Papers of Edward L. Stone, the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company, Roanoke, Va., and the Borderland Coal Company, Mingo County, W. Va. and Pike County, Ky., 1895-1937.

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Papers of Edward L. Stone, the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company, Roanoke, Va., and the Borderland Coal Company, Mingo County, W. Va. and Pike County, Ky., 1895-1937.

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The personal papers consist chiefly of correspondence and financial papers and contain information about his medieval manuscript and typographical collection, including examples of manuscripts and fine printing that formed his private library. They also contain considerable material about his diversified business and civic interests. Also the United Typothetae of America, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Southwest Virginia Historical Society, the Knights of Pythias, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Tariff Printers Society of America; the Presbyterian Orphans' Home, a co-ordinate college for women at the University of Virginia, and the Grolier Club. Also the Association for the Common Good, the War Relief Fund, wartime savings stamps and other World War I civilian acitivities and several businesses in which he maintained an interest particularly the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company, the Walker Machine and Foundry Corporation, and the Johnson Coal Mining Company. Family papers include correspondence with his daughter, Mary, at a Pennsylvania boarding school; letters from his nephew in France during World War I, and as a student at the University of Virginia; and correspondence with his French foster children. Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company papers contain correspondence, samples, copy, proofs, advertisements, order memos, cost analyses, financial papers, and architectural plans. There is information on the Tariff Printer's Society, United Typothetae of America, the Employing Printer's Association, the American Printers Cost Commission, employee relations, the economic depressions of 1919-1922, and 1929, and the National Industrial Recovery Act. The Borderland Coal Company papers, 1901-1934, contain correspondence, daily reports, etc. regarding the operation of the company and of the associated Borderland Coal Sales Company, 1911-1928. Correspondents include L.E. Armentrout, manager; W.W. Austin, secretary; William S. Battle, Joel Cuthin, Roanoke mayor; Ernest B. Fishburn, secretary-treasurer; Douglas Southall Freeman; Carter Glass; Belle da Costa Greene; Frederick William Goudy; Edmund G. Gress; Zane Grey; and Don Peters Halsey. Also Leigh Hanes; Elbert Hubbard; Clement Dixon Johnston; Richard LeGallienne; Thomas S. Martin; John Lloyd Newcomb; George C. Peery; John G. Pollard; Campbell Bascom Slemp; Charles Jacob Smith; Claude A. Swanson; Daniel B. Updike; Clifton A. Woodrum; and James P. Woods.

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