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Audie Scott Tilghman papers 0.33 cubic feet 1 box

Tilghman, Audie Scott, 1909-2001
This collection primarily consists of letters from 1927 sent from Audie Tilghman to her family in Norfolk during her first year at the State Teachers College in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Also contains bills, a student handbook, and various ephemera from 1925-1930.
  1. James Madison University

Betty Coe Cinquegrana papers 0.98 cubic feet 1 Hollinger box, 1 oversize box

Cinquegrana, Betty Coe, 1942-
This collection contains the papers of Betty Coe Cinquegrana, who attended Madison College from 1960-1964. Materials date from 1960-2014 and relate to her time as a student at Louisa County High School and Madison College, and life after college. Materials relating to the Betty Coe '64 and Paul J. Cinquegrana Scholarship, established in the mid-2000s, are also included.
  1. James Madison University

Delphine Hurst Parsons papers 2.47 cubic feet 2 Hollinger boxes, 1 half-Hollinger box, 3 oversize boxes

Parsons, Delphine Hurst, 1910-2001
Materials include correspondence, paper ephemera, yearbooks, and memorabilia of Delphine Hurst Parsons from her time as a student at Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia and at the State Teachers College (STC) at Harrisonburg, with one vinyl record of the Madison College Choir Concert of 1966, and a single photograph from the 1976 reunion of STC students. This collection also contains three yearbooks owned by Nellie Cowan Williams, a close friend and STC classmate of Delphine Parsons, and four yearbooks belonging to Hurst.
  1. James Madison University

George Bell Revercomb letters 1 Files

Revercomb, George Bell, 1831-1898

This collection consists of typescript transcriptions of twenty letters from George Bell Revercomb to his future wife, Sarah Elizabeth Wallace, during his service as a Confederate cavalryman during the American Civil War. The letters are written from Gordonsville, Manassas, Winchester, and Harrisonburg, Virginia. His final letter is written from Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Va in May 1864. In it he mentions his wound in the Battle of the Wilderness, the death of General JEB Stuart, his religion, and wonders about the condition of his friends and brothers in his company.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Scrapbook Lexington Life Saving and First Aid Crew loose pages Box 1, Folder 7

This folder includes material on the following: Thank you letters thanking crew for their service; Bedford, Virginia stores fire; group photo of Hose Company No. 4, Harrisonburg, Virginia; brothers Donald Sisk, 20 and Albert Sisk, 23 of Salem, Virginia, both drowned at Rocky Point, Virginia, in the James River, five miles north of Buchanan; Lexington First Aid Crew presented Wheel Chair by the Lexington Lions Club, article and photos; First Aid Crew under sponsorship of the Lexington Fire Department organized in 1935; and a letter to Lexington Fire Department from the President of the Washington and Lee Chapter of Delta Upsilon, concerning their fire.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library
  2. Lexington Life Saving and First Aid Crew Collection

V. Inez Graybeal Roop Papers 1.61 cubic feet 5 boxes

Roop, V. Inez Graybeal (Vivian Inez), 1913-2010
The V. Inez Graybeal Roop Papers, 1913-2005, a collection of a notable Harrisonburg Teacher's College (now James Madison University) alumna, contains James Madison University related correspondence, speeches, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and reunion programs, as well as Roop and Graybeal family history.
  1. James Madison University

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