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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 1964 Collections and/or Records:

Kenneth McClelland Estate Account

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-053
Abstract

Administrators' account of the estate of Kenneth McClelland, a resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, documenting transactions of Anne McClelland and John Fleck in administering estate.

Dates: 1797

Dorothy McCombs Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-006
Abstract

The collection contains personal research notes, subject files, and writings; materials relating to the Virginia Tech University Libraries; course notes; dissertation research; work on textiles and arts & crafts history; genealogy notes; brochures on historic sites around Virginia; and maps collected by Dorothy McCombs. Materials date from about 1970-1989.

Dates: 1970 - 1989

Martha McDonald Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-029
Abstract

The collection contains a letter of Martha McDonald to her husband, Lewis McDonald, a soldier in the Confederate Army, written in Rutherford County, North Carolina, on September 15, 1862, during the American Civil War.

Dates: 1862

David Cloyd McGavock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-032
Abstract

The David Cloyd McGavock Papers consist of ca. 35 items, including letters written by McGavock (d. May 1864) to his mother, his sister Sallie, and his uncle Gordon Cloyd while studying at Roanoke College in 1861 and then from camps near Winchester and Petersburg, Virginia, and Goldsboro, North Carolina, while McGavock served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The collection includes sympathy letters to Sallie after his death and other miscellaneous family papers. 

Dates: 1861-1901, n.d.

Meade & Baker Apothecary Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-130
Abstract

The collection contains an accounts ledger for a pharmaceutical firm in Richmond, Virginia, including customer names, addresses and itemized lists of purchases.

Dates: 1861 - 1870

Medical License, S. Bosworth, Morganstown WV., May 17, 1866 (Ms2010-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_MedicalLicense_1866_0517

Mental Hygiene in the Classroom Manual,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-054
Abstract

Manual for teachers regarding recognizing and preventing the development of mental health issues in their students. This manual was distributed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and was written by Minor Wine Thomas, Ph.D. of Radford College.

Dates: 1970

Mary C. Meriwether Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2025-035
Abstract

This collection contains a letter written by Mary Cole Meriwether sent to Nannie W. Read. The letter includes local news and was used as writing practice for Mary.

Dates: September 3, 1847

Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Pulaski, Virginia, Mission) Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-039
Abstract

Record book documenting baptisms, meeting minutes, memberships, Sunday school attendance, and financial information for the Pulaski, Virginia, Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Dates: 1892 - 1896