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Lewis Williams Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-032
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Lewis Williams in Washington, D.C., to Andrew Rincoinnon (?) in Wythe County, Virginia, concerning the postal service in Virginia.

Dates: 1835

R. A. Williams Telegraph

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-023
Abstract

This collection contains a telegraph sent from Captain R. A. Williams, A.C.S. [Acting Commissary of Subsistence], in Wytheville, Virginia, to Captain Isaac Shelby in Abingdon asking for advice about an order that required Williams to send four soldiers elsewhere. Williams notes that the order would take "four of my most indispensable men and if persisted in will paralyze my operations".

Dates: 1864

Samuel Williams Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-055
Abstract

The Samuel Williams Ledger contains a "Memorandum of the amount Paid to Each of my Children Toward Their Legacies" with accompanying pages identifying ten children by name along with associated inheritance. The names of 18 men, women, and children enslaved by Williams are listed as well as property such as horses, cows, beds, and land.

Dates: c. 1839-1840

Samuel W. Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-012
Abstract

This collection includes the papers of Samuel W. Williams, an attorney in Bland County, Virginia. It includes three notebooks from Williams's law education at the University of Virginia, a receipt book, four ledgers, and numerous notes concerning his law practice.

Dates: 1868 - 1919

Williamsburg in the Revolutionary Decade

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0168
Abstract

Includes reproduction of "Carte des Environs de Williamsburg en Virginie ou les Armees Francoise et Americaine Ont Campe's en Septembre 1781" ("Map of the Environs of Williamsburg, Virginia Where the French and American Armies Camped in September, 1781"), together with a legend and information concerning the context of the map. Reproduction created in 1975.

Dates: 1781

Lila Vernon Williamson Papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Ms-2000-001
Scope and Contents

Williamson's (class of 1941) bound and unbound notebooks from Artistic Photography class. Negatives and prints mainly of Virginia Tech scenes.

Dates: c.1937-1941

Beverly Willis Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-019
Scope and Contents The Beverly Willis Architectural Collection span the years 1954 to 1999 and are comprised primarily of records documenting Willis' work as an architect in San Francisco between 1960 and 1990. The collection documents the application of computers to architectural design and land analysis, the development of CARLA (Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis) in the 1970s, the history of twentieth-century urban planning, particularly in San Francisco; and the contribution of women to...
Dates: 1954 - 1999

Wills Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-008
Abstract

The collection contains photocopies of American Civil War correspondence to and from members of the Wills family.

Dates: 1860 - 1865

Barbary Wilson Deed of Emancipation for Harry

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-077
Abstract

This collection contains a deed of emancipation signed by enslaver Barbary Wilson of Bath County, Virginia, freeing Harry, identified as a Black man, on January 5, 1822. Harry was one of 14 people that Wilson had enslaved and manumitted in 1822.

Dates: 1822

Bert T. Wilson Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-062
Abstract

This collection contains the papers, letters, invoices and ledgers of Bert. T. Wilson. The papers largely pertain to his career as an attorney in Lebanon, Virginia.

Dates: 1889 - 1926

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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 1343
Civil War 799
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 796
Maps (documents) 512
University History 507
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Virginia -- Maps 403
Montgomery County (Va.) 395
Women -- History 300
Blacksburg (Va.) 280
Faculty and staff 213
University Archives 209
Students and alumni 178
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields Maps 169
History of Food and Drink 158
Science and Technology 147
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 146
Railroad 94
Correspondence 88
History of Women in Architecture 74
Photographs 70
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 66
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 55
Wythe County (Va.) 49
Ledgers (account books) 48
Architects 47
Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE) 47
Europe -- Maps 46
African Americans -- History 45
Account books 44
Virginia -- History 44
Architectural drawings (visual works) 42
Diaries 42
Agriculture 41
World War, 1939-1945 36
Coal mines and mining 35
Medicine 34
Architectural drawing -- 20th century 31
Roanoke (Va.) 31
Virginia, Southwest 31
Cocktail History Collection 30
Cocktails -- History 29
Food Technology and Production 29
Pulaski County (Va.) 29
Carroll County (Va.) 27
World maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 26
Politicians -- United States 25
Architecture (discipline) 24
Christiansburg (Va.) 24
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Confederate States of America 22
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West Virginia 21
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Giles County (Va.) 19
Slavery -- United States 19
United States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles 19
Women-owned architectural firms 19
World War, 1914-1918 19
Kentucky -- Maps 18
Scrapbooks 18
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 17
Roanoke County (Va.) 17
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Radford (Va.) 16
Washington County (Va.) 16
British literature 15
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Virginia 14
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Washington (D.C.) -- Maps 13
Businesspeople 12
Home economics 12
Railroad -- Maps 12
United States -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees 12
Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbooks and Nutrition Literature Collection 11
Culinary pamphlets 11
Memorabilia 11
Tazewell County (Va.) 11
United States -- Maps 11
Agricultural extension work 10
Architects and community 10
Architecture -- Study and teaching 10
Authors, English -- 20th century 10
Botetourt County (Va.) 10
Education, Higher 10
Financial records 10
Floyd County (Va.) 10
Grayson County (Va.) 10
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 263
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 241
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 231
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 69
Geological Survey (U.S.) 61
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Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Highways 33
Heilig, Vicki 30
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 23
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 19
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 19
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 19
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 18
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 16
Nirenstein's National Realty Map Company 15
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 15
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 14
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 12
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899 11
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 11
Bureau of the Census 10
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 10
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 10
Hildebrand, J. R. 9
Historic Urban Plans (Firm) 9
Lesher, C. E. (Carl Eugene), b.1885 9
Murrill, A. 9
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 9
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Alumni Association 9
Cook, George Hammell, 1818-1889 8
Hubbell, Charles H., 1898-1971 8
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 8
The University Press of Kentucky 8
United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 8
Frazer, George Preston 7
Hopkins, Griffith Morgan 7
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 6
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 6
Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893 6
Bien, Morris, 1859- 6
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 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
Roanoke Historical Society 6
Smock, John C. (John Conover), 1842-1926 6
Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909 6
United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers 6
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 6
Virginia Cooperative Extension (1995-) 6
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture and Urban Studies (1978-2022) 6
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. College of Architecture 6
Virginia Tech Alumni Association 6
Wall, W. F. 6
Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903 5
Confederate States of America. War Department 5
Dunay, Donna 5
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 5
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 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
Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 5
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 5
Torre, Susana, 1944- 5
United States. Department of Agriculture 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
Wysor, Henry C., 1847-1927 5
A. Hoen & Co. 4
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 4
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 4
Ballermann & Son a-s 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
Christiansburg Industrial Institute 4
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 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
Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883 4
Hutcheson, John Redd, 1886-1962 4
Ireland, E. I. 4
Kent family 4
Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019 4
Kurtz, Louis, 1835-1921 4
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 4
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