Natural Bridge Hotel Guest Register selections
Natural Bridge Hotel (Natural Bridge, Virginia)
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Images of pages from the Natural Bridge Hotel Guest Register, Manuscript 1500, held in physical format at Jones Memorial Library. The register includes guest names and signatures for the period 01 May 1894 to 30 April 1899. Digital images are for the front and spine of the book, and pages 39 and 348 which include the signatures of President Grover Cleveland in 1894 during his presidency and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. in 1897, a few years before his presidency.
Natural Bridge Hotel (Natural Bridge, Virginia)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1894-1897
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
JMLMS1500.39
JMLMS1500.348
JMLMS1500.frontcover
JMLMS1500.spine
Letter from R.B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell
Campbell, Jane Maud, 1869-1947
Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript collection 1395 held in physical format at the library.
The collection includes a two-page typewritten letter from R. B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell dated 16 March 1927, the outer mailing envelope for the letter, and a pamphlet titled "The Shenandoah Valley Joint Stock Land Bank" Amortization Tables.
The original letter is written on stationary from The Virginian Hotel. The reverse of the letter includes a color map advertisement of The Piedmont Hard Surface Route, North and South.
From the Finding Aid:
LETTER, R.B. HALL TO J. MAUD CAMPBELL, 16 MARCH 1927
Letter from R.B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell, Vice-President, Altrusa Club, Lynchburg, Virginia, regarding a proposed apartment hotel building for professional women in Lynchburg. Hall outlines procedures for obtaining loans, architect’s services, plans and specifications, construction and equipment necessary from the Central Finance and Development Company. Included with the letter is a pamphlet of amortization tables from the Shenandoah Valley Joint Stock Land Bank of Staunton, Virginia.
ALTRUSA CLUB, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
In 1917, Altrusa Institute was formed in Nashville, Tennessee, as a place for business and professional women to meet and exchange ideas. The organization decided to make vocational education for women a national policy. The Lynchburg Chapter of Altrusa was formed on 24 June 1923, with eight members. The motto of the organization is “Patriotism, Efficiency, and Service.” The organization invites women in business professions to join “with the idea that cooperation and mutual endeavor along constructive lines will benefit civic effort, broaden the purpose of the members and promote good fellowship.” [News, Lynchburg, Va., 1 Jan 1924 p. 8 col. 1]
JANE MAUD CAMPBELL, 1869-1947
Jane Maud Campbell was born on March 13, 1869, in Liverpool, England, the first daughter and one of seven children of George and Jane (Cameron) Campbell. Following the death of her mother several years later, Campbell was raised by a nurse and governess. When she was twelve, the family sailed to the United States, where she attended a private school in Richmond, Virginia. Returning to Great Britain the following year, Campbell lived with her grandmother in Edinburgh while attending school; she later graduated from the Ladies' College of Edinburgh University and from the Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy.
Returning to the United States, Campbell worked in Charles Town, West Virginia, as secretary in a family business, before taking a job as an assistant in the reference room at the Free Public Library in Newark, New Jersey. In 1902 she accepted the position of head of public libraries in Passaic, New Jersey, where she became increasingly concerned with the plight of newly arrived immigrants. In addition to furnishing the libraries with foreign language books about American life, Campbell was the sole woman on a 1906 commission (and the first woman on any New Jersey commission) appointed "to inquire into and report upon the general condition of the immigrants coming into or residents within this State." This panel was instrumental in persuading the legislature to provide free evening classes for immigrants, among the first such classes in the country.
In 1910, she left New Jersey to join the North American Civic League in New York City, where she worked with immigrants, teaching them about the naturalization process and about their prospects for employment as American citizens. In 1913 she was appointed Educational Director for Work with Aliens of the Massachusetts Library Commission, the first such post in the United States. In this capacity she traveled throughout the state, selecting and delivering foreign language books requested by town libraries, and lecturing on the important role libraries could play in the education and assimilation of immigrants. She was not only an advocate of the "library as social force," but also spoke on public policies relating to immigrants. During World War I she worked at Camp Devens, organizing a hospital library for convalescing soldiers.
In 1922, Campbell left Massachusetts to assume the position of head librarian of the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. During her tenure at Jones Memorial, several branch libraries were established. Despite being burdened with operating the library under segregation, she worked to try to establish equitable service to black citizens, sending trucks of books to the local public schools including the segregated African American high school. At this school, she later set up the Dunbar branch and appointed poet Anne Spencer as the librarian. She set up a second branch library within the Robert E. Lee Junior High School. Both of these libraries were later taken over by the schools themselves. Other branches were at the Atrium in Miller Park and the clubhouse at Fort Early.
Under Miss Campbell’s leadership, the collection grew from 6,500 to more than 70,000 volumes. She retired in February 1947. Jane Maud Campbell died 24 April 1947 and is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Finding Aid to the Letter from R.B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell
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Finding Aid to a letter from R. B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell dated 16 March 1927 held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The letter concerns a proposed apartment building for professional women in Lynchburg.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
MS1395FA
Carroll Hotel Miscellaneous Records
Carroll Hotel (Lynchburg, Va.)
Manuscript 1332 is a collection of records related to the Carroll Hotel in Lynchburg, Virginia. The hotel was built on the corner of Main and Eighth streets and opened in 1893. The hotel was demolished in 1959. Included in the collection is a subscription list for capital stock of a hotel company and invoices received by the hotel following construction and opening. The collection is available in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Hotel Carroll Company
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1892-1894
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.) retains rights to the digital collection for Manuscript 1332.
MS1332FA
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English
MS1332.1-8
Finding Aid to the Carroll Hotel Miscellaneous Records
Finding aids
Carroll Hotel (Lynchburg, Va.) -- records
Finding aid to the Carroll Hotel Miscellaneous Records held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Carroll Hotel operated in Lynchburg at the corner of Main and Eighth streets from 1894 to 1959. Records related to the hotel are held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
pdf
English
MS1332FA
Finding Aid to the Colhoun and Company Account Balances collection
Finding aids
Colhoun and Company (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Allegheny Springs Hotel (Virginia)
Finding aid to the Colhoun and Company Account Balances collection held at Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library
PDF (Computer file format)
English
MS1066FA
Finding Aid to Letter from N. Horsley to Leyburn Wilkes, May 6, 1852
Manuscript finding aid
Manuscript guide to a letter from Nicholas Cabell Horsley to Leyburn Wilkes during the California Gold Rush.
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
2022
George M. Jones Memorial Library
Portable document file (pdf)
English
MS1002FA