<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" findaidstatus="completed" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-ViLxW"/><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper type="filing">Seth Goodhart collection</titleproper><titleproper>Seth Goodhart collection <num>WLU.Coll.0615</num></titleproper></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher><p><date>May 2026</date></p></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-05-23 07:01:05 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <repository>
      <corpname>Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname>
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    <unittitle>Seth Goodhart collection</unittitle>
    <origination label="source">
      <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">McCormick-Goodhart family</famname>
    </origination>
    <unitid>WLU.Coll.0615</unitid>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1.0 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">2 document cases</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1850/1939" type="inclusive">circa 1850-1939</unitdate>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
    </langmaterial>
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  <scopecontent id="aspace_06c087eed49316d724452267ccfd8dfc">
    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>This collection contains historic photographs and documents primarily related to the City of Lexington, Rockbridge County, and Washington and Lee University. Also included is small number of manuscripts and ephemeral items including broadsides and advertisements. Several photographs were produced by Michael Miley, Boude and Miley, or Miley and Son.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.</p>  </userestrict>
  <prefercite id="aspace_23cf7554548ea7a9c8f5c5387229be82">
    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>[Identification of item], Seth Goodhart Collection (WLU Coll. 0615), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>The collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_41717e3c9580e902e8733a973b4fedfd">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>This collection is on long term loan.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <controlaccess>
    <geogname source="fast">Virginia -- Rockbridge County</geogname>
    <genreform>Photographs</genreform>
    <geogname source="Source not specified">Lexington (Va.)</geogname>
    <famname role="fmo" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">McCormick-Goodhart family</famname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="ingest">Miley, Michael, 1841-1918</persname>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Miley &amp; Son Photographic Studio</corpname>
    <corpname rules="dacs" source="local">Boude and Miley Photographers (1867-1870) (Lexington, Virginia)</corpname>
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  <dsc><c id="aspace_0296603834b94b8c94a759fe001cb301" level="file"><did><unittitle>Statement of money owed to S. W. Paxton by Greenlee Davidson</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36085</unitid><unitdate datechar="Creation">1859 October 8</unitdate><container id="aspace_64ec70ce0850031f3f4ee06e62810a6d" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_bf51cc572b1079cab4278cfc335d25a6" parent="aspace_64ec70ce0850031f3f4ee06e62810a6d" type="folder">1</container></did></c><c id="aspace_4f3ec73b4e496e932baf8bee39594712" level="file"><did><unittitle>Thomas M. Wade, Jr. letter to Mrs. David L. (F. Lou) Hopkins</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36086</unitid><unitdate datechar="Creation">1862 June 17</unitdate><container id="aspace_b6c75ea31a3ecc58aef50ab4eee0fe72" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_0ac0458c80df658ac38c82285297b92b" parent="aspace_b6c75ea31a3ecc58aef50ab4eee0fe72" type="folder">2</container></did></c><c id="aspace_baa58e89362cea87a95f0b34a3e07c99" level="file"><did><unittitle>Samuel M. Dunlap  Letter</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36087</unitid><unitdate datechar="Creation">1863 May 21</unitdate><container id="aspace_98f2d58412232b9c5f163944a01c077f" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_505a84669e00ca96dacb5f0c7090f403" parent="aspace_98f2d58412232b9c5f163944a01c077f" type="folder">3</container></did></c><c id="aspace_bcbfd3b10b960bfbaa06e90f3c0c0618" level="file"><did><unittitle>Receipt</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36088</unitid><unitdate datechar="Creation">1881 September 19</unitdate><container id="aspace_fe13b492e3de7f9c7fa0e7e77242c569" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_f82bcd05fa29a29960722405f9b945ad" parent="aspace_fe13b492e3de7f9c7fa0e7e77242c569" type="folder">4</container></did></c><c id="aspace_cb972740882b240f9ee8871846d467e1" level="file"><did><unittitle>J. E. Goodbar materials</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36089</unitid><unitdate datechar="Creation" type="inclusive">1928, 1931</unitdate><container id="aspace_17e6460d12bb0fb62a1db5af139243f7" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_694e84ab0c3863fd7b0fb71e777b5711" parent="aspace_17e6460d12bb0fb62a1db5af139243f7" type="folder">5</container></did></c><c id="aspace_d7a4183e76e2af58c29e1ffc23b2cc5d" level="file"><did><unittitle>W. T. McMillan letter to Matthew Wilson and Postcards</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36093</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">1899 April 29, 1883, 1897, 1904</unitdate><container id="aspace_27dd8626fb8840634780f83c217487c9" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_f6edfd9695295b23c20c4a95e23bdf6a" parent="aspace_27dd8626fb8840634780f83c217487c9" type="folder">6</container></did></c><c id="aspace_4982788d2600346e7cb21f2bf0b994f8" level="file"><did><unittitle>Empty envelopes addressed to William McMillan of Fancy Hill from Lexington businesses</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36094</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">1896-1907</unitdate><container id="aspace_6c353da42ba76d4f6fdb88d88d47cb31" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_c44500360971a1e02fb178b71f477565" parent="aspace_6c353da42ba76d4f6fdb88d88d47cb31" type="folder">7</container></did></c><c id="aspace_fd7a7f3b38708656ebebe47094342275" level="file"><did><unittitle>Empty envelopes addressed to William McMillan of Fancy Hill from Rockbridge businesses</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36095</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">1883-1909</unitdate><container id="aspace_05dfcb80b6d604385fc7ab96f01d81d8" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_cec742ea098911fed33dc1ff3436cd1a" parent="aspace_05dfcb80b6d604385fc7ab96f01d81d8" type="folder">8</container></did></c><c id="aspace_e913172c31c2e130be71a959d1e97468" level="file"><did><unittitle>Empty envelopes addressed to William McMillan of Fancy Hill from Virginia and Maryland businesses</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36097</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">1898-1909</unitdate><container id="aspace_009ddbbb10398a98139b488adae696dc" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_3b8e94d2e36fb66849e7ae5baac7d8ca" parent="aspace_009ddbbb10398a98139b488adae696dc" type="folder">9</container></did></c><c id="aspace_4e79816cd9a784502ccc70f2eb8e67ee" level="file"><did><unittitle>Rockbridge County/City of Lexington Ephemera</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36090</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="Creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">1892, 1900, 1915, 1917, 1932, 1952, undated</unitdate><container id="aspace_3e9e08de629fd3a3ba6fc504e6f828b3" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_c355e2117a71746f24fd2eacf88a45d0" parent="aspace_3e9e08de629fd3a3ba6fc504e6f828b3" type="folder">10</container></did></c><c id="aspace_f59202348a9bc93775d468536a69b89d" level="file"><did><unittitle>Other Ephemera</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36091</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">1936, undated</unitdate><container id="aspace_8020245dac21c2aa881767bf7ffddd81" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_4ce58b2b4cc2544b29980982370202d3" parent="aspace_8020245dac21c2aa881767bf7ffddd81" type="folder">11</container></did></c><c id="aspace_81807e1ef4a2d5b12353dda775b7b8c8" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs of Natural Bridge</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36108</unitid><container id="aspace_f3a4e162703e05a0a99b6f59b890df99" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_83ff7cbbcf7e77e2fbd7d4bcbb35dbd4" parent="aspace_f3a4e162703e05a0a99b6f59b890df99" type="folder">12</container></did></c><c id="aspace_dff4ea8edfe73101df20929215c0531c" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs from the Ida K. Sterrett Album</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36109</unitid><container id="aspace_c2f89f813bbb061b87ea4c7444ad952c" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_b561efafe82879d9537daa3684410622" parent="aspace_c2f89f813bbb061b87ea4c7444ad952c" type="folder">13</container></did></c><c id="aspace_fa7186f3fc441b557ae02d5cc875cdea" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs from the Ida K. Sterrett Album</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36110</unitid><container id="aspace_f8a32b9aaef22eaddc7e350df16ac913" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_5de59823c310ee5021e009accd194f42" parent="aspace_f8a32b9aaef22eaddc7e350df16ac913" type="folder">14</container></did></c><c id="aspace_541a790d9df110e582f38275ec61a1cf" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs from the Ida K. Sterrett Album</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36111</unitid><container id="aspace_8885f9b627278985b214ae09873b43f0" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266442]" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_93f4cb1229de30b5e6f400781c2ba880" parent="aspace_8885f9b627278985b214ae09873b43f0" type="folder">15</container></did></c><c id="aspace_1e55980b9ecbe295be06cda372f392f6" level="file"><did><unittitle>Boude and Miley Photographs</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36112</unitid><container id="aspace_223c7f9dcd3044d69df3e6ffa96f55cd" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_453b5934b713d81d576f709e190b5529" parent="aspace_223c7f9dcd3044d69df3e6ffa96f55cd" type="folder">1</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_f67ddb0343ff894a15e2b3ecf683978c"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Washington College students, J. W. Lindsay Boarding House, waterstation on Va./Tenn. railroad stereoview</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_cad6519ea4d56b2852623b66d375574e" level="file"><did><unittitle>Michael Miley Photographs: Identified</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36113</unitid><container id="aspace_ad641b692c9c3b18db18cbd7b5197b79" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_97602ae548f0a9d13657f619b47d263f" parent="aspace_ad641b692c9c3b18db18cbd7b5197b79" type="folder">2</container></did></c><c id="aspace_9cc06d1ff8ec54e669f18141c7c212c1" level="file"><did><unittitle>Michael Miley Photographs: Unidentified</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36114</unitid><container id="aspace_4ac4d22d1f7e4e5a725fb0a18cf34113" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_66824cfa7c97bd1b5ad01ee3078aef39" parent="aspace_4ac4d22d1f7e4e5a725fb0a18cf34113" type="folder">3</container></did></c><c id="aspace_6e8b3dc9bcebf0cb61ecac7cdfb0a9d9" level="file"><did><unittitle>Michael Miley Photographs: Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity at Washington College</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36115</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" type="inclusive">circa 1870-1876</unitdate><container id="aspace_ba472de738ca24b80727ead9eb8af4ec" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_37ae6e9529a0bb29de0b4e18a140419e" parent="aspace_ba472de738ca24b80727ead9eb8af4ec" type="folder">4</container></did></c><c id="aspace_bb35bce2a27a97770e7521c169198eac" level="file"><did><unittitle>Miley and Son Photographs</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36116</unitid><container id="aspace_98e13e3c9be15a35708c3ad29f0072ff" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_59c2269beec6c061e8d6974c33b8f2eb" parent="aspace_98e13e3c9be15a35708c3ad29f0072ff" type="folder">5</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_b1c94017691653fbc597b022be5f7107"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Includes: Grandmother Slough, Liberty Hall ruins, Engleman children, and unidentified people</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_91df0be5047f166175a25d9bfa99cfc6" level="file"><did><unittitle>Miley and Son Photographs</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36120</unitid><container id="aspace_d7bec4f6175d71f00201ecedd0705fee" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_d65e6456f9ad7c677607d4ec669e8812" parent="aspace_d7bec4f6175d71f00201ecedd0705fee" type="folder">6</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_f1f71004ea118fe0847cc0c1411e97fb"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Includes John M. Swope and unidentified people</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_91a30d001cd334e7a285e25b469c0eef" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs: Other Lexington Photography Studios</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36117</unitid><container id="aspace_d7185870d1cd64b419614f392306db34" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_3fd4a5fa2207053ed5669d7e7b09275c" parent="aspace_d7185870d1cd64b419614f392306db34" type="folder">7</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_c6905acd5b0c9574a0e779b40c83fbb2"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Includes Samuel Lackey Davis and Olive Irene Connevey Davis, the Marshall Building, unidentified African American couple, other unidentified people</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_943d68e2956f9a7bea03d61211288e18" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs of Lexington People and Places</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36118</unitid><container id="aspace_d26187e028c5171ab93a81a9d9f3b48b" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_ee716edf418cc066fe11ff299003ac3a" parent="aspace_d26187e028c5171ab93a81a9d9f3b48b" type="folder">8</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_b4d95d20fba18dc39d21ec77368328e0"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Includes Joe McNutt, State Theatre (1930s), Detachment Camp chow call (1930 May 21), Washington and Lee University annual "fight" between freshmen and sophomores showing Doremus gym and students as well as townspeople, the flour mill before 1908 built in 1900 by the Moses Brothers, an unidentified African American woman, unidentified people.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_a0cabcb6348f4fe522b5bfdddb7e8c66" level="file"><did><unittitle>Photographs of Virginia People and Places</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36119</unitid><container id="aspace_29479a974b8de6272af2df2e45b1f91b" label="Mixed Materials [35101206266566]" type="box">2</container><container id="aspace_245fcae12d4a838ec4bb16442b3f7661" parent="aspace_29479a974b8de6272af2df2e45b1f91b" type="folder">9</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_ea3556b59818180f29e07fbbf8a70043"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Includes stereoview of Martha Washington's bed chamber inside Mt. Vernon (1880), G. W. C. Lee, Rev. Dr. Jackson (1861), Charles S. Veneable of UVA, Joseph M. Fauber, Rev. John Taylor, two photographs of Valley Seminary in Waynesboro, Va. (identifications on backs), a tintype of an unidentified couple, unidentified people.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_85bfc04c66f31aa3a29ef7942cb682d8" level="file"><did><unittitle>Cased ambrotype images of Rev. Dr. William Nelson Pendleton and wife Anzolette Pendleton</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36121</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce">circa 1860</unitdate><container id="aspace_9349b4756cdfa362dc4286614ff3c61b" label="Mixed Materials" type="Item">1</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_1fb9004d6fcaec89cf4a26d26b5ec269"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Taken in the Lexington, Va. studio of Samuel Pettigrew</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_6f38141e5dc4d1f2ed847aa1aa7777f8" level="file"><did><unittitle>Cased ambrotype photographs of the Morrison family</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/36122</unitid><unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce">circa 1860</unitdate><container id="aspace_6b935a54ade185e180d099fe394ebd39" label="Mixed Materials" type="Item">2</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_3a996eb43e31a2d9ebc90b521fc33a7a"><head>Additional Information</head><p>Morrison family of Brownsburg, Va. The older couple is likely Rev. James Morrison of New Providence Church and his wife Frances "Fannie" Brown Morrison. The young man is likely their son Ralph Hall Morrison.</p></scopecontent></c></dsc>
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