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MSS. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: MSS

Found in 1982 Collections and/or Records:

Blacksburg, Virginia, General Store Day Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1968-010
Abstract

The collection contains a ledger recording daily transactions of an unidentified Blacksburg, Virginia general mercantile business, possibly that of James P. Harvey.

Dates: 1894 - 1895

Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-031
Abstract

This collection conains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs of the Blacksburg High School Warrior Band and the Band Boosters, created by Frances Hutcheson Russell.

Dates: 1972 - 1975

Blacksburg, Virginia, Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-087
Abstract

This collection contains an account book, possibly from a Blacksburg, Virginia business.

Dates: 1866 - 1881

Blacksburg [Virginia] Odd Fellows Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-009
Abstract

The Blacksburg [Virginia] Odd Fellows Records consist of financial records, correspondence, minute books, brochures of several annual conferences, by-laws and odd issues of the Odd Fellows Journal for the men's lodge, Tadmore Light Lodge No. 6184 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The collection also contains correspondence, minutes and financial records for the women's group, the Household of Ruth.

Dates: 1902 - 1969

Blacksburg - Virginia Polytechnic Institute Civilian Defense Council Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1979-005
Abstract

This collection contains records--including correspondence, reports, and printed materials--of a local civilian defense council organized in Blacksburg, Virginia during World War II.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Blacksburg [Virginia] Regional Art Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-045
Abstract

The Blacksburg [Virginia] Regional Art Association Records contains materials from the community art club formed as a chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, including programs and letters to members from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1960 - 1971

Town of Blacksburg, [Virginia], Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-003
Abstract

The Town of Blacksburg, [Virginia], Collection consists of a variety of Blacksburg town documents and reports collected by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University librarians. Materials include financial statements (1927-1951), a typescript annual report (1954), a population study (1944), Chamber of Commerce brochures, By-Laws and Ordinance of Blacksburg (1885), and information on elections (1936-1968).

Dates: 1885 - 1968

Blacksmith Ledger,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-049
Abstract

The Blacksmith Ledger is from Rural Retreat, VA c. 1928 and features approx. 200 pages of local customer order logs.

Dates: c.1928

Daniel Blain Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-002
Abstract

Four wartime letters and a post-war diary of Daniel Blain, a Confederate soldier in the 1st Rockbridge Artillery during the American Civil War and later a Presbyterian minister in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864 - 1870

Streeter Blair Oral History Transcript

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-008
Abstract

Transcript of an oral history interview with American primitive artist Streeter Blair, conducted by Elizabeth I. Dixon and Donald J. Schippers (under the auspices of the Oral History Program of the University of California Los Angeles) and titled "Primitive Painter of the West." Accompanied by a small collection of printed materials relating to Blair.

Dates: 1967 - 1975; Majority of material found within ( 1975)