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Francis Bell Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-088
Abstract

This collection contains a letter from Francis Bell (1820-1893), a cattle dealer from Augusta County, Virginia, to Major James R. Kent, an enslaver and plantation owner in Montgomery County, Virginia. In the letter dated October 18, 1860, Bell asks Kent to sell him his stock of cattle directly rather than going through the firm of Crouse and [Sons?].

Dates: 1860

Bigler-Sessler-John Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-011
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and accounting receipts and records relating to the Bigler, Sessler, and John families of southwest Virginia.

Dates: 1752 - 1924

Blue Ridge Springs Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-089
Abstract The Blue Ridge Springs Correspondence contains two letters, a small note, and seven postcards. The seven postcards dated 1910-1942 are addressed to Elizabeth "Bettie" Gross (1875-1964) of Bedford County and her husband William "Bill" Gross (1865-1946), a merchant from Bedford County. The letters and the note are from Lucy M. Thomas (1865-1933), of Bedford County, Virginia, to Joseph Ferries (1865-1955), a farmer in Blue Ridge Springs, Botetourt County, Virginia. Thomas and Ferries later...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1895 - 1942

Rick Boucher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-048
Abstract The Rick Boucher Papers, 1968-2017, document his career in the Virginia State Senate, 1975-1982, and in the United States Congress as the Representative of Virginia's 9th District, 1983-2011. The collection consists of press releases, Boucher's writings, mailers he distributed, information about his campaigns and elections, scripts of speeches he gave, news clippings about him and issues he worked on, correspondence, information about grants that he worked on, and audiovisual materials...
Dates: 1968 - 2017; Majority of material found within ( 1975-2011)

Buckhorn Coal Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1984-175
Abstract

This collection contains blueprints, ledgers, and a deed of lease from the records of the Buckhorn Coal Company. Material dates from 1880 to 1961.

Dates: 1880 - 1961

Carroll and Wythe Counties Industries Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Ms-2019-016
Abstract

Materials collected by Randal L. Hall in the course of writing Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Kentucky University Press, 2012). Includes several issues of Zinc magazine; a photographic section of the Galax Gazette from 1937; a combined portrait photograph of the employees of Carroll Hosiery Mills; and a National Carbide Company miners lamp dust can lid.

Dates: 1937 - 1980

A. B. Cox Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-038
Abstract

Photocopy of typed manuscript of Footprints on the Sands of Time: A History of South-Western Virginia and North-Western North Carolina, by Dr. Aras B. Cox, typed from Cox's book by Mrs. Alfred Apple of Bedford, Indiana.

Dates: 1900

Thomas Creigh Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-060
Abstract

The Thomas Creigh Letter is a missive written in 1858 from a Virginia assemblyman, representing Greenbrier County, to an unknown party concerning the state of Virginia's real indebtedness.

Dates: 1858

Richard B. Dickenson Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-043
Abstract

The collection is composed of materials related to Dickenson's research on Southwest Virginia African Americans from the Civil War until the present.

Dates: 1931-2004; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2000

Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-004
Abstract

The Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Records consist of the Diocese's administrative records, including incoming (often from parishioners) and outgoing correspondence, with a scattering of newspaper clippings, photographs, building plans and surveys, pamphlets, and meeting minutes, from the central administrative office in Roanoke and the churches within the Diocese.

Dates: 1866 - 2004; Majority of material found within ( 1919-1969)

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Bell, Francis, 1820-1893 1
Bigler family 1
Boucher, Rick, 1946- 1
Boynton, Henry B., 1899-1991 1
Buckhorn Coal Company 1
Christ Episcopal Church (1917-) (Roanoke, Va.) 1
Christ Episcopal Church (Schuyler, Va.) 1
Cox, A. B. (Aras B.), 1816-1907 1
Creigh, Thomas, b. abt.1812 1
Dickenson, Richard B., 1930-2006 1
Episcopal Church. Diocese of Southern Virginia 1
Ferries, Joseph, 1865-1955 1
Gross, Bettie, 1875-1964 1
Gross, Bill, 1865-1946 1
Henry Wysor family 1
Hoge family (Montgomery Co., Va.) 1
Hoge, James F. , 1783-1861 1
Hoge, James, 1742-1812 1
Horne, Isaac James, 1801-1878 1
Jett, Robert C. (Robert Carter), 1865-1950 1
John family 1
Johnson, John Henry, 1889-1956 1
Kent, James Randal, 1792-1867 1
Kessler, Clyde, 1953- 1
Light, A. Heath (Arthur Heath), 1929- 1
Marmion, William H. (William Henry), 1907-2002 1
Marye, Madison E. (Madison Ellis), 1925-2016 1
Phillips, Henry D. (Henry Disbrow), 1882-1955 1
Preston, John, 1764-1827 1
Reynolds, Cathleen Carlson 1
Sessler family 1
Shugart family (Southwest Virginia) 1
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 1
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Galax, Va.) 1
St. John's Episcopal Church (Roanoke, Va.) 1
St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Roanoke, Va.) 1
Thomas, Lucy M., 1865-1933 1
United States. Forest Service 1
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 1
Virginia. General Assembly 1
Wampler, William C. (William Creed), 1926-2012 1
Wharton, Gabriel C. (Gabriel Colvin), 1824-1906 1
Whitman, Henry 1
Wysor, Henry C., 1847-1927 1
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