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The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Mackall Rust Bruin, Jr. Collection (RG 62.0056), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Robert V. and Mary Jane Lester, Bruin's daughter and son-in-law.

Biographical Note

Mackall Rust Bruin, Jr. was born on June 15, 1902. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1925. Bruin died on November 25, 1994.

Scope and Contents

This collection includes both a scrapbook and loose items compiled by Mackall Rust Bruin, Jr. while a student at Washington and Lee University. The scrapbook contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs. Photograph subjects include VMI, Castle Hill (DeHart Hotel), campus buildings, Lexington, students, the covered bridge above the North River, Natural Bridge, Stonewall Jackson grave, football, baseball, and an unidentified African American man wearing an apron and posed outside of a Washington and Lee building. There are also postcards of Buena Vista, East Lexington, and Sweet Briar. The East Lexington postcard features railroad tracks and House Mountain. The ephemera includes a 1921 pamphlet titled "The Re-Establishment of the Lee School of Journalism," various items produced by W&L for students, items related to the New Theatre or Theater including broadsides and programs, athletics (broadsides, baseball schedule and scorebook), a Virginia Cafe menu (Lynchburg), Chemistry I exercises, the final exam schedule for June 1921, and student elections. The clippings primarily relate to athletics.

Some of the loose items may have been in the scrapbook at one time but not all. Included are photographs and their negatives of men and women who appear to have been hiking or are at least out in nature. Of particular note is how the two women are dressed. There is also a photograph of a man posed ouside of an iron fence that surrounds a graveyard. There are several broadsides specific to W&L athletics, a 1922 W&L football program, an advertisement for Finchley, a letter sent to students dated January 12, 1921 by three representatives of the Final Ball, a Baltimore & Ohio railroad schedule for "Excursion to Endless Caverns, New Market, VA.," a broadside presented to the "occupants of Graham and Lees Dorms" outlining rules, and clippings.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• College Students -- Social life and customs
• Washington and Lee University--Alumni and alumnae