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Black Cemetery Map (Blacksburg, Virginia)

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0300
Abstract

Map shows identified plots in the Black Cemetery in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1972 (revised 1983)

Medical Bill Signed by Dr. Harvey Black

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-084
Abstract

The collection contains a bill detailing medical service provided to the family of Rev. William A. Wade by Dr. Harvey Black. The bill includes the cost of services, as well as a note from Black forgiving payment.

Dates: 1865-1867, 1879

Black History Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-011
Scope and Contents

This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between the 1950s and the early 2000s.

Dates: n.d.

John H. Black Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-089
Abstract

Letter from John Henry Black, lieutenant in Company G, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry during the American Civil War, written at Bolivar Heights, Virginia (now West Virginia) on October 21, 1864 to his wife Jennie, focusing on the recent Battle of Cedar Creek and the arrival of new recruits. 

Dates: 1864

Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1974-003
Abstract

This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.

Dates: 1779 - 1984

Blacksburg Chamber Music Series Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-051
Abstract

The Blacksburg Chamber Music Series Collection contains programs, correspondence, and other ephemera relating to th Blacksburg Chamber Music Series from 1967-1982.

Dates: 1967 - 1982

Blacksburg, Christiansburg,

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0770
Abstract

Blacksburg, Christiansburg. Raines Real Estate, Inc. 24 x 18 in. [FOLDER D-6]

Dates: [1975]

Blacksburg Community Concert Association Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1976-002
Abstract

This collection contains the records (including membership ledgers, circular letters, programs, and newspapers clippings) of association organized to invite outside classical music and dance artists to perform on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute campus.

Dates: 1936 - 1969

Blacksburg Community Federation Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-002
Abstract

The collection includes information about the planning, creation, organization, and operation of the Blacksburg Community Federation from 1926 through 1957.

Dates: 1926 - 1957

Blacksburg Deaths Journal,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-063
Abstract

Blacksburg Deaths Journal contains a chronological listing of area deaths. Entries date from February 20, 1917 to February 14, 1947 and contain information like name, age, date of death, place of death, time and location of burial, and church membership.

Dates: 1917 - 1947

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Maps (documents) 390
Montgomery County (Va.) 380
Virginia -- Maps 361
Blacksburg (Va.) 266
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 162
Women -- History 111
University History 86
Railroad 53
Wythe County (Va.) 44
Faculty 42
Ledgers (account books) 32
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Photographs 31
Roanoke (Va.) 30
Science and Technology 29
Students and alumni 28
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Pulaski County (Va.) 26
African Americans -- History 24
Carroll County (Va.) 23
History of Food and Drink 23
University Archives 23
Virginia, Southwest 23
Christiansburg (Va.) 21
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 21
Virginia -- History 19
Virginia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimilies 19
Coal mines and mining 17
Politicians -- United States 17
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Giles County (Va.) 15
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Radford (Va.) 15
Roanoke County (Va.) 14
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West Virginia 12
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United States -- Maps 8
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Patrick County (Va.) -- History 7
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Cocktail History Collection 6
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Education, Secondary 6
Iron foundries -- Virginia 6
World War, 1914-1918 6
Augusta County (Va.) 5
Confederate States of America 5
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Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Va.) 5
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World War, 1939-1945 4
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American Literature -- Virginia 3
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Bedford County (Va.) 3
Community theater 3
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Galax (Va.) 3
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Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 82
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 67
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 61
Geological Survey (U.S.) 47
Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 29
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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 21
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899 11
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 11
Bureau of the Census 10
Murrill, A. 9
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 9
Hildebrand, J. R. 8
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 8
Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 7
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 7
Bien, Morris, 1859- 6
Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914 6
Historic Urban Plans (Firm) 6
Preston, John, 1764-1827 6
Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909 6
United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers 6
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 5
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 5
Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903 5
Hotel Roanoke 5
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 5
O.W. Gray & Son 5
Roanoke Historical Society 5
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 5
Virginia. State Highway Commission 5
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 4
Chace, George 4
Chace, Jacob 4
Everett Waddey Company 4
Foster, A. G. 4
Ireland, E. I. 4
Kent family 4
Michie, P. S. 4
Preston, William, 1729-1783 4
Smith, George Otis, 1871-1944 4
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 4
Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company (Roanoke, Va.) 4
Tyler, James Hoge, 1846-1925 4
Virginian Railway 4
Wall, W. F. 4
A. Hoen & Co. 3
American Publishing Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 3
Appalachian Trail Conference (1993-2005) 3
Beyer, Edward, 1820-1865 3
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 3
Calver, James L. 3
Chester, W. 3
Conway, Julia Ellen Thomas, 1848-1916 3
Conway, William Buchanan, 1845-1920 3
Cowgill, Clinton Harriman, 1890-1975 3
Dwight, C. S. 3
Episcopal Church. Diocese of Southwestern Virginia 3
Fletcher, L. C. 3
Gamble, W. H. (William H.) 3
Gannett, Samuel S. (Samuel Stinson), 1861-1939 3
Geological Survey. Water Resources Division (U.S.) 3
Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883 3
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 3
Hall, Childress 3
Hall, W. J. 3
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 3
Manning, Warren H. (Warren Henry), 1860-1938 3
McGill, William M. 3
McKinley, W. K. 3
Payne, John Barton, 1855-1935 3
Pike, Albert 3
Preston family (Solitude, Blacksburg, Va.) 3
Preston, Francis, 1765-1835 3
Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
Preston, William Ballard, 1805-1862 3
Price family 3
Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 3
Radford Land and Improvement Company 3
Rand McNally and Company 3
Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee 3
Sanborn-Perris Map Co. 3
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 3
Solitude (Blacksburg, Va. : Historic building) 3
Stribling, Francis T. (Francis Taliaferro), 1810-1874 3
United States. Department of Agriculture 3
United States. Government Printing Office 3
Vandenberg, H. P. C. 3
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 3
Virginia. General Assembly 3
Western Lunatic Asylum (Va.) 3
Wilson, Eliza (Lily) Tyler 3
Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925 3
Worley, Charles S., Jr. 3
Yeates, Chas. M. 3
Adams Express Company (1854-2015) 2
Anderson, C. B., of Newbern, Va. 2
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 2
Appalachian Power Company 2
Archer, S. R. 2
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 2
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