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Carter Family Papers, 1667-1862, Mss. 39.1 C24
Jerdone Family Papers, 1753-1890, Mss. 39.1 J47
Garth Family Papers, 1798-1872, Mss. 65 G19
Robert William Hughes Papers, 1818-1900, Mss. 39.2 H87
Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891, Mss. 39.1 J63
Archibald McCall to Robert Hunter Letter, 1794, Mss. Sm Coll McCall
William and Peyton Short Papers, 1783-1825, Mss. 65 Sh9
Skipwith Family Papers, 1760-1977, Mss. 65 Sk3
Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, Mss. 40 T79
Jonathan Boucher Paper,1759-1803, Mss. 93 B66
McGavock Papers, 1760-1888, Mss. 39.1 M17
Adams Papers, 1782-1890, Mss. 39.2 Ad1
Buford Family Papers,1845-1895, Mss. Acc. 2009.132
Woolfork Papers, 1775-1893, Mss. 39.1 W88
Specifics from some Collections
Carter Family Papers, 1667-1862, Mss. 39.1 C24
Ambler Papers, 1806-1836, Mss. 39.2 Am1
Vaiden Family Papers, 1799-1901, Mss. Sm Coll Add.21
Smith-Walker Papers, 1764-1916, Mss. 39.1 Sm8
Richard Blow Papers, 1613-1960, Mss. 65 B63
Merritt Family Papers, 1780-1909, Mss. 39.1 M55
Overton Family Papers, 1727-1961, Mss. 65 Ov2
Crawford & Co. Account Book, 1865-1867, Mss. MsV Ali1
Fairfax Harrison Papers, 1736-1945, Mss. 65 H25
On his high horse: riding, class, and training in the eighteenth century, by Stuart McCosh-Lilie; Swem Library Archives LD6051 .W5m Hist., 2005, L54
Famous horses of the American turf, by Neil Newman; Swem Library Rare Books 636.12 N46 oversize
The John's Island stud (South Carolina), 1750-1788, by Fairfax Harrison; Swem Library Rare Books 636.10822 H24
Gentlemen up, by William B. Strett; Swem Library Rare Books 798.4 St8 oversize
The Sporting magazine, London: Rogerson & Tuxford 1792; Swem Library Rare Books GV1 .S76
The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed, by Alexander Mackay-Smith; Swem Library Rare Books SF357.55 U6 M33 1983
Life and sport in Aiken and those who made it, by Harry Worcester-Smith 1865-1945; Swem Library Rare Books F279 .A2 S65
Letters from an old sportsman to a young one, by A. Henry Higginson (Alexander Henry) 1876-1958; Swem Library Rare Book - Chapin-Horowitz SF301 .H45
Inside racing : sports and politics, by Gilbert L. Lycan; Swem Library Rare Book - Chapin-Horowitz SF335 .U5 L9
Memories of racing and hunting, by William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Portland Duke of, 1857-1943; Swem Library Rare Books SF336 .P65 A32
Blooded horses of colonial days; classic horse matches in America before the revolution, by Francis Barnum Culber 1868-; Swem Library Stacks SF347 .C8
Their turf; America's horsey set & its princely dynasties, by Bernard Livingston; Swem Library Stacks SF336 .A2 L58 1973
What do you know about horses? Mecklenburg County and the aristocratic thoroughbreds, by Nathaniel Goode Hutcheson 1901-; Swem Library Stacks SF335 .U6 V56
The life and times of Sir Archie; the story of America's greatest thoroughbred, 1805-1833, by Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard -1856; Swem Library Stacks SF355 .S5 B54
The thoroughbred in the lower Shenandoah Valley, 1785-1842, by Alexander Mackay-Smith; Swem Library Stacks SF283 .M2