Collections : [Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library]

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
Primary Collecting Areas:
American and Virginia history, regional genealogy, history of propaganda, Southern literature, theater, local and regional portraiture, landscapes and architecture, late 19th-century travel
Description:

The Washington and Lee University Special Collections and Archives Department houses over 1,000 unique manuscript collections including those of the Rockbridge Historical Society, The American Shakespeare Center, and the Mountain Valley Preservation Association. These collections vary greatly in size, format, and scope. Subjects covered within the collections are diverse and include concentrations in American and Virginia history, regional genealogy, history of propaganda, Southern literature, and theater.

It also houses over 10,000 photographs and prints. Beyond our photograph and print collections, which include scrapbooks, images can also be found within the manuscript collections and University Archives described above. Our photographic holdings vary greatly in size and include numerous formats representative of the evolution of the photographic process. Strengths are local and regional portraiture, landscapes and architecture, W&L University history, including athletics, and late 19th-century travel.

POC: Tom Camden
Phone: (540) 458-8649
Phone: (540) 463-8109
Fax: (540) 463-8964
Start Over Repository Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library Collection Davidson Family Papers, 1870/1975

Davidson Family Papers, 1870/1975 4 Linear Feet

This collection contains personal and business correspondence, an assortment of holiday and greeting cards (1930s-1940s), account books, family photographs, a range of printed matter, including travel guides and ephemera from the family of R. E. (Robert Edmund) and his wife Gunhild A. Davidson of the Bell's Valley and Goshen communities of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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Gunhild Vang school notebooks, 1900/1920 Box 1, Folder 6

Contents include Gunhild Vang's minutes (1914-1915) of the "Busy Bee Society" - a sewing group of the girls of the German Lutheran Church of Farmville, Virginia (now St. John's Lutheran Church); and Gunhild Vang's school notebooks as a student at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia.

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Helen M. Davidson loose papers, 1930/1950 Box 4, Folder 7

Miscellaneaous papers of Helen M. Davidson during her time at Madison College in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Includes clippings, ephemera, drawings, including a pen and ink sketch of comic strip character "Tillie the Toiler" from a friend, Bettie J. Moore. Also included is a document and guide written in Braille.

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