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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 1954 Collections and/or Records:

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

David N. Walker Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-034
Abstract

The business records of David N. Walker of Richmond, Virginia, consist mostly of papers relating to Walker's role as treasurer of the St. Paul's Church Home, Richmond.

Dates: 1859 - 1898

Alexander Floyd Wall Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-007
Abstract

This collection consists of letters from Alexander Floyd Wall to Waddy Thompson James, describing conditions on his farm during the American Civil War, prices of crops, problems of getting supplies to soldiers, and the transfer of people who were enslaved. The collection also includes one letter from James to his wife Jennie, written from Camp Belcher in Richmond, Virginia, on October 4, 1861, and biographical and military information about James and his career as a soldier.

Dates: 1861-1865, 1931, n.d.

Donald S. Wallace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-101
Abstract

The collection contains a selection of Donald S. Wallace's professional correspondence, U.S. Geological Survey Reports, Virginia state agency and local reports, and photographs from sites around the state.

Dates: 1943 - 1970

Samuel Wallace Deed

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-050
Abstract

The collection contains an 1832 contract between Samuel Wallace, of Scott County, Virginia, and John Allan of Tazewell County, Virginia, for sale of land.

Dates: 1832

[Walter Wood / Radford Iron Company Lands, Pulaski County] (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0202
Abstract

Full title reads, "A map showing the lines to land own in fee by Walter Wood and other tracts on which he owns the mineral right also the lines of a tract owned in fee bt the Radford Iron Company and others and two other tracts in which the said company and others own the mineral right lying in Pulaski Co. Va. on th north and east sides of Peak Knob." Map contains some hand-wrtitten additions concerning other property owners.

Dates: 1924

H. D. Walters Flyer

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-059
Abstract

The H. D. Walters Flyer is an advertisement for rings from a jeweler in Christiansburg, Virginia, likely dating from the late nineteenth century.

Dates: n.d.

James Glen Walthall Daybook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1940-030
Abstract

The James Glen Walthall Daybook details a Montgomery County, Virginia general mercantile business, recording customer names, goods purchased, and prices paid.

Dates: ca. 1906

Robert Walton Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-104
Abstract

The collection contains a single letter written by Robert Walton of Augusta, Georgia, to his sister, Elizabeth McClanahan, in Botetourt County, Virginia.

Dates: 1813