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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
Hilde Weström Architectural Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-061
Abstract
This collection contains the paper of Hilde Weström who was born 1912 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, Germany. She was an architect of Berlin, Germany. The materials in the collection include biographical information, articles, photographs of Weström and her designs, and architectural drawings for nine projects (1954-1970).
Dates:
1952 - 2000
Ute Weström Architectural Papers,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-023
Abstract
Ute Westrom was born in 1939 in Berlin, Germany, the oldest of four children of architect Hilde Westrom. In 1968 she earned an architect's diploma from the Technical University of Berlin. She is a practicing architect in Berlin and an active member of the International Union of Women Architects (UIFA.) Her collection includes information about the restoration of the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin and the Sozialkasse des Berliner Baugewerbes in Berlin, both designed by Westrom and her husband...
Dates:
1968 - 1996
F. N. Whaley Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-007
Abstract
Letter from F. [Frederick] N. Whaley, a student at Union Theological Seminary (Prince Edward County, Virginia), written in 1847 to James H. Orbison of "near Hopkinsville," Kentucky, encouraging Orbison to attend the seminary and suggesting they meet at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County, Virginia).
Dates:
1847
Gabriel C. Wharton Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-012
Abstract
The collection contains three post-Civil War letters addressed to former Confederate General Gabriel C. Wharton: one regarding potential locations for a blast furnace, one relating to fees for the use of two horses, and one about a petitition on some property in Blacksburg.
Dates:
1869 - 1875
Whisner Memorial Methodist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1964-003
Abstract
This collection consists of records generated by the Whisner Memorial Methodist Church located in Blacksburg, Virginia, from 1857 through 1975.
Dates:
1857 - 1975
White House of the Confederacy
Collection
Identifier: Art-179
Scope and Contents
VTF 4056; print
Dates:
n.d.
Isaac White Letters
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-013
Abstract
The collection consists of letters written mostly by Isaac White (1837-1889) to his wife, Mary Virginia "Jinnie" Day White, while he served with the Confederate Army as an assistant surgeon during the American Civil War. Many of the letters are written while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley. Other papers include literature gathered by Bess Duvall White Snead, White's grand-daughter, in her search for military information about Isaac White.
Dates:
1861 - 1938
N. B. White Letter to Darius White
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-053
Abstract
The collection consists of a single letter from N. B. White to his cousin, Darius, written from Boliver Heights, near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, dated October 19, 1862....
Dates:
1862
White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia (1927)
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0460
Abstract
This is a blueprint style map of the town of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., location of the renowned resort hotel, The Greenbrier. The original map is from 1927, but some notations on the map indicate this is a copy from 1945.
Dates:
1927
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 16
- Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 15
- Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 15
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- Lesher, C. E. (Carl Eugene), b.1885 9
- Murrill, A. 9
- Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 9
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- 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
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- Hopkins, Griffith Morgan 7
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- Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 6
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- United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers 6
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- Confederate States of America. War Department 5
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- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 5
- Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 5
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- Kunstler, Morton, b.1931 5
- Matsukawa-Tsuchida, Junko 5
- O.W. Gray & Son 5
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- Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 5
- Torre, Susana, 1944- 5
- United States. Department of Agriculture 5
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 5
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- 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
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