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Preston and Olin Institute Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1964-001
Abstract

This collection contains an agent’s book for Olin and Preston Institute, five copies of reports from the Committee on Seminaries, and programs from the Alpha Literary Society and Preston Literary Society.

Dates: 1852-1871, n.d.

Preston Family (Alice Preston Moore Collection) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1962-004
Abstract

The collection consists of family papers, receipts, correspondence, and original and photocopied materials relating to the Preston family, primarily William and Susanna Smith Preston, John Preston, and William Ballard Preston, dating from the 1740s to the 1880s. Other materials include 19th and 20th century genealogy research on the Prestons.

Dates: 1749-1882, n.d.

Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-020
Abstract

The Didier Collection of Preston Family Papers includes papers of James Patton, Patton's grandson William Preston, and Preston's eldest son, John Preston, all of Montgomery County, Virginia. The papers consist of business and legal documents, surveys, and correspondence.

Dates: 1747 - 1897

Preston Family Correspondence

 File
Identifier: Ms-2010-070
Abstract

The Preston Family Correspondence consists of two letters. The first is written by James Francis Preston to his wife, Sarah Caperton Preston; he details the events of and his involvement in the First Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War. The second letter is written by Sarah to Colonel Grabowski and discusses her son’s (Hugh Caperton Preston) failure to follow an order at Preston and Olin Institute (now Virginia Tech).

Dates: 1861, 1872

John Preston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-034
Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents regarding John Preston's business affairs, including promissory notes, loan agreements, and personal correspondence. Many of the documents appear to be draft versions which were at one point bound together, perhaps in Preston's own letter-book

Dates: 1796 - 1844

Robert Taylor Preston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-003
Abstract

The collection consists of 218 letters, military orders, notes, certificates of military appointments, and other items, collected or created by Preston between 1849 and 1871, with the majority from the period between May 1861 and December 1862.

Dates: 1849 - 1871; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1862

Harvey Lee Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-001
Abstract

The Harvey Lee Price Papers contain handwritten notes and genealogies of various Montgomery County families which Price used to write his four volume series Outlines of Montgomery County Families. Also included are Price's subject files on the county and Virginia and his diplomas from VPI.

Dates: 1853, 1898, 1900, 1927-1949, n.d.

Price House Existing Site Plan

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0237
Abstract

Existing site plan of the Price House, Blacksburg, Virginia, as of June 10, 1986 (2 copies)

Dates: 1986

Price House Landscaping Plan

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0662

James Bane Price Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-008
Abstract

The collection consists of eight account books from the James Bane Price store in Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. The books provide details of daily transactions, expenditures and costumer accounts and span the years 1871 to 1897.

Dates: 1871 - 1897

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 67
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Murrill, A. 7
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 7
Wall, W. F. 5
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Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 4
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 3
Blacksburg (Va.). Town Council 3
Kent family 3
Manning, Warren H. (Warren Henry), 1860-1938 3
McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 3
Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
Preston, William, 1729-1783 3
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 3
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Worley, Charles S., Jr. 3
Blacksburg Colored Graveyard Association 2
Blacksburg Engineering Dept 2
Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931-2008 2
Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 2
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Christiansburg Industrial Institute 2
Clements & Draper 2
Cowgill, Clinton Harriman, 1890-1975 2
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Elarth, Herschel Anderson, 1907-1988 2
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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
Solitude (Blacksburg, Va. : Historic building) 2
Southern Anthracite Coal Company 2
Vandenberg, H. P. C. 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Alumni Association 2
Walker, J. H. 2
Wiley & Wilson, Inc 2
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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
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