Papers, 1907-1969.

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Papers, 1907-1969.

This collection contains materials relating to Sievers' sculptures, and consists of ten articles about his statues, four honorary certificates, eight contracts and specifications, one biographical sketch, 103 photographs of his works, and 66 letters, 1910-35, from Margaret Maury Alter, Elizabeth B. Bashinsky, Edward Bruce, Gov. Harry F. Byrd, Edward S. Campbell, Robert Garrett, Gorham Company, Herbert W. Jackson, Charles Keck, M.E. Kern, George Washington Custis Lee, John Henry Miller, Nelson Phillips, Gov. John Henry Pollard, Morgan P. Robinson, James P. Smith, Thomas Smith, Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association, and John Weiblen of Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Company.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6729365

Library of Virginia

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Lee, George Washington Custis, 1832-1913

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Born in 1832, George Washington Custis Lee was the oldest of the Lees' children and had the reputation of a trouble maker as a small child. But he grew up to be a serious, and most capable young man and graduated at the top of his class from the United States Military Academy in 1854. After graduation, Custis pursued a military career. In May 1861, Custis resigned his commission in the U.S. Army shortly after Virginia voted to secede from the Union. During the Civil War he attained the rank of B...

New York University. Hall of Fame.

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Sievers, Frederick William, 1872-1966

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Frederick William Sievers (1872-1966), a sculptor, received his art education in Rome, Paris, and Richmond, Virginia. He worked out of Richmond, sculpting statues housed in Abingdon and Richmond, Virginia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and New York City. He married Elsie Muegge in 1906, had two children, and died in Richmond. From the description of Statement about Robert E. Lee's statue in Gettysburg, 1940 September 1. (Library of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 1...

Bashinsky, Elizabeth B.

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Weiblen, John.

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McNeel Marble Company (Marietta, Ga.)

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Rogers, Elizabeth, 1843-

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Bruce, Edward.

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Smith, Thomas

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On August 21, 1775, the third revolutionary convention passed an ordinance establishing the office of state agent and commissary of stores to supervise the procurement, storage, and distribution of supplies needed by the army. William Aylett was appointed to the office. After he resigned in 1777 the office was divided, with Thomas Smith being appointed state agent and William Armistead commissary of stores. In 1776 assistant agents were appointed in Virginia, Europe, and the West Indies to overs...

Daniels, Josephus.

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Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966

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Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Maritn Dalton. he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Virginia and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of...

Campbell, Edmund S.

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Albert Weiblen Marble & Granite Co. (New Orleans, La.)

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Kern, Margaret Ethel (Kelly), b. 1874.

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Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Typed letter signed : Richmond, Va., to Mrs. Robert M. Littlejohn, 1933 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858090 John Garland Pollard was a Richmond, Va. lawyer who served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-2, was Virginia's attorney-general, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship at the College of William and Mary, mayor of Williamsburg, Va...

Keck, Charles E. (Charles Everett), 1896-1982

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Jackson, Herbert W.

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Phillips, Nelson

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Robinson, Morgan Poitiaux.

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United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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In order to counteract the effects of the Depression, the Federal Government founded numerous agencies geared at lowering unemployment and boosting the economy. Among these were the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), created on May 12, 1933; the Civil Works Administration (CWA), established on November 9, 1933; and the Works Progress Administration (WPA-1), established on May 6, 1935. The Civil Works Administration was abolished in March, 1934, with its functions and records transfe...

Stone Mountain Confederate Monument Association.

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Kern, Margaret Eugenie.

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Gorham Company (Providence, R.I.)

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Roman Bronze Works (Corona, N.Y.)

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Alter, Margaret Maury.

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Smith, James Patrick

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Garrett, Robert.

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Weiblen, Albert.

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Miller, John Henry.

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Dockery, A.V.

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