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Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee. In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia. Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family.

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Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee. In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia. Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family.
Collection

Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1915
Place: Columbus, Ohio
Publisher: The Champlin Press
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc 326. 973-M
Topics
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
Plantation life
Southern States -- Social life and customs
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Chapels
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Genres
Photographs
Illustrations
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR2105767-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22096049
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 586c8610-c6da-012f-19dc-58d385a7bc34
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  • 1915: Issued
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee. In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia. Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b1dc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee. In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia. Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b1dc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1915). Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee. In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia. Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family. Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b1dc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee.  In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia.  Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family.