Collections

This collection contains materials that document the evolution of the writing slate from stone book slate to native slate blackboards. This includes a slate book with 8 quartz paint pages with attached pencil holder,and another book with pencil holder and 6 quartz painted "slates". The cover of one is stamped in black and gold with a school scene and applied litho of two girls playing stick and ball. There is also a 1940 salesman kit with five loose photos of the National School Slate Co. They depict a couple of table top models with and without an abacus and a floor model with a picture scroll at the top. This is accompanied by a tri-fold price list for a vriety of slate and blackboard related products for the National School Slate Co., SLatington, PA.

Correspondence of Will Tomlinson, a newspaper publisher in southern Ohio, his wife Eliza Wylie Tomlinson, and their children Sarah Isabella Tomlinson and William Byers Tomlinson, as well as other family members, friends, and colleagues.

This collection of yearbooks documents the experiences of law students who attended the University of Virginia between 1888 and 2009. It contains both "Corks and Curls", the main University of Virginia student yearbook, and "The Barrister", the UVA law student yearbook. Researchers will discover a wide range of content in these books, including student, staff, and faculty photographs, candid glimpses into student life, and student organization profiles.

This collection consists of a roll and minutes book (1916-1920), record book (1867-1941), a list of members and who attended student prayer meetings (1856-1866), the constitution, and a library book (1887-1890) for the YMCA in Lexington, Virginia.

This collection contains scrapbooks, ledgers, slides, photographs, and documents created by Longwood's chapter of the YWCA between 1898 and 1973. The scrapbooks vary in condition and size, and contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and drawings. The ledgers contains the minutes of meetings held from 1909-1919 and 1955 to 1962, as well as a roll of the members for each term. The collection also includes photographs and slides of group activities including Freshman Commission, Religious Emphasis Week, food drives, and conferences.

Genealogical information compiled by the donor and documents of the Zinn family of north central West Virginia. The family is traced back to George Zinn, a German immigrant from Darstadt and a Revolutionary War veteran who settled after the American Revolution in Monongalia County. There is mention of various of his descendents, mainly West Virginians, but most of the information is on the line of the Civil War veteran George Harrison Zinn and his son Frank Garfield Zinn. Most of the documents are the financial records of George D. Zinn and his business transactions in the vicinity of Morgantown. There are a few other items on Morgantown history and a letter from John Malcom to William and Jane Wilson about land in the frontier Mid-West.