Jay Johns Papers, 1918-1974.

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Jay Johns Papers, 1918-1974.

Personal and business correspondence of Jay Winston Johns, Jr. (1888-1974), coal industrialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later an "adopted son" of Virginia, becoming a leader in preserving homes of renowned Virginians.

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