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MSS. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: MSS

Found in 2051 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph B. Mills Log Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-045
Abstract

The Joseph B. Mills Log Book contains his track of runs and hours worked each day, including locations while working for the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company.

Dates: 1908 - 1909

Montgomery County, Virginia, Land Grant

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-046
Abstract

The Montgomery County, Virginia, Land Grant from November 21, 1798, describes a piece of land on the New River granted to James Copley by Virginia's 11th governor, James Wood.

Dates: 1798

World War I Camp Community Service Song Sheet

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-047
Abstract

This collection contains a World War I era song sheet printed by C.C. Cappel in Roanoke, Virginia. The purpose of this song sheet was so that the community could sing songs together at events in Southwest Virginia. Cappel (1887-1948) was a musical manager for the National Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Orchestra, as well as working with the U.S. Marine Band and Army Band, war camp community service during World War I, and the USO in World War II.

Dates: c. 1917-1919

"You Must Shun Ole Satan" Sheet Music

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-048
Abstract

This collection contains sheet music to the spiritual "You Must Shun Ole Satan", and artwork from similar songs.

Dates: 1881

Jane Rhodes Brewer Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-049
Abstract

The Jane Rhodes Brewer Diary contains entries of her daily activities with a focus on health, family, and religion in 1882.

Dates: 1882

J.M. Butterworth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-041
Abstract The J. M. Butterworth Family Papers is a collection spanning from 1911-1963 that contains lab notebooks, a scrapbook or report on Japanese culture by Agnes Butterworth, correspondence, and more. Subjects include engineering, math topics, and World War I. Joseph Millard Butterworth (1893-1942) studied mechanical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) from 1911 to 1915, while his brother Alvin S. Butterworth studies electrical engineering, also at VPI from 1911 to 1914. They also...
Dates: 1911 - 1963

Elizabeth C. Harrison Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-044
Abstract

The Elizabeth C. Harrison Correspondence is a collection of letters written and sent to Harrison, from 1910 to 1918, in Virginia, from various friends and family. The subjects of the letters include appreciation of Harrison's friendship, opinions of faith and religion, and updates such as illnesses, schooling, and family.

Dates: 1910 - 1918

Plunkett Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-045
Abstract

The Plunkett Family Papers are comprised of offical documents requesting and giving authorization for Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard Plunkett, his wife, and their two daughters to travel from Helmstedt, Germany, where Plunkett was stationed in the U.S. Army, to West Berlin from Decemeber 23, 1965 to January 7, 1966.

Dates: 1965

The Southern Presbyterian Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-046
Abstract

The Southern Presbyterian Scrapbook is a 1957 House of Representatives Report on the Commercial Relations of the United States used as a scrapbook to hold a collection of newspaper clippings from the Southern Presbyterian, assumed to be from around mid to late 19th century. The subjects of the clippings primarily include opinions of religion and faith, such as different forms of Christianity and interpretations of the Bible.

Dates: ca. 1857-1890s

Geneva Preserving Company Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-048
Abstract

The collection consists of a small album of photographs of the Geneva Preserving Company Factory in Geneva, New York. Photos include women working the factory line, a patient in the company infirmery, production lines, canning, tinsmiths, and a Geneva farm.

Dates: c.1911