Featured Exhibit: New Town : Across The Color Line Digital Exhibition
New Town, a predominantly African American community central to the history of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech and Montgomery County, advanced alongside Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) through the better part of a century. The community eventually dissolved as Virginia Tech developed into the…
Featured Collection: Squire Bosworth Papers, 1848-1892 (Ms2010-060)
This collection contains papers of Squire Bosworth, a physician and county court clerk of Randolph County, Virginia/West Virginia. The collection…
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Featured Item: "Cooking Recipes" Recipe Book (Ms2008-023)
Recipe book containing hand-written recipes for soups, salads, puddings, cookies, cakes, icings, and biscuits. Date, location, and full author name remain unknown.
Featured Item: Scrapbook of poetry, newspaper clippings and pressed flowers, by Daniel Bedinger Lucas, c. 1860s (Ms1995-012)
A scrapbook of poetry, newspaper clippings and pressed flowersfrom the 1860s, created by Daniel Bedinger Lucas, a lawyer and poet. Lucas was born…
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William W. Barnett Diary, 1862 (Ms2012-075)
A diary with one-page entries for the year of 1862. A few pages of memoranda follow on which Barnett has listed miscellaneous clothing expenses and…
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Letter, William G. Warf to his cousin Thomas Yeaman, near Berryville, Va., June 22, 1863 (Ms2010-034)
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Letter, William H. Yeaman to his Brother, June 22, 1863 (Ms2010-34)
A letter from William Yeaman to his brother and a letter from the cousin of Thomas Yeaman to Thomas Yeaman.