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.

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Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Richard Weaver Collection

2 Files

Materials collected by WLU alumnus Richard Weaver, '96, pertaining to Washington and Lee University. Items include a WLU 1908 Sophomore Cotillion program, WLU 1914 Finals program, a WLU Bulletin titled, "The Tucker Hall Fire and Plans for the New Law Building," a WLU Bulletin titled, An address Delivered by Rev. L. W. Irwin, D.D., in Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, june 7, 1926, and a photograph of Jean Marie Lorton who led the WLU Final Ball in 1914.

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Richard Weaver Collection 2 Files

Weaver, Richard

Materials collected by WLU alumnus Richard Weaver, '96, pertaining to Washington and Lee University. Items include a WLU 1908 Sophomore Cotillion program, WLU 1914 Finals program, a WLU Bulletin titled, "The Tucker Hall Fire and Plans for the New Law Building," a WLU Bulletin titled, An address Delivered by Rev. L. W. Irwin, D.D., in Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, june 7, 1926, and a photograph of Jean Marie Lorton who led the WLU Final Ball in 1914.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Roscoe Phelps Diary

1 Item One folder

The Roscoe Phelps diary is a bound manuscript entitled "Anecdotes of the Year 1900" written by Washington and Lee University student Richard Roscoe Phelps (Class of 1902). Phelps reports on life as an undergraduate student touching on courtship, recreation, hazing, off-campus boarding and regional travel and exploration of such places in Rockbridge County Virginia as House Mountain and "Lover's Leap". Other events covered include the vandalizing of "Old George", the George Washington statue atop Washington Hall on W&L's campus, on Washington's birthday; christening a new boat for the crew team, construction of the grandiose and doomed DeHart Hotel in Lexington; the tenure of W&L president William Lyne Wilson; a local opera house fire; and a detailed description of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. This collection also includes a copy of The History of Rockbridge County Virginia, by author Oren Morton which descended in the family of the donor. The book is inscribed by Samual M. Dunlap.

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Roscoe Phelps Diary 1 Item One folder

Phelps, Richard Roscoe

The Roscoe Phelps diary is a bound manuscript entitled "Anecdotes of the Year 1900" written by Washington and Lee University student Richard Roscoe Phelps (Class of 1902). Phelps reports on life as an undergraduate student touching on courtship, recreation, hazing, off-campus boarding and regional travel and exploration of such places in Rockbridge County Virginia as House Mountain and "Lover's Leap". Other events covered include the vandalizing of "Old George", the George Washington statue atop Washington Hall on W&L's campus, on Washington's birthday; christening a new boat for the crew team, construction of the grandiose and doomed DeHart Hotel in Lexington; the tenure of W&L president William Lyne Wilson; a local opera house fire; and a detailed description of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. This collection also includes a copy of The History of Rockbridge County Virginia, by author Oren Morton which descended in the family of the donor. The book is inscribed by Samual M. Dunlap.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection

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Published lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; "Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?"

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