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Religion

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Jane Rhodes Brewer Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-049
Abstract

The Jane Rhodes Brewer Diary contains entries of her daily activities with a focus on health, family, and religion in 1882.

Dates: 1882

Mary and Virginia Crockett Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-040
Abstract

This collection contains a handwritten letter to Goodrick Wilson from Mary and Virginia Crockett dated January 13, 1958. The letter discusses the history of the St. Peter's Church in New Kent and its connection to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

Dates: 1958

Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Records II

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-018
Abstract

The collection includes accounting records, attendance records, documents from the diocese, bills, correspondence, and service programs for five churches and one diocese organization.

Dates: 1913-1967, n.d.

Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-004
Abstract

The Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Records consist of the Diocese's administrative records, including incoming (often from parishioners) and outgoing correspondence, with a scattering of newspaper clippings, photographs, building plans and surveys, pamphlets, and meeting minutes, from the central administrative office in Roanoke and the churches within the Diocese.

Dates: 1866 - 2004; Majority of material found within ( 1919-1969)

James Eveleth Letter to Maria Louisa Bull Nourse

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-014
Abstract

The James Eveleth Letter to Maria Louisa Bull Nourse was written by James Eveleth in Washington D.C., on April 22, 1842, to Maria Louisa Bull Nourse. The letter is informing Nourse that the Board of Trustees of F Street Church, the church she attended, had resolved that the pew she used be "tendered to her free of rent".

Dates: 1842

Fancy Gap Church Singing Class Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-068
Abstract

The collection contains a photograph of the Fancy Gap Church Singing Class.

Dates: ca. 1900

Norman L. Grover Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-037
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Norman L. Grover a former professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department(s) at Virginia Tech from 1957-1991.

Dates: 1960 - 1992

Viola James Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-032
Abstract

The Viola James Collection contains membership cards for James as a member of the Clarksburg, West Virginia chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, which are in a wallet marked with the initials "KKK". The collection also has a blank application form and printed Christian literature related to the organization. It also includes a small framed tintype of two unidentified little girls.

Dates: c. 1920s

J. D. Kingsbury Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-054
Abstract

Papers of J. D. Kingsbury, a missionary of the American Sunday-School Union of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working in Monongalia and Marion counties, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1854. Includes letters from American Sunday-School Union officers, a missionary working in counties adjacent to Kingsbury's, and J. S. McKinney of Palatine; and a form letter appointing Kingsbury as missionary.

Dates: 1854

Medieval Manuscript Leaves

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1981-104
Abstract

This collection includes four manuscript leaves from ca. 14th-16th centuries. The text is written in Latin, with some marginalia. On paper and vellum.

Dates: ca. 14th-16th centuries