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Marjorie Rhodes Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-003
Abstract
Marjorie Rhodes Townsend (1930-2015) was the first women to earn an engineering degree at George Washington University, receiving her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1951. After eight years at the Naval Research Laboratory, she moved to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959, where she worked until 1980. Townsend was project manager for three Small Astronomy Satellites (SAS, 1966-1975) and for Applications Explorer Missions...
Dates:
1960-1994, n.d.
Olive Treat Diary
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-114
Abstract
This collection contains the diary of Olive Treat, a resident of Chicago and New York, and wife of mining venture capitalist Harry W. Treat. Entries focus on trips to New York and British Columbia, social activities, and husband's mining business
Dates:
1897
Paula Treder Architectural Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-002
Abstract
Paula Treder operated her own architectural firm in South Carolina. This collection contains selected professional papers from her projects, including drawings, photographs, and project documents related to Treder's professional and design activities.
Dates:
1953 - 2005
Mattie Lamb Tucker Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1984-176
Abstract
This collection includes certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence and miscellaneous printed material of Mattie Lamb Tucker, a Red Cross volunteer and community service worker in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1945 - 1984
Tuesday Afternoon Book Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-052
Abstract
This collection includes records--including programs, minutes books, a club chronology, and a list of checked out books--belonging to the Tuesday Afternoon Book Club, a Blacksburg, Virginia group that met to discuss books and current affairs.
Dates:
1933 - 1989
Turner Family Genealogy Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-002
Abstract
Genealogical information, consisting of photocopied documents, transcriptions, and notes, about the Turner family of Snow Creek (Franklin County), Virginia, including Meshack Taylor (1820-1877) of Company E, 64th Virginia Militia during the American Civil War.
Dates:
c.1987
Tyler-Ellis-Marye Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-067
Abstract
The Tyler-Ellis-Marye Family Collection contains the family papers of President John Tyler, his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and descendants, mostly through the couple's daughter, Pearl Tyler Ellis. The collection includes letters written to the Tylers from family and friends; a letter written by the Tyler's son, David G. Tyler; an autograph book used at the 1868 Democratic National Convention; a published memorial to Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner Horsford; photographs of Pearl Tyler...
Dates:
1848 - 1939
Anne Griswold Tyng Architectural Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-049
Abstract
Anne Griswold Tyng was born in 1920 in Lushan, Jiangxi province, China where her parents were living as missionaries, Tyng was an architect, professor, and design theorist best known for her collaborations with Louis I. Kahn. She studied at Radcliffe-Harvard (1942), received her Masters at Harvard Graduate School of Design (1944), and PhD in Architecture from University of Pennsylvania (1975). She specialized in space frame architecture and mathematics. Tyng designed and built the first...
Dates:
1969 - 1999
Photograph of Unidentified Woman
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-117
Abstract
This photograph is of an unidentified woman taken at an undetermined date.
Dates:
n.d.
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Dr. Harvy Black Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-050
Abstract
This collection contains the records of Dr. Harvy Black Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. It contains files devoted to local Confederate veterans, as well as chapter financial records, minute books, membership records, printed materials and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1862 - 2010
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