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Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, postcards and other items relating to Williamsburg, Virginia.

Digital copies of photographic postcards of West Virginia subjects. There are 793 items on the following subjects: Canaan Valley; cottages, motels; Davis (town); Elkins (town); Germany Valley; Greenland Gap; miscellaneous; miscellaneous towns; Parsons (town); Petersburg Gap; Petersburg (flood); Petersburg (town); rivers; roadways; rock formations; Seneca Rocks; Smoke Hole; train depots.

This collection consists of the correspondence and postcards (12 items) of Eliza Clinedinst Crim, "Mother of the New Market Corps." Crim writes to Charles M. Wesson (VMI Class of 1867), James B. Baylor (VMI Class of 1867), and others. The letters contain reminiscences about the Battle of New Market, Virginia and various VMI alumni.

The Ephemera Collection contains material primarily acquired for teaching. It includes material in various formats, most of which have been previously published. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point.

This collection includes correspondence connected with the book Gen. Robert E. Lee After Appomattox edited by Dr. Riley; letters from Riley to his wife while he was with the American Expeditionary Force University in France in 1919; other correspondents include Edward Clifford Gordon, Mary Custis Lee and Jo Lane Stern. Also includes letters to his daughter (Frances Riley, later Frances Denton), her Daughters of the American Revolution card, and photographs and postcards of Washington and Lee University.

Papers, 1892-1942, of the family of George Clarke Glidden and his wife Mary A. Kelley of Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence, but there are also postcards and invitations in the collection. The letters describe the daily lives of the family, including house work, courtships, social entertainment, vacations, child-raising, and recreation. Most of the letters were written between Mary A. Kelley, her husband George Clark Glidden, and their daughter Barbara Glidden.

This collection contains the family papers of members of the Grigsby and Galt Families. Mary Blair Grigsby married William W. Galt in 1881. The collection contains papers of various members of the Grigsby family, particulary Hugh Blair Grigsby who was a historian and Chancellor of The College of William and Mary and his son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby who lived his entire life at the family farm, Edgehill, in Charlotte County, Virginia.