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This resource consists of two digital scans of three lottery tickets, front and back. Each ticket has its own unique identifying number (handwritten), a typed paragraph that is the same for each ticket, and then the name of the ticket seller…

Boyd, Procter, Devoe, Frenet
R.M. Venable, '57 (Major of Eng.), Douglas, Hopkins

Class of 1912

CS Marine Corps. Born at "Scott-Greene", Prince Edward Co., VA, December 2, 1836. Non-graduating member. Class of 1856, U.S. Military Academy.

11.5 x 7.5 cm
Black & White
Typed on Back: "Magnolia tree in yard of Hampden House"

Philadelphia, 1831; Published in Mitchell's A new American Atlas, which was designed to illustrate the geography of the United States, this is map 7, engraved by J.H. Young. An inset shows a plan of Washington, D.C. and Georgetown, and statistical…

Philadelphia; Coolie Verner has proposed that this map is most likely "the first separate map of Virginia to be drawn, printed, and published in America." Most earlier maps had been engraved and published in Europe where the best craftsman plied…