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Rita Dale, far right

Jackie Sharp and Mr. Stone, front row

A photograph of several people in front of the sign for the Fries Methodist Church, which says "Jesus! Zero Defects".

Homer Lineberry (Shift Manager, Winding 2nd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation), Betty Akers (Zero Defects Achievment Award Winner), Hobert Akers (Husband), Lisa and Sherri Akers (Daughters), H. D. Kingsmore (President,…

Gene Taylor (Shift Manager, Carding 3rd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Raymond Sapp (Award Winner)

Early Doss (Shift Manager, Weaving, 1st Shift), Ralph Vaughan (Award Winner), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Rose Vaughan (Mother of Ralph), Jack Bowman (Weaving Mill Manager)

This broadside advertises the sale of the Yellow Sulphur Springs resort, taking place on August 14, 1943. The broadside details the property and buildings that were being sold, the location of the public auction, the terms of sale, and the…

The Yellow Sulphur Springs Hotel Account Book, which might more accurately be described as a guest register, includes the names of guests, their place of residence, the time of their arrival, and their room numbers. While the resort played host to…

A page from a mill ledger recording employee's membership dues for the Fries, Va. Y.M.C.A., seperated by mill department.

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"GARDNER, WILLIAM W. (b. 1872). DAYBOOK, 1918. 0.1 cu. ft. Merchant in Lafayette (Montgomery County), Virginia. Daybook providing customer names, goods purchased, and prices paid. Available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1940-011."

This is a single letter written by William L. Scott, a private in Company B, 15th North Carolina Infantry, during the American Civil War. Writing to his sister Martha from Richmond, Virginia, on July 11, 1863, Scott describes a recent skirmish…

Chapter one of a fictional crime drama about marijuana being discovered on a college campus.

R.P.O. postmark (railway post office) indicates that this was mailed at a mobile post office. The route and train number are indicated.

Postmarked "Lynch & Norton R.P.O. TR..6, Feb 24 1910"

Addressed to Mrs. S. B. Schomaker, Blue Grass,…

Wayne Kirby is at the front of a line in front of a table

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This receipt verifies that the account is correct for seven hundred pounds of hay.

Douglas Martin, Ed.D. is Director Emeritus in the
Department of Human Resources at Virginia Tech. This
nearly hour-long interview contains his first-hand account
of several impactful people and events that shaped Tech in
the last half century.…

A map of the area set aside for the right-of-way for Highway 94.

A photograph of a mill-employed nurse administering a shot to another employee, with a line of others waiting behind her.

Caption on reverse:
DRAPER'S MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA
To the South and West lies Draper's Valley, named for John Draper, who settled here in 1765. He moved hence from Draper's Meadows (Blacksburg) where his wife was captured by the Indians in the…

Untitled inspirational speech aimed at students within the geology program.

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Transcription of the interview with corrections and additions done by Pandapas

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Two facing pages from a mill ledger recording the hours worked by individual employees.

A photograph of the weaving department of the Fries Mill in front of a calendar indicating that they had gone one year without injury on the job.

A photograph of six young women in matching cheerleading outfits, on a stage with pompoms.

Issue of The Quarterly Bulletin from the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

2014 update to: Robert Gray's The McGavock Family. A Genealogical History of James McGavock and His Descendants from 1760 to 1903. Richmond: W.E. Jones, 1903. CS 71 .M144 1903 (copies in Special Collections and Newman Library)