Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Found in 1972 Collections and/or Records:
Roanoke Railway and Electric Company Photo Album
Roanoke Valley Academy of Medicine Records
This collection contains records from the Roanoke Valley Academy of Medicine from 1905 to 2016. Records include newsletters, history, and organizational documents. The organization formed in 1905 and dissolved in 2019.
Roanoke, Virginia, Scrapbook
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.
G. E. Roberts Letter
The G. E. Roberts Letter contains information pertaining to an African American man shooting a white doctor, Dr. Hammet, in Christiansburg, VA. The letter is written to Walter J. Reeve in Central Depot, VA on February 8, 1874.
Alexander Farish Robertson Papers
The Alexander Farish Robertson Papers contains correspondence, account books, and assorted documents, dating from 1867 to 1931. The majority of the material pertains to the legal practice of Robertson (1853-1938) who as an attorney, made a specialty of chancery and fiduciary matters.
Wyndham Robertson Collection
This collection consists of correspondence between Wyndham Robertson and John G. English, a promissory note, and a copy of The Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia, Bulletin with a biography of Robertson.
Robeson Family Ledger
The Robeson Family Ledger contains various expenses and earnings of the family in Farmville, Virginia, from 1894-1908. The ledger includes records of several tenants and renters and documents payments to various companies. Payments were also made to a fraternal order called the Progressive Endowment Guild of America. Of interest is a mention of one servant, a woman named Lizzie Ligon, who was discharged in 1894. There is also a loose receipt from the Farmville Steam Laundry in 1908.
David Tobias Robinson Confederate Company List
S. C. Robinson Letter
Letter to S. C. Robinson, of Botetourt County, Virginia, from an unidentified slaveholder in Mount Airy, [Virginia], discusses the enslaved men recently hired out to Robinson and offering to hire out a young boy for the coming year.