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Roanoke (Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

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 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

Roanoke County Confederate States of America Pension Forms

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-011
Abstract

This collection consists of applications for pension from Confederate veterans and/or their widows residing in Roanoke, Virginia. Although undated, these applications are likely from the 1910s-1930s.

Dates: undated

Roanoke Quadrangle

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0802

Roanoke Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0087

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

Letter to Ruth H. Shootman

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-037
Abstract

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."

Dates: 1846

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

Southview School, Roanoke County, Virginia

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-061
Scope and Contents

building by Smithey and Boynton Architects and Engineers

Dates: 1939

Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company Christmas Cards,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-081
Abstract

The collection contains three hand-drawn Christmas cards and one envelope (addressed to L. Franklin Moore) from the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company.

Dates: 1949