Scrapbooks of Talma Paxton [manuscript], circa 1924-193[?]

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Scrapbooks of Talma Paxton [manuscript], circa 1924-193[?]

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Albums contain clippings and photographs, and programs, including one from State Teachers College, Radford. Albums also contain a postcard of the Norfolk & Western Station, Roanoke, Va., and one of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul "Columbian." Of interest are photographs, chiefly unidentified, of life in [Hopewell?] and in [Southwest?] Va., including African American farmers, surveying crews, a railroad town, and ballplayers.

2 volumes.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7416672

University of Virginia. Library

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Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company

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Paxton, Talma, 1903-

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Media Talmage (Talma) Paxton, Allegheny , Va., student at State Teachers College, East Radford, Va. From the description of Scrapbooks of Talma Paxton [manuscript], circa 1924-193[?] (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 397621381 ...