Scope and Contents From the Collection:

An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Aspen Hill High School near Pendleton Station, 1885-1886 Catalogue. Atlantic University, Virginia Beach, Bulletin for Summer Session. 1931. Blackstone Female Institute, "Programme of...Commencement Exercises....Blackstone Female Institute, Session 1898-'99" College of Henrico, pamphlet of an address delivered by W. Gordon McCabe on May 31, 1911, “The First University of America,” typed extracts concerning Henricopolis and the college on the site, carbon copy of a report on...

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Post Office: Documents addressed to the Postmasters in Langerville, Augusta County, Virginia and Spartapolis, Rockingham County, Virginia. 1841-1860. 3 items. Postal Route: Letter to Col. C.C. Herbert of Richmond, Virginia from A. Betts, Wharton, concerning the mail run between Brownsville (Texas) and Wharton. September 23, 1862.

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Announcement of semi-monthly meeting, addressed to Henry Wheatland. April 11, 1851.

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Announcement of Stockholder meeting. Jersey City, New York. 1920.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch article, “Berkeley is Restored.” Richmond, Virginia. Undated.

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Meeting announcement of the Bibliographic Society, Richmond, Virginia. October 9, 1946.

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Meeting announcement of the Huguenot Society, Richmond, Virginia. October 17, 1942.

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One programs for 1946 and one invitation for 1944. Newport News, Virginia.

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Invitation and certificates for C.P. Matthaci. 1883, 1886 and 1895.

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List of Company’s legal correspondents, by state. June 1867.

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Coal Office of the Morris Canal and Banking Company of Newark, New Jersey to a Boston, Massachusetts client about commission costs. April 1, 1939.

Scope and Contents Includes a printed information sheet about the National Home Finding Society who search for “waifs and foundlings, born and unborn and deserted and abused children and finding real homes for all orphans…” Among other things, the sheet tells how to dress and how to talk with people at their door when canvassing for children. A postcard with an airplane view of “Plan, Beach, River, Yorktown, Boats, Planes, Stock, Farm and some Buildings needed.” Banner in postcard, “National Orphanage Home and...

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Letter by Richmond Virginian to Manufacturer’s Paper Company for a paper order. Richmond, Virginia. March 16, 1911.

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Sons of Temperance Financial Report. Virginia. 1854.

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Articles of the Union Bank of Georgetown in Virginia. On the back, there is a note signed by Robert Beverley. September, 1809.

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Catalogue of “Exhibition of Contemporary Portraits.” 1929. Resolutions of the Virginia Historical Society for Funds. Richmond, Virginia. Sent to P.R. Carrington in Richmond, Virginia. June 25, 1881.

Scope and Contents Announcement of a public festival for “Harrison and Reform” by the Whigs of Berkeley County, Virginia to be held September 10, 1840. Included on the announcement is a letter to Philip R. Fendall, Washington City from Charles Janus Faulkner of Berkeley Springs, Virginia. Mr. Fendall was a lawyer and a senator. Letter to Mrs. Louisa…of Portsmouth, Virginia sending the minutes of the Whig’s Ladies Meeting in Richmond, Virginia which discuss erecting a statue of Henry Clay. 1844. Letter from...

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Performance Program for sixth anniversary. September 26, 1806.

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Typed rough draft of a letter about reunions for Camp Sequoyan in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia and other places. Undated.

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Illustrated broadside advertising subscriptions for rebuilding the Kotoku-In Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, best known for its 13th-century Daibutsu (Great Buddha statue). Also includes a receipt from the Director of Kotoku-In for a donation for rebuilding the temple.

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The front and back cover of the Farmer’s Register, published in Petersburg, Virginia.  The editor and proprietor is Edmund Ruffin. Samuel Fauntleroy or J. H. Cocke are written on the top of some issues.  Complete issue for December 31, 1838.  1837-1842.