Virginia, Southwest
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Bell Letter
This collection contains a letter from Francis Bell (1820-1893), a cattle dealer from Augusta County, Virginia, to Major James R. Kent, an enslaver and plantation owner in Montgomery County, Virginia. In the letter dated October 18, 1860, Bell asks Kent to sell him his stock of cattle directly rather than going through the firm of Crouse and [Sons?].
Bigler-Sessler-John Family Papers,
The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and accounting receipts and records relating to the Bigler, Sessler, and John families of southwest Virginia.
Blue Ridge Springs Correspondence
Rick Boucher Papers
Buckhorn Coal Company Records
This collection contains blueprints, ledgers, and a deed of lease from the records of the Buckhorn Coal Company. Material dates from 1880 to 1961.
Records of the Bureau of Community Development
This collection contains typed manuscripts of twenty-nine Industrial Surveys of various counties and cities in Virginia from 1928-1931.
Carroll and Wythe Counties Industries Collection
Materials collected by Randal L. Hall in the course of writing Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Kentucky University Press, 2012). Includes several issues of Zinc magazine; a photographic section of the Galax Gazette from 1937; a combined portrait photograph of the employees of Carroll Hosiery Mills; and a National Carbide Company miners lamp dust can lid.
A. B. Cox Manuscript
Photocopy of typed manuscript of Footprints on the Sands of Time: A History of South-Western Virginia and North-Western North Carolina, by Dr. Aras B. Cox, typed from Cox's book by Mrs. Alfred Apple of Bedford, Indiana.
Thomas Creigh Letter
The Thomas Creigh Letter is a missive written in 1858 from a Virginia assemblyman, representing Greenbrier County, to an unknown party concerning the state of Virginia's real indebtedness.