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William H. Collier Ledger
The collection contains a farm and household expense ledger of William H. Collier of Northampton County, North Carolina.
Catlett Conway Ledger
This collection consists of a ledger maintained by Catlett Conway (1786-1839) of Greene County, Virginia, documenting the financial transactions of his estate, "Spring Hill."
Cotton Fabrics First Year Lecture Notebook,
The Cotton Fabrics First Year Lecture Notebook was J. H. Hodgkinson's notebook from 1905-1906 for class at Manchester Municipal School of Technology.
Cotton Weaving Class Notebook,
The Cotton Weaving Class Notebook from 1914-1915 belonged to Alec Atkinson, a student at Nelson Municipal Technical School.
Samuel Crews Sharecropper Contract
The Samuel Crews Sharecropper Contract is a manuscript agreement that outlines the terms in which Samuel Crews can farm, but not own, lands belonging to S. and R. Dodd in Halifax County, Virginia, for the year 1877.
Robert Edmiston Inventory
The collection contains a document assessing the value of enslaved persons and lands held by Robert Edmiston, of Washington County, Virginia.
M. L. Foley Collection,
The collection includes receipts and more than 100 pieces of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to M. L. Foley's business selling birds out of Salem, Virginia.
Willis E. Franklin Patent
This collection contains an 1872 patent transfer for Movable Comb Bee-Hives to Willis E. Franklin from Lorenzo L. Langstroth, the inventor of the modern Langstroth beehive.
Alfred T. Harris Letter to Robert L. Brown
This letter is written by Alfred T. Harris in Richmond, Virginia, on July 30, 1845, to Robert L. Brown in Variety Mills, Virginia. Harris discusses that he has not yet received a crop of tobacco and continues to describe tobacco in great detail, from the treatment to the cost. Harris (1799-1883) was a tobacco merchant in Richmond.
P. Johnston Diary
Diary maintained by P. Johnston (possibly Peyton Johnston), agent for the Virginia State Agricultural Society, with entries describing his travels throughout Virginia on behalf of the VSAS in 1874.
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