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Fries Textile Mill Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-045
Scope and Content
This collection consists of oral history interviews with Fries, Va. locals that either previously worked in the textile mill or grew up around it. Interviews were conducted by Bess Pittman and Kevin Combs.
Dates:
2019 - 2022
Fries Textile Plant Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-039
Abstract
The Fries Textile Plant Records includes correspondence, production data, personnel ledgers, photographs, legal and financial materials, internal reports, blueprints, and other administrative materials. The collection provides a complete history of the company's operations, from its founding at the turn of the twentieth century until its closure in the 1980s.
Dates:
1900 - 1988
Emery Washburn Frost Letters
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-005
Abstract
Three letters from Emery Washburn Frost, a soldier in the 14th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, describing conditions and activities in Petersburg, City Point, and Alexandria, Virginia, at the end of the American Civil War.
Dates:
1865
Henly Fugate Business Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1978-007
Abstract
This collection contains business records and personal financial records generated by Henly Fugate.
Dates:
1879 - 1918
R. Buckminster Fuller Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-007
Abstract
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was a poet, philosopher, inventor, engineer and architect. Fuller, or "Bucky" to his friends and colleagues, was most well known for his invention of the geodesic dome, a ground-based dome with no limiting dimensions. The collection contains unsigned correspondence by Fuller and others, as well as various articles on architecture and the geodesic dome, nature, utopian design, space and science.
Dates:
1949 - 1978
Reid Stanger Fulton Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1978-010
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, legal papers, and printed materials of Reid Stanger Fulton, economics instructor, avid book collector, and owner of Graham Mansion at Max Meadows, Virginia.
Dates:
1900 - 1976
Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Virginia Blue Ridge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-001
Abstract
The collection includes materials about the founding and organization of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Virginia Blue Ridge (FCAVBR), FCAVBR Cemetery and Funeral Home Surveys for 2003 and 2004, Checklist for Survivors, Pre-Planning Form for an individual's wishes and final arrangements, and the packet "Before I Go, You Should Know: My Funeral and Final Plans." The collection also includes a number of brochures prepared by the FCAVBR, including "How to Plan a Memorial Service," "Beat...
Dates:
2001 - 2004
Galax, Virginia Quadrangle,
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0745
Abstract
Galax, Virginia Quadrangle. U. S. Geological Survey, 1965. 22 x 27 in. [FOLDER C-2]
Dates:
1965 - 1965
Charlotte D. Gale Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-044
Abstract
Photograph album compiled by Charlotte D. Gale, a resident of Roanoke, Virginia, with scenes from Crockett Springs, Roanoke, Salem, and Norfolk, Virginia.
Dates:
1898 - 1900
Dudley Gale Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-014
Abstract
Two letters from Dudley E. Gale, a soldier in Company L, 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry during the American Civil War, written to his mother and focusing on the impending discharge of a close friend and Gale's own upcoming furlough.
Dates:
1862, n.d.
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