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Nelson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-021
Abstract

This collection contains papers (primarily correspondence and Civil War documents) from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia, 1783-1872, n.d.

Dates: 1783-1872, n.d.

Newlee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-021
Scope and Content

The collection includes a paper on the history of Smithfield Plantation, the Preston family, and Virginia Newlee (Col. Robert Newlee's daughter) written by George Shackelford in 1980. In addition, there is an obituary of Colonel Newlee, and a newspaper clipping from 1916 with the muster roll of the Company of Virginia Volunteers in the Mexican War. Also the collection includes a muster roll of Company L, Fourth Virginia Regiment, of which Newlee was captain.

Dates: 1916, 1980, n.d.

Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-086
Abstract

The Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, notes, newspaper clippings, historic district survey forms, a video tape, and a geological survey map related to the creation of the Greater Newport Rural Historic District. The collection dates from 1973 to 2009, although it does include a typed copy of a 1904 Giles County will.

Dates: 1904, 1973-2006

Virginia O'Neill Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2006-010
Abstract

Virginia O'Neill was an architect in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1950's. The collection includes educational certificates, drawings, and plans for several residential projects by O'Neill.

Dates: 1937 - 1965

Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-080
Abstract

The Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals (OWA) is an organization for women architects and designers in the San Francisco bay area. It officially became incorporated in 1973. The collection contains documents, reports, agendas, membership directories, photos, slides, and publications concerning the history and activities of the OWA.

Dates: 1965 - 2005

Joyce Oron Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-006
Abstract

Joyce Oron's architecture and town planning office is located in Israel. This collection contains drawings, text, and photographs of some of the prestigious projects handled by her office from 1985 to 2004. Most materials are written in Hebrew with English descriptions available.

Dates: 1954-2005, n.d.

Winifred Parsons Architecture Notebook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-058
Abstract

The collection consists of a bound notebook containing about 800 cyanotypes, 300 halftones and process illustrations, and 32 hand illustrated images of architecture ranging from Ancient Egypt until 1900. The notebook is an expandable binder filled with leaves of lined notebook paper, signed by Winifred Parsons and appears to have been made for a class assignment sometime between 1900-1906.

Dates: 1900 - 1906

Silvia Paun Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-057
Abstract

The Silvia Paun Architectural Collection includes photographs of structures Paun designed, letters and biographical information as well as writings by her and about her work, including her books.

Dates: 1966 - 2003

Elizabeth Barton Smith Payne Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-072
Abstract

The collection contains letter of Elizabeth Barton Smith Payne, a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia during the American Civil War. The letter mourns loved ones killed in battle and mentions raids by soldiers, the capture and imprisonment of a brother, and a son's desire to join the army.

Dates: [1864]

Eleanore Pettersen Architectural Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-018
Abstract Eleanore K. Pettersen (1916-2003) received a Certificate in Architecture from Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in 1941, and was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin from 1941-1943. She was one of the first women licensed as an architect in the state of New Jersey in 1950, and was the first woman in New Jersey to open her own architectural office. She primarily designed residences and was also very active in professional and civic organizations. She became a Fellow...
Dates: 1915 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000

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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 112
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 21
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 19
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 12
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 6
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 5
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Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 4
Dunay, Donna 3
Gottlieb, Lois Davidson 3
Horton, Inge S. 3
International Union of Women Architects 3
Kent family 3
Preston, John, 1764-1827 3
Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
Preston, William, 1729-1783 3
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 3
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 3
Alexander, Dorothy Baxter 2
Alonso, Carmen Espegel 2
American Institute of Architects 2
American Institute of Architects. Women in Architecture 2
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 2
Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Bonney, Claire 2
California Women in Environmental Design 2
Channel, Mary Brown, 1907-2006 2
Cloyd family 2
Croy family (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Currie, Virginia M. Herz, 1913-2006 2
Duncombe, A. Jane, 1925- 2
Eastman, Ann Heidbreder 2
Figgat, Nancy Godwin, 1835-1919 2
Harkness, Sarah Pillsbury, 1914-2013 2
Hayden, Florence Kenyon 2
Matsukawa-Tsuchida, Junko 2
Møller, Alice Finnerup 2
Nakahara, Nobuko, 1929-2008 2
Nanasy, Ilona 2
Oron, Joyce, 1954- 2
Patton, James, 1692-1755 (Preston family, Montgomery County, Va.) 2
Pettersen, Eleanore, 1916-2003 2
Preston family (Abingdon, Va.) 2
Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete, 1897-2000 2
Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993 2
Sokolina, Anna P. 2
Somaya, Brinda 2
Stratigakus, Despina 2
Torre, Susana, 1944- 2
Tyng, Anne Griswold, 1920-2011 2
Urquhart, Lucy Dickinson, 1881-1975 2
Vermont Design Institute 2
Vinciarelli, Lauretta 2
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 2
Whitman, Bertha Yerex, b.1892 2
Willis, Beverly, 1928- 2
Wood, Joan 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
A. W. Luster 1
Adamczewska-Wjchert, Hanna 1
Adams, Elizabeth Kent 1
Agnew, Ella G., 1871-1958 1
Alex, Iris 1
Almeida, Marília Sant'Anna de, 1948- 1
Alonso, Martha 1
American Association of University Women. Blacksburg Branch (Va.) 1
American Library Association 1
Amiss, Edwin 1
Anisimova, Irina 1
Antonakakis, Susana 1
Appalachian Quilt Project 1
Apperson family 1
Apperson, Alex 1
Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
Apperson, Mary 1
Architectural League of New York 1
Armistead, Mary Frances 1
Art League of Philadelphia 1
Artemis Designs, Inc 1
Association for Women in Architecture (U.S.) 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 1
Association of Collegiate Scholars in Architecture 1
Aulenti, Gae, 1929-2012 1
Babcock, H. O. 1
Bailey, Ilena M. 1
Bailey, Pattie Dobson Talley, b.1888 1
Baker family 1
Baldwin-Stoddard family 1
Balmori, Diana 1
Baptista, Angela 1
Barry family 1
Bassett, Florence Knoll 1
Bauer, Isabel 1
Baughman, Mary Amelia (Minnie), 1847-1917 1
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Baylor, Isabel 1
Bear, Frances 1
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