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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:

Martha Dillard Audiocassette Tapes

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1998-027
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews (3 on 3 cassette tapes) conducted by artist Martha Dillard in connection with Watershed, an exhibition of Dillard's paintings of the Ellett Valley in Montgomery County, Virginia. Interviewees include T. Cartmel and Liz Brown, Anna Laura Tribble, and Josie Shotts about the valley of the North Fork of the Roanoke River. Collection also includes postcards and flyers relating to the exhibition. Interviews untranscribed, notes available.

Dates: 1992

Dillon, Ellett & Company Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-011
Abstract

This collection contains three financial ledgers (daybook, journal, and ledger) of Dillon, Ellett & Company (and its successor, E. Dillon & Company), a lime manufacturer in Botetourt County, Virginia.

Dates: 1871 - 1899

Edward D'Invilliers Report

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1959-002
Abstract

The collection consists of a typescript carbon copy of a geological report on the Virginia Anthracite Coal Company property, Price and Brush Mountains in Montgomery County, Virginia by Edward d'Invilliers.

Dates: 1905

Discharge of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Wilkes Jr., undated (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F13_LeutDischargd

Dishman Family Genealogy Chart

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-029
Abstract

This collection contains a geneaology chart for the Dishman Family of King George and Westmoreland Counties in Virginia.

Dates: 1993

Division of the Annie Laura Gerald Land, Vicker, Montgomery Co., Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0285
Abstract

Map shows the divisions of the Annie Laura Gerald Land in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Dates: April 1939

Charles Doe Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-058
Abstract

The collection contains two letters by Charles Doe, future Chief Justice of New Hampshire. Written to his parents in Maine in 1850, Doe's letters detail his travels and observations in Virginia.

Dates: 1850

David S. Doggett Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-004
Abstract

The collection contains David S. Doggett's letters to his father in Richmond, Virginia, from 1912-1915, while he was a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Dates: 1912-1915, n.d.

Dormitory No. 4, Va. Polytechnic Inst. (Heating Plans)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0354
Abstract

Document shows the heating plans for dormitory 4 at VPI in Blacksburg, Virginia. It contains some hand-written annotations.

Dates: Sept 30, 1902

Letters to Eliza Doty and Phebe Mundy

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-146
Abstract The letters to Eliza Doty (also Doughty; 1808-1873) were written by her sister, probably Sarah Poindexter (1809-1872), to Eliza in New Providence, New Jersey, in 1840, 1845, 1868, and 1869 from Richmond and Culpeper, Virginia. The letters detail weather, community information, and familial updates. They also contain information on the declining economic conditions in Richmond and the sister's negative feelings about reconstruction conditions in Virginia. Other letters are written by...
Dates: 1834 - 1869