Papers of John Powell [manuscript] : regarding Powell and the Norfleet and Scott families, 1845-1957.

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Papers of John Powell [manuscript] : regarding Powell and the Norfleet and Scott families, 1845-1957.

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The collection includes letters, 1944-1960, from John and Louise Burleigh Powell to servants John and Lydia Banks; photographs of John Powell; obituaries for the Powells; a postcard from Lord and Lady Astor; a signed calling card from Theodore Roosevelt; a printed anecdote about Robert E. Lee signed by Jo Lane Stern; printed material re "the Lost Colony"; a script from a pageant "The cavalcade of the cavaliers" by Jan Isbelle Fortune for the Richmond Bicentennial 1938; a scrapbook of newsclippings, 1939-1941, many re Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Virginia; and seventeen cased ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and a tintype of Norfleet and Scott family members.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Virginia Capital Bicentennial Commission.

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Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Powell, Louise Burleigh, 1890-1961

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Powell, John, 1882-1963

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Banks, Lydia

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Norfleet family.

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Banks, John, active 1849-1851

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Massanutten Academy .Woodstock, VA)

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Norfleet, Elizabeth Copeland

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Scott family.

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