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Blacksburg, Virginia

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0270
Abstract

Map shows Blacksburg, Virginia, with an index to streets and to primary buildings on the VPI campus.

Dates: 1959

Blacksburg, Virginia, Bank Embezzlement Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-080
Abstract

The eight documents (ca. 1865) within the collection detail a bank embezzlement case from the Blacksburg Branch of the Farmers Bank in Virginia. Nicholas M. Ronald, supposedly swindled patrons into writing him checks that would pay off their account deficits. Much of the collection consists of testimonials attesting to that suspicion.

Dates: ca. 1865

Blacksburg, Virginia, General Store Day Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1968-010
Abstract

The collection contains a ledger recording daily transactions of an unidentified Blacksburg, Virginia general mercantile business, possibly that of James P. Harvey.

Dates: 1894 - 1895

Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Ms-1994-031
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs of the Blacksburg High School Warrior Band and about the work of the Band Boosters, whose purpose was to encourage and support the development of the instrumental program in the Blacksburg schools.

Dates: 1972 - 1975

Blacksburg, Virginia, Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-087
Abstract

This collection contains an account book, possibly from a Blacksburg, Virginia business.

Dates: 1866 - 1881

Blacksburg [Virginia] Odd Fellows Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-009
Abstract

The Blacksburg [Virginia] Odd Fellows Records consist of financial records, correspondence, minute books, brochures of several annual conferences, by-laws and odd issues of the Odd Fellows Journal for the men's lodge, Tadmore Light Lodge No. 6184 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The collection also contains correspondence, minutes and financial records for the women's group, the Household of Ruth.

Dates: 1902 - 1969

Blacksburg - Virginia Polytechnic Institute Civilian Defense Council Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1979-005
Abstract

This collection contains records--including correspondence, reports, and printed materials--of a local civilian defense council organized in Blacksburg, Virginia during World War II.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Blacksburg [Virginia] Presbyterian Church Land Deeds

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Ms-1994-007
Scope and Contents

Three deeds for land owned or sold by the trustees of the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church. Trustees include K. Black, W. M. Lybrook, Charles Black, Edwin I. Amiss, and Thomas Brown.

Dates: 1850, 1904, 1924

Blacksburg [Virginia] Regional Art Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-045
Abstract

The Blacksburg [Virginia] Regional Art Association Records contains materials from the community art club formed as a chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, including programs and letters to members from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1960 - 1971

Town of Blacksburg, [Virginia], Miscellaneous Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-003
Abstract

Town of Blacksburg, [Virginia], Miscellaneous Records consists of a variety of Blacksburg town documents and reports collected by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University librarians. Materials include financial statements (1927-1951), a typescript annual report (1954), a population study (1944), Chamber of Commerce brochures, and information on elections (1936-1968).

Dates: 1885 - 1968

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  • Subject: Montgomery County (Va.) X

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Blacksburg (Va.) 245
Maps (documents) 124
Virginia -- Maps 123
Women -- History 55
University History 44
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Civil War 32
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 32
Faculty 27
Christiansburg (Va.) 19
University Archives 11
Photographs 7
Science and Technology 7
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 6
Oral histories (literary works) 6
Coal mines and mining 5
Medicine 5
Students and alumni 5
Account books 4
Ledgers (account books) 4
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Va.) 4
Pulaski County (Va.) 4
Virginia, Southwest 4
African Americans -- History 3
Radford (Va.) 3
Roanoke (Va.) 3
Architects -- Virginia 2
Architectural drawings (visual works) 2
City planning 2
Floyd County (Va.) 2
Genealogy 2
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 2
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Slavery -- United States 2
Tazewell County (Va.) 2
Vertical files 2
Agricultural extension work 1
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April 16, 2007 shootings 1
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Swine 1
Traditional medicine 1
Underground periodicals -- Virginia -- Blacksburg (Va). 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 1
Virginia Department of Conservation and Historic Resources 1
Virginia Tech Shootings, Blacksburg, Va., 2007 1
Women architects -- Bulgaria 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 1
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Names
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 65
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 46
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 38
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 15
Murrill, A. 9
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Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 8
Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 7
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 7
Preston, John, 1764-1827 6
Kent family 4
Preston, William, 1729-1783 4
Wall, W. F. 4
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 3
Dwight, C. S. 3
Foster, A. G. 3
Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883 3
Hall, Childress 3
Manning, Warren H. (Warren Henry), 1860-1938 3
Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
Preston, William Ballard, 1805-1862 3
Price family 3
Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 3
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 3
Worley, Charles S., Jr. 3
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 2
Blacksburg Colored Graveyard Association 2
Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931- 2
Campbell, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1826-1899 2
Christiansburg Industrial Institute 2
Clements & Draper 2
Cloyd family 2
Cowgill, Clinton Harriman, 1890-1975 2
Crockett Springs Hotel (Montgomery County, Va.) 2
Dickinson, W. 2
Elarth, Herschel Anderson, 1907-1988 2
Ellett, Robert Thaddeus, 1836-1904 2
Fishburn, Junius Blair 2
Geological Survey (U.S.) 2
Gray, Davis 2
Hall, W. J. 2
Kentland Farm 2
McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 2
Miller, Lewis, 1796-1882 2
Montgomery County Planning Department (Montgomery County, Va.) 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 (Abingdon, Va.) 2
Preston family (Solitude, Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Preston, Francis, 1765-1835 2
Price, William Conway 2
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 2
Vandenberg, H. P. C. 2
Virginia Historical Society 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of Civil Engineering 2
Wall, Harry A. 2
Wiley & Wilson, Inc 2
Yates, Anne Hayden Price, 1939- 2
Yellow Sulphur Springs Resort (Montgomery County, Va.) 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
Anchy (enslaved person) 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
Armistead, Mary Frances 1
Association for the Advancement of Engineering 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 1
Babcock, H. O. 1
Bailey, Pattie Dobson Talley, b.1888 1
Baker family 1
Bank of Blacksburg (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Barnett, James 1
Barnett, John W. 1
Belcher, Dale 1
Bell family 1
Big Vein Anthracite Colleries 1
Bigler family 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.). Town Council 1
Blacksburg (Va.). Townscape Committee 1
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