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This collection includes both a scrapbook and loose items compiled by Mackall Rust Bruin, Jr. while a student at Washington and Lee University. The scrapbook contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs. Photograph subjects include VMI, Castle Hill (DeHart Hotel), campus buildings, Lexington, students, the covered bridge above the North River, Natural Bridge, Stonewall Jackson grave, football, baseball, and an unidentified African American man wearing an apron and posed outside of a Washington and Lee building. There are also postcards of Buena Vista, East Lexington, and Sweet Briar. The East Lexington postcard features railroad tracks and House Mountain. The ephemera includes a 1921 pamphlet titled "The Re-Establishment of the Lee School of Journalism," various items produced by W&L for students, items related to the New Theatre or Theater including broadsides and programs, athletics (broadsides, baseball schedule and scorebook), a Virginia Cafe menu (Lynchburg), Chemistry I exercises, the final exam schedule for June 1921, and student elections. The clippings primarily relate to athletics.