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Blacksburg Oral History Project Records
Project of the University Libraries of Virginia Tech to collect information on the history of Blacksburg, Virginia. Collection contains taped interviews, most with transcripts, of the following Blacksburg residents: Cliff Busby, Georgia Croy, S.H. Kessinger, Lucy Lee Lancaster, George Litton, Howard Price, Carrie T. Sibold, and Ellison A. Smyth.
Blacksburg Vertical Files (List of Subjects),
In general, vertical files at Special Collections and University Archives include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and other papers relating to a specific subject area. Files in this collection relate to Blacksburg and its history. Each topic below has at least one folder and many include cross references.
Blacksburg Woman's Club Records
The Blacksburg Woman's Club Records include club correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, and printed material.
Milka T. Bliznakov Papers and Architectural Drawings
Milka Bliznakov was a Bulgarian architect, architectural historian, and professor who practiced in Bulgaria, France, and the United States. The collection consists of her publications, research, correspondence, professional documentation of her practice, conference participation materials, teaching materials, and documents related to her involvement as the founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Cynthia Addington Boatwright Papers
The materials in this collection include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, programs, and files created and collected by Boatwright in her lifetime. The majority of the materials focus on Boatwright's tenure as President of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs from 1941 to 1944.
Dorothy H. Bodell Papers
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents, and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.
Betty Belle Boone Diary
The collection contains the diary of Betty Belle Boone, a young, unmarried woman of Boones Mill, Virginia, from January 1893 to September 1894, detailing household chores and social activities.
Jane Rhodes Brewer Diary
The Jane Rhodes Brewer Diary contains entries of her daily activities with a focus on health, family, and religion in 1882.
H. A. Buchanan Ledger
Ledger maintained by H. A. Buchanan of Wythe County, Virginia, acting as agent for Fayetta Peterson (aka Mrs. W. J. Peterson). Entries document Buchanan's work in maintaining Peterson's books; collecting dividends, rent and interest; and paying taxes.
Pauline E. Burks Family Papers
Pauline E. Burks of Richmond, Virginia, collected genealogy materials about her husband Broaddus Vaughan Burks' family. The papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspapers, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. Materials focus mainly on the Vaughan and Burks families and range from 1760s land grants to 1970s family correspondence.
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- Figgat, Nancy Godwin, 1835-1919 2
- Patton, James, 1692-1755 (Preston family, Montgomery County, Va.) 2
- Preston family (Abingdon, Va.) 2
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 2
- A. W. Luster 1
- Adams, Elizabeth Kent 1
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- American Library Association 1
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- Appalachian Quilt Project 1
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- Apperson, Alex 1
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- Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
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- Bailey, Pattie Dobson Talley, b.1888 1
- Baker family 1
- Bear, Frances 1
- Bear, Vivian Coleman, 1888-1984 1
- Bell family 1
- Black family 1
- Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 1
- Black, Mary Kent, b.1836 1
- Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 1
- Boatwright, Cynthia Ellen Elizabeth Virginia Addington, 1898-1973 1
- Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931-2008 1
- Boone, Betty Belle, 1865-1931 1
- Bralley, John, 1797-1866 1
- Brewer, Jane E. Rhodes, 1830-1904 1
- Briggs, Marian 1
- Broaddus family (Amherst County, Va.) 1
- Buchanan, H. A. 1
- Burks family (Amherst County, Va.) 1
- Burks, Pauline E. 1
- Campbell, Donald (Co. K, 12th Regiment [New York State Militia?]) 1
- Caperton family 1
- Caperton, George Henry (Nelson County, Va.) 1
- Caperton, Mary Elizabeth Henderson (Nelson County, Va.) 1
- Carter Family (Musical group) 1
- Carter Sisters 1
- Carter, Helen, 1927-1998 1
- Carter, A. P. (Alvin Pleasant), 1891-1960 1
- Carter, Anita 1
- Carter, Janette 1
- Carter, Joe, 1927-2005 1
- Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978 1
- Carter, Sara, 1898-1979 1
- Cash, Johnny 1
- Cash, June Carter, 1929-2003 1
- Caton, Louise 1
- Charles Willis Cassell family (Wythe County, Va.) 1
- Charlton family (Montgomery County, Va.) 1
- Cheatham, George W. (Appomattox County, Va.) 1
- Choate family (Allegheny County, NC) 1
- Coggin, Georgia Dunn 1
- Compton, John R. 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 1
- Cowardin, Alice Bolling, b.1848(?) 1
- Crockett, Lucy Herndon, 1914-[2002] 1
- Croy family (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Daughters of the American Revolution. Alleghany Chapter (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Daughters of the American Revolution. Floyd Courthouse Chapter (1931-) (Floyd, Va) 1
- Davis, Susan L., 1952- 1
- Democratic Party (Montgomery County, Va.). Committee 1
- Dickinson family 1
- Dillard, Martha 1
- Duncan, William E. 1
- Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 1
- Eastman, Ann Heidbreder 1
- Edmonds family (Amherst County, Va.) 1
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- Ellett, Robert Thaddeus, 1836-1904 1
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- Eubank, Minnie Linwood Fox (James) (Vinton, Va.) 1
- Evans, Washington C. 1
- Fessler, Mary McClintock Ryland, 1912-2000 1
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- Fiske, Eliza (Lida) Robinson Seymour 1
- Fiske, William Warren 1
- Fitting, Minnie Adams 1
- Garrett, Samuel Edwin, 1835(?)-1865 1 + ∧ less