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Conditions Governing Access

Scrapbook is fragile and will require assistance when accessed.

Custodial History

The album descended in the Eustler and Shaw families.

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Edward Miley Eustler Scrapbook, WLU-Coll-0430, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

The scrapbook was a gift of Robin Sledge Shaw, Eustler's great granddaughter. It was received by Special Collections, November 21, 2013.

Biographical / Historical

Edward Miley Eutsler attended Washington & Lee University between 1910 and 1912. He left Washington and Lee after 1912 to attend the Biltmore School of Forestry near Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from the Biltmore School in 1914

Scope and Contents

Edward M. Eustler's photographic scrapbook (1910-1911) documents Eustler's experience as a student at Washington and Lee University. Eustler, then of Greensboro, North Carolina, compiled his photographic scrapbook with approximately 350 photographs taken between 1910 and 1911. Subjects of the photographs include campus and dorm life, athletics, architecture, local landmarks and historic sights, fraternity and club initiations, the Lexington, Virginia downtown area, the Virginia Military Institute, Washington and Lee University faculty and staff, Lexington residents and noteworthy figures, specifically Jefferson Shields and Henry O. Dold, friends, and family. The scrapbook also documents Eustler and others at Camp Ogburn in Summerfield, North Carolina in the summer of 1910 as well as a camping excursion to the summit of North Carolina's Mt. Mitchell in 1911. Eutsler left Washington and Lee University after the 1912 academic year and enrolled in the Biltmore School of Forestry near Asheville, North Carolina. There he earned a degree in Forest Engineering in 1914.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Biltmore Forest School
• College Students -- Social life and customs
• Dold, Henry O.
• Eustler family
• Fraternal organizations
• North Carolina -- Mitchell, Mount
• North Carolina -- Summerfield -- Camp Ogburn
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• Shaw, Robin Sledge
• Shields, Jefferson
• Virginia -- Rockbridge County
• Virginia Military Institute
• Washington and Lee University