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Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives of the University Libraries

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-020
Abstract

The Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives of the University Libraries consists mainly of condolence items received by the university in the wake of April 16, 2007 in which 32 faculty and students were killed. The subseries organization is by type of item. The bulk of materials were received in the first few months following April 16, 2007. There also is a very small series with items specifically sent to or relating to those killed, which is organized alphabetically by name.

Dates: 2007 - 2010

Virginia Tech Black History Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-011
Abstract

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

Dates: 1996 - 2003

Virginia Tech Buildings Architectural Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-06-03-02e
Abstract

Collection consists of architectural drawings, blueprints, and floorplans of selected campus buildings located on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA.

Dates: 1907 - 2011; Majority of material found within ( 1953-1996)

Joseph F. Ware Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-022
Abstract

The collection contains 102 letters from Joseph F. Ware to his wife, Susie, in Blacksburg, Virginia, while he was serving overseas during and after World War I. The other significant portion of this collection contains nearly 200 photographs.

Dates: 1900 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1920

Warm Hearth Village Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2007-002
Abstract

This collection contains documents related to the establishment and building of Warm Hearth Village, a retirement community in Blacksburg, Virginia, founded by former Virginia Tech professor Wybe Kroontje and his wife Marietje.

Dates: 1974 - 1982

Lindsay West Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-013
Scope and Contents The Lindsay West Papers span the years 1975-1996. The bulk of the collection is comprised of subject files West kept while she was serving on the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors in southwest Virginia. These files contain inter- and intra- office county government correspondence and memos, legal opinions, government documents, reports and studies, many of which include maps; and clippings. Most of the correspondence and documents are photocopies of county government documents...
Dates: 1975 - 1996

"Whitethorne Photographs of Kentland for Margaret K. Cowan" Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-020
Abstract This collection contains a spiral bound photograph album entitled "Whitethorne Photographs of Kentland for Margaret K. Cowan" that contains photographs of Kentland Plantation and surrounding areas. This collection also contains a sheet of paper, probably from a scrapbook, with photographs of Kentland and Walnut Spring. Kentland Farm is located in northern Montgomery County, Virginia, and was formed in the early 1800s by James Randal Kent. Margaret Kent Cowan (1905-1992) was the...
Dates: ca. 1900s

Erwin Hoge Will Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1974-004
Abstract

The collection consists of materials regarding the professional, civic, and personal activities of Erwin Hoge Will.

Dates: 1918 - 1973

Raymond L. Willard Shelter Management/Civil Defense Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2025-056
Abstract

The collection contains materials collected by Raymond L. Willard (1924-1994) in the 1960s, including instructional pamphlets on how to construct community and family shelters in case of a nuclear attack. There are notes from the University of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic Institute for a class for shelter managers and instructions for rations, work schedules, and community entry for the shelters.

Dates: 1961 - 1965

Henry H. Wiss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-013
Scope and Contents

Professor of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1947 to 1983. Collection consists of twelve architectural drawings and four photographs of Wiss's private residence in Blacksburg, Virginia, designed by him in 1960. 

Dates: 1960, n.d.

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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 51
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Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 3
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Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) 2
Drinkard, Alfred Washington, Jr. 2
Hutcheson, John Redd, 1886-1962 2
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 2
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 2
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Solitude (Blacksburg, Va. : Historic building) 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. College of Architecture 2
Aaron family 1
Adriance, Thomas 1
Allen, Beulah O. (Beulah Oyama), 1905-1992 1
American Association of University Women. Blacksburg Branch (Va.) 1
American Library Association 1
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 1
Appalachian Power Company 1
Appalachian Student Organizing Committee. Virginia Tech Chapter 1
Bailey, Ilena M. 1
Blacksburg (Va.). Town Council 1
Blecher, Freda 1
Blecher, Marvin 1
Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 1
Bluefield College (Bluefield, Va.) 1
Boynton, Henry B., 1899-1991 1
Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 1
Burnette, Phyllis 1
Caldwell, William Addison 1
Charles E. Vawter family 1
Claytor, W. Graham (William Graham), 1886-1971 1
Conrad, Thomas Nelson 1
Conrad, Thomas Nelson, Jr., 1868-1911 1
Cooper, Byron Nelson, 1912-1971 1
Cowan, , Margaret Kent, 1905-1992 1
Cowan, John T. 1
Currie, Leonard J. (Leonard James), 1913-1996 1
Doggett, David S., 1895-1972 1
Drumeller, William F., Jr., 1923-2006 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Eastman, Ann Heidbreder 1
Edgemont Farm 1
Eggleston, J. D. (Joseph Dupuy), 1867-1953 1
Fine, Elizabeth 1
Frazer, George Preston 1
Garnett, William E. (William Edward), 1885-1970 1
Guthrie, John Dennett 1
Haskell-Speer, Jean 1
Henley, Bernard J. 1
Henry Wysor family 1
Hicks, James Morris, abt.1878-? 1
Hill, Henry Harris, 1880-1954 1
Hite, William R., Jr. 1
Holden, Roy Jay, 1870-1945 1
Holtzworth, Bertram Arthur, 1904-1971 1
Hotel Roanoke 1
Hutcheson, Eleanor Parrott 1
Hutcheson, T. B. (Thomas Barksdale), 1882-1950 1
Jacocks, Henry Morgan, 1878-1950 1
John R. Hutcheson family 1
Johnson, William Martin, 1904-1991 1
Jones, Samuel D., 1856-1930 1
Kabrich family 1
Kabrich, George Washington Lewis, b. 1824 1
Kentland Farm 1
Kinzey, Bertram Y., Jr. (Bertram York) (1921-2019) 1
Knick, S. H., b.1887 1
Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019 1
Kroontje, Wybe 1
Lancaster, Lucy Lee, 1905-1989 1
Lane, James H., 1833-1907 1
Lash, Percy Hotspur, II 1
Library of Virginia 1
Lomax, Lunsford Lindsay, 1835-1913 1
Magill, Orrin R. (Orrin Rankin), 1887-1976 1
McBryde family 1
McBryde, Charles Neil, Dr., 1872-1962 1
McBryde, Cora Bolton, 1839-1920 1
McBryde, James Bolton, 1866-1925 1
McCombs, Dorothy F., 1923-1990 1
McLaren family 1
Michael, Rudolph Dixon, 1904-1994 1
Miles, Fielding P. (Fielding Peery), 1860-1890 1
New River Valley Public Health Task Force 1
Norfolk Southern Corporation (1982-) 1
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 1
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 1
O'Shaughnessy, Ida L. Surface 1
O'Shaughnessy, Louis 1
Oakes, Jane Elizabeth 1
Oral History of the Principalship (Project) 1
Perry, Thomas David 1
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