Via, Robert M.
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
label: Collection Creator
content: Quinn, Terry (photographer)
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content: Robinson and Via Family Papers
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content: Robinson and Via Family Papers / Series 5: Via Family
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1987, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0475, Subseries 5.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries contains material and ephemera of Robert Milton Via (1906-1983) was the son of Hiram Chapman Via and Adina Eleanor Eusebia Runkle of Greene County, Virginia.  He married Ida Virginia Woods in 1932.  He left farming and his boyhood home in Greene County, Virginia in the late 1920's to pursue employment in Washington, D.C..  He was hired by the Capital Traction Company, later known as Capital Transit, and employed by them for twenty-nine years.  He returned to farming full-time by the late 1950's. The series consists of personal and business papers, correspondence, documents relating to his employment with the Capital Transit Company, copies of transit union employee agreements and bus transfer books.