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1. George S. Bernard subscription lists - February 11, 1896

   George S. Bernard maintained a list of names of people who had pre-ordered his Volume 2 of "War Talks of Confederate Veterans." Some of the entries on the eight pages are difficult to determine, so no names are listed. On some lists there appears the address of the recipient and a reference to a letter that person wrote. The heading for the list of names is as follows: "The undersigned will each take one copy of Vol 2 of "War Talks of Confeder...

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2. Letter - October 11, 1835

   Letter headed "C. H. (Pittsylvania Court House) Oct. 11, 1835" from George H. Gilmer to his mother,Mary, at Fincastle. He congratulates Emma and Cary Breckinridge on the birth of a son. Tells of attending a railroad convention at Danville, and of community and state-wide effort to get a railroad through Danville; of the arrest and coming trial of a man who encouraged and helped a slave run away; of his plans to come to Albemarle for Harmer's wedd...

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3. Military Day at the Ice Palace - 1895

   Three separate newspaper clippings are pasted on a single sheet of paper. Handwritten notes indicate the clippings are from different newspapers. Each announces that George S. Bernard will deliver a lecture at the Ice Palace on July 5, [1895], designated "Military Day". The subject would be "War Sketches From 1861 to 1865", with recollections of the battle of the Crater. Military organizations and Confederate camps were to have reserved seats. A ...

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4. Newspaper clippings - 1895

   Bernard saved publicity clippings of places where he would give or had given a lecture. He would be invited to Confederate Veteran Camps, indoor or outdoor venues, and women's clubs. The audiences were both Union and Confederate Veterans, ladies, gentlemen and children. His lectures were on his recollections of his war time experiences, plus other war time events. To add to his talk he would show photographs via stereopticon views (a slide projec...

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5. Prohibition Ticket - November 8, 1892

   A Prohibition Ticket announcing a national election on Tuesday, November 8, 1892, with the list of candidates running for the Prohibition Party.

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6. Roanoke Baseball Team - Composite photograph of individual members of the Roanoke Baseball Team (known as the Roanoke Highlanders and later to become the Roanoke Tigers), Champions of the Virginia State League for 1910. Each member is identified by name and by position. From left to right and top to bottom they are as follows: Robertson, Andrada (pitcher), Jesse Reynolds (pitcher), Vernon Touchstone (pitcher), Doane (pitcher), Schmidt (catcher), Edward Painter (third baseman), Frank Doyle (second baseman), William Pressley (first baseman), Eugene Newton (shortstop), Raymond Joseph "Ray" Ryan Sr. (catcher), Joe Holland (left fielder), Shag Shaugnessy (manager), and Walt Powell (center fielder). Elmore D. Heins, Secretary-Treasurer of the team is pictured in a business suit in the lower left corner and G. R. Williams, President of the team is pictured in a business suit at the lower right corner. By 1914 the Virginia Baseball League consisted of teams from Roanoke, Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, Newport News, and Portsmouth. See Raymond Barnes "History of Roanoke". Ray Ryan and other members of the Roanoke team were pictured on baseball cards. Ryan's granddaughter, Nancy Rose Foye-Cox, provided the forenames of many of the players. In addition she advised the history museum that Ray Ryan was inducted into the Salem- Roanoke Baseball Hall of Fame in January, 2014. Her acceptance speech may be found on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRmjXPt1jU&feature=youtu.be

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7. Will A Museum Be Locomotive 1218's Final Stop? - August 15, 2000

   Article in The Roanoke Times about the 1281 A-series locomotive which had recently been used in a photo shoot of O. Winston Link for Vanity Fair magazine. The article chronicles the history of the 1218 and the A-series and discusses the desire of the Virginia Museum of Transportation to have the 1218 in its collection.

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