Roanoke (Va.)
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Roanoke Chamber of Commerce Postwar Planning Committee Collection,
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.
Roanoke County Confederate States of America Pension Forms
This collection consists of applications for pension from Confederate veterans and/or their widows residing in Roanoke, VA. Although undated, these applications are likely from the 1910s-1930s.
Roanoke, Virginia, Scrapbook
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.
Letter to Ruth H. Shootman
The collection consists of a three-page letter written December 5th, 1846, from Harriet of Sandy River Church, Virginia (a town in Prince Edward County) to "Miss Ruth H. Shootman, Big Lick, Roanoke, Va."
Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records
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.
Southview School, Roanoke County, Virginia
building by Smithey and Boynton Architects and Engineers
Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company Christmas Cards,
The collection contains three hand-drawn Christmas cards and one envelope (addressed to L. Franklin Moore) from the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company.
Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection
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.