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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 1952 Collections and/or Records:

Virginia Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (VAEOPP) Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-003
Abstract

The collection is organized into seven series: Board and Administrative Records, Conference Material, Membership Material, Correspondence, Newsletters and Other Publications, Miscellaneous Material, and Media. The collection includes, but is not limited to, meeting minute and agendas, committee reports, conference planning documents and programs, forms, organizational correspondence, membership lists, publications, and memorabilia.

Dates: 1970 - 2015

Virginia Ball Invitations

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-103
Abstract

The three invitations represent events at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Yellow Sulphur Springs, and the Hancock House resorts.

Dates: 1870 - 1871

Virginia Brewing Company Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-075
Abstract

The Virginia Brewing Company letter was written on September 27, 1909 by Louis A. Scholz, President of the company, and Henry Scholz, Secretary and Treasurer of the company requesting support for anti-Prohibition laws in Virginia.

Dates: 1909 - 1909

Virginia Central Railroad Company Rental Receipt,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-043
Abstract

This collection contains a rental receipt for the labor of Isaac, an enslaved man. The receipt was issued by the Virginia Central Railroad Company in 1855 to Mrs. Elisabeth S. Lindsay and promises a payment of $175 to Lindsay after the one year rental period ends.

Dates: 1855 - 1857

Virginia Confederate Election Ticket

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-004
Abstract

The collection contains a Virginia election ticket for the November 6, 1861, Confederate election. It includes the names of candidates for sixteen districts; Jefferson Davis for President, and A.H. Stephens for Vice President; and state representative candidates, John R. Edmunds and Allen T. Caperton.

Dates: 1861

Virginia, discovered and described by Captain John Smith (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0035
Abstract

Map contains a small British coat of arms and illustrations of a native Virginian (facing away from the Chesapeake Bay) and Powhatan's court. Includes explanatory historical text underneath the illustrations.

Dates: 1624

Virginia Elections Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-060
Abstract

The Virginia Elections Collection contains United States polls and ballots collected from Amelia County, Virginia, from 1804, 1808, and 1865. Some of the material pertains to election polls in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. One of these is the ballot for an amendment to the Virginia Constitution, allowing former Confederate government officials to serve in the Virginia government.

Dates: 1804, 1808, 1865

Virginia et Florida A.D. (reproduction),

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0001
Abstract

Based on a chart by Iodocus Hondius, 1607.

Reprinted, 1932.

Dates: 1607