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Washington County, VA Daybook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-068
Abstract

Washington County, VA Daybook contains names, items, and prices from an unidentified business.

Dates: 1896

Washington County, Virginia, Court Notice of Payment for Autopsy of Jessee, an Enslaved Person

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-045
Abstract

The collection consists of a Court Document, May 28, 1860, Washington County, Virginia.

Dates: May 28, 1860

Watershed Envelope [Prices Fork Vicinity Plat Map]

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0307
Abstract

Map shows the watershed envelope in the vicinity of Price's Fork, near Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: nd

Sessler Watkins Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-084
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Sessler Watkins, of Cary, West Virginia, to his mother, Mrs. J. B. Watkins of Troutville, Virginia, describing Watkins' experiences living and working in a company-owned mining town in West Virginia.

Dates: n.d.

Peter F. Weaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-038
Abstract

The collection contains a speech given by Peter F. Weaver, a newspaper article, letters, an invoice, and biographical notes about Weaver.

Dates: 1880-1907, 1974; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1907

Weaversville, Virginia Mill Daybook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-023
Abstract

This daybook of unidentified mill in Weaversville (Fauquier County), Virginia, records customer names and transactions.

Dates: 1871 - 1872

West Iron Gate Land Company Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-012
Abstract

This collection includes the accounts and correspondence of West Iron Gate Land Company (successor of Hileman, Waring & Company), a pig iron manufacturer in Clifton Forge (Allegany County), Virginia.

Dates: 1879 - 1902

Lindsay West Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-013
Scope and Contents The Lindsay West Papers span the years 1975-1996. The bulk of the collection is comprised of subject files West kept while she was serving on the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors in southwest Virginia. These files contain inter- and intra- office county government correspondence and memos, legal opinions, government documents, reports and studies, many of which include maps; and clippings. Most of the correspondence and documents are photocopies of county government documents...
Dates: 1975 - 1996

Ruby Bishop West Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-002
Abstract

This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1858 - 1981

Western Lunatic Asylum [Staunton, Virginia] Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-021
Abstract

The Western Lunatic Asylum Collection includes correspondence written to the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Virginia, dating from 1840 through the late 19th century, as well as annual reports from the 1860s and 1900s.

Dates: 1840 - 1903; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1868

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Maps (documents) 392
Montgomery County (Va.) 383
Virginia -- Maps 363
Blacksburg (Va.) 266
Civil War 166
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 165
Women -- History 111
University History 90
Railroad 54
Faculty and staff 47
Wythe County (Va.) 47
Students and alumni 37
Ledgers (account books) 33
Photographs 32
Account books 31
Roanoke (Va.) 30
Science and Technology 30
Correspondence 28
Pulaski County (Va.) 26
African Americans -- History 24
Virginia, Southwest 24
Carroll County (Va.) 23
History of Food and Drink 23
University Archives 23
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 22
Christiansburg (Va.) 21
Coal mines and mining 19
Virginia -- History 19
Virginia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimilies 19
Politicians -- United States 17
Slavery -- United States 17
Medicine 16
Giles County (Va.) 15
Radford (Va.) 15
Agriculture 14
Roanoke County (Va.) 14
Oral histories (literary works) 13
Religion 13
West Virginia 13
Floyd County (Va.) 10
Grayson County (Va.) 10
Tazewell County (Va.) 10
Washington County (Va.) 10
Botetourt County (Va.) 9
United States -- Maps 8
Alleghany County (Va.) 7
Cocktails -- History 7
Legal instruments (Legal documents) 7
Patrick County (Va.) -- History 7
Rockbridge County (Va.) 7
Scrapbooks 7
Smyth County (Va.) 7
World War, 1914-1918 7
Bath County (Va.) 6
Bland County (Va.) 6
Cocktail History Collection 6
Craig County (Va.) 6
Education, Secondary 6
Iron foundries -- Virginia 6
Augusta County (Va.) 5
Confederate States of America 5
Diaries 5
Letters 5
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Va.) 5
Postcards 5
Receipts (financial records) 5
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 5
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 5
Virginia 5
West Virginia -- Maps 5
World War, 1939-1945 5
Architectural drawing -- 20th century 4
Bedford County (Va.) 4
Food Technology and Production 4
Marion (Va.) 4
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
Salem (Va.) 4
Staunton (Va.) 4
Traditional medicine 4
Wise County (Va.) 4
Abingdon (Va.) 3
American Literature -- Virginia 3
Architectural drawings (visual works) 3
Authors, American -- 20th century 3
Community theater 3
Financial records 3
Football 3
Galax (Va.) 3
Genealogy 3
General stores 3
Local government 3
Musical groups 3
Patent medicines 3
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Pittsylvania County (Va.) 3
Post office buildings 3
Presidents -- United States 3
Scott County (Va.) 3
Textile manufacturers 3
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 83
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 69
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 62
Geological Survey (U.S.) 47
Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 29
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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 22
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899 11
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 11
Bureau of the Census 10
Murrill, A. 9
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 9
Hildebrand, J. R. 8
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 8
Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 7
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 7
Bien, Morris, 1859- 6
Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914 6
Historic Urban Plans (Firm) 6
Preston, John, 1764-1827 6
Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909 6
United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers 6
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 6
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 5
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 5
Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903 5
Hotel Roanoke 5
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 5
O.W. Gray & Son 5
Roanoke Historical Society 5
Virginia. State Highway Commission 5
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 4
Chace, George 4
Chace, Jacob 4
Everett Waddey Company 4
Foster, A. G. 4
Ireland, E. I. 4
Kent family 4
Michie, P. S. 4
Preston, William, 1729-1783 4
Smith, George Otis, 1871-1944 4
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 4
Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company (Roanoke, Va.) 4
Tyler, James Hoge, 1846-1925 4
Virginian Railway 4
Wall, W. F. 4
Wysor, Henry C., 1847-1927 4
A. Hoen & Co. 3
American Publishing Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 3
Appalachian Trail Conference (1993-2005) 3
Beyer, Edward, 1820-1865 3
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 3
Calver, James L. 3
Chester, W. 3
Conway, Julia Ellen Thomas, 1848-1916 3
Conway, William Buchanan, 1845-1920 3
Dwight, C. S. 3
Episcopal Church. Diocese of Southwestern Virginia 3
Fletcher, L. C. 3
Gamble, W. H. (William H.) 3
Gannett, Samuel S. (Samuel Stinson), 1861-1939 3
Geological Survey. Water Resources Division (U.S.) 3
Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883 3
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 3
Hall, Childress 3
Hall, W. J. 3
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 3
Manning, Warren H. (Warren Henry), 1860-1938 3
McGill, William M. 3
McKinley, W. K. 3
Payne, John Barton, 1855-1935 3
Pike, Albert 3
Preston family (Solitude, Blacksburg, Va.) 3
Preston, Francis, 1765-1835 3
Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
Preston, William Ballard, 1805-1862 3
Price family 3
Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 3
Radford Land and Improvement Company 3
Rand McNally and Company 3
Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee 3
Sanborn-Perris Map Co. 3
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 3
Solitude (Blacksburg, Va. : Historic building) 3
Stribling, Francis T. (Francis Taliaferro), 1810-1874 3
United States. Department of Agriculture 3
United States. Government Printing Office 3
Vandenberg, H. P. C. 3
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 3
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 3
Virginia. General Assembly 3
Western Lunatic Asylum (Va.) 3
Wilson, Eliza (Lily) Tyler 3
Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925 3
Worley, Charles S., Jr. 3
Yeates, Chas. M. 3
Adams Express Company (1854-2015) 2
Anderson, C. B., of Newbern, Va. 2
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 2
Appalachian Power Company 2
Archer, S. R. 2
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