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Peter Saunders Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-094
Abstract This collection contains correspondence, receipts, and leaflets belonging to Peter Saunders (1823-1904), a lawyer and farmer from Franklin County, Virginia. Additionally, three letters dated January 1884 discuss the appointment of Peter Saunders' son, Edward Watts Saunders (1860-1921), as the judge of Franklin County, Virginia. Edward W. Saunders would go on to be a member of Congress, judge of the Circuit Court, and a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals. Three letters dated 1873-1874...
Dates: 1873 - 1886

Lon Savage Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2014-009
Abstract

Typescript drafts and research materials--including photocopies of interview transcripts, court documents, and printed materials--for Lon Savage's book, Thunder in the Mountains: the West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21.

Dates: [1919]-1994

"Sawmilling in Carroll County, Virginia as Recalled by Ezra Martin" Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-126
Abstract

The "Sawmilling in Carroll County, Virginia as Recalled by Ezra Martin" Typescript is a recounting by Ezra Martin (1895-1984) to his grandson Tommy Largen about his life working in the sawmill industry in Carroll County, Virginia. It contains information about Martin's birth, childhood, marriage, family, work life, and retirement. The typescript also includes photographs of family and locations.

Dates: ca. 1982

John P. Sawyer Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-047
Abstract

The collection consists of letters to Ralph M. Brown, librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), from John P. Sawyer, who graduated from VPI in 1940.

Dates: 1943 - 1945

Benjamin Say Deed

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Identifier: Ms-2010-044
Abstract

The collection contains a deed between Benjamin Say and Richard Mason in 1787 for the purchase of 5,000 acres of land located on the west fork of the Monongalia River, situated in Harrison and Monongalia counties, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Dates: 1787

James H. Saye Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-078
Abstract

Three letters from James H. Saye, a South Carolina minister during the American Civil War, focusing largely on the Confederate economy, financial speculation, and the patriotic duty to support the falling Confederate currency.

Dates: 1863

Wilson E. Schmidt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-010
Abstract

Professional correspondence, subject files, and writings of Wilson E. Schmidt, professor of economics at Virginia Tech (1966-1981), together with articles and reports, both published and unpublished, by other economists.

Dates: 1934 - 1981

George J. Schmutz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-047
Abstract

This collection contains two books complied by George J. Schmutz that include Schmutz' family history, poetry, political and opinion pieces, civil war memoirs, and a history of the 188th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

Dates: 1868 - 1926

Werner J. Scholz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1968-003
Abstract

The Werner J. Scholz Collection, 1911-1915, contains a VPI program, note, artificial flower, and portraits collected by Werner J. Scholz and related to Mrs. Patti Bramlet Hill. Werner Joseph Scholz attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a degree in Applied Chemistry in 1913. Scholz died from pneumonia at his parents' home in Roanoke, Virginia, in June 1915. He was engaged to Patti Bramlet at the time of his death.

Dates: 1911 - 1915

Han Schroeder Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-064
Abstract

The Han Schroeder Architectural Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, publications, teaching materials, scrapbooks, photographs, family information, and architectural materials by Schroeder (1918-1992).

Dates: 1914 - 1992

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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 1372
Civil War 813
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 812
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Virginia -- Maps 411
Montgomery County (Va.) 401
Women -- History 303
Blacksburg (Va.) 289
University Archives 254
Faculty and staff 226
Students and alumni 204
History of Food and Drink 170
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields Maps 169
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 150
Science and Technology 150
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History of Women in Architecture 77
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 68
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 55
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Wythe County (Va.) 50
Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE) 48
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Europe -- Maps 47
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Virginia -- History 46
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African Americans -- History 45
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World War, 1939-1945 38
Coal mines and mining 36
Roanoke (Va.) 36
Virginia, Southwest 36
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Food Technology and Production 32
Cocktail History Collection 31
Pulaski County (Va.) 31
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Carroll County (Va.) 28
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Railroad -- Maps 12
United States -- Maps 12
Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbooks and Nutrition Literature Collection 11
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Record Group 2 11
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 281
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 249
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Geological Survey (U.S.) 61
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Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 33
Heilig, Vicki 30
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 24
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 23
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) 17
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
Bureau of the Census 10
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 10
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 10
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 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
Virginia Tech Alumni Association 8
Hopkins, Griffith Morgan 7
McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 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 Agricultural and Mechanical College. Corps of Cadets (1872-1896) 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
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