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Anne Price Yates Papers II,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-065

Scope and Content Note

The Anne Price Yates Papers II contains manuscript materials, notes, and correspondence related to Yates' research on the Price family after the publication of her book, Increase in Prices. The collection contains correspondence from readers with additional genealogical information on the Price and Harless families, copies of genealogies from the William and Mary Quarterly and Virginia Historical Magazine and more of her own genealogical research. Further correspondence and genealogical material from her father, W.C. Price, is contained in the collection.

Also included is correspondence and a copy of a speech from a ceremony at Virginia Tech honoring Dr. Harvey Black in 1939 while H.L. Price served as Dean of Agriculture, as well as the Virginia Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletins during his tenure. Addtionally, the collection contains two deeds for land transfer between James and Hattie Gibbony and H. L. Price in 1905 and 1908.

Dates

  • Creation: 1898 - 2005

Creator

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from Anne Price Yates Papers II must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Biographical Note

Anne Hayden Price Yates, Price family historian, was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1939, to William Conway Price (born 1906) and Eleanor Franklin Hayden (1908-1973). She married James Stanley Savage and had one daughter, Eleanor. She later married Patrick Audley Yates, with whom she had a son, Adam.

Yates received her education in the American School in Manila, Philippines and earned an associate of arts degree from Florida State University. She later attended the University of Florida. In addition to being the author of Increase in Prices: Some descendants of David and Agnes (Hoffman) Price of 17th century Germany, Yates also compiled and edited The Brothers Conway of Madison County, Virginia: autobiographies of Catlett Conway and William Buchanan Conway and edited Descendants of Edwin Conway, the immigrant, compiled by her father.

Full Extent

0.3 Cubic Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Collection contains manuscript materials, notes, and correspondence related to Yates' research on the Price family after the publication of her book, Increase in Prices.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into three series: Series I: Anne Price Yates Materials, Series II: W. C. Price Materials, and Series III: H. L. Price Materials. The first contains Anne Price Yates' correspondence with readers, arranged chronologically, additional geneological material (undated), and ephemera material (mostly undated). The second series contains the correspondence of W.C. (William C.) Price, arranged chronologically. The third series concerns the papers relating to H.L. (Harvey Lee) Price.

Acquisition Information

The Anne Price Yates Papers II were donated to Special Collections in 2010.

Related Materials

Anne Price Yates Papers, Ms89-087. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database.

Increase in Prices: Some descendants of David and Agnes (Hoffman) Price of 17th century Germany Spec Genealogy C571.P946 1985

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Anne Price Yates Papers II was completed in October 2010.

Title
A Guide to the Anne Price Yates Papers II, 1898-2005
Status
Completed
Subtitle
A Collection in Special Collections
Author
Kimberly Staub
Date
©2010 By Virginina Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository

Contact:
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308