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Walker-Wood families papers

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This collection includes photographs, ephemera, clippings, correspondence, and printed material created and/or acquired by members of the Walker and Wood families, specifically Harry L. and Eliza Walker and their daughter Nannie and her husband Clarence. Subjects include the Walker-Wood Brothers meat and grocery business, the family home Blandome, properties owned by the families, First Baptist Church, and social organizations in Lexington and Roanoke such as the NAACP and the Virginia Federation of Colored Women. Several of the photographs date to the late 19th century and feature multiple generations of both families. Of particular note are photographs of Freedman's Hospital nurses and a unit of Buffalo soldiers. The families were very active in advocating for the education of African American children in Lexington, and this collection reflects that. The collection includes documents related to the advocacy for and development of Lylburn Downing School and the organization of the Home and School League.

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Wallace Family Bible Records

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Photocopies and transcriptions of Bible records for the Jones, Wallace, and Testerman families. Original Bible records are in the possession of Miss Lorena Wallace, Beckley, West Virginia.

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Waller family papers

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The Waller family papers contains original documents including correspondence, deeds, land indentures, receipts, photographs and other papers related to the genealogical research of the Waller family by Anne Waller Reddy (1890-1971). Materials contain those belonging to or documenting Governor Littleton John Waller Tazewell as well as Benjamin and John Waller.

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Wallpaper collection

Wampler Family Papers

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The Wampler Family Papers contain family items, legal and financial documents, and agricultural information related to the Wampler family in Dayton, Virginia.

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Monroe Leigh papers

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Summary article on adoption of ICC Statute by Committee of the Whole of the Rome Conference

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Washington and Greene Counties, Pennsylvania, Land Grants

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Three land grants and transcripts regarding land in Greene Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania (now part of Greene County), with both the original documents and digital scans available to view. The first grant is dated 23 April 1793 and also includes an official transcript (1918). This grant concerns land located in Greene Township named "Bunkers Hill." The second grant is dated 9 June 1794 and concerns land located in Greene Township named "Bostonian" (it has no corresponding transcript). The third grant is dated 17 June 1794 and concerns a piece of land named "Spicers Defeat," but only the transcript is present. Names mentioned in these grants include Boston Canor, Michael Burns, Thomas Bowen, and Elizabeth Dougherty, Bowen's wife.

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Washington Hall Ephemera Collection

Watson Family Papers

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The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills, notes (1782-1862), manuscript and printed forms; 51 miscellaneous manuscript and printed forms (1790-1902), including inventories of estates, sale bills, notes on legal matters with respect to property, court proceedings, etc.; and one manuscript constable's receipt book of Campbell and Watson.

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Wayne Rickert collection of founders' autographs

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The collection contains 41 manuscripts dating 1770-1831. Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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