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George Smith Papers

1.50 Linear Feet

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This collection details the personal and professional papers of George Smith and William E. Nelson. Legal documents consist of deeds, forms, and official papers. Business materials include account books, checks, and promissory notes. The collection also covers various publications and a few personal correspondences.

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Shenandoah Valley Business Papers 1881-1924

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The following material concerns businesses in which N. F. Snarrhad an interest, including the Farmers Mutual Telephone Systemand three general stores: Borden Brothers; Snarr, Borden and Mileyand Snarr and Miley Company. Many of the ledgers and account books were not labeled so the store to which they belong could not be determined.

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Minnick and Arehart Family papers

.83 Linear Feet 2 full Hollinger boxes

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Collection of diaries, ledgers, letters, and photographs from Ezra Monroe Minnick and his father William Arehart.

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Scottsville Ledgers 1829-1922

Papers of the Magruder Family

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This collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly to the career of Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural chemist for the Department of Agriculture of Virginia and, later, for the F. S. Royster Guano Company of Norfolk, Virginia . Included are correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material, and photographs. Egbert Watson Magruder collected material, 18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists' associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and mineralogy. Also included are Magruder family papers, consisting of correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys, and related papers. Topics or items of interest include several letters,1861-1863, from John Bowie Magruder during his service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War describing several battles, including Fredericksburg and Suffolk, and camp life at Fort Dillard, Fort Drury (near Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road near Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by John Bowie Magruder for the Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17, 1864, to Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner at Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war; papers pertaining to the purchase of "Glenmore"; papers concerning various Virginia estates such as "Edgehill" and "Glenmore" in Albemarle County, "Blenheim" in Caroline County, "Union Mills" in Fluvanna County, and "River Bend" in Spotsylvania County; an account book from the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families.

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Papers of Mary Johnston

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The Papers of Mary Johnston consists of ca. 4000 items, including correspondence (both personal and professional), literary manuscripts, dramatic adaptations, diaries, accounts and cashbooks, photographs, speeches and news clippings.

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Berkeley Family Papers 1536-present

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This collection primarily includes personal correspondence and legal and business papers of the Berkeley Family . Interfiled with these papers are extensive papers of the closely-related Noland family . The joined collection comprises about 20,000 items (ca. 85 Hollinger documents boxes on about 38 feet of shelving) dating between 1653 and 1930, with the heaviest concentration in the nineteenth century.

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Perkins & Perkins Law Firm Records

18.5 Cubic Feet 36 legal document boxes, 12 ledgers and one small oversize folder (14" x 18')

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The records chiefly contain legal correspondence, financial and legal documents and bound folio volumes from the law firm of Perkins and Perkins, consisting of George Perkins and his son, W. Allan Perkins, 1903-1916.

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Quo Vadis Wright Family papers

9.67 Linear Feet 18 boxes

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The Quo Vadis Wright papers contains correspondence, photographs, financial documents and scrapbooks documenting the family of Quo Vadis Williams Wright. Quo Vadis and her family primarily settled in Williamsburg, Virginia where she worked as a concierge and in hospitality for the Colonial Williamsburg foundation, Fort Magruder Inn, Howard Johnson, Mama Steve's Pancake House and Southern Pancake House. The collection documents African American History in Williamsburg, Virginia specifically as it pertains to the Quo Vadis Wright family and immediate community.

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Andrew Jackson Davis Collection

1.2 Linear Feet

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This collection includes artifacts, correspondence, legal records, photographs, and writings primarily related to Davis's publishing contracts. Letters between Davis and his lawyer Frederick Atherton form the bulk of the correspondence. In addition, the collection includes personal papers of Davis' wife, Delphine Markham Davis (1839-1928). Delphine, a graduate of the United States Medical College in New York, married Davis in 1885.

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