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Preferred Citation

[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Linville scrapbook and daybook, 1883-2013 (bulk 1883-1893), SC 0402, James Madison University Special Collections, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Inc. Winter Americana Auction, March 5, 2025.

Biographical / Historical

The daybook part of the volume, dated 1883-1893, is presumed to document the mercantile activities of Myers Store in Linville, Virginia.

Scope and Contents

One 800-page bound volume that was originally used as a daybook and was partially repurposed as a scrapbook to include pasted-in and loose scrapbooking elements, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera. The scrapbook section of the volume, which starts at page 1 and continues through approximately 150, includes loose and pasted-in newspaper clippings of recipes, obituaries, engagement and wedding announcements, poems, and news items. Other scrapbooking elements include black-and-white and full-color images of Victorian era men, women, and children and their fashion as well as magazine clippings of Woodrow Wilson. A lithograph of George Washington is also pasted in. Several pages at the end of the volume also have pasted in clippings. Loose news clippings, dating up to 2013, are laid in throughout the volume.

The news clippings primarily document local happenings and events but also include regional (J. Samuel McCue capital punishment in Charlottesville) and national news (Leopold and Loeb). Locations include Timberville, Linville, Broadway, Forestville, and other places in Rockingham and Shenandoah County.

The daybook part of the volume, dated 1883-1893, is presumed to document the mercantile activities of Myers Store in Linville, Virginia. Surnames found in the daybook include Glovier, Hoover, Kline, Kratzer, Lincoln, Myers, Neff, Pennybacker, Rhodes, Simmers, Spitzer, Wampler, Weaver, Wenger, Zirkle, and others. Several entries mention John D. Heatwole, a Dry River potter.

Related Material

Myers Store Ledger Collection, HRHS-030, Rocktown History, Dayton, Va.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Daybooks
• General stores -- Virginia -- 19th century
• Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
• Merchants -- Virginia -- 19th century
• Retail trade -- Virginia -- 19th century
• Rockingham County (Va.) -- History
• Rockingham County (Va.) -- Social life and customs
• Scrapbooks