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William H. Collier Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-027
Abstract

The collection contains a farm and household expense ledger of William H. Collier of Northampton County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1856 - 1887

Catlett Conway Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-014
Abstract

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."

Dates: 1816 - 1839

Cotton Fabrics First Year Lecture Notebook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-077
Abstract

The Cotton Fabrics First Year Lecture Notebook was J. H. Hodgkinson's notebook from 1905-1906 for class at Manchester Municipal School of Technology.

Dates: 1905 - 1906

Cotton Weaving Class Notebook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-076
Abstract

The Cotton Weaving Class Notebook from 1914-1915 belonged to Alec Atkinson, a student at Nelson Municipal Technical School.

Dates: 1914 - 1914

Samuel Crews Sharecropper Contract

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-067
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1876

Robert Edmiston Inventory

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-077
Abstract

The collection contains a document assessing the value of enslaved persons and lands held by Robert Edmiston, of Washington County, Virginia.

Dates: 1815

M. L. Foley Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-031
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1958-1964, undated

Willis E. Franklin Patent

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1967-001
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1872

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

P. Johnston Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-012
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1874

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Virginia Cooperative Extension (1995-) 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 2
4-H All Stars. Virginia Chapter 1
American Agricultural Chemical Company 1
Atkinson, Alec 1
Barnett, John W. 1
Bernard, Thomas Hill, 1824-1905 1
Brown, J. A. (Deputy tax collector, Martinsville, Va.) 1
Burnett, C. M. 1
C. E. Sydnor & Co. (Richmond, Va.) 1
Collier, William H., 1822-1906 1
Crews, Samuel, b. abt. 1846 1
Drinkard, Alfred Washington, Jr. 1
Edmiston, Robert 1
Fenne, Sanford Bernell, 1903-1978 1
Foley, M. L. 1
Franklin, Willis E. 1
Frissell, Sydney D. 1
Harris, Alfred T. 1
Hodgkinson, J. H. 1
Johnston, P. 1
Kammerer, Joseph 1
Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895 1
Massey, A. B. (Arthur Ballard) 1
Massey, W. F. 1
Moody family (Northampton County, NC) 1
New Farmers of America. Maryland Association 1
Parsons, Bernard L. 1
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 1
Rayo Incubator Co., Inc 1
Rogers, William G. 1
Ross, Alice, 1930- 1
Sandy, Sallie Thweat Miller 1
Sandy, Thomas O. (Thomas Oldham), 1857-1919 1
Sandy, Thomas O., Jr. 1
Saunders family 1
Saunders, Peter, 1823-1904 1
Snavely, Ambrose L., 1868-1934 1
State Planters Bank and Trust Company (Richmond, Va.) 1
Tarter Bros. (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1
Threlkeld, William Logan, 1893-1988 1
Tillett, B. D. 1
Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association 1
United States. Agricultural Research Service 1
United States. Bureau of Internal Revenue 1
United States. Department of Health and Human Services 1
United States. Division of Home Economics 1
United States. War Food Administration 1
Virginia Association for Biological Farming 1
Virginia Association of Biological Farmers 1
Virginia Engineering Experiment Station 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Research Division 1
Virginia State Agricultural Society 1
Virginia Truck Experiment Station (1907-1967) 1
W. Atlee Burpee Company 1
Yates, James E. 1
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