Man giving a speech in a graduation robe. There are two men and a woman sitting in the background; Sidney J. Phillips is the man sitting next to the woman. ]]>
Man giving a speech in graduation attire. There are two men (Sidney J. Phillips to far left) and a woman sitting in the background.
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Graduate (man) shaking hands with president, Sidney J. Phillips, in graduation attire. Other graduates in the background walking across the stage. Woman not in graduation attire looking through diplomas.]]>
Graduate (man) shaking hands with president, Sidney J. Phillips, in graduation attire. Woman not in graduation clothes hands diploma to man.]]>
Graduate (woman) shaking hands with other woman on stage. Graduate is wearing white. Graduate passed man in graduation robe and cap.]]>
Graduate (man) leaving the stage after shaking hands with two people. Woman on the left, man on the right; man is wearing graduation robe and cap.]]>
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Scrapbooks include information about the sorority, including constitution and by-laws, lists of officers, and a few membership lists. Newspaper clippings about the club document its activities and officers, as well as information about members. The scrapbooks also contain correspondence received by the sorority, including numerous thank you notes from members regarding gifts and from organizations the club donated to, as well as marriage, birth, graduation, and death announcements.
Of special interest are letters in scrapbooks that document members’ lives during WWII, when several relocated with their husbands to military bases, and one member’s experience in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC).
While all scrapbooks contain numerous photographs, later scrapbooks have more photographs and less ephemera. Many, but not all, of the people in photographs are identified. Photographs of the sorority’s parties also document the interiors of a variety of venues in the Roanoke region, as well as members’ homes. The 1953-56 Scrapbook includes over thirty pictures of the interior and the residents of Hobday Cottage, Virginia Baptist Children’s Home, Salem, VA, taken from 1953-55 when the sorority sponsored activities and improvements for the young women living there.
Digital versions were created of all scrapbooks. Items that could be removed from scrapbooks without damage were placed in folders, including both paper and photographic items. However, most scrapbooks included pages that could not be disassembled; these have been retained within the scrapbook covers. All items were removed from the “magnetic” photo album.
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Box 1 contains handwritten minutes of the Grandin Court PTA from its founding in February 1951 through the 1963-64 school year, as well as some financial records from the 1957-58 through 1960-61 school years.
The collection also consists of the contents of eleven scrapbooks, dating from 1951 through 1990. Ten scrapbooks document the activities of the Grandin Court PTA; one scrapbook, from 1951, memorializes the first semester and first sixth-grade class at the school. For preservation purposes, digital files were created of each scrapbook, and most scrapbooks were disassembled and their contents, including photographs, placed in folders in Box 2. However, three scrapbooks could not be disassembled without damaging materials.
PTA Scrapbooks include a wide variety of information, which varies by year, but generally includes the following: information about PTA leadership and budgets; PTA newsletters and informational flyers about fundraising and other activities; newspaper clippings about Grandin School and its students and teachers and Roanoke City Schools; programs from school events; information distributed by Roanoke City Schools; information from Grandin School staff; information on school field trips; thank you notes received by the PTA, including many written by students; school calendars and lunch menus; summer activity information from organizations such as the YMCA; 1975-76 and 1977-78 Grandin School Yearbooks; and photographs.
While there are a few photographs that date from earlier years, the bulk of the photographs are found in scrapbooks that date from 1982 and later. Photographs document many student activities, though very few students are identified. Teachers and PTA volunteers are more often identified in photographs.
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The bulk of the collection is comprised of show programs, from 1951 through 1993. Not all years are complete; few programs are available for 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1984 through 1993. Programs from The Footlighters 1953 productions are included in the collection. Three anniversary publications that include written histories and photographs of Showtimers productions are available for 1960 (10th Anniversary), 1975 (25th Anniversary), and 1990 (40th Anniversary). A financial report that documents Showtimers’s receipts and expenses, 1951-1959 is part of the collection.]]>
Collection includes pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, and similar items from 1940-1943. Bulletins and newsletters include articles on general scams to avoid, as well as details about particular local individuals found to have defrauded the public. They also describe the activities of the Better Business Bureau of Roanoke to address deceptive practices by local businesses.]]>
The collection includes information gathered by the commission, its meeting minutes, and drafts of its report to city council. Meeting minutes cover August through November 1961. Background information includes: the existing Roanoke City charter as well as those of a few other cities; information from the National Municipal League about city charters; and on topics of particular concern—real estate assessment, “quadrant” voting, and school funding. The collection also includes correspondence received from city officials and the public regarding concerns to be addressed in the charter review.]]>
Part I: 1763 Thomas Wright of Bedford County, Virginia, His Wife Mary (___) Wright, and Their Descendants]]>
Part XVI: 1814 Parmenos Wright of Nelson County, Virginia, His Wife Elizabeth (___) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
Part XIII: Lewis Wright of Lynchburg, Virginia, His Wife Elizabeth (Hill) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
Part XIV: 1877 Joseph Wright of Bedford County, Virginia, His Wife Ann (Hill) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
Part II: John Wright of Goochland County, Virginia, His Wife Judith (Easly) Wright, and Their Descendants]]>
Part XVIII: Jesse Wright of Amherst County, Virginia, His Wives Susannah (Harper) Wright and Rachel (Welch) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
Part XII: Harrison Wright of Rockbridge County, Virginia, His Wife Permelia (Watts) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
Part XIX: Grief Wright of Bedford County, Virginia, His Possible Wife Sally (Candler) Wright, His Wives Nancy (___) Wright, and Leanna (Hanes) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
Part XV: Augustine Wright of Amherst County, Virginia, His Wife Alice or Alcey (Ball) (Wright) Edmunds, and His Descendants]]>
Part XVII: Achilles Wright of Oldham County, Kentucky, His Wife Nancy (__) Wright, and His Descendants]]>
The collection primarily consists of church service programs from 1929-1948 and directories and yearbooks from the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes programs from Sunday Services during the years 1929-1948 and 1961-1970, though coverage of many years is scant, and no year includes the full complement of programs. Programs often include a church calendar for the upcoming week. Full church directories are available for the years 1965, 1967, 1971, and 1974, and a leadership directory is included for 1966. Several yearbooks for the Woman’s Missionary Union and the Rebekah Bible Class from the 1960s and early 1970s are also part of the collection.
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The collection features the club newsletter, Country Club News from 1956-1970, though not all issues are present. It also includes materials gathered to prepare a club history on occasion of its 70th Anniversary in 1969, including a reproduction of “Golf in Roanoke” written in 1917 by Walter A. Carpenter, and typescript drafts of the history of tennis in Roanoke and of the Roanoke County Club written by George Hanger in 1969.]]>
The collection is primarily club yearbooks from 1917-18 through 2013-14, with a few additional items of club ephemera and newspaper clippings. Yearbooks list members, past presidents, program topics and presenters, club constitution and by-laws. A set of yearbooks from 1917-18 through 1986-87 were originally donated within a scrapbook compiled by the club; for conservation purposes they were removed from the scrapbook. The 1917-18 and 1918-19 yearbooks are handmade and fragile. Later yearbooks are professionally printed or typed and copied, though some from the 1930s also have hand-illustrated covers. For most of the years between 1920 and 1990 the library also received and held copies of the yearbooks; many have notations regarding information to support the program topics. The 1977-78 yearbook includes essays on the club’s history, 1917-1977; many later yearbooks include updated club histories.]]>
Items in the collection document events sponsored of the commission, including a television program, a display of Currier & Ives prints, commemoration of the Battle of Hanging Rock, and the visit from a Civil War era steam locomotive, “The General.” Information is also included on Moore’s personal visit to the last living Confederate veteran, Col. Walker Williams and the establishment of the Salem Flying Artillery reenactment organization.]]>
The collection includes four Meeting Minute Books, spanning the years from the organization’s founding in 1890 through 1910. Additionally there is a Record of Applicants book with listings from 1895 through 1911. An Order Book on the Treasurer includes payment stubs from 1914 through 1919. Loose items within the books were moved to folders.
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The collection includes a minute book covering 1969-1988, a booklet documenting the history of the first fifty years of the club, 1927-77, and a club yearbook from 1997-98.]]>
The collection is focused on the founding of the Camp and its activities in the 1990s. Organizational documents, newsletters from 1993-1999, and photographs of ceremonies and events from 1994 to 1999 form the core of the collection. Other documents in the collection cover Civil War commemorations of the 1990s, activities of the Chesapeake District of Sons of Union Veterans in the 2000s and 2010s, and awards presented by the Chamberlain Camp in 2014.]]>
The collection includes Botetourt County Council of Garden Club minutes and administrative documents for the years 1957-1976 and 1988-1995 as well as scrapbooks and albums that record the organization’s activities through newspaper clippings, ephemera, and photographs covering the span of the council’s existence. The 1961 Flower Show is well documented by a Scrapbook that won a state award and photographic slides of many entries. The collection also includes a flower show record book, covering the years 1933-38 from a precursor organization, the Botetourt County Federation of Garden Clubs.
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DAR Members must have a documented ancestor who aided in the effort for American Independence. The purpose of the organization is to preserve and memorialize the history of men and women who were active in the effort of obtaining American Independence and to promote education regarding American history and citizenship. The Margaret Lynn Lewis Chapter donated time and money to a wide variety of efforts that furthered these goals. For several decades they sponsored a Good Citizen award to a local high school student. They also erected local monuments to memorialize patriotic causes and individuals.
Chapter members of note include Sarah Johnson Cocke (the second Mrs. Lucian H. Cocke) who, when she lived in Georgia, was a national charter member and one of the first vice-presidents general of the national DAR. Sally Smith Rowbotham (Mrs. Arthur Rowbotham) served as state regent and national vice-president of the DAR in the 1930s (though she had moved to Altavista, VA at that time). Willie Walker Caldwell (Mrs. Manley M. Caldwell), author and writer for The Roanoke Times, was a Republican national committee member. Several members were founders of the Roanoke Civic Betterment Club.
This collection includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia amassed by members of the Margaret Lynn Lewis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Items document the activities of the local, state, and national DAR, as well as colonial and local history. Coverage of the chapter’s founding through the 1960s is limited. Materials created prior to the 1970s suffered water damage; there is reference in later documents to the flooding of a bank vault in November 1985 that affected the chapter’s memorabilia trunk. Only portions of early scrapbooks were salvaged and included in the donated items. These and some later items showed signs of mold; once digital copies were made of them, they were discarded. Digital copies were also made of later scrapbooks to document page order and item placement; these were then disassembled to remove newsprint and protect photographs.
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