Seth Goodhart collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library
Special Collections and Archives
James G. Leyburn Library
Washington and Lee University
204 W. Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Tom Camden
Phone: (540) 458-8649
Phone: (540) 463-8109
Fax: (540) 463-8964
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Seth Goodhart Collection (WLU Coll. 0615), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Summary

Extent:
1.0 Linear Feet 2 document cases
Creator:
McCormick-Goodhart family
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Seth Goodhart Collection (WLU Coll. 0615), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains historic photographs and documents primarily related to the City of Lexington, Rockbridge County, and Washington and Lee University. Also included is small number of manuscripts and ephemeral items including broadsides and advertisements. Several photographs were produced by Michael Miley, Boude and Miley, or Miley and Son.

Washington College students, J. W. Lindsay Boarding House, waterstation on Va./Tenn. railroad stereoview

Includes: Grandmother Slough, Liberty Hall ruins, Engleman children, and unidentified people

Includes John M. Swope and unidentified people

Includes Samuel Lackey Davis and Olive Irene Connevey Davis, the Marshall Building, unidentified African American couple, other unidentified people

Includes Joe McNutt, State Theatre (1930s), Detachment Camp chow call (1930 May 21), Washington and Lee University annual "fight" between freshmen and sophomores showing Doremus gym and students as well as townspeople, the flour mill before 1908 built in 1900 by the Moses Brothers, an unidentified African American woman, unidentified people.

Includes stereoview of Martha Washington's bed chamber inside Mt. Vernon (1880), G. W. C. Lee, Rev. Dr. Jackson (1861), Charles S. Veneable of UVA, Joseph M. Fauber, Rev. John Taylor, two photographs of Valley Seminary in Waynesboro, Va. (identifications on backs), a tintype of an unidentified couple, unidentified people.

Taken in the Lexington, Va. studio of Samuel Pettigrew

Morrison family of Brownsburg, Va. The older couple is likely Rev. James Morrison of New Providence Church and his wife Frances "Fannie" Brown Morrison. The young man is likely their son Ralph Hall Morrison.

Acquisition information:
This collection is on long term loan.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard