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Found in: Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives

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Collection contains photographs, pamphlets, newspapers, cigar box labels (lithographs), cartes des visites, postcard, etc about Abraham Lincoln.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a black and white postcard of the home of James Edward Allen Gibbs, who co-invented the Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine c. 1860. The home is in Steele's Tavern, Virginia.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Includes 82 items collected by Charles Manson Crutchfield, including 38 photographs some of which are of Confederate generals and were taken by Michael Miley, postcards and printed materials, most of which concern Washington and Lee University and the surrounding city of Lexington, Virginia during the 1880's

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection contains principally scrapbooks relating to Bryan's service as U.S. ambassador to Brazil (1898-1902), Portugal (1903-1909), Belgium (1909-1911) and Japan (1911-1912) and containing newspaper clippings, press releases, photographs, postcards, greeting cards and other memorabilia. It also includes a scrapbook of family photographs, political memorabilia, and genealogy as well as political correspondence from 1879-1909.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Includes genealogical inquiries to Turner, postcards, and religious items.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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A collection of 17 photographs, copies, and postcards related to Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson, his first wife Elinor Junkin and second wife Mary anna Morrison. The collection includes two original cartes de visite. One, a retouched image of Jackson in his pre - Civil War U.S. Army uniform without a photographer's imprint and the other, a view of his grave by Michael Miley, of Lexington, Va., c. 1870 - 75.The postcards date to the mid 20th century.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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A total of 15 postcards from the early 20th century (1905 - 1930) with subjects that include: Musée du Louvre; Paris, France; East Lexington, Va., Old Deerfield, Ma., Lexington, Ky., London, England; Washington and Lee University, VA; Chicago; Stonewall Jackson on horseback, Tucker Hall at Washington and Lee University, and Woodrow Wilson prior to his presidency. One of Woodrow Wilson postcards is 1912 presidential campaign related and one is real photo portrait.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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One is a postcard ca. 1910 titled 'East Lexington.' It shows House Mountain in the distance and the Maury River downstream from East Lexington, Virginia. The two other images are duplicate contemporary 8x10 black and white photos of House Mountain printed from the original negative made by photographer Michael Miley, c. 1885 - 1900.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection contains postcards by the Photo Views Company in Oak Hill, Virginia. Included are postcards of Michie's Tavern near Charlottesville, Hot Springs, Falling Springs Branch between Hot Springs and Covington, Route 39 near Afton, and a view from Route 60, Route 60 Bridge near Covington, and Blue Ridge Terrace in Afton.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a copy of a photograph of the Ann Smith Academy in Lexington, Virginia. The collection also includes the negative of the image, which was taken before 1899. The postcard is of the new structure of the Ann Smith Academy c.1910, which is now the Washington and Lee Chi Psi Fraternity house.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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The photographic postcard is postmarked 1933, has a note written on the back from J. R. Goff to Henry Boley of Lexington, VA. The postcard is a photograph of 'Camp site of Gen. Robert E. Lee during a period of Civil War. Route 60 near Rainelle, West Virginia.'

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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A real photograph postcard of Washington and Lee University ambulance driver James Rowan (WLU class of 1914) standing in front of his ambulance in France during the First World War. The second image in this collection is of Robert P. Rowan in his military uniform wearing the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him for his heroism in combat as a corporal in Company A, of the 116th Infantry. The Rowan brothers were from Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a color postcard of Washington's Tomb in Mount Vernon, Virginia. The image shows four women waiting outside the gate to the tomb.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a color postcard of Old Humpback Bridge near Covington, Virginia. The postcard was written by G. Black to Miss Mary Rader of Lexington, Virginia on June 11, 1947.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a black and white postcard that is a reproduction of a photograph of Valley Service Station and Cabins on J. C. Wilhelm's property in Kerr's Creek, Virginia.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection contains a color postcard of 'The Chimney Rocks, Shenandoah Valley, Va.' c. 1910.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a postcard of a parade on Main Street in Lexington, Virginia. The photo is credited to Mr. W. L. Hess, Jr. and was printed by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a color postcard of Peaks of Otter in Bedford County, Virginia. The postcard has a letter on the back addressed to Miss May Rader. The postcard was printed by J.P. Bell Company, Lynchburg, Virginia. Also included is a color postcard of the interior of the Peaks of Otter Restaurant and Lodge.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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This collection consists of a color postcard of 'The Garden' in Rockbridge Alum Springs, Virginia c. 1910.

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives