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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this for collections relating to Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Appalachia.

Found in 1906 Collections and/or Records:

V.P.I Diploma

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-077
Scope and Contents

For Cecil Henry Fisher

Dates: 1908

V.P.I "Gobblers"

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-074
Scope and Contents

VMI vs VPI, Roanoke, Va. Thanksgiving (wooden board with pictures of athletes)

Dates: 1929

VPI Housing Group and War Memorial

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0346
Abstract

Map is an illustration of the VPI campus in 1922.

Dates: July 1931

V.P.I President and Faculty

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-076
Scope and Contents

*see picture file

Dates: 1907

Jane Wade Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-049
Abstract

The collection contains a photocopy of a letter from Jane Wade in Christiansburg, Virginia, written on May 15, 1864, to her husband John, a soldier in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War.

Dates: 1864

John D. Wagg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-048
Abstract

The John D. Wagg Papers, 1849-1894, documents the career and religious thoughts of Methodist preacher John D. Wagg and his fellow preachers, as well as the lives of his daughter Bettie Wagg, their family, and their friends. The collection contains correspondence, diaries and notebooks, sermons, church documents, and miscellaneous writings.

Dates: 1849 - 1894

Waiteville Quadrangle

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0800

Wake Forest Community Cemetery Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-2002-033
Scope and Contents

Document by Carmen Clad-Jones about cemetery including names on stones--2 paper copies and digital copy also received.

Dates: 2001

Otis Waldrop Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-029
Abstract

The collection contains photographs of Post Offices and other Government buildings collected by Otis Waldrop (1901-1990), who graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and served as chief of design and construction for the U. S. General Services Administration region 3.

Dates: ca. 1930s-1950s

Walker and Caldwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1973-012
Abstract

The collection contains the papers of Manley Morrison Caldwell, an attorney in Wytheville and Roanoke, Virginia, and his law partner and father-in-law, James A. Walker, consisting largely of Caldwell's professional legal and business papers and documents gathered and created by him in the course of acting as the executor of Walker's will.

Dates: 1882 - 1952