Papers of the Lynchburg Foundry Company [manuscript] 1891-1919.

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Papers of the Lynchburg Foundry Company [manuscript] 1891-1919.

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The collection contains a minute book, 1896-1926, of the Lynchburg Plow Co., diaries, 1891-96, 1898-1901, 1904 & 1909-14, of Henry Edward McWane and papers regarding the founding and early history of the company with references to the Glamorgan Pipe Company. Of interest is the 1909 diary which contains a detailed description of the Lusitania.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lynchburg Foundry Company.

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...

Lynchburg Plow Co.

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McWane, Henry Edward.

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Glamorgan Pipe Company.

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