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A photograph of Robert D. Cronly Jr. on the track, who created this Scrapbook; after graduating from Episcopal, he attended University of Virginia and became a First Lieutenant of 81st Division, AEF during the war.

Photograph of Robert D. Cronly and Francis O. Roller sitting in a classroom.

Years ago, ‘Juan Crow’ laws, patterned after American Jim Crow laws, enforced the racial discrimination practiced against Mexican Americans. Signs reading ‘No Mexicans Allowed’ dotted numerous restaurants and other public accommodations. (From the…

A letter from V.T.S. published in Southern Churchman that described the sermons and lectures given by visiting clerics.

Two letters in The Chronicle evaluate race relations at EHS in 1968. The headmaster, A.R. Hoxton, Jr. asks the student body to accept the 2 incoming African American boys with the same dignity they accept any new students.

Illustrates Alexandria's central position in the defense of Washington, where at least 12 outlying forts surrounded the city. Military camps of various Union officers such as Samuel Peter Heintzelman are indicated on this map. Also depicts the…

A clipping from the Angola Record from November 5th, 1896, which details a story of Stringfellow causing panic among Union ranks towards the end of the war.

An article about the Rockbridge Artillery

Image of the USS Bache aground off the coast of Rhodes, Greece.