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Ruby Bishop West Collection
This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Western Lunatic Asylum [Staunton, Virginia] Collection
The Western Lunatic Asylum Collection includes correspondence written to the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Virginia, dating from 1840 through the late 19th century, as well as annual reports from the 1860s and 1900s.
F. N. Whaley Letter
Letter from F. [Frederick] N. Whaley, a student at Union Theological Seminary (Prince Edward County, Virginia), written in 1847 to James H. Orbison of "near Hopkinsville," Kentucky, encouraging Orbison to attend the seminary and suggesting they meet at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County, Virginia).
Gabriel C. Wharton Correspondence
The collection contains three post-Civil War letters addressed to former Confederate General Gabriel C. Wharton: one regarding potential locations for a blast furnace, one relating to fees for the use of two horses, and one about a petitition on some property in Blacksburg.
Whisner Memorial Methodist Church Records
This collection consists of records generated by the Whisner Memorial Methodist Church located in Blacksburg, Virginia, from 1857 through 1975.
Isaac White Letters
The collection consists of letters written mostly by Isaac White (1837-1889) to his wife, Mary Virginia "Jinnie" Day White, while he served with the Confederate Army as an assistant surgeon during the American Civil War. Many of the letters are written while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley. Other papers include literature gathered by Bess Duvall White Snead, White's grand-daughter, in her search for military information about Isaac White.
Erwin Hoge Will Papers
THe collection consists of materials regarding the professional, civic, and personal activities of Erwin Hoge Will.
Evan J. Will Papers
Papers of Dr. Evan J. Will (sometimes identified as Evan J. Wills) (1869-1961), a veterinarian of Harrisonburg, Virginia, including reports, invoices, correspondence, and ephemera.
Dr. John M. Williams Ledger
Ledger contains the accounting records of Dr. John M. Williams, a physician practicing in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Entries date from 1878 to 1882.
Lewis Williams Letter
The collection contains a letter from Lewis Williams in Washington, D.C., to Andrew Rincoinnon (?) in Wythe County, Virginia, concerning the postal service in Virginia.
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- Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 29
- 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
- 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
- Barnard, E. C. (Edward Chester), 1863-1921 2 + ∧ less