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Combs, Everett R. (Everett Randolph), 1876-1957. Everett R. Combs memorabilia [manuscript], 1[late 1930s?]-1960s.

Title: Everett R. Combs memorabilia [manuscript], 1[late 1930s?]-1960s.

Everett R. Combs memorabilia consist of a photograph, [late 1930s?] , of the "gang" on one of their "dressing-down...glad-handing, picknicking" and hill climbing outings. Harry Byrd, Sr., is holding a dog and E. R. Combs is at the extreme left with a picnic basket. The collection also contains a 33 1/3 record of Virginia Governor John S. Battle delivering a report on Radio WRNL on the 1952 Democratic National Convention. The collection also contains a worn and rust spotted pin of the the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, undated, depicting Martin Luther King, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648001089 View

Combs, Everett R. (Everett Randolph), 1876-1957. Papers of Everett R. Combs, 1940-1960.

Title: Papers of Everett R. Combs, 1940-1960.

Additional papers of Everett R. Combs, consist of correspondence, photographs of Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and others, scrapbooks of Virginia political clippings, 1937-1951, a desk book for 1957, and a history of the Combs family. Correspondence of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., with Bernice Combs concerns the emigration of a Dutch citizen. Of interest is a 1954 May 17 press release of a statement by Harry F. Byrd, Sr., on segregation in education following the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs the Board of Education.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49528293 View

Combs, Lucy Paddison, 1912-. Combs family genealogical notes, 1974.

Title: Combs family genealogical notes, 1974.

Mrs. Combs traces the family of Everett Randolph Combs and Ladora Zimonia Yrassa Candler Combs. Other name mentioned: Candler.

ArchivalResource: 8 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31084398 View

Bear, James Adam, 1881-1956. Papers of James Adam Bear [manuscript], 1930-1938.

Title: Papers of James Adam Bear [manuscript], 1930-1938.

The collection contains correspondence, 1930-1932, of Bear as chairman of the General Assembly Auditing Committee, and correspondence, speeches, and newspapers clippings, 1936-1938, pertaining to James H. Price's gubernatorial campaign and first year as governor. Topics include finances of the athletic departments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Military Institute, and the College of William and Mary; the installation of a new uniform county accounting system; and Price's campaign particularly his platform, running mates, press statements, and opposition. With the correspondence is a speech delivered by Price and some newsclippings. Correspondents include Everett R. Combs, Robert W. Daniel, Martin A. Hutchinson, Vivian L. Page, and James H. Price.

ArchivalResource: 128 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825769 View

Combs, Lucy Paddison, 1912-. Combs family genealogical notes [manuscript], 1974.

Title: Combs family genealogical notes [manuscript], 1974.

Mrs. Combs traces the family of Everett Randolph Combs and Ladora Zimonia Yrassa Candler Combs. Other name mentioned: Candler.

ArchivalResource: 8 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647837614 View

Dabney, Virginius, 1901-. Photographs and cartoons presented to E.R. Combs, 1920-1950.

Title: Photographs and cartoons presented to E.R. Combs, 1920-1950.

There are signed photos of A. Willis Robertson, Colgate W. Darden, Harry Flood Byrd, Carter Glass, John S. Battle, William M. Tuck, Thomas B. Stanley and Henry Carter Stuart. The collection also contains some cartoons, a poem, Hail to the chief, by Carter Wormeley honoring E.R. Combs, an article, 1950, What we think of Senator Byrd's machine, by Virginius Dabney and the January 1940 issue of the Virginia Democrat.

ArchivalResource: 10 items : b&w.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31084410 View

Combs, Everett R. (Everett Randolph), 1876-1957. Papers of Everett R. Combs [manuscript], 1920-1960.

Title: Papers of Everett R. Combs [manuscript], 1920-1960.

Additional papers of Everett R. Combs consist of correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, scrapbooks, financial papers, a ledger, memorabilia and oil portraits of Combs and his wife. Political papers include a "Declaration of Policy" by the Democratic Party of Virginia, 1948 July 2, containing a reiteration of the principles of states rights and brief statements against proposed federal legislation. Specific topics include anti-lynching legislation, anti-poll tax legislation, fair employment practice legislation, segregation, balanced budget and fiscal conservatism, the United Nations and reciprocal trade agreements, federal grants-in-aid, and labor relations, together with a resolution to secure Dwight Eisenhower as Democratic candidate for president. Additional political papers include a list of members of the 1956 constitutional convention and the Senate Joint Resolution interposing the sovereignty of Virginia against the Supreme Court of the United States in the field of public education. Memorabilia in the collection chiefly pertains to the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission visit to Europe, 1956. The collection also contains scattered financial papers of Combs; a genealogy of the Combs family; photographs of Combs, his political associates and family; and his will. Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Sr., E. Griffith Dodson, and J. Lindsay Almond. Most are friendly notes although a few letters from Byrd discuss a minor patronage issue in Bland County.

ArchivalResource: 300 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647879797 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Title: Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Scrapbooks of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., contain newsclippings, programs, correspondence, pamphlets and miscellany relating to his early career. Some material pertinent to his father Richard Evelyn Byrd, and his brothers Richard E. Byrd and Thomas Bolling Byrd is also included. Specific topics include the appointment of Judge William F. Rhea to the State Corporation Commission; the murder trial of Robert O. Garrett; Tom Byrd's World War I service; and Richard E. Byrd's souvenirs from the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Also the Virginia Democratic Paraty; the Federal Fuel Administration; the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; the 1919 Virginia Senate race; the Valley Turnpike Company; the Virginia State Highway Dept.; taxation in Virginia; the 1925 gubernatorial race; Byrd's term as governor of Virginia; and Al Smith the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

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Combs, Everett R. (Everett Randolph), 1876-1957. Letter [manuscript] : Richmond, to Carleton E. Combs, Jr., 1953 January 12.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : Richmond, to Carleton E. Combs, Jr., 1953 January 12.

Combs sends his grandson a check toward his school expenses.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647837617 View

Miller, Francis Pickens, 1895-1978. Papers of Francis Pickens Miller [manuscript], 1885-1976.

Title: Papers of Francis Pickens Miller [manuscript], 1885-1976.

The collection contains personal and political correspondence, minutes and reports, speeches, drafts of books and articles, newsclippings, photographs, and memorabilia. It is subdivided into three files on religious activities, public affairs and personal papers. Major topics are the World Student Christian Federation, the World Council of Churches, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., Miller's campaigns for governor in 1949 and for U.S. Senate in 1952, and his terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1938-1941. Topics of interest include the Westminster Presbyterian Church, a series of religious conferences, the Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., the Virginia Council of Churches, the Democratic Party and its National Committee, Fight for Freedom, Inc., Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., and the Byrd machine, and the Democratic National conventions in 1960 and 1964. Also the poll tax, the 1937 gubernatorial campaign of James H. Price, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Southern Regional Council, the Virginia Music Festival and various colleges with which Miller was connected. There are also papers concerning the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. Dept. of State, the John R. Mott biography project, and the Historic Lexington Foundation. The collection also contains card files of political supporters, library books and the National Policy Committee.

ArchivalResource: 47,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825652 View

Comb, Everett R. (Everett Randolph), 1876-1957. Papers of Everett R. Combs, 1914-1957.

Title: Papers of Everett R. Combs, 1914-1957.

The collection consists of his personal and political correspondence. Some papers of his successor in the clerkship, E.F. Hargis, are included. The papers contain a great deal of information on the Democratic party in Virginia, state and local politics, and especially the 1925 gubernatorial campaign of Harry Flood Byrd. Correspondents include Byrd and George Campbell Peery. The collection also contains printed miscellaneous material and photographs about Combs and Virginia government. A 1956 copy of the Manual of the Senate and House of Delegates is included.

ArchivalResource: 5638 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31084390 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd,1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Title: Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd,1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Scrapbooks of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., contain newsclippings, programs, correspondence, pamphlets and miscellany relating to his early career. Some material pertinent to his father Richard Evelyn Byrd, and his brothers Richard E. Byrd and Thomas Bolling Byrd is also included. Specific topics include the appointment of Judge William F. Rhea to the State Corporation Commission; the murder trial of Robert O. Garrett; Tom Byrd's World War I service; and Richard E. Byrd's souvenirs from the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Also the Virginia Democratic Paraty; the Federal Fuel Administration; the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; the 1919 Virginia Senate race; the Valley Turnpike Company; the Virginia State Highway Dept.; taxation in Virginia; the 1925 gubernatorial race; Byrd's term as governor of Virginia; and Al Smith the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52711726 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Papers of Harry Flood Byrd [manuscript] 1911-65.

Title: Papers of Harry Flood Byrd [manuscript] 1911-65.

Business papers range from 1914-1965 and consist chiefly of correspondence, bills & receipts regarding Byrd's apple orchards, with some material on Northern Virginia newspapers he published, and Cuban business interests. Virginia political papers, 1911-32, describe the organization of the Byrd machine but do not contain gubernatorial files. U.S. senatorial papers, 1933-65, still deal chiefly with Byrd's interest in Virginia politics though material on national interests is present. Complementing the political correspondence are appointment books, magazine articles, newsclippings, constituent's mail, 1957 & 1960-65, voting records, 1933-65, speeches of Byrd and others, public statements & press releases, scrap-books and political cartoons. Family papers contain correspondence and some business and legal papers of Richard Evelyn Byrds, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Flood Byrd, and Henry Delaware Flood. Topics of interest include the Democratic Party, Natinal Committee and the Democratic Party, Virginia, State Central Committee, Byrd's 1925 gubernatorial campaign, the Democratic National conventions, 1932, 40, & 52, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1934, poll taxes, Virginia election laws & Virginia elections, the 1952, 58 & 64 senatorial campaigns, the 1965 Civil Rights Act, Virginia highways, drought relief, 1931, the Alfalfa Club, appointments & other patronage for constituents, Byrd family genealogy, school desegregation, massive resistance, fiscal conservatism, local Virginia politics, the Bricker amendment & isolationism, and the Republican campaigns of 1952 & 56. Correspondents include Watkins Moorman Abbitt, Edwin Anderson Alderman, James Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Alben Williams Barkley, A.D. Barksdale, John Stewart Battle, William S. Battle, Ezra Taft Benson, Lloyd C. Bird, Armistead Lloyd Boothe, Claude Gernade Bowers, Louis Brownlow, David Tennant Bryan, Robert Young Button, James Cannon, Lenoir Chambers, Albert Benjamin Chander, Everett Randolph Combs, Thomas Terry Connally, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Josephus Daniels, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Collins Denny, Everett McKinley Dirkson, E. Griffity Dodson, Clifford Dowdey, James Oliver Eastland, Cyrus Eaton, Dwight David Eisenhower, Pres. U.S., James Aloysius Farley, Junius Rodes Fishburne, Hiran Leong Fong, Douglas Southall Freeman, Carter Glass, Mills Edwin Godwin, Barry Morris Goldwater, Charles Johnston Harkrader, Burr Powell Harrison, Carl Trumbull Hayden, Herbert Clark Hoover, Pres. U.S., John Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, Louis Isaac Jaffé, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Pres. U.S., Robert Francis Kennedy, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Arthur Krock, John Llewellyn Lewis, Walter Lippman, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Walter Mapp, Michael Joseph Mansfield, Thomas Staples Martin, Lucy Randolph Mason, George Meany, Francis Pickens Miller, Edmund Sixtus Muskie, Richard Milhous Nixon, Pres. U.S., John Paul, Drew Pearson, George Campbell Peery, Gifford Pinchot, John Garland Pollard, Sam Rayburn, Absolam Willis Robertson, John Davison Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Brevard Russell, Leverett Saltonstall, Fred Otto Seibel, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Sidney F. Small, George Armistead Smathers, Howard Worth Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Louis Spilman, John Cornelius Stennis, Claude Augustus Swanson, George Frederick Switzer, William Stuart Swmington, Herman Eugene Talmadge, James Strom Thurmond, Elbert Lee Trinkle, Harry S. Truman, William Munford Tuck, Millard E. Tydings, Arthur Hendrik Vandenburg, Henry Agard Wallace, Burton Kendall Wheeler, Landon Wyatt, William T. Reed, & Fred Weiser.

ArchivalResource: 273 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647934094 View

Switzer, G. Fred (George Fred), 1903-1974. Papers of George Frederick Switzer [manuscript], 1930-1965.

Title: Papers of George Frederick Switzer [manuscript], 1930-1965.

The papers center chiefly around his activities as a committeeman, especially at the conventions of 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1964. There is considerable material concerning the Democratic Party in Virginia and its financing. Among the correspondents are Harry Flood Byrd [1887-1966], Harry Flood Byrd [1914-], Burr Powell Harrison [1904-], John O. Marsh [1926-], Absalom Willis Robertson [1887-1971], and Everett Randolph Combs [1876-].

ArchivalResource: 7500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647872759 View

Collins, Lewis Preston, 1896-1952. Papers of Lewis Preston Collins [manuscript], 1862-1952 (bulk 1918-1952).

Title: Papers of Lewis Preston Collins [manuscript], 1862-1952 (bulk 1918-1952).

The papers contain correspondence, accounts, memoranda, reports, photographs, and sound recordings. Correspondence and topical files of Collins reflect his interest in his family, Marion and Smyth counties, Va., the Democratic Party, and his terms as Delegate and Lieutenant-Governor. Topics include his brother, Harold Moorman Collins, and his invention of a drink mixer; the building of his home; numerous local civic activities including Kiwanis, the Wytheville Diagnostic Center, airports, highways, postal service and an elementary school; the Marion National Bank; and the management of Moorman Farm, Bedford Co., Va. Topics also include the Young Democratic Clubs of Virginia; the 1952 Democratic National Convention; Colgate Darden's campaign for governor, 1941, Saxon Holt's for lieutenant-governor, 1937; and his campaigns for the House of Delegates, 1935, 1939 and 1941; state Democratic Party conventions; the Byrd organization; budget hearings, 1947-1952; patronage; commission appointments; proposed legislation; and the Game and Inland Fisheries Commission. Topics also include the State Library Building Commission; the Southwestern State Hospital; Booker T. Washington Industrial Training Center; Medical College of Virginia; Marion College; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; the University of Virginia; the Barter Theatre; and the Virginia State Bar Association. Of particular interest are a letter, 1918 November 4, describing the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive; an 1862 Confederate exemption notice; his keynote address at the 1944 state Democratic convention; his "Memoir and analysis of Virginia's participation in the 1952 Chicago National Convention"; a scrap-book of his inauguration as lieutenant-governor, and recordings of some speeches. In addition to constituent mail Collins corresponded with over 400 prominent Virginians, particularly members of the General Assembly. Much consists of routine letters of appointment and transmittal, congratulations, invitations, confirmations, thanks and inquiry. A complete list of these correspondents is in the index of the collection guide.

ArchivalResource: 8,370 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821300 View

Perrow, Mosby Garland, 1909-. Papers of Mosby Garland Perrow [manuscript], 1863-1962 (bulk 1940-1962).

Title: Papers of Mosby Garland Perrow [manuscript], 1863-1962 (bulk 1940-1962).

The collection contains personal, legal, financial, and political papers of Perrow. Personal papers concern family estate settlements; his farm near Lynchburg, Va.; real estate transactions; taxes; recommendations; and Lynchburg civic and religious activities particularly the Female Orphan Asylum, the Hospital Authority and the Memorial Methodist Church. Legislative papers pertain chiefly to the Perrow Commission, 1958-1959, whose final report advocated freedom of choice, or local option, to end "Massive Resistance" to court ordered integration and the consequent public school closings. Other legislative papers document his terms on the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council, 1947-1960; and on the Committee to Study the System of Public Schools in Virginia, 1944-1947. With these is some general material on public education in Virginia. Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, John S. Battle, John B. Boatwright, Armistead L. Boothe, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Cassius M. Chichester, Lewis Preston Collins, Everett R. Combs, Ted Dalton, Colgate W. Darden, E. Griffith Dodson, Wilson Gee, Garland Gray, A. Willis Robertson, William M. Tuck, and Clifton A. Woodrum.

ArchivalResource: 2600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647830788 View

Combs, Everett R. (Everett Randolph), 1876-1957. Papers of Everett R. Combs, 1932-1957 (bulk 1946-1949).

Title: Papers of Everett R. Combs, 1932-1957 (bulk 1946-1949).

Combs' political papers contain the correspondence by which he ran the Byrd organization, 1946-1949. Much of it deals with patronage, and campaigns and elections, particularly the presidential election of 1948 and Virginia's opposition to the Democratic Party's platform, and the gubernatorial election of 1949 in which Francis Pickens Miller challenged organization candidate John S. Battle. Of interest are letters from Harry Flood Byrd giving orders and seeking political information. This segment also contains routine material from the Democratic Party National Committee, the Democratic Party (Va.) State Central Committee, and the Virginia General Assembly. The poll tax, aid to public schools, and fear of incipient labor and civil rights agitation are all topics. Also, there are speeches, chiefly by Byrd, press releases, miscellaneous budget material, and General Assembly bills, resolutions, and roll calls. Combs' personal papers are divided between family letters and letters from Abbott, Proctor, and Paine, Southern Division, Richmond, Va., and companies in which he invested. Bills, receipts, taxes, insurance and other personal financial material complete the collection. Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, John Stewart Battle, Harry Flood Byrd, John Hannah Daniel, E. Griffith Dodson, B.P. Harrison, James H. Price, A. Willis Robertson, Howard Worth Smith, G. Fred Switzer, William M. Tuck, and artist Henry L. Wolff.

ArchivalResource: 8000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254235 View