupings as well as the staples were left intact to maintain original order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuplicate copies of magazines were not retained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs with affixed labels or extensive writing on the backs are interfiled with paper to prevent bleeding onto surrounding photographs. Photograph titles are based largely on the descriptions provided by C. Grattan Price Jr. All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor Jr.'s video recording of his family's trips to the Shenandoah Central are digitized. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Special Collections staff provided the donor with archival folders prior to transferring materials. The collection was largely received in foldered groupings (correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings) by the donor. Much of the correspondence was received grouped together according to correspondent and bound with staples, likely an arrangement kept by C. Grattan Price Jr. These groupings as well as the staples were left intact to maintain original order.","Duplicate copies of magazines were not retained.","Photographs with affixed labels or extensive writing on the backs are interfiled with paper to prevent bleeding onto surrounding photographs. Photograph titles are based largely on the descriptions provided by C. Grattan Price Jr. All photographs (not including photograph negatives) and W. Graham Claytor Jr.'s video recording of his family's trips to the Shenandoah Central are digitized. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were not scanned."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed articles, and promotional materials concerning the purchase of Tweetsie, narrow gauge locomotive #12, and related equipment by the Shenandoah Central Railroad in 1952; the opening of the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird, Virginia in 1953; and the eventual sale of Tweetsie and equipment in 1955.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs primarily document Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train on the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird and include passengers and railroad workers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Correspondence, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), primarily comprises correspondence relating to the purchase and subsequent sale of the Tweetsie narrow gauge locomotive, cars, and related equipment and infrastructure. One file of legal and financial documents containing annual reports, agreements, and tax documents is also included. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and according to correspondent.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026amp;WNC) Railroad Company correspondence file also includes bills of lading, inspection and repair reports, and designs for locomotive #12. A souvenir program celebrating ET\u0026amp;WNC's 85th anniversary is also included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Shenandoah Central Railroad file contains correspondence as well as the railroad's first annual report, a contract between George W. Anderson of Bridgewater and Shenandoah Central Railroad for railroad ties, and a list comprising the guests of honor attending the Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 as well as a list of contributors and non-contributors.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Price and cartoonist and railroad enthusiast Carl Fallberg concerns Fallberg's 1953 cartoon drawing of the Shenandoah Central Railroad commissioned by Price. Mulitple copies of the cartoon are included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Gene Autry concerns Autry's intended option to purchase the Tweetsie locomotive for use on his California ranch and in movies. Autry ultimately backed out on the purchase agreement due to the cost to transport and erect the narrow gauge locomotive and equipment. Financial agreements, legal documents, telegrams, and memoranda concerning the Autry Deal supplement the correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAdditional correspondence includes Price's offer to various movie studios including Warner Brothers, Republic Productions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Walt Disney to purchase Tweetsie and their respective responses. The new theme park Disneyland was undergoing construction at this time and Price was advised that Walt Disney might be interested in purchasing the locomotive and cars to incorporate into the new theme park. Disney responded that all of the locomotives and trains were being built on-site and scaled down to 5/8 the size. Price also wrote to Los Angeles-area newspapers urging them to write a human interest story about Tweetsie.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA single file of legal and financial documents is included in this series and filed after the correspondence. Shenandoah Central's first and second annual report, legal agreements, and tax documents are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997, comprises magazine articles, printed news stories, and newspaper clippings concerning Tweetsie, the Tweetsie Route, and the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Press releases, promotional ephemera, brochures, and invitations and name tags for the Golden Spike Ceremony are included. A 1997 print of Gil Reid's 1954 watercolor \"Tweetsie,\" created to support Rockingham Public Library's capital campaign fund, is included \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOf particular interest is a five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Price's friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eC. Grattan Price Jr.'s undated draft manuscript \"All Steam and a Yard Wide\" provides an incomplete historical account Shenandoah Central Railroad, its partners, and Tweetsie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Charles Grattan Price Jr.'s friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: ELIZABETHTON, TENN OCT 20, 1949 - handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Tweetsie's\" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Tweetsie\" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Tweetsie\" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET\u0026amp;WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: \"Over the river and through the wood\" went \"Tweetsie\" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026amp; DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: L to R - Hill, Price Menefee - handwritten; THE THREE OWNERS OF THE SHENANDOAH CENTRAL RAILROAD TAKEN ON \"GOLD SPIKE DAY\" 5/29/53 L. TO R.: DR. PAUL S. HILL (PRESIDENT), C. GRATTAN PRICE, JR. (VICE PRES. \u0026amp; GEN. MGR.), WADE W. MENEFEE, JR. (SEC.-TREAS.) - handwritten and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price Jr. Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; C. Grattan Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Dr. Paul S. Hill, Pres. (Conductor) C. Grattan Price, Jr., V.P. \u0026amp; G.M. (Engineer) Wade W. Menefee, Jr., Sec.-Treas. (Fireman) Taken at the end of first run following Golden Spike ceremony May 29, 1953 at \"Central Park.\" - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Driving of the Golden Spike, Shandoah Central Railroad, Lakeside Station (Penn Laird, Va.), 4:30 P.M. May 29, 1953 by Major-General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administrator of the U.S. (former Vice-Pres., Chicago \u0026amp; Northwestern Ry., and Chief, Military Railway Service, European Theater, W.W.II). L to R - C.G. Price, Jr., Vice-Pres. \u0026amp; Gen. Mgr., Shenandoah Central R.R., W.W. Menefee, Jr., Sect'y.-Treas., Shenandoah Central R.R., L.W. Huncke, Pres., Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Kansas City, Kas. (donors of track-laying), F.S. Baird, Vice-Pres. (Traffic), Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Ry., Sherman Pippin, Engineer of last train when E.T.\u0026amp;W.N.C.R.R. abandoned narrow-gauge division in 1950. (Equipment bought by Shenandoah Central R.R.), General Gray, A.W. St. Clair, Gen'l. Mgr., Southern Ry. System - Lines East, C.R. Wilburn, Vice-Pres., Operations, East Broad Top R.R., Dr. P.S. Hill, Pres., Shenandoah Central R.R., (Mr. D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry. temporarily absent when picture taken.) Photo by: N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Please return to: C.G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Crowd before start of ceremony, Photo by Southern Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry., speaking. Photo by Bob Riley - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Harrisonburg High School Band plays as invited guests board first train, after ceremony. 5/29/53 Photo by N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eF. S. Baird, Vice-Pres., Norfolk \u0026amp; Western Ry. Photo by N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Sherman Pippin, retired E.T.\u0026amp;W.N.C. R.R. engineer. He was engineer on last run of their narrow-gauge division in October, 1950. Taken at S.C.R.R.'s Golden Spike Ceremony May 29, 1953, Photo by N.\u0026amp;W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by H. Reid 8549 Wayland St. Norfolk, VA. - stamped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Engineman: C. Grattan Price, Jr., Fireman: M. H. Dofflemyer (Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12) (1954) - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. compares time with Engineman Grattan Price, Jr. as Fireman Myron Dofflemyer looks on. Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12 (1954) - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. \"lifts transportation.\" - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. at rear end of \"The Stonewall Jackson\" - America's last narrow-gauge \"name\" train. - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo By Ward Allan Howe 310 Riverside Drive New York, 25, N. Y. - stamped; 5-30-54 - handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: W. E. Warden, Jr. 1216 Shamrock La. Waynesboro, Va. - stamped; August 1954 - handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels; May 71 Railroad Pages 30, 31 #2134.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central R. R. - approaching Massanutten Summit - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central Railroad \"The Stonewall Jackson,\" pulled by famous \"Tweetsie,\" crossing Cub Run Bridge. - handwritten; Photo by H. Reid - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on photo: Taken on line between Cub Run Bridge and Massanutten Summit May 30, 1954 - handwritten; Photo by Lee-Gitchell Studio - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on postcard: Ride One of America's Last Old-Time Narrow-Gauge Trains! Shenandoah Central Railroad U. S. Route 33 at Penn Laird Six Miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia - printed; Everett Waddey Company - Richmond, Virginia; printed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText on postcard: Famous Locomotive \"Tweetsie\" pulls old-time narrow-gauge train on 1-mile Shenandoah Central Railroad each Sunday and holiday from late May to early October at Penn Laird, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, six miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on U. S. Route 33. Come take a \"Trip to Yesteryear.\" - printed; Hannau Color Productions, 605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. - printed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed articles, and promotional materials concerning the purchase of Tweetsie, narrow gauge locomotive #12, and related equipment by the Shenandoah Central Railroad in 1952; the opening of the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird, Virginia in 1953; and the eventual sale of Tweetsie and equipment in 1955.","Photographs primarily document Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train on the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird and include passengers and railroad workers.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), primarily comprises correspondence relating to the purchase and subsequent sale of the Tweetsie narrow gauge locomotive, cars, and related equipment and infrastructure. One file of legal and financial documents containing annual reports, agreements, and tax documents is also included. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and according to correspondent.","The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET\u0026WNC) Railroad Company correspondence file also includes bills of lading, inspection and repair reports, and designs for locomotive #12. A souvenir program celebrating ET\u0026WNC's 85th anniversary is also included.","The Shenandoah Central Railroad file contains correspondence as well as the railroad's first annual report, a contract between George W. Anderson of Bridgewater and Shenandoah Central Railroad for railroad ties, and a list comprising the guests of honor attending the Golden Spike Ceremony on May 29, 1953 as well as a list of contributors and non-contributors.","Correspondence between Price and cartoonist and railroad enthusiast Carl Fallberg concerns Fallberg's 1953 cartoon drawing of the Shenandoah Central Railroad commissioned by Price. Mulitple copies of the cartoon are included.","Correspondence with Gene Autry concerns Autry's intended option to purchase the Tweetsie locomotive for use on his California ranch and in movies. Autry ultimately backed out on the purchase agreement due to the cost to transport and erect the narrow gauge locomotive and equipment. Financial agreements, legal documents, telegrams, and memoranda concerning the Autry Deal supplement the correspondence.","Additional correspondence includes Price's offer to various movie studios including Warner Brothers, Republic Productions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Walt Disney to purchase Tweetsie and their respective responses. The new theme park Disneyland was undergoing construction at this time and Price was advised that Walt Disney might be interested in purchasing the locomotive and cars to incorporate into the new theme park. Disney responded that all of the locomotives and trains were being built on-site and scaled down to 5/8 the size. Price also wrote to Los Angeles-area newspapers urging them to write a human interest story about Tweetsie.","A single file of legal and financial documents is included in this series and filed after the correspondence. Shenandoah Central's first and second annual report, legal agreements, and tax documents are included.","Series 2: Printed and Promotional Materials, 1952-1997, comprises magazine articles, printed news stories, and newspaper clippings concerning Tweetsie, the Tweetsie Route, and the Shenandoah Central Railroad. Press releases, promotional ephemera, brochures, and invitations and name tags for the Golden Spike Ceremony are included. A 1997 print of Gil Reid's 1954 watercolor \"Tweetsie,\" created to support Rockingham Public Library's capital campaign fund, is included ","Of particular interest is a five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Price's friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","C. Grattan Price Jr.'s undated draft manuscript \"All Steam and a Yard Wide\" provides an incomplete historical account Shenandoah Central Railroad, its partners, and Tweetsie.","Five-minute home video documenting the Claytor family's trips to Penn Laird to visit the Shenandoah Central Railroad and ride the Tweetsie Route in 1953 and 1954. The footage is narrated by W. Graham Claytor Jr., Charles Grattan Price Jr.'s friend and fellow railroad enthusiast, and features Claytor's wife Frances, and children Murray and Graham III.","Series 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.","Text on photo: ELIZABETHTON, TENN OCT 20, 1949 - handwritten.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie's\" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Tweetsie\" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET\u0026WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: \"Over the river and through the wood\" went \"Tweetsie\" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION \u0026 DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.","Text on photo: L to R - Hill, Price Menefee - handwritten; THE THREE OWNERS OF THE SHENANDOAH CENTRAL RAILROAD TAKEN ON \"GOLD SPIKE DAY\" 5/29/53 L. TO R.: DR. PAUL S. HILL (PRESIDENT), C. GRATTAN PRICE, JR. (VICE PRES. \u0026 GEN. MGR.), WADE W. MENEFEE, JR. (SEC.-TREAS.) - handwritten and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price Jr. Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; C. Grattan Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - address label.","Text on photo: Dr. Paul S. Hill, Pres. (Conductor) C. Grattan Price, Jr., V.P. \u0026 G.M. (Engineer) Wade W. Menefee, Jr., Sec.-Treas. (Fireman) Taken at the end of first run following Golden Spike ceremony May 29, 1953 at \"Central Park.\" - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Driving of the Golden Spike, Shandoah Central Railroad, Lakeside Station (Penn Laird, Va.), 4:30 P.M. May 29, 1953 by Major-General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administrator of the U.S. (former Vice-Pres., Chicago \u0026 Northwestern Ry., and Chief, Military Railway Service, European Theater, W.W.II). L to R - C.G. Price, Jr., Vice-Pres. \u0026 Gen. Mgr., Shenandoah Central R.R., W.W. Menefee, Jr., Sect'y.-Treas., Shenandoah Central R.R., L.W. Huncke, Pres., Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Kansas City, Kas. (donors of track-laying), F.S. Baird, Vice-Pres. (Traffic), Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry., Sherman Pippin, Engineer of last train when E.T.\u0026W.N.C.R.R. abandoned narrow-gauge division in 1950. (Equipment bought by Shenandoah Central R.R.), General Gray, A.W. St. Clair, Gen'l. Mgr., Southern Ry. System - Lines East, C.R. Wilburn, Vice-Pres., Operations, East Broad Top R.R., Dr. P.S. Hill, Pres., Shenandoah Central R.R., (Mr. D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry. temporarily absent when picture taken.) Photo by: N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Please return to: C.G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Crowd before start of ceremony, Photo by Southern Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","D.W. Thomas, Pres., Chesapeake Western Ry., speaking. Photo by Bob Riley - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Harrisonburg High School Band plays as invited guests board first train, after ceremony. 5/29/53 Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","F. S. Baird, Vice-Pres., Norfolk \u0026 Western Ry. Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Sherman Pippin, retired E.T.\u0026W.N.C. R.R. engineer. He was engineer on last run of their narrow-gauge division in October, 1950. Taken at S.C.R.R.'s Golden Spike Ceremony May 29, 1953, Photo by N.\u0026W. Ry. - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by H. Reid 8549 Wayland St. Norfolk, VA. - stamped.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Engineman: C. Grattan Price, Jr., Fireman: M. H. Dofflemyer (Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12) (1954) - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. compares time with Engineman Grattan Price, Jr. as Fireman Myron Dofflemyer looks on. Shenandoah Central R.R. No. 12 (1954) - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. \"lifts transportation.\" - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Conductor Wade Menefee, Jr. at rear end of \"The Stonewall Jackson\" - America's last narrow-gauge \"name\" train. - handwritten;  Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Photo By Ward Allan Howe 310 Riverside Drive New York, 25, N. Y. - stamped; 5-30-54 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: W. E. Warden, Jr. 1216 Shamrock La. Waynesboro, Va. - stamped; August 1954 - handwritten.","Text on photo: Photo by Gorman WSVA-TV - printed on front; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels; May 71 Railroad Pages 30, 31 #2134.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central R. R. - approaching Massanutten Summit - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on photo: H. Reid. - handwritten on front; Shenandoah Central Railroad \"The Stonewall Jackson,\" pulled by famous \"Tweetsie,\" crossing Cub Run Bridge. - handwritten; Photo by H. Reid - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 531 Ott Street Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 - handwritten and address labels.","Text on photo: Taken on line between Cub Run Bridge and Massanutten Summit May 30, 1954 - handwritten; Photo by Lee-Gitchell Studio - handwritten; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label.","Text on postcard: Ride One of America's Last Old-Time Narrow-Gauge Trains! Shenandoah Central Railroad U. S. Route 33 at Penn Laird Six Miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia - printed; Everett Waddey Company - Richmond, Virginia; printed.","Text on postcard: Famous Locomotive \"Tweetsie\" pulls old-time narrow-gauge train on 1-mile Shenandoah Central Railroad each Sunday and holiday from late May to early October at Penn Laird, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, six miles East of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on U. S. Route 33. Come take a \"Trip to Yesteryear.\" - printed; Hannau Color Productions, 605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. - printed."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo books were removed from the collection and cataloged individually as part of Special Collections rare book holdings: Mallory Hope Ferrell's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTweetsie Country: The East Tennessee \u0026amp; Western North Carolina Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e (1976) and Clyde J. Dellinger's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTweetsie and The Clinchfield Railroads: Crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains\u003c/emph\u003e (1975).\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Two books were removed from the collection and cataloged individually as part of Special Collections rare book holdings: Mallory Hope Ferrell's  Tweetsie Country: The East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad  (1976) and Clyde J. Dellinger's  Tweetsie and The Clinchfield Railroads: Crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains  (1975)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_b6b9619e80b1268cd52dc20414033cac\"\u003eThe Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954."],"names_coll_ssim":["Tweetsie (Locomotive)","Price, Charles Grattan, III","Price, Charles Grattan, Jr., 1919-1996","Menefee, Wade W., Jr. (Wade Whitfield), 1924-2004","Hill, Paul S., Dr. (Paul Swanson), 1907-1986"],"names_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Tweetsie (Locomotive)","East Tennessee \u0026 Western North Carolina Railroad","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company","East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company","Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company","Southern Railway System","Shenandoah Central Railroad (1952-1956)","Chesapeake Western Railway","Norfolk and Western Railway Company","North Carolina. 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Materials related to the unpublished novel \"Gunny\" may not be quoted or published without the express permission of Christopher Bram or his estate. All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Future accruals are expected.","The collection is arranged into 26 series: Gunny, Surprising Myself, Hold Tight, In Memory of Angel Clare, Almost History, Father of Frankenstein, Gossip, The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes, Lives of the Circus Animals, Exiles in America, Mapping the Territory, Eminent Outlaws, Unfinished Novels, Short Works, Works featuring Bram, Notebooks, Work of Friends, Events and Recognition, Teaching, College of William and Mary, Literary Business, Personal Papers, Correspondence, Photographs, Ephemera and Artifacts, and Audiovisual.","  Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence.\n\n As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram\n\n ","Administrative History:  Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n ","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence."," As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others."," Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.","Processed by Antonio Bly in 2000 and Molly FitzGerald Perry 2008. Inventory added to Archon by Special Collections Student Assistant in October 2007. Acc. 2012.325 accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2012. Acc. 2012.326 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2012.331 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2013.020 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in January 2013. Acc. 2014.043 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2014. Collection was rehoused and fully processed by Matt Anthony, SCRC Staff, March 2015.","The Christopher Bram papers largely encompass Bram's career as a novelist and writer but also include personal papers, audiovisual material, and artifacts. The first 12 series comprise materials relating to each of the major book length works Bram has produced during his career. Series 1 contains materials relating to Bram's first novel, which remains unpublished. Subsequent series are organized chronologically by publication date. Series 13 and 14 contain Bram's shorter works, including material related to unfinished novels, as well as screenplays, short stories, and poetry. Series 15 contains works featuring Bram, including critical articles and interviews with Bram. Series 16 consists of Bram's notebooks, which contain his ideas for novels and short stories. Series 17 contains works by friends which Bram collected and, in some cases, edited. Series 18 contains materials related to events that Bram participated in, and awards and recognition which he received. Series 19 contains materials related to Bram's teaching. Series 20 contains materials related to Bram's connection with William \u0026 Mary, including materials from his undergraduate studies at William \u0026 Mary as well as his future involvement with the college as a Writer-in-Residence. Series 21 contains materials related to the literary business, including publication agreements and royalty statements. These materials retain Bram's original order, which sorted materials by the publishers he worked with throughout his career. Series 22 contains Bram's personal papers, including materials related to his high school, Boy Scouts, military service, employment, and family. This series also includes Bram's personal diaries, which are restricted during the lifetimes of Bram and his partner. Series 23 contains Bram's correspondence. This series is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Series 24 contains photographs. Series 25 contains artifacts and ephemera. Series 26 contains audiovisual materials which have also been physically separated from the rest of the collection.","Scope and Contents Materials related to the unpublished novel \"Gunny\" may not be quoted or published without the express permission of Christopher Bram or his estate.","Copies of reviews of books written by Christopher Bram.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","A hand-drawn personal calendar recording birthdays and other personal events in 1983.","from top: Christopher Bram; Sue Claire Yeats; Pryor Baird","copied from David Levine in the New York Review of Books","Scope and Contents Philmont Scout Ranch (1960s), Pipsico Scout Reservation (1960s), Virginia Beach Fall (1965), District Camporee (1960s, 1968), Blue Heron WWW 349 (1960s),Spring Camporee Pavab District (1966), Boy Scouts of America Junior Assistant Scoutmaster (1960s), \"Can-Do\" Leader National Champions (1960s), The Way District Camporee (1967), Instructor (1960s), 50 Miler Award (1960s), Tiger B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), Bison B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), U.S.S. Oglethorpe Patch, 1960s, Arrow of Light Award (1960s), Webelo Den (1960s), Troop Guide (1960s), Be Prepared (1960s), Eagle and Fleur-de-Lis (1960s), Star Rank (1960s)","DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris.\"","Scope and Contents DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris\" in a thin plastic CD case. Cardstock insert says \"Happy Birthday Chris: The Movie\" and has a drawing of a tiger.","Audio CD of SiriusXM program The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick from January 31, 2012 featuring an interview with Bram.","Cassette tape labeled \"Songs by Stan Leventhal.\" Track listing for side one: 1. Fragile 2. Home Away from Home 3. Spare the Time. Side two is blank.","VHS tape labeled \"Christopher Bram; Book Chat with David Rain; produced by Paul Peterson and David Rain.\"","Scope and Contents VHS tape label \"Universal Studios Home Video; She's Alive! Creating the Brice of Frankenstein; Prod./Dir.: David J. Skal\"","VHS tape labeled \"Gods and Monsters Screening Cassette.\"","Scope and Contents VHS tape labeled \"G\u0026M\", which may stand for Gods and Monsters.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary. 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As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n ","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence."," As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others."," Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eChristopher Bram Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Christopher Bram Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed by Antonio Bly in 2000 and Molly FitzGerald Perry 2008. Inventory added to Archon by Special Collections Student Assistant in October 2007. Acc. 2012.325 accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2012. Acc. 2012.326 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2012.331 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2013.020 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in January 2013. Acc. 2014.043 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2014. Collection was rehoused and fully processed by Matt Anthony, SCRC Staff, March 2015.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processed by Antonio Bly in 2000 and Molly FitzGerald Perry 2008. Inventory added to Archon by Special Collections Student Assistant in October 2007. Acc. 2012.325 accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2012. Acc. 2012.326 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2012.331 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2013.020 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in January 2013. Acc. 2014.043 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2014. Collection was rehoused and fully processed by Matt Anthony, SCRC Staff, March 2015."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Christopher Bram papers largely encompass Bram's career as a novelist and writer but also include personal papers, audiovisual material, and artifacts. The first 12 series comprise materials relating to each of the major book length works Bram has produced during his career. Series 1 contains materials relating to Bram's first novel, which remains unpublished. Subsequent series are organized chronologically by publication date. Series 13 and 14 contain Bram's shorter works, including material related to unfinished novels, as well as screenplays, short stories, and poetry. Series 15 contains works featuring Bram, including critical articles and interviews with Bram. Series 16 consists of Bram's notebooks, which contain his ideas for novels and short stories. Series 17 contains works by friends which Bram collected and, in some cases, edited. Series 18 contains materials related to events that Bram participated in, and awards and recognition which he received. Series 19 contains materials related to Bram's teaching. Series 20 contains materials related to Bram's connection with William \u0026amp; Mary, including materials from his undergraduate studies at William \u0026amp; Mary as well as his future involvement with the college as a Writer-in-Residence. Series 21 contains materials related to the literary business, including publication agreements and royalty statements. These materials retain Bram's original order, which sorted materials by the publishers he worked with throughout his career. Series 22 contains Bram's personal papers, including materials related to his high school, Boy Scouts, military service, employment, and family. This series also includes Bram's personal diaries, which are restricted during the lifetimes of Bram and his partner. Series 23 contains Bram's correspondence. This series is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Series 24 contains photographs. Series 25 contains artifacts and ephemera. 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Patrol (1960s), Bison B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), U.S.S. Oglethorpe Patch, 1960s, Arrow of Light Award (1960s), Webelo Den (1960s), Troop Guide (1960s), Be Prepared (1960s), Eagle and Fleur-de-Lis (1960s), Star Rank (1960s)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris\" in a thin plastic CD case. Cardstock insert says \"Happy Birthday Chris: The Movie\" and has a drawing of a tiger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudio CD of SiriusXM program The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick from January 31, 2012 featuring an interview with Bram.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCassette tape labeled \"Songs by Stan Leventhal.\" Track listing for side one: 1. Fragile 2. Home Away from Home 3. Spare the Time. Side two is blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVHS tape labeled \"Christopher Bram; Book Chat with David Rain; produced by Paul Peterson and David Rain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents VHS tape label \"Universal Studios Home Video; She's Alive! Creating the Brice of Frankenstein; Prod./Dir.: David J. 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Series 1 contains materials relating to Bram's first novel, which remains unpublished. Subsequent series are organized chronologically by publication date. Series 13 and 14 contain Bram's shorter works, including material related to unfinished novels, as well as screenplays, short stories, and poetry. Series 15 contains works featuring Bram, including critical articles and interviews with Bram. Series 16 consists of Bram's notebooks, which contain his ideas for novels and short stories. Series 17 contains works by friends which Bram collected and, in some cases, edited. Series 18 contains materials related to events that Bram participated in, and awards and recognition which he received. Series 19 contains materials related to Bram's teaching. Series 20 contains materials related to Bram's connection with William \u0026 Mary, including materials from his undergraduate studies at William \u0026 Mary as well as his future involvement with the college as a Writer-in-Residence. Series 21 contains materials related to the literary business, including publication agreements and royalty statements. These materials retain Bram's original order, which sorted materials by the publishers he worked with throughout his career. Series 22 contains Bram's personal papers, including materials related to his high school, Boy Scouts, military service, employment, and family. This series also includes Bram's personal diaries, which are restricted during the lifetimes of Bram and his partner. Series 23 contains Bram's correspondence. This series is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Series 24 contains photographs. Series 25 contains artifacts and ephemera. Series 26 contains audiovisual materials which have also been physically separated from the rest of the collection.","Scope and Contents Materials related to the unpublished novel \"Gunny\" may not be quoted or published without the express permission of Christopher Bram or his estate.","Copies of reviews of books written by Christopher Bram.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","A hand-drawn personal calendar recording birthdays and other personal events in 1983.","from top: Christopher Bram; Sue Claire Yeats; Pryor Baird","copied from David Levine in the New York Review of Books","Scope and Contents Philmont Scout Ranch (1960s), Pipsico Scout Reservation (1960s), Virginia Beach Fall (1965), District Camporee (1960s, 1968), Blue Heron WWW 349 (1960s),Spring Camporee Pavab District (1966), Boy Scouts of America Junior Assistant Scoutmaster (1960s), \"Can-Do\" Leader National Champions (1960s), The Way District Camporee (1967), Instructor (1960s), 50 Miler Award (1960s), Tiger B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), Bison B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), U.S.S. Oglethorpe Patch, 1960s, Arrow of Light Award (1960s), Webelo Den (1960s), Troop Guide (1960s), Be Prepared (1960s), Eagle and Fleur-de-Lis (1960s), Star Rank (1960s)","DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris.\"","Scope and Contents DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris\" in a thin plastic CD case. Cardstock insert says \"Happy Birthday Chris: The Movie\" and has a drawing of a tiger.","Audio CD of SiriusXM program The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick from January 31, 2012 featuring an interview with Bram.","Cassette tape labeled \"Songs by Stan Leventhal.\" Track listing for side one: 1. Fragile 2. Home Away from Home 3. Spare the Time. Side two is blank.","VHS tape labeled \"Christopher Bram; Book Chat with David Rain; produced by Paul Peterson and David Rain.\"","Scope and Contents VHS tape label \"Universal Studios Home Video; She's Alive! Creating the Brice of Frankenstein; Prod./Dir.: David J. Skal\"","VHS tape labeled \"Gods and Monsters Screening Cassette.\"","Scope and Contents VHS tape labeled \"G\u0026M\", which may stand for Gods and Monsters."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["College of William and Mary. Dept. of English"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary. Dept. of English","Bram, Christopher, 1952-"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary. 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Materials related to the unpublished novel \"Gunny\" may not be quoted or published without the express permission of Christopher Bram or his estate. All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Future accruals are expected.","The collection is arranged into 26 series: Gunny, Surprising Myself, Hold Tight, In Memory of Angel Clare, Almost History, Father of Frankenstein, Gossip, The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes, Lives of the Circus Animals, Exiles in America, Mapping the Territory, Eminent Outlaws, Unfinished Novels, Short Works, Works featuring Bram, Notebooks, Work of Friends, Events and Recognition, Teaching, College of William and Mary, Literary Business, Personal Papers, Correspondence, Photographs, Ephemera and Artifacts, and Audiovisual.","  Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence.\n\n As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram\n\n ","Administrative History:  Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n ","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence."," As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others."," Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.","Processed by Antonio Bly in 2000 and Molly FitzGerald Perry 2008. Inventory added to Archon by Special Collections Student Assistant in October 2007. Acc. 2012.325 accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2012. Acc. 2012.326 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2012.331 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2013.020 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in January 2013. Acc. 2014.043 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2014. Collection was rehoused and fully processed by Matt Anthony, SCRC Staff, March 2015.","The Christopher Bram papers largely encompass Bram's career as a novelist and writer but also include personal papers, audiovisual material, and artifacts. The first 12 series comprise materials relating to each of the major book length works Bram has produced during his career. Series 1 contains materials relating to Bram's first novel, which remains unpublished. Subsequent series are organized chronologically by publication date. Series 13 and 14 contain Bram's shorter works, including material related to unfinished novels, as well as screenplays, short stories, and poetry. Series 15 contains works featuring Bram, including critical articles and interviews with Bram. Series 16 consists of Bram's notebooks, which contain his ideas for novels and short stories. Series 17 contains works by friends which Bram collected and, in some cases, edited. Series 18 contains materials related to events that Bram participated in, and awards and recognition which he received. Series 19 contains materials related to Bram's teaching. Series 20 contains materials related to Bram's connection with William \u0026 Mary, including materials from his undergraduate studies at William \u0026 Mary as well as his future involvement with the college as a Writer-in-Residence. Series 21 contains materials related to the literary business, including publication agreements and royalty statements. These materials retain Bram's original order, which sorted materials by the publishers he worked with throughout his career. Series 22 contains Bram's personal papers, including materials related to his high school, Boy Scouts, military service, employment, and family. This series also includes Bram's personal diaries, which are restricted during the lifetimes of Bram and his partner. Series 23 contains Bram's correspondence. This series is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Series 24 contains photographs. Series 25 contains artifacts and ephemera. Series 26 contains audiovisual materials which have also been physically separated from the rest of the collection.","Scope and Contents Materials related to the unpublished novel \"Gunny\" may not be quoted or published without the express permission of Christopher Bram or his estate.","Copies of reviews of books written by Christopher Bram.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","**RESTRICTED MATERIALS** All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve.","A hand-drawn personal calendar recording birthdays and other personal events in 1983.","from top: Christopher Bram; Sue Claire Yeats; Pryor Baird","copied from David Levine in the New York Review of Books","Scope and Contents Philmont Scout Ranch (1960s), Pipsico Scout Reservation (1960s), Virginia Beach Fall (1965), District Camporee (1960s, 1968), Blue Heron WWW 349 (1960s),Spring Camporee Pavab District (1966), Boy Scouts of America Junior Assistant Scoutmaster (1960s), \"Can-Do\" Leader National Champions (1960s), The Way District Camporee (1967), Instructor (1960s), 50 Miler Award (1960s), Tiger B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), Bison B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), U.S.S. Oglethorpe Patch, 1960s, Arrow of Light Award (1960s), Webelo Den (1960s), Troop Guide (1960s), Be Prepared (1960s), Eagle and Fleur-de-Lis (1960s), Star Rank (1960s)","DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris.\"","Scope and Contents DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris\" in a thin plastic CD case. Cardstock insert says \"Happy Birthday Chris: The Movie\" and has a drawing of a tiger.","Audio CD of SiriusXM program The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick from January 31, 2012 featuring an interview with Bram.","Cassette tape labeled \"Songs by Stan Leventhal.\" Track listing for side one: 1. Fragile 2. Home Away from Home 3. Spare the Time. Side two is blank.","VHS tape labeled \"Christopher Bram; Book Chat with David Rain; produced by Paul Peterson and David Rain.\"","Scope and Contents VHS tape label \"Universal Studios Home Video; She's Alive! Creating the Brice of Frankenstein; Prod./Dir.: David J. Skal\"","VHS tape labeled \"Gods and Monsters Screening Cassette.\"","Scope and Contents VHS tape labeled \"G\u0026M\", which may stand for Gods and Monsters.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary. 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Materials related to the unpublished novel \"Gunny\" may not be quoted or published without the express permission of Christopher Bram or his estate. All diaries from October 1979 until the end of Bram's life are closed during the lifetime of Draper Shreeve. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence.\n\n As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. 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Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNovelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. 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A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNovelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Administrative History:","Biographical Information:","Administrative History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["  Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence.\n\n As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others.\n\n Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram\n\n ","Administrative History:  Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. 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After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence."," As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others."," Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Christopher_Bram","Novelist Christopher Bram was born on February 22, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. Raised predominantly in tidewater Virginia, Mr. Bram attended the College of William and Mary where he majored in English. As an undergraduate, he was actively involved in the Author's Guild, Omicron Delta Kappa, and served as the Editor of the literary journal, the William and Mary Review, from 1973-1974. After graduating with honors in 1974, Mr. Bram returned to the college in 1999 as a writer in residence. As a writer, Christopher Bram has published nine novels, a number of short stories and articles, as well as adapted his work into screenplays. His novels, including \"Surprising Myself (1987),\" \"Hold Tight (1988),\" \"In Memory of Angel Clare (1989),\" \"Almost History (1992),\" \"Father of Frankenstein (1995),\" \"Gossip (1997),\" \"The Notorious Dr. August: his Real Life and Crimes (2000),\" \"Lives of Circus Animals (2003),\" and \"Exiles in America (2006),\" have gained wide acclaim for addressing contemporary issues including homosexuality. He has been honored as a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A 1998 film adaptation of Bram's novel \"Father of Frankenstein,\" entitled \"Gods and Monsters\" won an Oscar for \"Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material in Another Medium.\" Bram has worked on a variety of screenplays including the short films \"George,\" \"Al,\" and \"Business-like.\" His short stories and articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New York Native, Night and Day, Lamdba Book Report, Christopher Street, among others."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eChristopher Bram Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Christopher Bram Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed by Antonio Bly in 2000 and Molly FitzGerald Perry 2008. Inventory added to Archon by Special Collections Student Assistant in October 2007. Acc. 2012.325 accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2012. Acc. 2012.326 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2012.331 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2013.020 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in January 2013. Acc. 2014.043 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2014. Collection was rehoused and fully processed by Matt Anthony, SCRC Staff, March 2015.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processed by Antonio Bly in 2000 and Molly FitzGerald Perry 2008. Inventory added to Archon by Special Collections Student Assistant in October 2007. Acc. 2012.325 accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2012. Acc. 2012.326 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2012.331 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2012. Acc. 2013.020 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in January 2013. Acc. 2014.043 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2014. Collection was rehoused and fully processed by Matt Anthony, SCRC Staff, March 2015."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Christopher Bram papers largely encompass Bram's career as a novelist and writer but also include personal papers, audiovisual material, and artifacts. The first 12 series comprise materials relating to each of the major book length works Bram has produced during his career. Series 1 contains materials relating to Bram's first novel, which remains unpublished. Subsequent series are organized chronologically by publication date. Series 13 and 14 contain Bram's shorter works, including material related to unfinished novels, as well as screenplays, short stories, and poetry. Series 15 contains works featuring Bram, including critical articles and interviews with Bram. Series 16 consists of Bram's notebooks, which contain his ideas for novels and short stories. Series 17 contains works by friends which Bram collected and, in some cases, edited. Series 18 contains materials related to events that Bram participated in, and awards and recognition which he received. Series 19 contains materials related to Bram's teaching. Series 20 contains materials related to Bram's connection with William \u0026amp; Mary, including materials from his undergraduate studies at William \u0026amp; Mary as well as his future involvement with the college as a Writer-in-Residence. Series 21 contains materials related to the literary business, including publication agreements and royalty statements. These materials retain Bram's original order, which sorted materials by the publishers he worked with throughout his career. Series 22 contains Bram's personal papers, including materials related to his high school, Boy Scouts, military service, employment, and family. This series also includes Bram's personal diaries, which are restricted during the lifetimes of Bram and his partner. Series 23 contains Bram's correspondence. This series is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Series 24 contains photographs. Series 25 contains artifacts and ephemera. 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Patrol (1960s), Bison B.S.A. Patrol (1960s), U.S.S. Oglethorpe Patch, 1960s, Arrow of Light Award (1960s), Webelo Den (1960s), Troop Guide (1960s), Be Prepared (1960s), Eagle and Fleur-de-Lis (1960s), Star Rank (1960s)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents DVD-R labeled \"Happy Birthday Chris\" in a thin plastic CD case. Cardstock insert says \"Happy Birthday Chris: The Movie\" and has a drawing of a tiger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudio CD of SiriusXM program The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick from January 31, 2012 featuring an interview with Bram.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCassette tape labeled \"Songs by Stan Leventhal.\" Track listing for side one: 1. Fragile 2. Home Away from Home 3. Spare the Time. 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Series 1 contains materials relating to Bram's first novel, which remains unpublished. Subsequent series are organized chronologically by publication date. Series 13 and 14 contain Bram's shorter works, including material related to unfinished novels, as well as screenplays, short stories, and poetry. Series 15 contains works featuring Bram, including critical articles and interviews with Bram. Series 16 consists of Bram's notebooks, which contain his ideas for novels and short stories. Series 17 contains works by friends which Bram collected and, in some cases, edited. Series 18 contains materials related to events that Bram participated in, and awards and recognition which he received. Series 19 contains materials related to Bram's teaching. Series 20 contains materials related to Bram's connection with William \u0026 Mary, including materials from his undergraduate studies at William \u0026 Mary as well as his future involvement with the college as a Writer-in-Residence. 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