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This series consists of the incoming and outgoing correspondence and memoranda of the director/administrator of the Council on the Environment, as well as reports, project files, and subject files. This series documents administrative activities, establishment of policy and procedures, and major achievements of the agency. Included are correspondence, legislation, memorandum, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, presentations, reports, statistics, and surveys. Topics concern automobiles, Chesapeake Bay, dredging, flood protection, Hampton Roads, highways, landfills, nuclear waste, oil spills, Outer Continental Shelf, planned communities, state parks, waste and water treatment plants, and wildlife refuges.

The collection contains records from the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission, including general files, minutes, meeting notes, reports, and agendas, among other items.

Papers and artifacts, 1917-1946, of Julius John Lankes, artist, who lived many years of his life in Newport News, Va. Includes biographical data, notes concerning a Lankes exhibition at the College of William and Mary; printed books by Lankes; correspondence and documents concerning the publication of Virginia Woodcuts by Lankes; photocopies of letters concerning a visit to Robert Frost; photocopies of prints from Lankes woodcuts; and woodcut blocks. Additions (Sm Coll Add 12, 1996.42, 1996.55, 1997.13 and 1997.14) include copies of twelve letters from Sherwood Anderson to Lankes (mostly concerning Lankes' woodcuts), photocopies of woodcut designs and correspondence, as well as a reproduction of a Lankes self-portrait. The additions also include two checklists: Burl N. Osborn, " A Descriptive Checklist of the Woodcut Bookplates of J. J. Lankes (Millersville, Pa., 1937) and "The Descriptive List of J. B. Lankes' Christmas Cards, 1959-1983 as well as four original signed woodcuts.

Charlottesville (Va.) Naturalization Records, 1907-1908, consists of a standardized volume of naturalization records issued by the federal government, 1907, and loose naturalization records originally included within this volume, 1908.

The Dahlgren Papers uniquely concern Anna Dahlgren's career and experiences with the missionary and nursing program at the Iloilo Mission Hospital, Panay, the Philippines in 1920-1921. Surviving correspondence traces her application to the missionary program, the logistics of service, and also includes letters from colleagues and acquaintances she made during her time in the Pacific. Very little information concerns medical cases or functions of the hospital and training school, and a diary Dahlgren kept is mostly limited to outlines of her travels. Publications dating some years after her service provide a historical context for the mission hospital program. All of this documentary material frames the most significant component of the papers, which is a collection of contemporary photographs taken by Dahlgren. Subjects include the hospital compound itself, nurses and medical staff, nursing students and classes, views of cities, landscapes, and events, and a variety of Philippine peoples in native dress. A period postcard collection also offers scenes of Philippine culture.