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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Houston Family Photograph Album, WLU Coll. PP0002, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VAIn some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.

Scope and Contents

A carte de visite album belonging to the Houston family of Lexington, Virginia. It contains images of Judge Thomas Dix Houston, the Ervine, White, Wilson, Leach, Weir, Buchanan, Shumate, Culton, and Bear families of Rockbridge and Augusta Counties in Virginia. It also contains an image of Virginia Military Institute professor James Woods Massie. There are photographs by Lexington and Shenandoah Valley photographers Michael Miley, Adam H. Plecker, Hugh Morrison, and Benjamin Clinedinst, and George Teaford and Worthen of Winchester, Va. The album includes hand written geneaological notes about the Houston family.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Bear family
• Berry family
• Buchanan family
• Carte de visite photographs
• Culton Family
• Ervine family
• Genealogy
• Houston family
• Houston, Thomas Dix
• Leach family
• Massie, James W.
• Miley, Michael, 1841-1918
• Photograph albums
• Photographs
• Plecker, Adam H., 1840-1929
• Shumate family
• Virginia Military Institute
• Weir family
• White family
• Wilson family