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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Anne Price Yates Papers II, Ms2010-065, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Anne Price Yates Papers II were donated to Special Collections in 2010.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Anne Price Yates Papers II was completed in October 2010.
Anne Hayden Price Yates, Price family historian, was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1939, to William Conway Price (born 1906) and Eleanor Franklin Hayden (1908-1973). She married James Stanley Savage and had one daughter, Eleanor. She later married Patrick Audley Yates, with whom she had a son, Adam.
Yates received her education in the American School in Manila, Philippines and earned an associate of arts degree from Florida State University. She later attended the University of Florida. In addition to being the author of
The Anne Price Yates Papers II contains manuscript materials, notes, and correspondence related to Yates' research on the Price family after the publication of her book,
Also included is correspondence and a copy of a speech from a ceremony at Virginia Tech honoring Dr. Harvey Black in 1939 while H.L. Price served as Dean of Agriculture, as well as the Virginia Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletins during his tenure. Addtionally, the collection contains two deeds for land transfer between James and Hattie Gibbony and H. L. Price in 1905 and 1908.
The collection is divided into three series:
Series I: Anne Price Yates Materials contains Anne Price Yates' correspondence with readers, arranged chronologically, additional geneological material (undated), and ephemera material (mostly undated).
Series II: W. C. Price Materials contains the correspondence of W.C. (William C.) Price, arranged chronologically.
Series III: H. L. Price Materials concerns the papers relating to H.L. (Harvey Lee) Price.
See the following materials, which are also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives:
Anne H. Price Yates Papers, Ms1989-087
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