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"Sixty-Five
Years of Collecting," the
current special exhibit at the Society's Campbell House headquarters,
commemorates the Society's activities, since its founding in 1939,
in acquiring and displaying artifacts of local history.
There
are about 80 items on display. They range from a Revolutionary War
powder flask -- the oldest item in the Society's collection and the
first to be acquired -- to one of the most recent items, a 1950s plastic
tourist information box. The "Mary Moore Cradle," long a
centerpiece of the Society's collection, is also on display.
This
intriguing exhibit was organized by Society trustees Winifred Hadsel and
Pam Simpson. The idea for the show grew out of a comprehensive review of
the Society's artifact database, using PastPerfect museum software under
the direction of Executive Committee member Dick Halseth. Winifred
realized that the database work could form the basis for an exhibit that
would tell the story of the Society's collection activities since its
founding in 1939.
The
exhibit will remain open through November 2004.
Winifred
Hadsel and Pam Simpson, Historical Society trustees, inspecting
the "Sixty-Five Years of Collecting" exhibit
Recent
past exhibits at Campbell House
Nov.
'03-Apr. '04: Exhibits from Stonewall Jackson House
Nov.'02-Feb.
'03: Michael Miley photography
May-Oct. '02:
Patrick Hinely's photos, Dorothy Blackwell's pottery collection
Mar.'01-Feb.'02:
African-American Heritage of Rockbridge County
Sep.'00-Feb. 01:
Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930
Recent Acquisitions
Civil War photographs – An unusual
collection of Civil War photographs was donated last year to the Society
by the Paxton
family of Lexington. Included are cartes de visite and
cased photographs of Generals Robert E. Lee, Pierre G. T. Beauregard,
J.E.B. Stuart, and Frank Paxton. These items were on display at Campbell
House in 2001 and are nowhoused in the Society’s archive in the
Washington and Lee Library’s Special Collections Department http://www.wlu.edu/~vstanley/rhs.html
Borden Grant – Another recent acquisition, and a
prized piece in the Society’s collection, is the original grant given
by Benjamin Borden to the McCown family in 1750.
Sofa in parlor of Campbell House – The “new”
sofa at Campbell House is a loan from the collection of Stonewall
Jackson House.
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