A Guide to the Whitehead Family Papers, 1960-2006
A Collection in
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession number 6409-e
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Preferred Citation
Whitehead Family Papers, 1960-2006, Accession #6409-e, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Info
The papers were given to the Library by Ann Whitehead Thomas, on August 9, 2007.
Biographical/Historical Information
Robert Whitehead was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Amherst and Nelson Counties .
Scope and Content
The collection contains an M.A. thesis The Political Career of Robert Whitehead by William Baldwin Obrochta, 1985; correspondence concerning the thesis; an interview with Ann Whitehead Thomas, 2006, by James H. Hershman, Jr., chiefly concerning her father; remarks by George E. Allen at the unveiling of a portrait of Whitehead; a letter from Francis Pickens Miller on Whitehead, 1960; and assorted clippings.