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Washington County Oral History Transcripts,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-023
Abstract
The Washington County Oral History Transcripts were compiled by four Abingdon High School students. The transcripts detail interviews with Washington County residents Evelyn Campbell, Emma Josephine Poland Surber, and Nancy Johnson. The interviewees discuss their childhood activities, childhood fashion, schooling, and what their household was like in southwest Virginia. The students also inquire about the change in gas, cars, and houses since the interviewees were kids. Lastly, the students...
Dates:
undated
Washington County, VA Daybook,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-068
Abstract
Washington County, VA Daybook contains names, items, and prices from an unidentified business.
Dates:
1896
Washington County, Virginia, Court Notice of Payment for Autopsy of Jessee, an Enslaved Person
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-045
Abstract
The collection consists of a Court Document, May 28, 1860, Washington County, Virginia.
Dates:
May 28, 1860
Washington Light Guard Records,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-070
Abstract
This collection contains two ledgers from the Washington Light Guard from 1861.
Dates:
1861 - 1861
Watercolors of Fungi
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-012
Scope and Content
Illustrations of fifty fungi or algae found in England. Perhaps a catalog of a collection. The illustrations are accompanied by brief descriptions and captions.
Dates:
184?
Reuel W. Waters Correspondence,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-110
Abstract
The collection consists of one letter from Reuel W. Waters of the 6th Maine Light Artillery to his sister, discussing ammunitions and artillery.
Dates:
1865
Watershed Envelope [Prices Fork Vicinity Plat Map]
Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0307
Abstract
Map shows the watershed envelope in the vicinity of Price's Fork, near Blacksburg, Virginia.
Dates:
nd
Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings
File
Identifier: Ms-1995-009
Abstract
Rebecca Wood Watkin was born in 1913 in Portland, Oregon. She earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1933, and a B. Arch. from the Architecture School of the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to the west coast, and worked in other architects' offices during the 1930s and 1940s. She earned her California Architectural license in 1944 and opened her own practice in 1951. The collection consists of architectural drawings of remodelings, alterations, additions, and new designs of...
Dates:
1940-1989, 2011
John C. Watkins Letters
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-071
Abstract
This collection consists of eighteen letters, seventeen of which are by John C. Watkins and three of which are fragments, two by John C. and one by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins, primarilyl written by American Civil War. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving...
Dates:
1862 - 1870
Sessler Watkins Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-084
Abstract
The collection contains a letter from Sessler Watkins, of Cary, West Virginia, to his mother, Mrs. J. B. Watkins of Troutville, Virginia, describing Watkins' experiences living and working in a company-owned mining town in West Virginia.
Dates:
n.d.
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