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Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Pauline E. Burks Family Papers, Ms1992-037, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to Special Collections in 1989, 1992, 1993 and 1994.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Pauline E. Burks Family Papers were completed in April 2008. The collection was partially processed upon their reciept.
Family History
Pauline Englehard Burks, a Richmond, Virginia resident, researched the genealogy of her husband's (Broaddus Vaughan Burks) family. In doing so, she amassed correspondence, account books, receipts, newspapers, and other documents about the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. In 1995 she published the book Roots, Shoots and Runners: Taliaferro, Broaddus, Burks, Vaughan and Allied Families As Seen in Their Letters, Bible Records and Family Papers .
Alexander Hairston Burks married Ellen T. Broaddus. In 1879, their second child, Franklin "F.T." Taliaferro Burks (1849-1921), would marry his second wife, Hortense Washington Vaughan (1867-1955), the youngest of the four children of Dr. Washington "Wash" L. Vaughan and Francis "Fannie" Shields. Her siblings included noted doctor and surgeon Dr. George Tully Vaughan; Eugene Neville Vaughan; and Matilda Corinne Vaughan Hoffman. F.T. and Hortense Burks had 4 children: Pearl Burks Rossner Burnley Miles; Frank T. Burks, Jr.; Garnett M. Burks, who married architect Lorenzo Simmons Winslow; and Broaddus Vaughan Burks. Broaddus Burks (1898-1985) married Pauline Genevieve Englehard (b. 1909) in 1931, and they had two children.
Scope and Content
The Pauline E. Burks Family Papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspaper clippings, family Bibles, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia.
Papers about the families include 18th-century land and property information for Virginia and 19th-century financial papers and ledgers as well as both personal and business correspondence. Most early materials pertain to the Broaddus, Edmonds and Taliaferro families. More contemporary materials from the late 19th and 20th centuries are found in the Vaughan and Burks papers. Most of the 20th-century papers are the informal correspondence of the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family, dating from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Other materials include a set of transcriptions of record books from Amherst County, Virginia from a series called Courthouse Miniatures, and other printed materials, such as magazines and newspapers. The magazine and newspaper selection consists only of selected issues and clippings from the periodicals, but contains interesting local news and advertisements. Also of note are a few clothing catalogs, patterns, and sewing instructions from around 1900. Children's publications such as Youth's Companion and activity pages complement the Virgnia schoolteacher information found in the Burks and Vaughan family materials.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series:
Series I. Family Papers is divided by family name.
Series II. General Genealogical and Historic Papers is divided by type of material.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
- Women -- History
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Pauline E. Burks Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).
Container List
- Broaddus Family
- box-folder 1 folder: 1
Broaddus and Taliaferro family plats and deeds1837-1866, n.d.
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Plat of land in Amherst County1837
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Plat of land sold by James F. Taliaferro to John F. Taliaferro1859
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Plat of survey for A. Taliaferro's heirs, Amherst County1866
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Plat of land near Tear-Jacket Mountainn.d.
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Deed from Richard P. Smith to Dudley Sandidgen.d.
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- box-folder 1 folder: 2
John W. and E.E. Broaddus - Receipts, accounts, bills of lading, and other financial papers1832-1859
- box-folder 1 folder: 3
Correspondence to John W. and Bettie E. Broaddus1838-1858
- box-folder 1 folder: 4
Printed materials
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Copied form letter from American Bible Union requesting funds1857
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Article on Andrew Broaddus in Religious HeraldJan 13, 1921
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Article on Andrew Broaddus in Religious HeraldFeb 14, 1924
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Program from Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Amherst Co., Virginia1934
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Amherst County Historical and Natural Beauty Tour guide1974
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Register of General Assembly of Virginia listing [John] Broaddus, 1867-1868 Convention (photocopy)n.d.
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- box-folder 1 folder: 1
- Edmonds Family
- box-folder 1 folder: 5
Plats and surveysc.1786-1839
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Deed from John Mays and wife to James Edmonds in Amherst Co.1789
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Menos Wright survey, Amherst Co.1793
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Samuel Edmonds survey by James Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1796
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James Edmonds survey by James Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1796
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James Edmonds survey by James Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1800
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Samuel Edmonds survey by Joseph Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1805
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Indenture between Samuel Edmonds and Rowland Edmonds in Nelson Co.1809
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Plat of land conveyed from Sarah Edmonds to George Vaughan, Nelson Co.1839
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Three Edmonds plats in Amherst Co.
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- box-folder 1 folder: 5
- Taliaferro Family
- oversize folder: 1
Land grants, plats and land indentures1763-1839
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Land grant, King George III to Charles Taliaferro, Albemarle Co.1763
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Indenture between Samuel Marksberry and Charles Taliaferro, Amherst Co.1765
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Land grant, King George III to Hugh McKeebs, Amherst Co.1769
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Indenture between Lunsford Lomax, Jr. to Charles Taliaferro, Amherst Co.1770
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Land grant, King George III to Joseph Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1772
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Land grant, Gov. Edmund Randolph, Esq., to William Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1788
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Land grant, Gov. Henry Lee, Esq., to Joseph Higginbotham, Amherst Co.1793
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Indenture between Samuel Edmonds and wife, Alice Edmonds, to Roland Edmonds, Amherst Co.1796
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Land grant, Gov. Thomas W. Randolph, Esq., to Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.1820
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Land grant, Gov. Thomas W. Randolph, Esq., to Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.1822
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Plat for Rowland Edmunds by John Hill, Nelson Co.1836
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Plat for William Edmunds by John Hill, Nelson Co.1836
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Plat for Capt. George Vaughan by John Hill, Nelson Co.1839
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- box-folder 1 folder: 6
Transcriptions of oversize land grants1763-1822
- box-folder 1 folder: 7
Land indentures and plats1795-1873
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Indenture between Zacharias Taliaferro and wife Sally and Benjamin Taliaferro1795
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Plat for Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.1802
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Indenture between William Clarke and Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.1817
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Plat of land divided between Frances T. Burks and Bettie W. Burks, Amherst Co.1873
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Plat for Leonard H. Childress and Richeson Henley, Amherst Countyn.d.
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- box-folder 1 folder: 8
Correspondence and legal papers1837-1868Scope and Contents note
Includes letters to Childress, Snead, Broaddus, and Taliaferro families
- box-folder 1 folder: 9
Marriage proposal from Z. Drummond to Belinda Caroline Taliaferro1847
- box 11
Taliaferro family illustrated Bible, includes birth, death and marriage recordsn.d.
- oversize folder: 1
- Burks Family
- box-folder 1 folder: 10
Family bills, receipts, plats1873-1928
- box-folder 1 folder: 11
Letters between Hortense W. Vaughan and F.T. Burks1888
- box-folder 1 folder: 12
Hortense Vaughan Burks and Rose Berryman Burks - Teacher contracts and educational materials1886-1906
- box-folder 1 folder: 13
Sewing booklets and patterns of Hortense Vaughan Burks1885 - c.1905
- box-folder 1 folder: 14
Letters to Frank T. Burks1890-1912
- box-folder 1 folder: 15
Letters to Hortense Vaughan Burks1896-1933
- box-folder 1 folder: 16
Deeds for Hortense Vaughan Burks1899, 1928
- box-folder 1 folder: 17
Miscellaneous family correspondence1899-1940
- box-folder 1 folder: 18
Information on cows owned by Hortense Vaughan Burks1900-1909
- box-folder 1 folder: 19
Printed materialsc.1900-1915, 1942Scope and Contents note
Includes: Consumer Sugar Pledge from Sears, Roebuck and Co.; Blank application to Ku Klux Klan; Fabric samples from John Wanamaker and Edward Ridley and Sons; Bank brochure with information about Panama Canal; Obituary of F.T. Burks; Refund checks from Montgomery Ward; Newspaper clippings
- box-folder 1 folder: 20
Membership in Tobacco Grower's Cooperative Association1922-1924
- box 7
Twenty-two assorted issues of the magazine "The Mayflower Log " which becomes "The Washingtonian "1926-1929Scope and Contents note
These issues all have drawings by Garnett Burks in them.
- box 4
Pauline Englehard Burks Music History Scrapbookc.1927
- box 8
West Virginia University Memory Book and general scrapbook compiled by Pauline Englehard Burksc.1927-1989Scope and Contents note
Includes: Pittsburgh University and West Virginia University materials ca. 1928, newspaper clippings, buttons, admission tickets, programs, dance cards, wedding announcements, grades. Family letters, baby shower booklet for Pauline, wedding announcements and obituaries, greeting cards, church programs, ca.1930-1989
- box-folder 1 folder: 21
Letters from Neville Rosser to Pearl Burks Miles1945
- box-folder 12 folder: 1
Genealogy notes by Pauline Burks
- box-folder 12 folder: 1a
Genealogy and correspondence of Vaughan, Burks and Clayton familiesc.1900-1960
- box-folder 12 folder: 2
Burks family correspondence, greeting cards, receipts1911-1947Scope and Contents note
Includes letters from friend who's a missionary in Japan in the 1940s
- box-folder 12 folder: 3
Letters to Hortense Burks1905-1913
- box-folder 12 folder: 4
Pauline Englehart's high school diploma1926
- box-folder 12 folder: 5
West Virginia University lab book with notes by Pauline Englehart1928
- box-folder 12 folder: 6
Letters to Pauline Englehart Burks1937-1954
- box-folder 12 folder: 7
Letters to Broaddus and Pauline Burks and Hortense Burks1935-1952
- box-folder 12 folder: 8
Letters to Broaddus and Pauline Burks1950
- box-folder 12 folder: 9
Hortense Burks' will1950-1951
- box-folder 12 folder: 10
Letters to Virginia Department of Highways regarding the widening of Route 29 in Amherst Co.1955-1959
- box-folder 12 folder: 11
Letters to Broaddus and Pauline Burks1957
- box-folder 12 folder: 12-13
Burks family letters1958-1959
- box-folder 13 folder: 1-12
Correspondence and greeting cards to and from the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family1960-1967
- box-folder 14 folder: 1-10
Correspondence and greeting cards to and from the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family1968-1978
- box-folder 15 folder: 1-4
Correspondence and greeting cards to and from the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family1979-1985
- box-folder 15 folder: 5
Training course diploma from Sunday School Board1922
- box-folder 15 folder: 6
Scholarship program participation certificate for Liberty Baptist College1977-1978
- box-folder 15 folder: 7
Friends of Liberty certificaten.d.
- box-folder 1 folder: 22
Burks family and friends namecardsn.d.
- box-folder 1 folder: 23
Typescript copy of Letitia Preston Floyd's 1843 Memoirs [original in Draper Manuscripts at Wisconsin Historical Society]
- box 6
Burks family Bible, includes birth, death and marriage recordsn.d.
- box-folder 1 folder: 10
- Vaughan Family
- box-folder 1 folder: 24
Deeds, receipts, etc. of George Vaughan, Jr.1797-1860Scope and Contents note
Includes list of Rowland Edmonds' slaves, 1836
- box-folder 1 folder: 25
Mitchell's School Atlas with notes, poems, diary entries, recipes1849-1865
- box-folder 1 folder: 26
Two account books of Washington L. Vaughanc.1850-1875
- box-folder 1 folder: 27
Washington L. Vaughan - Bills, receipts1853-1869
- box-folder 1 folder: 28
Washington L. Vaughan - Bills, receipts, notary public information1870-1889
- box-folder 1 folder: 29
Correspondence to Washington L. Vaughan1869-1876
- box-folder 2 folder: 1
School essays by George Tully Vaughan1870-1878
- box-folder 2 folder: 2
Bills and correspondence to Fannie E. Vaughan1870-1900
- box-folder 2 folder: 3
Letters from E. Neville Vaughan to mother and sister1878-1898
- box-folder 2 folder: 4
Letters from George Tully Vaughan to sister, Hortense Vaughan Burks1887-1932
- box-folder 2 folder: 5
Letters to George Tully Vaughan1878-1943Scope and Contents note
Includes some letters from E. Taliaferro, program for recognition program at Georgetown in 1929, and newspaper clipping about 88th birthday
- oversize folder: 2
Newspapers and newspaper clippings and issues with columns about Dr. George Tully Vaughan,1897-1929Scope and Contents note
Includes Amherst Progress , The News [Lynchburg, VA], The Washington Post , and the Washington Times
- box-folder 2 folder: 6
School essays by Hortense W. Vaughan, letters to HWV and HWV's teacher contractsc.1880-1888
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Scrapbooks and diaries compiled by Hortense W. Vaughan (Burks)
- box 4
Three diaries written while in Farmville, VAFeb. 1885 - Feb. 1887
- box 4
School notebook with notes, essays, and doodlesc.1886
- box 4
Black 1860s account ledger later used as scrapbook with newspaper clippings and colored advertising cards
- box 4
Marbled-cover 1868 account ledger of D.S. Woodson later used as scrapbook with newspaper clippings, colored advertising cards, and cyanotype photographs of a house, young girls, and teenage girls
- box 4
Green 1877 George Tully Vaughan exercise notebook for Latin and German later used as scrapbook for newspaper clippings, mostly about making handicrafts and some medical advice and remedies
- box 4
Tan scrapbook with newspaper clippings of poetry, advice, stories and pictures, and colored advertising and name cards1880
- box 5
Green scrapbook with newspaper clippings of poetry, advice, stories, and obituaries, including some about Broaddus and Vaughan familiesc.1905
- box 5
Red scrapbook with newspaper clippings and colored advertising cards
- box 5
Tan scrapbook with newspaper clippings of poetry, advice, stories and pictures, and colored advertising and name cards
- box 4
- box-folder 2 folder: 7
Letters and teacher contract of Corinne Vaughan1882-1897
- box-folder 2 folder: 8
Letters to Hortense W. Vaughan about her marriage to F.T. Burks1888
- box-folder 2 folder: 9
Letters from George Tully Vaughan to mother, Fannie E. Vaughan1894-1896
- box-folder 2 folder: 10
Letters and clippings concerning Vaughan family1870-1947Scope and Contents note
Includes: Newspaper clippings about G.T. Vaughan and wife; Poetry written on printed advertisements; Correspondence; Invitation to Christmas Soiree at Virginia Female Institute; Printed advertisement for Bank of South-Western Missouri - W.L. Vaughan & Co.
- box-folder 2 folder: 11
Letter to editor about Poindexter's Raid by Judge H.C. Shields, Hortense W. Vaughan's grandfather1915
- box-folder 2 folder: 12
Three unidentified account and memo books, possibly of Hortense Vaughan Burks1890-1908
- box-folder 1 folder: 24
- Copies of Transcriptions, Amherst County, Virginia - Courthouse Miniatures, Compiled by Bailey Fulton Davis
- box-folder 15 folder: 8
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book A, 1761-1765, compiled1960
- box-folder 15 folder: 9
An Abstract of All A Items in Wills from 1761-1919 and A Marriages from 1801-1854, compiled1961
- box-folder 15 folder: 10
An Abstract of All Items in Will Books, 1761-1919, for the B Section, Indices for Testators, Legatees, Administrators, Bondsmen, and All Family Names, compiled1962
- box-folder 15 folder: 11
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book B, 1761-1961, Cross-indexed as to Grantors and Grantees, compiled1961
- box-folder 15 folder: 12
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book C with Cross-Index, compiled1963
- box-folder 15 folder: 13
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book D, compiled1963
- box-folder 15 folder: 14
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book E, compiled1963
- box-folder 15 folder: 15
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book F, Grantors Arranged in Sequence and Grantees Indexed, compiled1963
- box-folder 15 folder: 16
Impressed Property Claims found in Order Books and Some interesting Data Found in an Order Book, compiled1963
- box-folder 15 folder: 8
- Publications and Ephemera
- box-folder 2 folder: 13
Housekeeping in Old Virginia (published volume with handwritten notes and pasted clippings)1884
- box-folder 2 folder: 14
Loose inserts from Housekeeping in Old Virginia1890-1919, n.d.
- box-folder 3 folder: 1
Ca. 30 assorted issues of The Cheerful Letter1897-1924
- box-folder 3 folder: 2
Printed religious, medical, and advertising materials1834-1912Scope and Contents note
Includes: Catechisms of the Wesleyan Methodists ; Our Home Above booklet; Abide with Me booklet; "Our Story Quarterly, " Vol. III, No. 1, 1906; "Primary Quarterly, " Vol. 23, No. 2, 1906; Colored chromolithograph ephemera; Advertisements for medicines; Prof. Jesse Beery information on training horses
- box-folder 3 folder: 3
Magazines and catalogs1880-1898
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Home Dressmaking booklet1898
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"Peterson's Magazine "April 1880
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"The Delineator "April 1892
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H. O'Neill and Company's CatalogFall and Winter 1893-1894
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"The Leisure Hour Library, " No. 9Dec. 1895
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- box-folder 3 folder: 4
Clothing and pattern catalogs for women and children1908-1925
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National Cloak and Suit Company, New York1908
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Bellas Hess and Company, New York, New YorkFall and Winter 1908-1909
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The Mabley and Carew Company, Cincinnati, OhioSpring and Summer 1909
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The Progressive Farmer Book of FashionsSpring and Summer 1925
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- box 9
Four pages pulled from issues of "Farm and Home "1907-1908
- box 9
One copy of newsprint magazine "Comfort "Sept. 1909
- box 9
Five pages pulled from various newsprint publications1905-1932
- box 9
Four newspaper clippings about execution of Clarence Richeson1912
- box 9
One copy of newsprint magazine "The Farmer's Wife "Jan. 1914
- box 9
Issues and excerpts from "Youth's Companion"1888-1895
- box 10
Issues and excerpts from "Youth's Companion"1896-1911
- oversize folder: 3
Advertising section for quit-smoking remedy, "ho Will Free the Tobacco Slave?"1914
- box 7
Program for movie, The Wanderer1925
- box 9
Sixteen newspaper clippings about White House renovation and its architect, Lorenzo S. Winslow1934-1987
- box 9
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings1959-1975
- oversize folder: 3
Broadside advertisement for lecture and lawn party by Dr. A. Bolling, eye doctorn.d.
- box-folder 2 folder: 13
- Newspapers
- oversize folder: 3
Lynchburg Daily NewsAug 10, 1869
- oversize folder: 3
Richmond Christian Advocate (incomplete)October 11, 1894
- oversize folder: 3
Religious Herald [Richmond, VA]October 1, 1896 and December 21, 1899
- oversize folder: 3
The Amherst New Era (three incomplete issues)1901, 1907
- oversize folder: 3
The Orphanage News [Baptist Orphanage, Salem, VA]February 1908
- oversize folder: 3
The Amherst ProgressJune 11, 1908; June 23, 1910
- oversize folder: 3
The News [Lynchburg, VA] (incomplete)October 15, 1913; Dec. 5, 1917
- oversize folder: 3
News series, "The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Fourteen Years, " by Arthur N. Davis, in The Amherst Progress (incomplete issues)Sept. to Nov. 1918,
- oversize folder: 4
The News [Lynchburg, VA] (incomplete)October 11 and 20, 1922
- oversize folder: 4
Amherst New Era-Progress, Bicentennial EditionOctober 12, 1961
- oversize folder: 4
The Morgantown Post and The Dominion-News, "Festival Time" sectionSept. 25, 1963
- oversize folder: 4
Amherst New Era-Progress, Bicentennial EditionJuly 1, 1976
- oversize folder: 4
The News [Lynchburg, VA], Bicentennial EditionJuly 4, 1976
- oversize folder: 3