Conditions Governing Use

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.

Custodial History

The album descended in the Eustler and Shaw families.

Preferred Citation

Edward Miley Eustler Scrapbook (RG 62.0051), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The scrapbook was a gift of Robin Sledge Shaw, Eustler's great granddaughter. It was received by Special Collections, November 21, 2013.

Biographical / Historical

Edward Miley Eutsler attended Washington & Lee University from 1910-1912. He left Washington and Lee after 1912 to attend the Biltmore School of Forestry near Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from the Biltmore School in 1914.

Scope and Contents

Edward M. Eustler's photographic scrapbook documents his experience while a student at Washington and Lee University from 1910-1911. The scrapbook has approximately 350 photographs. Subjects campus and dorm life, athletics, architecture, local landmarks and historic sights, fraternity and club initiations, the Lexington, Virginia downtown area, the Virginia Military Institute, faculty and staff, local residents such as Jefferson Shields and Henry O. Dold, friends, and family. The scrapbook also documents Eustler and others at Camp Ogburn in Summerfield, North Carolina in the summer of 1910 as well as a camping excursion to the summit of North Carolina's Mt. Mitchell in 1911.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• College Students -- Social life and customs
• Dold, Henry O.
• Fraternal organizations
• North Carolina -- Mitchell, Mount
• North Carolina -- Summerfield -- Camp Ogburn
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• Shaw, Robin Sledge
• Shields, Jefferson
• Virginia -- Rockbridge County
• Virginia Military Institute
• Washington and Lee University--Alumni and alumnae