Scrapbooks, c.1813-1955.

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Scrapbooks, c.1813-1955.

One scrapbook contains materials mostly relating to Hill City Lodge No. 183, Ancient, Free, & Accepted Masons. Another scrapbook contains a variety of different items, but mostly letters of the Davis, Eubank, Ellis, and Rose families of Virignia. It also contains ribbons from the Confederate Reunion held in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1888, and from the 1859 exhibition sponsored by the Lynchburg Agricultural and Mechanical Society; and election fliers listing the Virginia electors for the 1844 presidential election (Clay vs. Polk).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7285278

Lynchburg Public Library

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Rose family.

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Lynchburg Agricultural and Mechanical Society (Lynchburg, Va.)

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Ellis family.

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Freemasons. Hill City Lodge No. 183 A.F. & A.M.

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Eubanks family.

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Davis family.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Davis, H. Minor.

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United States. President

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The President of the United States is the chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with parliamentary forms of government, where the office of president, or head of state, is mainly ceremonial, in the United States the president is vested with great authority and is arguably the most powerful elected official in the world. The nation's founders originally intended the presidency to be a narrowly restricted institution. They distrusted executive authority because...