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Alfred T. Harris Letter to Robert L. Brown

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-012
Abstract

The Alfred T. Harris Letter to Robert L. Brown is written by Harris in Richmond, Virginia, on July 30, 1845, to Brown, in Variety Mills, Virginia. Harris discusses that he has not yet recieved a crop of tobacco and continues to describe tobacco in great detail, from the treatment to the cost.

Dates: 1845

William G. Rogers Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-011
Abstract

This collection contains six letters of William G. Rogers, a mercantile businessman from Highland County, Virginia. The letters contain the correspondence between Rogers and the businessmen that he was doing dealing with.

Dates: 1856-1861, undated

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

Ambrose L. Snavely Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-014
Abstract

This collection includes diaries, financial records, and farm records of Ambrose L. Snavely, a farmer in Crockett (Wythe County), Virginia, during the first half of the 20th century.

Dates: 1903 - 1952

Records of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-25-01
Abstract The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station (VAES) was established in 1886 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the federal Hatch Act of 1887 for the purpose of providing practical and useful information on agricultural and scientific subjects. The collection includes 114 surveys books for ten counties in Virginia from 1931 through 1940, as well as files dated 1903-1947 of weather reports, annual reports of investigations of the field laboratories, and a large amount of...
Dates: 1903 - 1947

Virginia Association for Biological Farming Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-009
Abstract

This collection contains records created and collected by the Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF) between the early 1990s and the mid-2010s.

Dates: 1990s-2014

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