Papers of Vinton Valentine [manuscript], 1917-1919.

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Papers of Vinton Valentine [manuscript], 1917-1919.

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Valentine writes to his father, Robert P. Valentine, re: his attempts to enlist, his health, draft dodgers, and life in France. A letter from his father, 1918 December 30, mentions the Woolen Mills, the Michie Company, and the deaths of several Charlottesville, Va., residents from the flu. With the letters is a postal card depicting a supply train from Homer L. Estes, a book of French souvenir postal cards, chiefly of war scenes in St. Mihiel, and a published photograph of Tiflis, in Kaukasus.

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Valentine, Vinton, 1889-

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U.S. soldier in France, World War I, with 6th Prov. Military Police Co. From the description of Papers of Vinton Valentine [manuscript], 1917-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806693 From the description of Papers, 1917-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958782 ...

Michie Company.

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Valentine, Robert Poore, 1852-1928.

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Charlottesville businessman. From the description of Papers of Robert Poore Valentine [manuscript] ca. 1886-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647966401 ...

Charlottesville Woolen Mills

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Located in Charlottesville, Va. and begun as a woolen mill during the Civil War, the company occupied the site of an earlier cotton carding and spinning mill. Incorporated in 1868 by H.C. Marchant, the mill did carding and fulling for the local domestic market and produced a coarse grade of woolen cloth. Later it produced flannels, satinets, kerseys and cassimeres. It later specialized in uniform cloth, including cadet greys, venetians, and kersey overcoating. The mill operated until 1965. ...

Estes, Homer L.,

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