Abstract The collection contains the papers of George W. Litton, professor of Animal Husbandry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (V.P.I.) from 1940 to 1970. These papers date from 1927 to 1983 and include poetry, essays, V.P.I.'s Agricultural Extension station reports, notes, lecture material, publications, personal and professional correspondence, photographs from Litton's portrait hanging, and bound compilations like "Foolishness, Poems, and Philosophy" that function similarly to commonplace...

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This note from Robert Lively to Walter Herron of Norfolk, Virginia, discusses payment to Herron for four unnamed, enslaved children, and collection of the children by a Mr. Armistead.

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Letter from John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936), American author, pharmacist, and chemist, written to Calvin Dill Wilson, thanking Wilson for his comments on Lloyd's 1934 book, Our Willie of Stringtown on the Pike.

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This collection contains the records of a Smyth and Wythe County, Virginia furnace and store operations of the Lobdell Car Wheel Company, including customer store accounts, payroll records, and furnace operation reports.

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Walter E. Lobo (1905-1995) was a chemical engineer, mostly for M. W. Kellogg Company catering to petroleum and chemical industries which performed contract research and development. The collection mainly consists of Lobo's microfilmed files (99 reels) dealing with chemical-, petroleum-, and energy-related topics (including laboratory and field reports). In addition, there are several documents, including a typescripts of reports and indexes of the microfilm.

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Papers of city planner C. David Loeks (1923-2006), St. Paul city planning director; Twin Cities Metropolitan Planning Commission executive director; Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress chief executive officer; Hudson Basin Project executive director; and Virginia Tech professor of urban and regional planning, consisting largely of reports and background materials generated by Loeks' work on various planning projects.

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The Richard M. Logan Letter is from Logan to his wife on June 4th, 1862. The letter contains information on a skirmish that Company F of the 28th North Carolina Infantry of the Confederate Army had with the Union Army, and their current whereabouts.

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This collection contains six pieces of personal correspondence addressed to Seldon Longley, as well as a bank note and leather case.

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Twelve post-American Civil War letters written to former Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet (1821-1904) by his children: Fitz Randolph Longstreet, John Garland Longstreet, Mary Louise "Lula" Longstreet Whelchel, and Robert Lee Longstreet; as well as Masie Johnston Sanders, Richard B. Shepard, U. Stamps, and C. Herbert Walling.

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This collection contains the papers of the Look family of Wyoming, New York and Marion, Virginia, including correspondence of women's suffragist Susan Look Avery and other family members; cartes-de-visite of Avery and daughter Lydia Avery Coonley; photographs of "Hillside," the Avery family home in Wyoming, New York; and a brochure of the Susan Look Avery Club of Wyoming, New York.