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Elizabeth Kent Adams Papers
Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records,
Records of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Virginia Tech Chapter
This collection consists of official records and periodicals from the AAUW, Virginia Tech Chapter and the National AAUW including minutes, administrative records, state and national convention programs, awards and scholarships, publications, and other materials concerning community outreach from 1926-2008.
Appalachian Quilt Project Cassette Tapes
Oral history project conducted by the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts at Virginia Tech. Collection consists of recorded interviews with forty-three quilt makers in Floyd and Washington counties, Virginia. Transcripts available.
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers
The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also includes historical and other related documents dating from before the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield.
Vivian Coleman Bear Papers
The collection contains the papers of Roanoke, Virginia resident Vivian Coleman Bear, including correspondence from E. Ferd Weigand and other suitors; family correspondence and financial documents relating to the Clemens and Staley families; Bible with genealogical notes and clippings; photographs; and ephemera.
Bell, Kent, Cloyd, Withrow Family Collection
Biographical Vertical Files
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vertical files at Special Collections and University Archives include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and other papers relating to a specific subject area.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 individuals and families connected to the local area (Blacksburg, Montgomery County, and Southwest Virginia) and/or to Virginia Tech. Each individual/family below has at least one folder and many include cross references.
Black Appalachians Oral History Project
The Black Appalachians Oral History Project consists of approximately twenty-five taped interviews conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University concerning black life in Appalachia, especially in Montgomery County, Virginia.
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers
This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.
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- Montgomery County (Va.) 55
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- Tazewell County (Va.) 3
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 10
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 7
- Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 6
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 6
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 4
- Kent family 3
- Preston, John, 1764-1827 3
- Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
- Preston, William, 1729-1783 3
- Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 3
- Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 2
- Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
- Cloyd family 2
- Figgat, Nancy Godwin, 1835-1919 2
- Patton, James, 1692-1755 (Preston family, Montgomery County, Va.) 2
- Preston family (Abingdon, Va.) 2
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 2
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 2
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 2
- A. W. Luster 1
- Adams, Elizabeth Kent 1
- American Association of University Women. Blacksburg Branch (Va.) 1
- American Library Association 1
- Amiss, Edwin 1
- Appalachian Quilt Project 1
- Apperson family 1
- Apperson, Alex 1
- Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
- Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
- Apperson, Mary 1
- Armistead, Mary Frances 1
- Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 1
- Babcock, H. O. 1
- 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- 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
- Dillard, Martha 1
- Duncan, William E. 1
- Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 1
- Eastman, Ann Heidbreder 1
- Edmonds family (Amherst County, Va.) 1
- Ellett family 1
- Ellett, Robert Thaddeus, 1836-1904 1
- Ellis family 1
- Eubank, Minnie Linwood Fox (James) (Vinton, Va.) 1
- Evans, Washington C. 1
- Fessler, Mary McClintock Ryland, 1912-2000 1
- Fiske family 1
- Fiske, Eliza (Lida) Robinson Seymour 1
- Fiske, William Warren 1
- Fitting, Minnie Adams 1
- Garrett, Samuel Edwin, 1835(?)-1865 1
- Giesen, Charlotte C., 1907-1995 1 + ∧ less