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Captain Isaiah A. Welch Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-094
Abstract

This letter from Captain Isaiah A. Welch to Captain Crispin Dickenson details Welch's desire to get back in touch with Dickenson, following their American Civil War service together. A shopping list of Captain Crispin Dickenson's is also included.

Dates: 1866 - 1867

Wells Branch Coal Company Stationary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-039
Abstract

This collection contains undated, blank stationary paper and empty envelopes from the Wells Branch Coal Company located in Philadephia, Pennsylvania.

Dates: undated

Robert J. Wells Civil War Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-066
Abstract

Letter is written by Robert J. Wells, who enlisted on June 5, 1861 at Lynchburg, Virginia as a Private in Company H of the 24th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. The letter is written to "Cousin Louise" and dates from November 30, 1864.

Dates: 1864

James R. Werth Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1957-003
Abstract

This collection contains two letters to James R. Werth from friends in 1902 and 1903.

Dates: 1902 - 1903

West Iron Gate Land Company Ledgers

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Identifier: Ms-1989-012
Abstract

This collection includes the accounts and correspondence of West Iron Gate Land Company (successor of Hileman, Waring & Company), a pig iron manufacturer in Clifton Forge (Allegany County), Virginia.

Dates: 1879 - 1902

Lindsay West Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-013
Scope and Contents The Lindsay West Papers span the years 1975-1996. The bulk of the collection is comprised of subject files West kept while she was serving on the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors in southwest Virginia. These files contain inter- and intra- office county government correspondence and memos, legal opinions, government documents, reports and studies, many of which include maps; and clippings. Most of the correspondence and documents are photocopies of county government documents...
Dates: 1975 - 1996

O. Waldo West Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-066
Abstract

Three letters from Oliver Waldo West, a lieutenant in the 1st New York Dragoons during the American Civil War, written between January and July 1864 to friend Sarah L. (Lyra) Stilson of Corning, New York.

Dates: 1864

Ruby Bishop West Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-002
Abstract

This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1858 - 1981

West Virginia Daybook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-078
Abstract

Daybook containing listings of names and dollar amounts for supplies sold from January 1936 to December 1940. Supplies sold appear to be related to coal mining and the daybook is believed to originate in Mingo County, West Virginia.

Dates: January 1936 - December 1940

Western Half of Virginia and West Virginia

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0370
Abstract

Map comes from an Index to Virginia, and it shows various railroads that run through the western half of Virginia and West Virginia. It contains an explanatory legend as well as an index to other maps in the volume.

Dates: 1900

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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 1240
Civil War 746
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 740
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University History 463
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Virginia -- Maps 396
Montgomery County (Va.) 385
Women -- History 295
Blacksburg (Va.) 270
University Archives 201
Faculty 195
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields Maps 173
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 139
Science and Technology 138
History of Food and Drink 134
Students and alumni 109
Railroad 92
Correspondence 79
History of Women in Architecture 70
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 66
Photographs 60
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 53
Europe -- Maps 46
Wythe County (Va.) 45
Architects 44
Account books 43
Diaries 41
Architectural drawings (visual works) 40
Ledgers (account books) 40
Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE) 37
Agriculture 35
Virginia -- History 34
Medicine 33
Coal mines and mining 32
Pulaski County (Va.) 32
African Americans -- History 30
Virginia, Southwest 29
Architectural drawing -- 20th century 28
Roanoke (Va.) 27
World War, 1939-1945 27
World maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 26
Cocktail History Collection 24
Cocktails -- History 24
Christiansburg (Va.) 23
Food Technology and Production 23
Architecture (discipline) 22
Carroll County (Va.) 22
West Virginia -- Maps 21
Ephemera 20
Virginia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimilies 20
Confederate States of America 19
Giles County (Va.) 19
United States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 19
West Virginia 19
Authors, American -- 20th century 18
Oral histories (literary works) 18
Politicians -- United States 18
Women-owned architectural firms 18
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 17
Textiles (visual works) 17
Kentucky -- Maps 16
Radford (Va.) 16
Roanoke County (Va.) 16
World War, 1914-1918 15
Advertisements 14
Letters 14
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Washington County (Va.) 14
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British literature 13
Medicine, Military -- History 13
Cookbooks 12
Religion 12
Slavery -- United States 12
Virginia 12
Washington (D.C.) -- Maps 12
Businesspeople 11
Memorabilia 11
Tazewell County (Va.) 11
United States -- Maps 11
United States -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees 11
Agricultural extension work 10
Financial records 10
Floyd County (Va.) 10
Grayson County (Va.) 10
Home economics 10
New Jersey -- Maps 10
Railroad -- Maps 10
Aerospace engineers 9
Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbooks and Nutrition Literature Collection 9
Architects and community 9
Architecture -- Study and teaching 9
Authors, English -- 20th century 9
Botetourt County (Va.) 9
Culinary pamphlets 9
Legal instruments (Legal documents) 9
North Carolina -- Maps 9
Pamphlets 9
Pennsylvania -- Maps 9
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 254
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 230
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 225
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 65
Geological Survey (U.S.) 61
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Heilig, Vicki 30
Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 29
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 19
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 19
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 18
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 15
Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 15
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 15
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 14
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 14
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 13
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899 11
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 11
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 11
Bureau of the Census 10
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 10
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 10
Historic Urban Plans (Firm) 9
Lesher, C. E. (Carl Eugene), b.1885 9
Murrill, A. 9
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 9
United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 9
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Alumni Association 9
Cook, George Hammell, 1818-1889 8
Hildebrand, J. R. 8
Hubbell, Charles H., 1898-1971 8
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 8
The University Press of Kentucky 8
Frazer, George Preston 7
Hopkins, Griffith Morgan 7
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 6
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 6
Bien, Morris, 1859- 6
Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 6
Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914 6
Harvey, G 6
Newman, Walter S. (Walter Stephenson), 1895-1978 6
Preston, John, 1764-1827 6
Smock, John C. (John Conover), 1842-1926 6
Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909 6
United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers 6
Virginia Cooperative Extension (1995-) 6
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture and Urban Studies (1978-2022) 6
Virginia Tech Alumni Association 6
Wall, W. F. 6
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 5
Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893 5
Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903 5
Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883 5
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 5
Hotel Roanoke 5
International Union of Women Architects 5
Ivanhoe Mining and Smelting Corporation 5
Kunstler, Morton, b.1931 5
McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 5
O.W. Gray & Son 5
Rand McNally and Company 5
Roanoke Historical Society 5
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 5
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 5
Torre, Susana, 1944- 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture (1974-1978) 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Arts and Sciences (1970-2003) 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 5
Virginia. State Highway Commission 5
A. Hoen & Co. 4
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 4
Beyer, Edward, 1820-1865 4
Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 4
Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) 4
Chace, George 4
Chace, Jacob 4
Chester, W. 4
Confederate States of America. War Department 4
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 4
Dunay, Donna 4
Dwight, C. S. 4
Everett Waddey Company 4
Foster, A. G. 4
Gamble, W. H. (William H.) 4
Geological Survey. Water Resources Division (U.S.) 4
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 4
Hutcheson, John Redd, 1886-1962 4
Ireland, E. I. 4
Kent family 4
Kurtz, Louis, 1835-1921 4
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 4
Matsukawa-Tsuchida, Junko 4
Michie, P. S. 4
Preston, William, 1729-1783 4
Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 4
Rasche, M. W. (Mary W.) 4
Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee 4
Sanborn Map Company 4
Smith, George Otis, 1871-1944 4
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