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Robert A. Paine notebook, 1879. MS 0455. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.
Robert Alexander Paine was born in 1859 in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from VMI in 1881 and went on to become a businessman and civil engineer. Paine died in 1929 in Ashland, Virginia.
This collection consists of one manuscript notebook compiled by VMI Cadet Robert A. Paine in 1879. The notebook contains lyrics of songs popular during the 1870s.