A Guide to the Archives Vertical File Collection, 1985-2011 Archives Vertical File Collection, 1985-2011 39030

A Guide to the Archives Vertical File Collection, 1985-2011

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 39030

Library of Virginia

The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000
USA
Email: archdesk@lva.virginia.gov(Archives)
URL: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

Processed by: LVA staff

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

39030

Title

Archives Vertical File Collection, 1985-2011

Extent

1.35 cubic feet (3 boxes) and 2 oversize folders

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Archives Vertical File Collection. Accession 39030. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

Received from various donors at various times.

The Archives Vertical File collection contains a variety of research material including newspaper clippings, genealogies, obituaries, copies of publications, research notes, and biographies. In general, the types of items one might find are loose papers, pedigree charts, newspaper clippings, and items that are not suitable for shelving. The collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Also contained in the files are family histories which may not have been widely published. Incomplete genealogies are included for the following families: Campbell, Davis, Draper, Griffin, Guthrie, Hamilton, Harbin, Harwood, Hatcher, Henderson, Johnstone, Klein, Petty, Reeves, Reneau, Van Buren, and Vaughan.

Contents List

Archives Vertical File Collection , 1985-2011 .

Boxes 1-3 and Oversize Box 104

Extent: 3 boxes and 2 oversize folders.

Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Two folders of oversize items in Oversize Box 104.

Box 1
Account book page, undated
Box 1
[___?] Beach, history of structures built 1883-1897
Box 1
Bondurant, Jean Pierre. Abjuration, 3 Oct. 1697
Box 1
Bontecou, Eleanor
Box 1
Byrd Mill (Louisa County, Va.)
Box 1
Byrd Presbyterian Church (Goochland, Va.) recollections, 1987
Box 1
Campbell family
Box 1
County Court and Overseers of the Poor Rate [locality unspecified, date ca. 19th century]
Oversize Box 104
Currency conversion chart, undated [pre-1776]
Box 1
Davis, Agnes, 1852
Box 1
Davis family
Box 1
Dismal Swamp conservation efforts
Box 1
Draper family
Box 1
Envelope, 17 August 1858 , William Drinkard to Chas. B. Shaw, Esq.
Box 1
Ferries (Bedford County, Va.)
Box 1
"Freedom Before Emancipation, "Mid-Ocean News , 10 August 2007
Oversize Box 104
French and English newspaper collection, 1932, 1936, 1940

Includes issues of Le Rire (1 October 1932); L'Illustre du Petit Journal (6 and 27 September, 9 August, and 15 November 1936); Marianne (28 February 1940); The War (27 September 1940); and an undated page ripped from an unidentified periodical published by The Sun Engraving Co., Ltd. Also included is a typed reminiscence (2 leaves) of the donor's life in Egypt, where he was born in 1937. Events discussed date into the late 1960's. The donor chose to remain anonymous.
Box 1
Griffin family
Box 1
Guthrie family
Box 1
Halifax County (Va.) - transcripts and photocopies of miscellaneous 18th century court documents
Box 1
Hamilton family
Box 1
Harbin family
Box 1
Harwood family
Box 1
Hatcher family
Box 1
Henderson family
Box 1
Hillman's Tollgate (Winchester, Va.)
Box 1
"Historical Event Unveiled: True History Becomes Alive " by Herman B. Turner
Box 1
Holbrook family gravesite, Franklin County, Ga., photographs

One of the markers is for Revolutionary War soldier Jesse Holbrook, Virginia Militia, Goochland County.
Box 1
Johnstone family
Box 1
Kello, Samuel. Letter fragment
Box 1
Kisling, Simmerman, Hudson, Piper houses (Wythe County, Va.)
Box 1
Klein family
Box 1
Lawson family
Box 1
Lease information (ca. 19th century)
Box 1
Medyan, Parviz M. Letter to Tom Daschle, 2002
Box 1
Marriage bonds and ministers' returns, Roanoke County, Va., 1838-1852 , abstracts
Box 1
Merrimac , clippings re:
Box 1
Montgomery, John
Box 1
Muster roll, Hospital Dept., Winchester, Va., March-April 1862 , transcription by Sammy Copenhaver
Box 2
Obituaries
Box 2
Oliver, Leslie Radin. "Recipes from Times Past "
Box 2
Pankerson-Cherry-Beveridge families
Box 2
Petition [?], 1774 [?]
Box 2
Petty family
Box 2
Proceedings, unnamed court case, ca. 18th/19th century
Box 2
Randolph family
Box 2
Reeves family
Box 2
"Remembering Pap Ben: Bennie Bryan Coffey, 1917-2008 "
Box 2
Reneau family
Box 2
Reynolds Metals Company: The Landscape [photocopied brochure]
Oversize Box 104
Rhode Island - Voided 1888 U.S. Congress act re: purchase of land in RI
Box 2
Rogers, Bill. Pamphlets, 2003
Box 2
St. Mary's Academy [locality unknown]
Box 2
Saura (Saraw, Cheraw) Indians and two Virginia Indian legends
Box 2
Sandy Springs (Md.)
Box 2
Spanish Jesuit martyrs of Virginia, various illustrations
Box 2
State papers (calendar of), 1710-1715
Box 2
Supreme Court [Va.? U.S.?}
Box 2
Tracy family
Box 2
Transcript excerpts, Edmund Randolph's History of Virginia
Box 2
Turner, Edith, of Southampton ( American Beacon article, 24 March 1820 )
Box 2
Unidentified portrait (copy; original in Corcoran Art Gallery)
Box 2
Van Buren family
Box 2
Vaughan family
Box 3
Washington-Henry Academy (Atlee, Va.)
Box 3
Watts, Van
Box 3
Williamsburg (Va.) and Yorktown (Va.) extracts (deed, will, order books, etc., 16th, 17th, 18th centuries)
Box 3
[___?] Wormeley captivity and confinement, 1778 [?]
Box 3
"The Wythe Grays: Harpers Ferry and Beyond, " article from the Wythe County Historical Review , Number 72, Winter 2008-2009