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Granville Skidmore Kennedy Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-095
Abstract
The Granville Skidmore Kennedy Family Papers contain several letters, documents, cards, and photographs mostly addressed to Granville Skidmore Kennedy (1899-1986), the Director of the Dairy Division of the Virginia State Health Department, and his wife Wilma Hoyt Kennedy (1906-1989), an elementary school teacher in Henrico County and Roanoke County, Virginia. The letters contain general information about topics like health, work, and life. Most of the letters from 1960-1962 and some...
Dates:
1935 - 1972
Map of Greater Roanoke, Va.
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0195
Abstract
Map shows the streets of greater Roanoke, Virginia.
Dates:
1928
Map of Roanoke City, Metropolitan Area, Salem and Vinton, Virginia
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0088
Dates:
1937 - 1937
Map of Roanoke County, Virginia
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0188
Abstract
Full title reads, "Map of Roanoke County, Virginia, compiled from actual surveys, land maps, and data furnished by the Appalachia Electric Power Co., Virginia State Highway Dept., Norfolk & Western R. R., Virginian Railway" Map contains table of distances, statistics of Roanoke City, Salem, Vinton, and Roanoke County, historical origin of the city, and legend.
Dates:
1942
Map of Roanoke, Va., and Environs
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0193
Abstract
Color map shows the city of Roanoke, Virginia, extending to Salem, Virginia. Map focuses on roads and boundaries, and it contains an explanatory legend.
Dates:
1928
Joseph B. Mills Log Book
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-045
Abstract
The Joseph B. Mills Log Book contains his track of runs and hours worked each day, including locations while working for the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company.
Dates:
1908 - 1909
Perspective Map of the City of Roanoke, Va.
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0192
Abstract
Map shows Roanoke, Virginia, from a perspective set above Mill Mountain, in Roanoke. The lower border of map shows illustrations of several buildings of interest, and the index identifies public buildings, hotels, railroads, newspapers, manufacturings, land companies, and churches.
Dates:
1891
Postcards from Appalachia,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-032
Abstract
Postcards from Appalachia contains postcards depicting various landmarks, locations, and scenery in the Appalachian region during the first half of the 20th century.
Dates:
c.1900-1970s
Properties of the Roanoke Gas and Water Company, Roanoke, Va.
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0190
Abstract
Map shows properties of the Roanoke Gas and Water Company in Roanoke, Virginia. Map contains legend identifying properties and rail lines. Hand-written note explains the meaning of dotted red lines, left unexplained by the legend.
Dates:
1891
Rice Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-021
Abstract
The Rice Family Papers include decades of letters to and from four generations of the decendents of Jerry Rice of Campbell County, Virginia. The majority of the letters were sent to Nannie Mae (Rice) Banks but there are also letters addressed to her father, Fletcher, her mother, Georgianna, and other members of the family. These letters document the experiences of this family from Southwest Virginia as they lived through, fought, and died in, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War...
Dates:
1892 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1962
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- Malcolm, C. B. 3
- Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company (Roanoke, Va.) 3
- Hotel Roanoke 2
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- American Publishing Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1
- Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 1
- Arthur W. Grove Family (Roanoke, Va) 1
- Baist, G. Wm. (George William), 1859-1927 1
- Banks family 1
- Banks, (William) Andrew (1903-1945) 1
- Banks, Nannie Mae (Rice) (1895-2000) 1
- Board, Lillie May (Rice) (1899-1956) 1
- Boynton, Henry B., 1899-1991 1
- Burton, Owen 1
- Cawley, Harry Baker, 1900-1946 1
- Chamber of Commerce of Roanoke, Virginia 1
- Chester, W. 1
- Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 1
- Day, Idella (Rice) (1910-1963) 1
- Dick, David (Surveyor) 1
- Farmers Bank (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Gale, Charlotte D. 1
- Geological Survey (U.S.) 1
- Grove, Annie Cliffie, b.1894(?) (Roanoke, Va.) 1
- Grove, Arthur W., d.1946 (Roanoke, Va.) 1
- Grove, Margaret F., b. abt. 1871 (Roanoke, Va.) 1
- Hildebrand, J. R. 1
- Kennedy, Betty (Elizabeth Lois), 1937-1960 1
- Kennedy, Granville Skidmore, 1899-1986 1
- Kennedy, Linda Lanier, 1894-1959 1
- Kennedy, Wilma Hoyt, 1906-1989 1
- McAlpine-Kay Co 1
- Mills, Joseph B., 1876-1959 1
- Moore, Charles E. (Engineer) 1
- Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 1
- Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 1
- Payne, Solomon Gomarh, Pfc. (1895-1962) 1
- Rice family (Jerry Lee Rice, ca.1831-1854) 1
- Rice, Fletcher Roland, Sr. (1866-1966) 1
- Rice, Georgianna "Anna/Annie" (Jennings) (1881-1928) 1
- Rice, Gracie G. (Baldwin) (1897-1979) 1
- Rice, James Cornelius, Pvt. (1916-1963) 1
- Rice, Naymon Eddieray, Sr., Pfc. (1914-1955) 1
- Roanoke Gas and Water Company 1
- Roanoke Historical Society 1
- Roanoke Railway and Electric Company (1901-1948) (Roanoke, Va.) 1
- Rogers, James "Jimmy" Lester, Pvt. (1920-1945) 1
- Ronald, Nicholas M. 1
- Scholz, Henry 1
- Scholz, Louis A. 1
- Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 1
- Stone, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1864-1938 1
- Taylor, Robert Creede, 1866-1915 1
- The Roanoke Times 1
- The Virginia Brewing Company (1889-1916) (Roanoke, Va.) 1
- Thomas, Fay M. (Manager, Hotel Patrick Henry) 1
- United Confederate Veterans. W.F. Martin Camp #1590. Wm. Watts Camp (Roanoke, Virginia) 1
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 1
- Virginian Railway 1
- Watkins, C. L. (City Engineer) 1
- Watts, Laura B. (Rice) (1897-1958) 1
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