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Historical Photograph Collection (List of Subjects)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Photographs-001
Abstract
The photograph collection at Special Collections and University Archives consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia Tech, dating back to the 1890s. The collection is also home to historic images of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, the New River Valley, and Southwest Virginia in general. A photograph collection of faculty and staff from the university is maintained separately.
Dates:
c. 1890s-present
Hog Ordinance Broadside,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-078
Abstract
The collection consists of a broadside containing suggested town regulations for the housing of hogs or pigs within town limits.
Dates:
undated
William E. Hoge Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-019
Abstract
The Hoge Family was one of the earliest settlers of the New River area of southwest Virginia. William Edward Hoge and his family resided in Point Pleasant, Bland County Virginia, where William Hoge began his medicinal practice in 1855. Hoge was married to Jane L. Meek, and they had three sons and one daughter. The William E. Hoge Family Papers consist of 164 letters and 65 deeds, along with financial papers, postcards, and extensive genealogical research. The letters detail the lives of the...
Dates:
1810 - 1933
Virginia Hummel Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1998-014
Scope and Contents
The Virginia Hummel collection consists of newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, maps, and blueprints collected and created by Virginia Hummel of Blacksburg.
Dates:
1830 - 1998
John R. Hutcheson Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-001
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items document the career and family of John R. Hutcheson. After earning his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), John Redd Hutcheson (1886-1962) began working at the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service in 1914, becoming its director in 1919. Hutcheson was elected as president of VPI in 1945, serving until his nomination as VPI's first chancellor in 1947. The next year he became the first president of...
Dates:
1890 - 1969; Majority of material found within ( 1930-1950)
Independent Order of St. Luke Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-121
Abstract
The bulk of the materials in the Independent Order of St. Luke Records, a social-welfare organization for African Americans, consist of handbooks, correspondence, receipts, programs, membership records, annual reports, and assessment reports of the Order, collected primarily from members in Blacksburg, Virginia. Also includes the minutes (1920-1938) of the Blacksburg chapters of the Busy Bee and Maggie L. Walker (Secretary of the Independent Order of St. Luke) Circles.
Dates:
1877 - 1970
J. H. Wissler's Coal Property on Both Sides of Prices Mountain in Montgomery County, Virginia
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0290
Abstract
Map shows J. H. Wissler's Coal Property near Price's Mountain in Montgomery County, Virginia.
Dates:
Oct. 30, 1911
Patricia Givens Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-007
Abstract
This collection consists of papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian. It includes correspondence, subject files, printed materials and photographs. Also includes a scrapbook and a few other materials, scattered throughout the collection, which had belonged to Johnson's mother, Lula Porterfield Givens, also a local historian.
Dates:
1920 - 1986
J. T. Jones Ledger
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-018
Abstract
Ledger of James Taswell Jones (1890-1945), a Blacksburg, Virginia meat cutter, containing payment transactions on accounts of customers, including C. W. Black, C. E. Bodell, F. B. Eames, J. K. Groseclose, Y. B. Keister, and H. L. Price.
Dates:
1925 - 1926
George W. L. Kabrich Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-013
Abstract
The George W. L. Kabrich Family Papers, 1850-1947 [bulk 1850-1904], contain correspondence, legal records, financial records, and religious documents. The collection documents the personal and professional life of George W. L. Kabrich, who taught school and Sunday school, worked as Overseer of the Poor for Blacksburg Township, and was on church councils for local Lutheran churches. Items also relate to George’s father-in-law John Surface, his daughter Effie Kabrich, and others. An item of...
Dates:
1850 - 1947; Majority of material found within ( 1850-1904)
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- Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931- 2
- Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 2
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- McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 2
- National Bank of Blacksburg (1922-) (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
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- Patton, James, 1692-1755 (Preston family, Montgomery County, Va.) 2
- Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
- Preston family (Solitude, Blacksburg, Va.) 2
- Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 2
- Southern Anthracite Coal Company 2
- Vandenberg, H. P. C. 2
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of Civil Engineering 2
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Alumni Association 2
- West, Lindsay Butte, 1934-2018 2
- Wiley & Wilson, Inc 2
- A. W. Luster 1
- Ackler, Bryan 1
- Adams, Elizabeth Kent 1
- Adriance, Thomas 1
- Alexander, Henrie H., d.1916 1
- Alfred Hopkins & Associates 1
- Allen, Beulah O. (Beulah Oyama), 1905-1992 1
- Amiss, Edwin 1
- Anderson, George 1
- Anderson, Sarah 1
- Appalachian Student Organizing Committee. Virginia Tech Chapter 1
- Appalachian Trail Conference (1993-2005) 1
- Apperson family 1
- Apperson, Alex 1
- Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
- Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
- Apperson, Mary 1
- Association for the Advancement of Engineering 1
- Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 1
- Baber, Jerry 1
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