Browse Items (22 total)

  • Collection: Regional History and the Appalachian South
Ms1940-019_LobdellCarBrownhill01.pdf

The Lobdell Car Wheel Company had its beginnings in 1830, when Jonathon Bonney and Charles Bush established a small foundry in Wilmington, Delaware.…
Ms2015-063_FloydCountyAuctionBroadside.jpg

The collection includes a broadside advertising a land auction in Floyd County, Virginia, to be held on August 5, 1859. The auction was ordered by the…
Ms1988-011_LathropHarriet_Memoir.pdf

Harriet Eliza Lathrop was born in New York, moved to Tazewell County, Virginia, with her husband, a mining engineer, in 1881 when he was sent to open…
Hotel Graham Graham VA.jpg

Postmarked October 1909
Hotel Roanoke.jpg

Postmarked: September, 1907
Message on reverse:
"Hello Coz
How are you living? I am still existing. Come down, Soon ha ha.
13.12.23."
St Andrews Roanoke interior.jpg

Interior view of nave facing altar.
Postmarked: June, 1908.

Message on reverse:
"Hello Ernest,
I shall be glad to go up to see you all Sunday…
Ms2002_022_BarnettJames_Inventory1811a.jpg

A list of free Negroes and Mulattoes, compiled by James Barnett, district commissioner of revenue, Montgomery County, Virginia. The list includes…
Ms2011_015_WilsonDiary1913_0frontcover.jpg

Jeffrey Thomas Wilson (1843-1929) was a former slave who spent most of his life in and around Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. He outlived four wives…
ms2011_23.jpg

The collection consists of a manuscript map survey of land in Montgomery County, Virginia, belonging to Philadelphia merchant Levi Hollingsworth. The…
Ms2008_048_VinsonWilliam_Letter_1854_0128a.jpg

This collection contains a letter written by Virginia House of Delegates member William Vinson to his wife and children in Wayne County, (West)…
Main St looking west Tazewell.jpg

Postcard
Postmarked 1906 or 1908[?]
Ms2003_007_WhiteSulphurSprings_Ledger_1886.pdf

The Montgomery White Sulphur Springs resort register includes the names of the resort's guests, their place of residence and notes on their meals,…
Mountain Scenery Along C & O. RY., Near Lexington, Virginia

Postcard.

Logo: "Bell-Chrome Superior Quality"
C.T.American Art
R-22959

Photo credit in upper right corner: "McCown-Photo"
Ms2009-016_WilsonNelson_AuctionBroadside_a.jpg

This collection consists of a broadside announcing the impending sale of a home and 98 acres of land in the Forest Magisterial District of Bedford…
Ms2016-004__HillOliviaTutwiler_diary_1919_FrontCover.jpg

Diary of Olivia Tutwiler (later Olivia Tutwiler Hill), a young teacher living in Blacksburg and Childress, Virginia, in 1919. The focus is primarily…
Ms1987-034_Preston,SarahB_LandDeed_1835a.jpg

The Sarah Buchanan Preston Land Deed collection consists of a manuscript copy of a land transfer indenture statement for lands in Russell, Tazewell,…
Ms1995-012_Scrapbook_FrontCover.jpg

A scrapbook of poetry, newspaper clippings and pressed flowers from the 1860s, likely created by Virginia Bedinger Lucas, younger sister of Daniel…

This file is an xslx spreadsheet of the holdings in the Virginia Newspaper Collection. Clicking on the "Ms2012_034_VirginiaNewspaperCollection" link…
Tazewell looking south.jpg

Postcard.
Postmarked Sep 18 1907
Made in Germany
Ms1940_011_Gardner_DayBk_frontcover.jpg

"Daybook of general store merchant in Lafayette (Montgomery County), Virginia, containing customer names, goods purchased, and prices paid."
yss_ledger.pdf

The Yellow Sulphur Springs Hotel Account Book, which might more accurately be described as a guest register, includes the names of guests, their place…
Ms2009-106_YellowSulphurSpringsBroadside.jpg

This broadside advertises the sale of the Yellow Sulphur Springs resort, taking place on August 14, 1943. The broadside details the property and…
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