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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
Brown Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-011
Abstract
The collection consists of receipts, bills, Promissory notes, tax notes, letters, and other various papers created between 1825 and 1912 by members of the Brown, and other related families.
Dates:
1825-1912, 1965 ; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1894
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- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
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- Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 1
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- Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 1
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- Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.) 1
- Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
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