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Digitized and color enhanced photographs taken by Richard (Rich) J. Walker, Class of 1979, from his time as an undergraduate student at William & Mary and as the photographer for the Flat Hat student newspaper. Walker is now a Professor of Geology at University of Maryland.

Folder 1 - Labeled Individuals, Photographs (36) Folder 2 - Labeled Groups, Photographs (41) Folder 3 - Labeled Events, Photographs (52) Folder 4 - Editing Labels, Photographs (25) Folder 5 - Unlabeled Individuals, Photographs (80) Folder 6 - Unlabeled Groups, Photographs (121) Folder 7 - Unlabeled Speakers, Photographs (37) Folder 8 - Unlabeled Sports, Photographs (58) Folder 9 - Unlabeled Groups, Photographs (91) Folder 10 - Unlabeled Landscapes, Photographs (149) Folder 11 - Unlabeled Oversized Photographs (5) Folder 12 - Loose Negatives (27) Folder 13 - Correspondence Attached (7) Folder 14 - Correspondence, Notes, Ephemera

The collection includes photographs related to the history of the Powell Family of Virginia. Some of the names include Mary Hepburn, Nina L. Hepburn, Sewell S. Hepburn, Margaret White, H. Brooke Powell, Sewell Hepburn, Selina Lloyd Sewell, John Lloyd, Charles Powell, and Colonel William F. Lee.

This collection contains biographical and genealogical information on various people, primarily from in and around Rockbridge County.

This collection consists of essays, reports, financial documentation, and other historic records documenting the presence, arcitecture, development, or evolution of local houses in and around Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia.

The collection contains two photograph albums containing images of the Sandys-Nelson family. Images contain those of two formerly enslaved women including Grace Frances and her mother Alice, as well as the family's Irish wet nurse, Maggie Shehee. The leather bound photograph album contains 36 carte-de-visite and tintype photographs. The red padded cloth bound photograph album contains 18 cabinet cards, 23 carte-de-visite photographs, and three tintype photographs.

Catalogs, reports, contracts, correspondence, blueprints, drawings, certificates, deeds, and photographs of Seneca Glass Company, a Morgantown glass manufacturer noted for its production of handmade lead crystal glassware. The materials of this collection give insight into some of the daily activities of the company and its union such as determination of wages, settling of labor grievances, plans for expansion and modernization, productivity statistics, and stock inventories. Specifically noteworthy are the earliest certificate of incorporation in West Virginia, original construction blueprints by Elmer F. Jacobs, and early catalogs of the company's product line. There are also extensive addenda of Seneca Glass records that were acquired in 2005, 2019, and 2021; a contents list for the 2005 addendum can be found in the control folder onsite.