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Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers
This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.
Dorothy H. Bodell Papers,
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents, and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.
Caperton Family Papers
Civil War Small Manuscripts Collection
This contains a collection of small (1- to 2-folder) manuscripts related to various aspects of the American Civil War and obtained from various sources.
Ellett Family Papers
Huff-Hylton Families Papers
The Huff-Hylton Families Papers consists of items from the early 1800s through the American Civil War pertaining to the business and personal lives of Samuel Huff, Lorenzo Dow Hylton, and their families in Montgomery (now Floyd) County, Virginia. Materials include promissory notes, correspondence, an indenture for land, and genealogical information.
Lucy Lee Lancaster Papers
Lincoln-Look Family Papers
This collection contains the correspondence of Nathan L. (1819-1909) and Sarah A. B. Lincoln Look (1826-1857), who settled in Virginia in the 1840s and lived in Loudoun, Botetourt, Montgomery, and Smyth counties. There is also correspondence with other members of the Lincoln and Look families in Massachusetts and New York; together with transcripts and summaries of the letters; and a few pieces of miscellanea.
Newlee Family Papers
The collection includes a paper on the history of Smithfield Plantation, the Preston family, and Virginia Newlee (Col. Robert Newlee's daughter) written by George Shackelford in 1980. In addition, there is an obituary of Colonel Newlee, and a newspaper clipping from 1916 with the muster roll of the Company of Virginia Volunteers in the Mexican War. Also the collection includes a muster roll of Company L, Fourth Virginia Regiment, of which Newlee was captain.
Preston Family Correspondence
The Preston Family Correspondence consists of two letters. The first is written by James Francis Preston to his wife, Sarah Caperton Preston; he details the events of and his involvement in the First Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War. The second letter is written by Sarah to Colonel Grabowski and discusses her son’s (Hugh Caperton Preston) failure to follow an order at Preston and Olin Institute (now Virginia Tech).
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- A. W. Luster 1
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- Apperson, Alex 1
- Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
- Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
- Apperson, Mary 1
- Armistead, Mary Frances 1
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- Bailey, Pattie Dobson Talley, b.1888 1
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- Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 1
- Black, Mary Kent, b.1836 1
- Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931- 1
- Briggs, Marian 1
- Campbell, Donald (Co. K, 12th Regiment [New York State Militia?]) 1
- Caperton family 1
- Caperton, George Henry (Nelson County, Va.) 1
- Caperton, Mary Elizabeth Henderson (Nelson County, Va.) 1
- Caton, Louise 1
- Charlton family (Montgomery County, Va.) 1
- Compton, John R. 1
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- Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 1
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- Ellett, Robert Thaddeus, 1836-1904 1
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- Garrett, Samuel Edwin, 1835(?)-1865 1
- Hart, Henry Waldo, 1832-1895 (Corporal, 2nd Connecticut Light Artillery Battery) 1
- Hayes, Carl N. 1
- Hilton, John, 1828-1903 1
- Holcombe family 1
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- Huff family (Floyd County, Va.) 1
- Huff, Samuel (Montgomery County, Va.) 1
- Hylton family (Floyd County, Va.) 1
- Hylton, Barbara Ellen Huff, 1828-1911 1
- Hylton, Lorenzo Dow, 1830-1864 1
- Jordan, Charles Francis, 1837-1922 1
- Kent family 1
- Kent, Germanicus, 1791-1862 1
- Kent, Lewis (enslaved person) 1
- Lancaster, Lucy Lee, 1905-1989 1
- Lemon, Lewis 1
- Lincoln, Charles F., d.1891 1
- Look, Nathan L., 1819-1907 1
- Look, Sarah A(nn). B(urt). Lincoln 1
- Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.) 1
- Marye family 1
- Marye, Madison E. (Madison Ellis), 1925-2016 1
- McKinnis, Henry, 1841-1893 1
- Newlee family (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 1
- Preston, Hugh Caperton, 1856-1905 1
- Preston, James Francis, 1820-1862 1
- Preston, Sarah Caperton, 1826- 1
- Prillaman family 1
- Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 1
- Shreve, David Prentiss (Lexington, Va.) 1
- Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia (1887-1935) 1
- Turner, Mary H. 1
- Tyler family 1
- Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
- Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 1820-1889 1
- United Daughters of the Confederacy. Dr. Harvy Black Chapter (1896-2009) (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 1
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 1
- W. Stone & Son 1
- Wade, Jane Harriet (Edie), 1826-1912 1
- Wade, John C. (John Crow), 1829-1889 1
- Walther, C. F. W., 1811-1887 1 + ∧ less