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Typed on Back: “Administration Building: A line of students registering... This is where it all begins!!

Class of 1889. Previous data states he was born in 1869 and died in 1934.

Class of 1884 [Unknown], head of the Department of Law, University of Mississippi , 1865-1937.

Young men forty years ago. Left to right: R. A. Gilliam, Bruce Buford, W. Williams, F. M. Eversple, T. Catisby Jones, Tom Gilliam, Ray A. Moore, Harry B. Stone, J. Thomas Goode, Tom Hooper, Bob Preston. Picture taken Alumnus Day, June 3, 1940

Rome, ca. 1775; This small map of the Western Hemisphere is probably from the Italian edition of the atlas Geografia Universale, engraved by P. Buffier and published in Rome by G. Petroschi in 1775. Claude Buffier was a Jesuit theologian whose small…

Frankfort, 1590; Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) used the watercolor map drawn by John White in 1585 as the basis for his engraved map of Virginia. Although primarily a map of what became the North Carolina coast, the map is the earliest published…

Snapped as they came out from the Alumni day luncheon.

An Open Letter from Citizens for Public Education to the White Parents of Prince Edward County / In the letter, it is explained that registration forms for the Prince Edward Foundation schools (Academy) are legally binding contracts. The letter also…

Class of 1822. Bachelor of arts, lawyer, member of VA Senate, court attorney who prosecuted John Brown and got him hanged. Member of the Confederate States Congress on the staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Died Nov. 21, 1880, in Charlestown, West…

Class of 1852. Major C.S.A. on J.E.B. Stuart. A daring soldier. One of Stuart's most valuable scouts. For sketch of him, see Alice Reid Rouse's 'The Reads and their Relatives'. p. 170

Manuscript Antiphonal on Vellum in Latin [Italian, 1740] Elephant folio, 28 leaves; complete. Each leave being approx. 16 inches x 23 1/2 inches. The index is on the verso of the introductory page, which indicates 14 different antiphons for both the…