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Bailey-Law Collection 15.0 Cubic Feet 36 boxes

Bailey, Harold H. (Harold Harris), 1878-1962
This collection contains the papers of ornithologists John Eugene Law and Harold H. Bailey, including notes on bird species, habitat, and behavior; correspondence; field journals; printed materials; photographs and other images. Among Bailey's papers are files relating to his books, The Birds of Virginia and The Birds of Florida, as well as his operation of the Rockbridge Alum Springs Biological Laboratory. Also includes biographical files on hundreds of other naturalists and ornithologists, including such materials as correspondence, writings, photographs, field notes, and biographical sketches.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Baird Family Papers 8.01 Linear Feet

Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887

Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.

  1. College of William and Mary

Baker Family Papers 481.00 Items 2 boxes 1 Linear Foot

Baker family

Correspondence, bonds, and accounts of Jacob Baker of Monongalia County, West Virginia and Nelson Baker and Jonathan W. Baker of Alleghany County, Maryland. Includes letters written from Washington, Iowa, Piedmont, West Virginia, and from Missouri as well as letters written by a student at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.

  1. College of William and Mary

Baker's Store daybooks 0.6 cubic feet 1 box

Tim Abbott Americana
Two daybooks documenting the mercantile activities of Baker's Store in Mount Olive, Virginia.
  1. James Madison University

Baldwin Family Letters 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Baldwin family
This collection contains the letters of the Baldwin family of Tazewell County, Virginia. The collection consists largely of American Civil War-era letters of Captain Denison B. Baldwin, an officer in the 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment and the 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion, to his wife Sallie Barnes Baldwin.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Records 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (2 folders, 1/4 in.); (1 oversize folder, 7 items)

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

Records of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, consisting of five telegrams (1864), one letter with envelope (1863), one freight conductor's report (May 17, 1862, between Piedmont and Grafton), and small map of the Railroad (ca. 1853 - 1863). There is also a letterpress copybook for correspondence of B.L. Jacobs, an employee of the Railroad writing from the Grafton station (43 pages for April to August, 1858). A telegram to Colonel George R. Latham regards an arrest (ca. 1864), and a telgram to Colonel John Ely (August 17, 1864) asks the question of whether a slave of a loyal man in West Virginia can act as a substitute for another "without the master's consent." The copybook includes a letter regarding the wreck of engine 125 (page 61, April 20, 1858).

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bank of Rockbridge collection 0.01 Linear Feet 1 folder

Bank of Rockbridge (Lexington, Va.)

This collection consists of an account book dated 1862-1864 and a 1913 Everyday Almanac and Home Helps published by the Bank of Rockbridge. The almanac has a photograph of Natural Bridge on the back cover. It also includes a map of Fishersville and Chancellorsville.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Baptismal records of enslaved and emancipated Cubans 0.05 Linear Feet

Barranger & Company, Inc.

Four separate letters directed to Catholic Priests in various localities in Cuba asking for the Baptism of children of enslaved individuals. One letter asks for Baptism from an emancipated man by the direction of Public Works for the state. Translations provided.

  1. College of William and Mary

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