Papers of Robert Poore Valentine [manuscript] 1833 (1869-1936).

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Papers of Robert Poore Valentine [manuscript] 1833 (1869-1936).

The collection contains personal & some business papers of Valentine including the consolidation agreement fort he City & Suburban Railway of Charlottesville. There are miscellaneous bills, receipts, invitations, & clippings. Photographs are of family & friends as well as views of the Charlottesville Woolen Mills. A run of bills of lading from the Valentine Coal Company, Charlottesville, completes the collection. Ida M. Payne Valentine & Thomas J. Valentine are the most frequent correspondents.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7932947

University of Virginia. Library

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Valentine, Thomas J.,

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Valentine Coal Company (Charlottesville, Va.)

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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. ...

City & Suburban Railway of Charlottesville.

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Valentine, Ida M. Payne, d. 1912,

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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 ...