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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 1964 Collections and/or Records:

Kinzer House

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1962-005_Kinzerhouse

Michael Kinzer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1962-005
Abstract

This collection consists of documents concerned with the acquisition of land in Montgomery County, Michael Kinzer's last will and testament (1826), and a wallet from the Michael Kinzer family.

Dates: 1805 - 1981

Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-057
Abstract

This collection contains architecural drawings, papers, publications, thesis, correspondence, and a sketchbook from Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr. (1921-2019), a student and faculty member at Virginia Polytechnic Institute's College of Architecture in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: c. 1940-1955

Samuel Kinzie Survey

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-044
Abstract

The collection contains a survey of Samuel Kinzie's properties in Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Virginia, made in 1899 by C.S. Charlton.

Dates: 1899

Frank C. Kitts, Jr. Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-020
Abstract

This collection contains a scrapbook assembled by Frank C, Kitts, Jr., containing mementoes from his life during 1919-1936. He went to Tazewell High School in Tazewell County, Virginia, and was a mail carrier and member of the U.S. Guard Band. His scrapbook contains items such as letters, locks of hair, newspaper clippings, high school football and play tickets, calling cards, and poems.

Dates: 1919 - 1936

S. H. Knick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-055
Abstract

Papers of Samuel Herbert Knick (1886-1914), of Rockbridge County, Virginia, relating to his time as a student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, including a student handbook and a letter and postcard addressed to Knick's brother, W. Hampton Knick.

Dates: 1904 - 1906

Christopher Kraft Letter to Elizabeth Plank

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-065
Abstract

This collection consists of a letter from Christopher Kraft in Connecticut to Elizabeth Plank in Blacksburg, Virginia. The envelope is stamped with the date of January 10, 1945. In the letter, Kraft reflects upon his time in Blacksburg and some of his thoughts of Connecticut.

Dates: 1945

Lambsburg, Virginia - North Carolina Quadrangle,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0734
Abstract

Lambsburg, Virginia - North Carolina Quadrangle. U. S. Geological Survey, 1965. 22 x 27 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Dates: 1965 - 1965

Margaret S. Marston Lampe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-003
Abstract

The papers of Margaret S. Marston Lampe span the dates 1976-1989 and are comprised mostly of correspondence, final report drafts, briefing material, meeting minutes, and newspaper clippings. The collection is organized into the following series: National Commission on Excellence in Education, Elementary and Secondary Mathematics, National Institute of Education Laboratory, Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education, and Virginia Board of Education.

Dates: 1976 - 1989

Lucy Lee Lancaster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-069
Abstract Lucy Lee Lancaster was born in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1905 and lived there until she died in 1989. She was one of the first women admitted to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (popularly known as VPI), and after graduating in 1925, she went on to earn her MLS from Columbia University Library School. She worked at the VPI library for the rest of her career. The Lancaster papers contain biographical materials, family papers, genealogy research,...
Dates: 1915 - 1989