A Guide to the Washington and Lee University School of Law Collection 1849-1999 Washington and Lee University School of Law Collection 003

A Guide to the Washington and Lee University School of Law Collection, 1849-2004

A Collection in
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives
Collection Number 003


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Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University

Contact Information:
Washington and Lee University
School of Law
Lexington, Virginia 24450-0303
USA
Phone: (540) 458-8969
Fax: (540) 458-8967
Email: jacobj@wlu.edu
URL: http://law.wlu.edu/library/powell/
Processed by: John N. Jacob
Funding: Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
© 2001 By Washington and Lee University

Repository
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, School of Law, Washington and Lee University
Collection number
003
Title
Washington and Lee University School of Law Collection 1849-2004
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of .5 cubic foot of materials and one oversize folder housed in the map cases.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access

Access is unrestricted.

Use Restrictions

Use is unrestricted.

Preferred Citation

Washington and Lee University School of Law Collection, MS 003, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, Lexington, VA


Scope and Content

This collection incorporates very small accessions received in no documentary context. All materials deal with the history of the School of Law at Washington and Lee University and its predecessor institutions, or with alumni of this law school.


Contents List

Box 1 & Oversize Folder 3
clippings 1934, 1946
Box 1
John Randolph Tucker Printed Materials 1879-1897

These materials consist of pamphlet publications of four speeches of John Randolph Tucker (U. S. House of Represenatives, 1879; Centennial Meeting of the Synod of Virginia, 1889; Virginia State Bar Association, 1891; American Bar Association, 1892) and The Southern Collegian, Washington and Lee University, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, February 1897, an issue in memoriam of Tucker.

Box 1
The Booklet of the Great War Law Class of Nineteen Seventeen. Washington and Lee University 1920
Box 1
Edmund D. Campbell Tributes 1995-1996
Box 1
"A Brief Biogaphy of Rosser Lynn Malone, Jr. and Elizabeth Amis Malone" 1988
Box 1
Morton Needs a View or Sherwood v. Walker Revisted 1988
Bound Volume

Law student Shannon Echols hand wrote and illustrated this work in the manner of Dr. Suess.

Box 1 and oversize folder
"Law Student Murdered Cadet -- Only Jury Was Hung", The Rockbridge Advocate March 1995
Box 1
Report Card of H. S. Larrick March 1897
Box 1
"Autography of Judge Brokenbrough's Law Class of 1859-60" 1860
Lewis Tyree Memorabilia 1913-1915 & n.d.
Box: 1 & Faculty Photo Series in School of Law Archives

These materials, removed from crumbling scrapbook pages, were received in 1996 (accession # 96-2m) from Lewis Tyree, son of the collector of these items. Though Tyree served briefly on the law school faculty, these materials are from his time as a law student at Washington and Lee. There is one folder of printed invitations and programs. All other materials are photographs of students, faculty and events. Seven photos of law faculty members have been separated from this collection and filed in the law school archives faculty photo series.

Box 1
In Memoriam John William Eggleston 1886-1976 1976
Wilbur C. Hall Collection
  • Box 1
    Law Lectures Delivered at Staunton, Virginia 1832
  • Box 1 and oversize folder 1
    Letters and Certificates of Award 1916-1945
  • Box 1 & oversize folder 2
    Photographs 1919-1967
    6 photos
Box 1
John W. Brockenbrough Biographical Information 1865-1998

This file contains newspaper and magazine articles, and copies of correspondence documenting the life of John W. Brockenbrough, founder of the Lexington Law School. This material came in accession # 98m:002 from Mrs. D. Robert Copeland.

Box 1
Introductory Address to the Law Class of Lexington. Delivered in the Franklin Hall; October 31, 1849 by Judge John W. Brockenbrough. 1849
Electrostatic copy.

This copy was provided by the Harvard Law Library via interlibrary loan.

Box 1
Photo of Elizabeth L. Amis Malone, n.d.
Color print (8" x 10") & negative (Accession # 99p:001).
Box 1
Memory Book, Washington & Lee University of F. J. Heazel. 1911-1912

These materials are pages from a scrapbook (accession #99M004) of F. J. Heazel, 1912 graduate of the W&L law school. Eleven leaves of the book remain including the cover. Photos, clippings, and memorabila are affixed to the pages. Some materials had been removed from the pages before the donations. Photos include views of the campus and town of Lexington.

Box 1
Funeral of Ethan Allen August 23, 1999
Box 1
Death and Funeral of Sydney Lewis 1999
Box 1
J. Timothy Philipps Biographical Information 1958-1995
Box 1
Class of 1949 Fiftieth Reunion Reminicences April 30, 1999
1-- 1/2" videotape cassette
Box 1
Interview with Judge Walter E. Hoffman November 17, 1994
1 audio cassette
Box 1
Investiture Ceremony for William F. Stone, Jr. As The United States Bankruptcy Judge For the Western District Of Virginia July 23, 1999
Program of Events
Oversize 3
Diplomas 1867
One original and one photographic reproductions.

The original diploma of Oliver P. Evans (2002M:003)was given to the law school by Hayes McClerkin who had purchased it from an a dealer in Charleston, SC.

Box 1
F. C. Bryan Reminiscences (2002M:004), August 29, 2002
15 page letter to archivist John N. Jacob
Oversize Folders 1-5
Samuel J. Graham Photo Collection (2002M:005), 1921-1947
5 portrait photos.

Subjects of photos are U.S. Supreme Court Justices E.D. White, William Howard Taft, Harlan F. Stone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles E. Hughes. All photos are inscribed to Graham. Provenance is unknown. Photos may have arrived at Washington and Lee University with the Samuel J. Graham Papers now housed in Special Collections, Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University.

Box 1 1 and oversize
George D. Shore, Jr. Memorabilia(2003M:001), 1913-1916; 1966
As executor of the estate of her sister, Lila Gayle Hyde Shore, Lucile Hyde Wehman sent the following items formerly belonging to George Decatur Shore, Jr. of the 1916 class of the Washington and Lee University School of Law: 3 editions of The Calyx- 1913, 1914 & 1916; 2 Washington and Lee law diplomas - 1916 Bachelor of Laws and 1969 change to Juris Doctor; 3 photos - unidentified group of young men, c. 1914, & 2 photos from Shore's 50th Washington and Lee class reunion, May 1966; laminated obituary clipping, 1981. The diplomas and c. 1914 photo will be stored in the 003 Washington and Lee University Law School Collection oversize folder in the map case. The Calyxsare stored with the other yearbooks.
Box 1 1
Washington and Lee University Law Commencement Video Recording(2005M:002), May 8, 2004
CD-R record of commencement exercise. Recorded and donated by John Eisinger.
Box 1 1
Washington and Lee University Law Commencement Video Recording(2005M:002), Sept.-Nov. 2004
CD-R recording of interview show Equal Time hosted by law professor Brian Murchison. Professor Murchison started this show during his sabbatical in the Fall of 2004. Recorded by radio station WLUR staff and donated by station manager Jeremy Franklin.