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A Guide to the New Market Climate Data Collection, 1902-1920

Collection Number SC # 3067

Compiled September 1995

Edited by Kayla Payne, July 2012

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University

Title: New Market Climate Data Collection, 1902-1920

Collection No.:  SC# 3067

Extent: one folder

Language:  English

Abstract: This small notebook contains temperature and other weather information are detailed for New Market, Virginia, from 1902-1920.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions:  none

Use Restrictions: none

Preferred Citation:   [identification of item], New Market Climate Data Collection, 1902-1920, SC#3067, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from Bookworm and Silverfish Bookdealers in Sept. 1995.

Other Formats Available: none

Accruals: none

Provenance: Mr. Jim Presgraves, bookdealer, identified this notebook as one of his purchases from an auction of Rupp family items in 1994. The Rupps were a New Market, VA family, and he penciled "New Market VA" and "Rupp" on the cover.

Processing Information: none

Bio/Historical Note:  The Rupp family lived in New Market, Virginia.

Scope and Content:  This collection consists of one small notebook in which temperature and occasional other details of weather are recorded at irregular intervals from 1902 to 1920. There is no identification; see Provenance.

Arrangement and Contents:                                                                          

                                                                                                  Box: Folder

New Market Climate Data                                                                  1:1