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Earl H. Hornbarger Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-003
Abstract

This collection contains photographs, publications, journals, writings and artifacts pertaining to Earl H. Hornbarger's time as a student at VPI, his later career as an engineer with Westinghouse Electric Company, and his involvement as a VPI alumnus.

Dates: 1912 - 1963

Isaac Horne Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-088
Abstract

This collection contains seven ledgers and one letter from the estate of Isaac Horne (1801-1878) of Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia. The ledgers show the Hornes owned a dry goods, fabric and tanning business. Transactions are recorded selling leather items to Confederate Soldiers during the American Civil War.

Dates: 1824 - 1870

Joseph L. Horr Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-052
Abstract

This collection contains proof sheets for an unpublished regimental history, "Sketch of the First Battalion, Thirteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, 1861-5," written by Joseph L. Horr.

Dates: 1888

Horses for the Confederacy

 Collection — Frame: 1
Identifier: Art-050

Frank Horsfall, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-040
Abstract

This collection includes the papers of Virginia Tech professor of horticulture Frank Horsfall, Jr., including his thesis and dissertation, awards and honors, writings, and materials on his interests in barbed wire and primitive tools.

Dates: 1917 - 1973

Inge Horton Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-065
Abstract Inge Horton was born in Germany. She was a planner with the Planning Department of the City and County of San Francisco, California, from 1983 to 1998; member of the Board of Advisors for the International Archive of Women in Architecture. Her papers consist of architectural studies written while in Germany; presentations made at various women's architectural organization meetings, including the International Union of Women Architects; a curriculum vitae; and research files on early women...
Dates: 1964 - 1999

Miles C. Horton, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-137
Abstract

Correspondence and printed materials of Miles C. Horton, Jr., a resident of Newport (Giles County), Virginia, includes letters from Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and materials relating to poet Randall Jarrell.

Dates: 1961 - 1988

Benjamin F. Hosford Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-125
Abstract The Benjamin F. Hosford Letter is from Hosford to his mother on July 14, [1861], while stationed in Falls Church, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It contains information about the Union Army's movements preparing in a week's advance for what will become known as the First Battle of Bull Run. Also, he discusses problems with the mail in Virginia, as well as issues with taking Confederates as prisoners. Wright's letter is written while a private serving in the 2nd Connecticut Infantry...
Dates: 1861

Hotchkiss' Geological Map of Virginia and West Virginia (reproduction)

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0048
Abstract

Facsimile of original in Virginia State Library. Marked as "No. 9" in an unidentified series. Map contains colored system that identifies various geological eras. Reprinted under title "Map Showing Proposed Routes of the Richmond & Southwestern Railway."

Dates: ca. 1880

Hotel Roanoke Architectural Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2000-093
Abstract

The Hotel Roanoke Architectural Drawings collection includes information about Hotel Roanoke in the form of original drawings, blueprints and photocopies dating from 1890 to 1983. The collection contains foundation, floor, and framing plans, elevations; ventilation, plumbing, heating and cooling plans; external and internal details for various rooms, stairways, and features; alterations; landscaping details; and exterior features, such as swimming pool and stables.

Dates: 1890 - 1983

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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 1372
Civil War 813
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 812
University History 554
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Virginia -- Maps 411
Montgomery County (Va.) 401
Women -- History 303
Blacksburg (Va.) 289
University Archives 245
Faculty and staff 225
Students and alumni 198
History of Food and Drink 169
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields Maps 169
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 150
Science and Technology 150
Railroad 96
Correspondence 90
History of Women in Architecture 77
Photographs 70
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 68
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 55
Ledgers (account books) 50
Wythe County (Va.) 50
Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE) 48
Architects 47
Europe -- Maps 47
Diaries 46
Virginia -- History 46
Account books 45
African Americans -- History 44
Agriculture 43
Architectural drawings (visual works) 43
World War, 1939-1945 38
Coal mines and mining 36
Roanoke (Va.) 36
Virginia, Southwest 36
Medicine 34
Architectural drawing -- 20th century 33
Food Technology and Production 32
Cocktail History Collection 31
Pulaski County (Va.) 31
Cocktails -- History 29
Carroll County (Va.) 28
Memorabilia 27
World maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 26
Architecture (discipline) 25
Christiansburg (Va.) 25
Politicians -- United States 25
Authors, American -- 20th century 24
Confederate States of America 22
Oral histories (literary works) 22
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Religion 21
West Virginia 21
West Virginia -- Maps 21
World War, 1914-1918 21
Advertisements 20
Slavery -- United States 20
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Giles County (Va.) 19
United States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 19
Women-owned architectural firms 19
Kentucky -- Maps 18
Roanoke County (Va.) 18
Scrapbooks 18
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 17
Radford (Va.) 17
Authors 16
Cookbooks 16
Letters 16
British literature 15
Washington County (Va.) 15
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United States -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees 14
Virginia 14
Botetourt County (Va.) 13
Home economics 13
Pamphlets 13
Washington (D.C.) -- Maps 13
Businesspeople 12
Railroad -- Maps 12
United States -- Maps 12
Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbooks and Nutrition Literature Collection 11
Culinary pamphlets 11
Record Group 2 11
Tazewell County (Va.) 11
Aerospace engineers 10
Agricultural extension work 10
Architects and community 10
Architecture -- Study and teaching 10
Authors, English -- 20th century 10
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Floyd County (Va.) 10
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 275
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 252
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 244
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 70
Geological Survey (U.S.) 61
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Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 33
Heilig, Vicki 30
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 23
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 22
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 20
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 19
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 18
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 16
Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 15
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 15
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 15
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 15
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899 11
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 11
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 11
Bureau of the Census 10
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 10
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 10
Hildebrand, J. R. 9
Historic Urban Plans (Firm) 9
Lesher, C. E. (Carl Eugene), b.1885 9
Murrill, A. 9
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Alumni Association 9
Cook, George Hammell, 1818-1889 8
Hubbell, Charles H., 1898-1971 8
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 8
The University Press of Kentucky 8
United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 8
Hopkins, Griffith Morgan 7
McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 7
Virginia Tech Alumni Association 7
Wall, W. F. 7
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 6
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 6
Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893 6
Bien, Morris, 1859- 6
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 6
Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 6
Frazer, George Preston 6
Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914 6
Harvey, G 6
Henry Wysor family 6
Newman, Walter S. (Walter Stephenson), 1895-1978 6
Preston, John, 1764-1827 6
Roanoke Historical Society 6
Smock, John C. (John Conover), 1842-1926 6
Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909 6
United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers 6
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 6
Virginia Cooperative Extension (1995-) 6
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture and Urban Studies (1978-2022) 6
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. College of Architecture 6
Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903 5
Confederate States of America. War Department 5
Dunay, Donna 5
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 5
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 5
Hotel Roanoke 5
Hutcheson, John Redd, 1886-1962 5
International Union of Women Architects 5
Kunstler, Morton, b.1931 5
Matsukawa-Tsuchida, Junko 5
O.W. Gray & Son 5
Rand McNally and Company 5
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 5
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 5
Torre, Susana, 1944- 5
United States. Department of Agriculture 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture (1974-1978) 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Arts and Sciences (1970-2003) 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 5
Virginia. State Highway Commission 5
Wysor, Henry C., 1847-1927 5
A. Hoen & Co. 4
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 4
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 4
Ballermann & Son a-s 4
Beyer, Edward, 1820-1865 4
Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 4
Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) 4
Chace, George 4
Chace, Jacob 4
Chester, W. 4
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 4
Everett Waddey Company 4
Finch, Adam T., 1872-1933 4
Foster, A. G. 4
Gamble, W. H. (William H.) 4
Geological Survey. Water Resources Division (U.S.) 4
Ireland, E. I. 4
Kent family 4
Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019 4
Kurtz, Louis, 1835-1921 4
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 4
McGill, William M. 4
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