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Box BW 17

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Maggie G. Conway photograph album

 File — Box: BW 17 , Folder: 1 [X030270146]
Identifier: MSS 14772
Scope and Contents

Maggie G. Conway photograph album, 1890's, 0.03 cubic feet, contains 1 tintype and 18 photographs of formally posed family and friends. The majority are unidentified. Identified portraits include Madge Lovett, Mary Foushee, Mary Fitzhugh Booton as an infant and a young woman, Marion Thornton, F. C. Fitzhugh, and Loulie C. Fitzhugh. Two poems are copied on the back endpaper.

Dates: 1890's

William T. King business journal (Grocer)

 Collection — Box: BW 17 , Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 14778
Scope and Contents William T. King (Grocer) business journal, 1859-1861, 0.03 cubic feet, contains record consignments, purchases from wholesalers, and shipments to other cities via the Virginia Central, Richmond and Danville, and Richmond, Frederick and Potomac railroads, Baltimore "boats" and New York steamers. Additional expenses recorded include gas, water, family, servants, insurance, licenses, advertising, and state and city taxes. In April, June and July, 1861, he notes the purchase of a pistol and two...
Dates: 1859-1861