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Virginia Newspaper Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-034
Abstract
The collection contains individual or groups of issues of Virginia newspapers, organized by location and dating from the 1860s-1970s.
Dates:
1861 - 1992
Virginia Receipts for Enslaved Persons
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-038
Abstract
This collection contains nineteenth century financial documents, including tax records for various Virginia residents. Also included are several hand-written receipts mentioning the sale or labor of enslaved people, including a Black child named Peter and a Black man named Bob.
Dates:
1823 - 1865
Henry M. Warren Letter,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-017
Abstract
The collections consists of a letter from Union soldier Henry M. Warren, Private of the 18th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, to his brother Nathaniel in Massachusetts.
Dates:
1861
Wilson Centennial Exhibit Materials
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1956-002
Abstract
This collection contains materials exhibited by Virginia Tech's Newman Library in 1956 to commemorate the centennial of the birth of President Woodrow Wilson.
Dates:
1948 - 1956
Jeffrey T. Wilson Diaries
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-015
Abstract
The collection consists of two diaries (1913, 1928) written by Jeffrey T. Wilson (1843-1929). Wilson was a former enslaved person who spent most of his life in and around Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. He worked as a bailiff in the Norfolk courts after leaving the U. S. Navy and wrote a column, "Colored Notes," for The Portsmouth Star from 1924 until his death in 1929. He outlived four wives and had at least twelve children. Wilson's diaries...
Dates:
1913, 1928
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- Ash, William (3rd Regiment, Vermont Infantry) 1
- Baskin, J. T. 1
- Blunt, Asa Peabody, 1826-1889 1
- Bob (enslaved person) 1
- Brown, Alexander W. , 1878-? 1
- Brown, Mima (Pulaski County, Virginia) 1
- Cole, Henry 1
- Cole, Luther 1
- Collins, Arnold 1
- Conway, Battaile Fitzhugh Taliaferro 1
- Conway, Catlett, 1840-1920 1
- Conway, Henry 1
- Conway, John C. 1
- Conway, Mary Wallace 1
- Conway, William Buchanan, 1845-1920 1
- Davis, George E. , d.1863 (Company F, Harris Light Cavalry) 1
- Dickenson, Richard B., 1930-2006 1
- Dix, George S. 1
- Dixon, William D. 1
- Drake, Elias G. 1
- Edwards, Clarke S. (Clarke Swett), 1824-1903 1
- Evans, James Ransom, 1874-1952 1
- Evans, Rosa Belle Kirk, 1879-1970 1
- Farmer, James H. (54th Regiment, Virginia Infantry) 1
- Foster, Lewis M., b. abt. 1844 1
- Gerry, C. E. 1
- Green, Josiah M. 1
- Gregory, W. B. (William Bartleman), 1829-1887 1
- Guion, J. Marshall, 1822-1891 1
- Hammet, James Preston, d. 1879 1
- Hanna, James W. 1
- Hart, Hector (126th Regiment, Ohio Infantry) 1
- Hersum, George L. (5th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry) 1
- Hunt, Melvin (72nd Regiment, New York Infantry) 1
- Keyces (Keycas), Patrick 1
- Kingsbury, J. D. 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
- Kyger, Henry C. (5th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry) 1
- Lacaster, G. W. 1
- Lewis, George (4th Regiment, Michigan Infantry) 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
- Lukens, Franklin B. (Company E, 3rd Regiment, New Jersey Infantry) 1
- Martin, Thomas R., b. abt. 1848? 1
- Marye, Madison E. (Madison Ellis), 1925-2016 1
- Massey, A. B. (Arthur Ballard) 1
- Miller, Henry 1
- New Alexandria Land and River Improvement Company (1888-1928) 1
- Nickerson, Melville P. (2nd Regiment, Maine Infantry) 1
- Penman, Abraham (12th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (41st Volunteers)) 1
- Peter (enslaved person) 1
- Rappleyea, Jeremiah C. (1st Regiment, New Jersey Infantry) 1
- Roberts, George E. , 1834-1887 1
- Sleeper, Charles W., abt. 1841-1893 1
- Stewart, Peter (79th NY Highland Guard) 1
- Stickely, Peter H. (1825-1861) 1
- Turrill, Reuben 1
- Tyler, Cyril H. 1
- Tyler, James Hoge, 1846-1925 1
- Van Fleet, Abraham 1
- Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 1
- Virginia Central Railroad Company 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Library 1
- Warren, Henry M., 1837-1862 1
- Way, Alexander M. (Alexander Moore), 1826-1890 1
- Wilson, Eliza (Lily) Tyler 1
- Wilson, Jeffrey Thomas, 1843-1929 1
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