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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 1925 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_042_BodellDorothy_Photographs

Physiographic and Soil Parent Material Map of Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0075
Abstract

Map shows four divisions of the geologic sections of Virginia. Map is in the negative.

Dates: nd

Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-009
Abstract

The Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection includes materials from 1926-1971. The collection contains information relating to the operation of the sanatorium from 1918-1965. The collection contains administrative papers, published works of doctors, ephemera, and images.

Dates: 1926 - 1971

Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highway Systems (2 sheets)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0120
Abstract

Map (numbered 72) shows primary and secondary roads in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and it includes an explanatory legend. Supplementary sheet (numbered 72-A) shows subdivisions in the county, i.e. specific towns.

Dates: 1942

Pittsylvania County Voter Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-041
Abstract

The Pittsylvania County Voter Ledger contains the names of individuals registered to vote in Pittsylvania County, Virginia from 1896-1924. Separated into a folder is a list of women registering to vote in the 1920s for the first time after the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Dates: 1896 - 1924

Plan for Future Development, Virginia Polyechnic Institute.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0331
Abstract

Blueprint map shows plans for VPI, including notes relevant to the future of the university.

Dates: 1950

Plan of Part of the City of Richmond, Shewing the Situation of the Proposed Building (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0164
Abstract

Map shows bare outline planning the city of Richmond, Virginia. Reproduction was made in 1970.

Dates: 1798