Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

Pauline E. Burks of Richmond, Virginia, collected genealogy materials about her husband Broaddus Vaughan Burks' family. The papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspapers, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. Materials focus mainly on the Vaughan and Burks families and range from 1760s land grants to 1970s family correspondence.

Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions was printed in Salem, Virginia in September 1851, and it contains directions on how to use C. M. Burnett's patent beveled wheat fan.

The collection consists of the office records of Burns & Burns, Attorneys at Law, of Lebanon, Virginia. The records consist of case files, legal briefs, correspondence, circuit court petitions, and collection notices.

Map shows the business section of Lynchburg, Virginia, from 4th to 13th streets, between Church, Main, and Commerce streets. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Lynchburg, as well as a tourist map and an aerial photograph of the city.

Map shows business districts of Norfolk, Virginia, with business names and some tax statuses within plots of land. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Portsmouth, as well as a tourist map and an aerial photograph of the city.

Map shows the business section of Portsmouth, Virginia, from Hatton to Water streets, between King, High, and Queen streets. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Portsmouth, as well as a tourist map and an aerial photograph of the city.

Map shows business districts of Richmond, Virginia, from Eleventh to North Fourth streets, between East Main and East Broad, with business names and some tax statuses within plots of land. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Richmond, as well as a tourist map and aerial photographs of the city.

Map shows business districts of Roanoke, Virginia, from 2nd Commerce to 2nd Randolph streets, between Franklin Rd/Tazewell Avenue and Salem Avenue, with business names and some tax statuses within plots of land. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Roanoke, as well as aerial photographs of the city.

This scrapbook page contains five photographs taken in and around the Byllesby Dam in Carroll County, Virginia.