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Minnie Lee Ryan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-021
Abstract

The Minnie Lee Ryan Collection contains a May 28, 1922, letter from Jack to Ryan about their relationship as well as a 1922 newspaper clipping entitled Blacksburg High School Graduates listing Ryan, amongst others.

Dates: 1922

Eulalie Salley Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-079
Abstract

The collection contains a letter written by Eulalie Salley, of Aiken, South Carolina, to Frances Bear, of Roanoke, Virginia, on January 12,1974 about Salley's role in the suffrage movement.

Dates: 1974 - 1974

Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-097
Abstract The Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection consists of a variety of materials, which range in dates from 1872 to 1977. The collection includes photographs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute memorabilia, printed materials, such as coupons, advertisements, and pamphlets, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondences, diplomas, certificates, family papers, ephemera, publications, newspaper pages, newspaper clippings, calling cards, pay stubs, church offering stubs, and additional materials collected by the...
Dates: 1872-1977

Letter to Ruth H. Shootman

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-037
Abstract

The collection consists of a three-page letter written December 5th, 1846, from Harriet of Sandy River Church, Virginia (a town in Prince Edward County) to "Miss Ruth H. Shootman, Big Lick, Roanoke, Va."

Dates: 1846

Shugart Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-013
Abstract

This collection contains papers from the Shugart Family of Southwest Virginia, created between 1811 and 1876.

Dates: 1811 - 1876

William Avery Stratton Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-114
Abstract The collection contains correspondence to William Avery Stratton from friends and family. Letters date from as early as the American Civil War (1864) to the year after Stratton's death (1940). For the most part, letters are about social and family news, though some of the early letters contain Civil War and post-bellum news from the South. Letters from friends in Oregon, Colorado, and Nevada also provide details on Indian affairs, railroad growth, and cattle in the West. The collection also...
Dates: 1864 - 1940; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1880

Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-020
Abstract

This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.

Dates: 1918-2006, n.d.

Tyler-Wilson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-014
Abstract

The Tyler-Wilson Papers consist largely of correspondence of Virginia Governor James Hoge Tyler's family and his daughter Lily Tyler Wilson's family. Also includes a 1925 European travel diary maintained by Nancy E. Lukens.

Dates: 1899 - 1960

Yancey Family Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1987-059
Abstract

The Yancey Family Papers contains correspondence between members of the Yancey and Everett families, accounts, receipts, the will of Christopher Taliaferro, and a facsimile Confederate Ten Dollar note. The material dates from 1808 to 1912.

Dates: 1808-1912, n.d.

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Names
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 2
Alley, Anderson 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Robert Lane, 1907-1951 1
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 1
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Atkins, Georgia (Skinnell), 1886-1968 1
Atkins, John G., 1884-1945 1
Bassett Furniture Company (Bassett, Virginia) 1
Bassett Furniture Industries 1
Bassett, J. D. (John David), 1866-1965 1
Bear, Frances 1
Beves family 1
Blacksburg Baptist Church (Blacksburg, Va) 1
Brady, Daniel C. E. (Daniel Charles Elliott), 1821-1878 1
Brown, Alice 1
Chase, Hattie 1
Clark, Allen C. (Allen Culling), 1858-1943 1
Crosby, John F. 1
Currier, Lottie (Charlotte?) Lewis 1
Dill, Joseph G., 1828-1886 1
Fergeson, Benjamin 1
Fergeson, Joseph 1
Foster, Cecilia, 1875-1944 1
Foster, Cora E. (Cora Elizabeth Beves), 1856-1931 1
Foster, Dora B. (Dora Branch), 1889-1920 1
Foster, Mary E. (Mary Eleanor Wiatt), 1812-1894 1
Foster, William Edward, 1795-1843 1
Foster, William Edward, 1843-1906 1
Foster, Willie D. 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
Hammet, James Preston, d. 1879 1
Heizer, James Francis, 1841-1930 1
Heizer, Phoebe Anne McCormick, 1845-1906 1
Hooker, J. C. 1
J. Hoge Tyler family 1
Jaffe, Louis I. (Louis Isaac), 1888-1950 1
Juliand, Sarah Stratton 1
Lawrence, Cecilia D. (Cecilia Dabney Foster), 1835-1894 1
Lawson, M. T. (Madison Thompson), 1827-1893 1
Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954 1
Lily Tyler Wilson family 1
MacFarland, Alice Stratton, b.1864 1
MacFarland, Ira 1
Moser, William E. 1
Perdue, James Robert, 1837-1915 1
Radford, John Taylor, 1838-1864 1
Radford, William Moseley, 1840-1862 1
Richardson Electric Co. (Martinsville, Va.) 1
Roberts, George E. , 1834-1887 1
Robertson, Alexander Farish, 1853-1938 1
Robinson, Charles L. 1
Salley, Eulalie 1
Shugart family (Southwest Virginia) 1
Stratton family (Oxford, New York) 1
Stratton, Edward L., b.1847 1
Stratton, George, 1823-1910 1
Stratton, Harvey J., b.1850 1
Stratton, Tracy Frink, b.1858 1
Stratton, William Avery, 1845-1939 1
Streitmatter, Rodger 1
Taylor, Welford Dunaway 1
Tyler, Edward H. (Edward Hammet), 1869-1939 1
Tyler, Henry C. (Hal) (Henry Clement), 1878-1941 1
Tyler, James Hoge, 1846-1925 1
Tyler, Sue Hammet, 1845-1927 1
Wiatt (Wyatt) family 1
William Edward Foster Family 1
Wilson, Eliza (Lily) Tyler 1
Wysor, Henry C., 1847-1927 1
Yancey family 1
Yarborough family 1
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