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Robert Brannum Robinson account book for the William McKinley Normal and Industrial School 0.03 Cubic Feet One letter-size file folder

Joe Fay Company

This collection contains a manuscript account book kept by Reverend Robert Brannum Robinson during his tenure as Secretary and Treasurer of the William McKinley Normal and Industrial School in Alexandria, Virginia. The William McKinley Normal and Industrial School was originally founded in 1894 by Robert Brannum Robinson and his brother Magnus Robinson and re-incorporated in honor of William McKinley 1902. The school offered boys' and girls' normal, primary, and industrial departments, a chapel, and a kindergarten program. The account book primarily records philanthropic contributions to the school from 1903 to 1916 across fifty pages. Manuscript entries in the book list donor names and monetary contributions, interspersed with ephemeral items tipped or laid in, including partially printed receipts (many signed), typed and handwritten correspondence, four business cards, and a small printed broadside describing the school. Contributions are predominantly small donations of between $5 to $25. Notable donors recorded include William Payne Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, Simon Guggenheim, Gifford Pinchot, Thomas Nelson Page, Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, Clara Hay, Secretary of State John Hay, and J.P. Morgan. International contributors include ambassadors and ministers from Mexico, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Haiti, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and China.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Norfolk Records 38.40 Linear Feet 91 Hollinger document cases; 1 card box; 1 media box; 1 oversized box boxes

Unitarian Church of Norfolk (Norfolk, Va.)
The collection contains administrative materials, publications, articles, research materials, photographs, and audio-visual items pertaining to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Norfolk.
  1. Old Dominion University

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