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Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-008
Abstract

The Alice Ross Ephemera Collection includes more than 2,000 pieces of ephemera related to food & culinary history, advertising/marketing, food production, agriculture, holidays and celebrations, and domestic culture, dating from the mid-19th to the mid/late 20th century.

Dates: c.1860s-1960s

Thomas O. Sandy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2006-022
Abstract

The collection includes correspondence, receipts, farm records, and other papers of Thomas O. Sandy, a farmer in Nottoway County, Virginia, and the first state demonstration agent for agricultural extension in Virginia. The papers relate to Sandy's farm, extension work, and estate.

Dates: 1910 - 1928

Sanford Bernell Fenne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-054
Abstract

The papers of Sanford Bernell "Chuck" Fenne, a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (BS, 1927; MS, 1930) and a Virginia Agricultural Extension plant pathologist from 1939 to 1967, includes correspondence, writings, biographical materials, photographs, a VPI scrapbook, and a photo album compiled during a year (1943-1944) spent working in Brazil for the Food Supply Division, Institute of Inter-American Affairs.

Dates: 1918 - 1970

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

Shropshire, England, Farm and Household Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-066
Abstract

This collection contains a household and farming ledger owned by a Shropshire, England family, dating 1832-1867. Two articles and a letter report the discovery of coal in Shropshire. The ledger also contains financial records, notes on wine making and farming, instructions for care of cattle and pest control, and various receipes and remedies.

Dates: 1832 - 1867

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

State/Regional Home and Agricultural Publications,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-040
Scope and Content

The collection contains publications on topics including, but not limited to: war-time food use and victory gardens, home planning and organization, food and cooking, home demonstration, and household management. Although the emphasis in on Virginia state and local agencies, materials may also originate from around the United States.

Dates: 1934-present

William Logan Threlkeld Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-005
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of William Logan Threlkeld, professor of zoology and biology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1929-1958), including biographical materials, personal and professional correspondence, research files, and printed materials.

Dates: 1919 - 1974

Robert L. Tontz Pamphlets

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-109
Abstract

Two pamphlets compiled by agricultural economist Robert L. Tontz with others: "Equality for Agriculture," written in 1922 by George N. Peek and Hugh S. Johnson of the Moline [Illinois] Plow Company, with an explanatory preface added by Robert L. and Brenda Kay Tontz; and "U. S. Agricultural Organizations: the Voices of Organized Agriculture," a typescript report by Robert L. and John W. Tontz.

Dates: 1988 - 1991

Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association Study

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1957-001
Abstract

This collection contains a typescript draft of a study and history of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association, written by S. D. Frissell and B. D. Tillett, including general background history of tobacco and agricultural cooperative efforts, together with research data on tobacco farming statistics.

Dates: 1925-1927, n. d.

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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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