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Dale Belcher Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-021
Abstract

Photographs taken by Dale Belcher, depicting Appalachian culture, buildings, and people in southwestern Virginia; Kentucky; North Carolina; and West Virginia.

Dates: 1987 - 1994

Historical Photograph Collection (List of Subjects)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Photographs-001
Abstract

The photograph collection at Special Collections and University Archives consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia Tech, dating back to the 1890s. The collection is also home to historic images of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, the New River Valley, and Southwest Virginia in general. A photograph collection of faculty and staff from the university is maintained separately.

Dates: c. 1890s-present

Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-097
Abstract The Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection consists of a variety of materials, which range in dates from 1872 to 1977. The collection includes photographs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute memorabilia, printed materials, such as coupons, advertisements, and pamphlets, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondences, diplomas, certificates, family papers, ephemera, publications, newspaper pages, newspaper clippings, calling cards, pay stubs, church offering stubs, and additional materials collected by the...
Dates: 1872-1977

Henry H. Wiss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-013
Scope and Contents

Professor of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1947 to 1983. Collection consists of twelve architectural drawings and four photographs of Wiss's private residence in Blacksburg, Virginia, designed by him in 1960. 

Dates: 1960, n.d.

Lucy Lee Lancaster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-069
Abstract Lucy Lee Lancaster was born in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1905 and lived there until she died in 1989. She was one of the first women admitted to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (popularly known as VPI), and after graduating in 1925, she went on to earn her MLS from Columbia University Library School. She worked at the VPI library for the rest of her career. The Lancaster papers contain biographical materials, family papers, genealogy research,...
Dates: 1915 - 1989

Earl Palmer Appalachian Photograph and Artifact Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-025
Abstract

This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and traditional culture of rural Appalachia in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Materials date frome 1880 to 1989, but are primarily from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection is divided among the following series: photographs, duplicate photographs, written materials, oversize photographs, and artifacts.

Dates: 1880 - 1989

Charles S. Worley, Jr., Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-017
Abstract

The Charles S. Worley, Jr., Collection consist of architectural drawings of designs by Worley, done from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, with several designs undated. The collection also includes a small group of photographs and negatives of Worley and his own residence in Blacksburg, as well as an extensive collection of slides documenting Worley's student and professional work, work of his students, his travels, nature, and images that were likely used as part of lectures.

Dates: 1950-1982, undated

Patricia Givens Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-007
Abstract

This collection consists of papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian. It includes correspondence, subject files, printed materials and photographs. Also includes a scrapbook and a few other materials, scattered throughout the collection, which had belonged to Johnson's mother, Lula Porterfield Givens, also a local historian.

Dates: 1920 - 1986

Solitude Photographs and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-024
Abstract

This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude, the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1960s-1980s

Dorothy H. Bodell Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-042
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents, and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.

Dates: 1850 - 1996

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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 13
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 12
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 12
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 4
Kent family 4
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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 4
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 4
A. W. Luster 2
Amiss, Edwin 2
Apperson, Alex 2
Apperson, Elizabeth Black 2
Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 2
Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 2
Apperson, Mary 2
Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 2
Black, Mary Kent, b.1836 2
Caton, Louise 2
Christiansburg Industrial Institute 2
Cloyd family 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 2
Croy family (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 2
Kent, Germanicus, 1791-1862 2
Lemon, Lewis 2
Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.) 2
Marye, Madison E. (Madison Ellis), 1925-2016 2
Nicolay, John 2
Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 2
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.) 2
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia (1887-1935) 2
W. Stone & Son 2
Ware, Joseph F., 1880-1969 2
Ware, Susana Howe Robinson, b. abt. 1897 2
Adams, Elizabeth Kent 1
Allen, Beulah O. (Beulah Oyama), 1905-1992 1
Anchy (enslaved person) 1
Apperson family 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 1
Belcher, Dale 1
Bell family 1
Black family 1
Blacksburg (Va.). Town Council 1
Blacksburg (Va.). Townscape Committee 1
Blacksburg Study Group (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 1
Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931- 1
Boynton, Henry B., 1899-1991 1
Currie, Leonard J. (Leonard James), 1913-1996 1
Daughters of the American Revolution. Alleghany Chapter (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution. Colonel William Christian Chapter (Christiansburg, Va.) 1
Earhart, David G., 1834-1863 1
Ellett family 1
Ellett, Robert Thaddeus, 1836-1904 1
Ellis family 1
Givens, Lula Porterfield, 1906-1987 1
Gray, Elizabeth Preston, 1868-1956 1
Green (enslaved person) 1
Hager, Anne Judkins 1
Hill, Henry Harris, 1880-1954 1
Hotel Roanoke 1
Hummel, Virginia, 1916-1998 1
Hutcheson, Eleanor Parrott 1
Hutcheson, John Redd, 1886-1962 1
Jeff (enslaved person) 1
John R. Hutcheson family 1
Johnson, Patricia Givens, 1932-1996 1
Kent, James Randal 1
Kent, Lewis (enslaved person) 1
Kentland Farm 1
Lancaster, Lucy Lee, 1905-1989 1
Magill, Orrin R. (Orrin Rankin), 1887-1976 1
Marye family 1
McBryde, James Bolton, 1866-1925 1
McGavock family 1
Michael, Rudolph Dixon, 1904-1994 1
Nancy (enslaved person) 1
Palmer, Earl, 1905-1996 1
Pendleton, Lee, 1893-1977 1
Preston family (Abingdon, Va.) 1
Price family 1
Price, Della Mae Hickman 1
Price, Samuel Winston, 1871-1911 1
Sanders, Harry W. (Harry Warinner), 1895-1984 1
Solitude (Blacksburg, Va. : Historic building) 1
Southside Garden Club (1928/1930-) (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Sullivan family (Virginia) 1
Sullivan, Margaret M., 1926-2013 1
Susan (enslaved person) 1
Taylor, Robert Creede, 1866-1915 1
Tucker family (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Tucker, Henry, 1925-1945 1
Tucker, Mattie Lamb, 1893-1967 1
Tyler family 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 1820-1889 1
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture (1974-1978) 1
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