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Business Section, City of Roanoke

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0191
Abstract

Map shows business districts of Roanoke, Virginia, from 2nd Commerce to 2nd Randolph streets, between Franklin Rd/Tazewell Avenue and Salem Avenue, with business names and some tax statuses within plots of land. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Roanoke, as well as aerial photographs of the city.

Dates: ca. 1950

Rice Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-021
Abstract The Rice Family Papers include decades of letters to and from four generations of the decendents of Jerry Rice of Campbell County, Virginia. The majority of the letters were sent to Nannie Mae (Rice) Banks but there are also letters addressed to her father, Fletcher, her mother, Georgianna, and other members of the family. These letters document the experiences of this family from Southwest Virginia as they lived through, fought, and died in, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War...
Dates: 1892 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1962

Roanoke, Virginia, Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1932-001
Abstract

Scrapbook containing essays, photographs, reports, maps and ephemera, compiled to promote Roanoke as the site of a proposed new Veterans Administration hospital in Southwest Virginia.

Dates: 1931 - 1932

M. Rupert Cutler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2020-005
Abstract The M. Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates. The collection provides a comprehensive history of the personal and professional activities of M....
Dates: 1962 - 2021

Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-027
Abstract

The collection contains project files and drawings related to more than 1,500 residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings, predominantly in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed by Smithey & Boynton, mostly between 1935 and 1957.

Dates: 1922 - 1985

Harry Baker Cawley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-062
Abstract This collection contains letters, cards, and envelopes, dated 1918-1926, to Harry B. Cawley from his parents Mary and Robert Cawley, his brothers Marvin and Raymond, and friends, including Eugenia Rea and Kathleen A. Turner. The collection also includes school notes, two writings by Cawley, and two undated photographs - one each of Paul Guthrie Jones and of Lyn Bunting, possibly schoolmates in the 1920s. Cawley (1900-1946) served in the U.S. Navy in the 1910s and attended Virginia...
Dates: 1918-1922, 1926, undated

Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2006-024
Abstract

The collection consists of a timeline and copies of documentation about Robert Creede Taylor, a former student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and his family during the years 1866 to 1915 gathered by R. C. Taylor's great-grandson.

Dates: 2003 - 2006

Charlotte D. Gale Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-044
Abstract

Photograph album compiled by Charlotte D. Gale, a resident of Roanoke, Virginia, with scenes from Crockett Springs, Roanoke, Salem, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: 1898 - 1900

Roanoke Chamber of Commerce Postwar Planning Committee Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-083
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence papers and a booklet regarding the Chamber of Commerce of Roanoke, Virginia Postwar Planning Committee from 1946. Correspondence include meeting minutes and letters regarding publication of the booklet Roanoke Looking Ahead. The latter provides a an outline of planned municipal improvements.

Dates: 1946

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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 2
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Board, Lillie May (Rice) (1899-1956) 1