Collections : [Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library]

Includes 2 partial programs and photocopied newspaper articles about the event.

Published lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; "Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?"

This record group contains materials created by individual academic departments.

This collection contains official records of the organization, such as annual reports, as well as various papers, including event invitations, mailed pamphlets, the organization's newsletter, and photocopies of newspaper articles. It also contains two envelopes of animal photographs, some of which are used in the mailed pamphlets. Also included is the July 27, 2022, News-Gazette obituary for Jane Cornett, who was the Executive Director of the SPCA for many years.

This record group contains materials created by the University's student and faculty organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and honorary societies, such as official publications by these groups and records about their management.

This collection consists of the organizational archives and research papers presented by members of Lexington, Virginia's Ignorance Club, a women's club organized 1904 as an educational and social club. The Ignorance Club remains active in 2024. The collection contains club programs, officer and membership lists, club rules, schedules of the year's meetings and member presentations. It also includes what is believed to be the first paper written by a society member for presentation at a meeting, which was R. F. Anderson on March 13, 1908.

This collection records the life of John D. "Pete" Sterrett, Jr. and his wife, Lula McCorkle Moore, and their Rockbridge County and Wytheville, Virginia families. Included in this collection are personal correspondence, which includes WWII correspondence to wife Lula from John D. "Pete" Sterrett, Jr., photographs, genealogies, and papers relating to their social lives.

This collection contains seven posters advertising the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Community parade sponsored by CARE Rockbridge. CARE is short for Community Anti-Racism Effort. The first parade was in 2017. The posters are dated 2017-2022. The design and printing of the 2017-2019 posters was done by Washington and Lee University alumna Amira Hegazi, Class of 2015. The 2022 poster was designed by Gaby Vazquez.

This collection consists materials compiled and collected by Matthew "Matt" White Paxton, Jr. The primary subject matter of the collection is Paxton family genealogy, the history of the Rockbridge County, Virginia, and related families including Houston, Walker, White, Brockenbrough, Hopkins, Bowyer, Owen, and Braxton. The collection includes original manuscripts, photographs, and secondary source materials such as notes, articles, clippings, pamphlets, and published materials. The photographs are predominately Paxton family members from the late 19th-mid 20th century. There is one photograph of Matthew Paxton, Sr. taken while a student at Washington and Lee University (1873-1874) as well as photographs of his son, Matthew Paxton, Jr. at Fancy Dress and dressed in military uniform in 1918. There are also cased ambrotypes and daguerreotypes of members of the White and Hopkins families. The collection includes a number of photographs from the Michael Miley Studio.