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Start Over Date range 1953 Creator Hall, Danny

Raymond J. Kirby collection 1.0 Linear Feet 1 box

Kirby, Raymond J

This collection consists of three bound scrapbooks and a set of folios of photographs taken by Raymond J. Kirby. The scrapbooks contain photographs and newspaper clippings related to the historic flooding in Rockbridge and Nelson counties in Virginia as a result of Hurricane Camille in August 1969. The majority of the photographs document damage in and around Rockbridge County with some Nelson county, Lexington, and Buena Vista scenes. This collection also includes approximately 170 photographs pasted into folios comprehensively documenting the construction of the Route 11 bypass around Lexington, Virginia on the south and eastern side of the town between 1953 and 1956.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

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