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Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-027
Abstract

The collection contains project files and drawings related to more than 1,500 residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings, predominantly in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed by Smithey & Boynton, mostly between 1935 and 1957.

Dates: 1922 - 1985

Smithfield Plantation House Architectural Drawings,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-053
Abstract Smithfield Plantation is the historic home of the Preston family, one of the founding families of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. In November 1958 the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) authorized the organization of the Montgomery County branch for the specific purpose of acquiring and restoring Smithfield Plantation. Restoration of the building was begun in 1962 when the APVA's Montgomery County Branch raised the funds for renovation and...
Dates: n.d.

Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-002
Abstract

The Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers consist of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1784-1881, n.d.

Solitude Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-138
Abstract

Love letter written by L'incounnue ("The Unknown") at Solitude (the Preston home in Blacksburg, Virginia) in 1860, and addressed to "Miss Martha."

Dates: 1860

Solitude Photographs and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-024
Abstract

This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude, the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1960s-1980s

Southside Garden Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2007-032
Abstract

Materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, minutes and yearbooks from the Blacksburg Woman's Club and organization reports, minutes, pressbooks, yearbooks, and scrapbooks from the Southside Garden Club.

Dates: 1914 - 2009

Spahr Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-005
Abstract

The Spahr Family Collection contains records of rent payments at the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park and clippings about Joel Bush Spahr's landscaping hobby. Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park, run by the Spahrs, operated from 1959 to 1999 on property to the northwest of Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1959 - 1991

Stern Old Bachelor's Club [Blacksburg, Virginia] Minute Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-017
Abstract

Photocopy of a minute book from the Stern Old Bachelor's Club, a Blacksburg, Virginia men's social club, including the club's constitution, membership lists, and guest registers.

Dates: 1928 - 1932

Street Map and Guide to Blacksburg, Virginia

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0269
Abstract

Map shows streets of Blacksburg, Virginia, with local businesses advertised around the border. Document also contains index for main buildings of VPI.

Dates: 1956

Subdivision Map of the John L. Eakin Farm, Blacksburg, Va.

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0280
Abstract

Map in blueprint shows the John Leakin Farm in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1919

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Maps (documents) 103
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African Americans -- History 4
Christiansburg (Va.) 4
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 4
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Cemeteries 3
Pulaski County (Va.) 3
Radford (Va.) 3
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Architects -- Virginia 2
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International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 2
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 65
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 46
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 34
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 10
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 8
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Murrill, A. 7
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 7
Preston, John, 1764-1827 4
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 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
Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 3
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of Civil Engineering 3
Wall, W. F. 3
Worley, Charles S., Jr. 3
Blacksburg (Va.). Town Council 2
Blacksburg Colored Graveyard Association 2
Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931-2008 2
Broyles, H. C. 2
Clements & Draper 2
Cowgill, Clinton Harriman, 1890-1975 2
Croy family (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Dickinson, W. 2
Elarth, Herschel Anderson, 1907-1988 2
Foster, A. G. 2
Gray, Davis 2
Kentland Farm 2
McGauhey, P. H. (Percy Harold) 2
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Va.) 2
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
Vandenberg, H. P. C. 2
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 2
Walker, J. H. 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
Bank of Blacksburg (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Bartholomew, M. J. 1
Black family 1
Black, Alexander 1
Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 1
Black, L. K. 1
Black, Mary Kent, b.1836 1
Blackford, W. W. (William Willis), 1831-1905 1
Blacksburg (Va.). Townscape Committee 1
Blacksburg - Virginia Polytechnic Institute Civilian Defense Council (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Baptist Church (Blacksburg, Va) 1
Blacksburg Community Concert Association (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Community Federation (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Electronic Village 1
Blacksburg Federated Council (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Post Office (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Realty Corporation and Reliance Mills 1
Blacksburg Regional Art Association 1
Blacksburg Study Group (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Sun 1
Blecher, Freda 1
Blecher, Marvin 1
Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 1
Boyd, S. M., Jr. 1
Boynton, Henry B., 1899-1991 1
Brodie, W. M. 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 1
California Company 1
Caperton family 1
Caperton, George Henry (Nelson County, Va.) 1
Caperton, Mary Elizabeth Henderson (Nelson County, Va.) 1
Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) 1
Caton, Louise 1
Chamber music series (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Charlton, C. S. 1
Chester, W. 1
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