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Confederate general in the Civil War; after the war he was head of an insurance company and held a series of Federal appointments. Author of From…

The J. W. Ryland Diary consists of a single Civil War diary kept by J. W. Ryland between September 1863-1865. In his diary, Ryland records activities…

The collection consists of items from the early 1800s pertaining to the business dealings of Samuel Huff of Montgomery (now Floyd) County. Materials…

This collection includes oral history accounts from people of various backgrounds with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area.

The collection consists of fourteen letters, dating from September 8, 1861, to February 15, 1863, from Candler to his uncle Charles [probably maternal…

The collection consists of six letters. Two of the letters (1812, 1814) were written by Landon Duncan to his uncle Alamander Duncan in Stokes County,…

The papers consist of letters from Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley…

The collection consists of audio-tapes of an interview conducted on July 16, 1997, in which Pandapas talks about his life and career as a businessman…

This collection consists of oral history accounts from former students and other participants from Christiansburg Industrial Institute. Interviews…

Baltzer Yonson was born on 10 October 1774 and died c.1850. Yonson married Mary Thompson, born in 1799, and they had 10 children. The descendants of…

The Jacob Cassel Papers stem from the business, social, and ideological activities of a landowner from Smyth County, Virginia, in the nineteenth…

The Stanford E. Chaillé Collection consists of letters, government-issued documents, printed material, and two photo albums containing thirty-six…

The collection contains breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and beverage menus from the Norfolk & Western Railway, as well as two unused carbon copy…

Black youth lynched in Glendale, Tennessee, after being accused of assaulting a white girl. Collection includes typescript interviews with witnesses,…

The collection consists of one postcard of Notre-Dame from Sherwood Anderson to Bert and Clara Dickenson and a photograph of Sherwood Anderson and…

This collection contains materials relating to author Sherwood Anderson. The collection is notable for the personal letters written by Anderson to…

This collection contains dust jackets and book covers scanned from various editions of Sherwood Anderson titles. Scans were primarily created for use…

This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood…

The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by…

This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence…

This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between…

Letters written by Joseph T. Harris of the 12th Ohio Infantry to his sister, Mollie Swope from various locations in western Virginia. The letters are…

Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. (1919-1944) was a Lieutenant in the army during World War II. He served his country bravely and was killed on the beaches of…

The digital collection currently contains ONLY the photographs from Series IV of the Beulah O. Allen Collection, which includes images of places…

This collection includes oral history accounts of the first Denim Day event at Virginia Tech in January 1979.

This collection consists of 100+ letters written between the years of 1863–1868, accompanied by a book entitled, The Heizer Family: American Pioneers…

Lewis Wood was a private in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, possibly serving as the company's cook. He entered service at age 37…

This collection contains digitized versions the Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook, from 1896 to 2004. Please note: The Buglewas not issued between…

Olive Chadeayne was born on February 9, 1904 in Ossining, New York. Educated in California, Chadeayne began studying architecture at the University of…

Marie-Louise Laleyan was a San Francisco based architect with 48 years of experience including 30 years as principal of Laleyan Architects…

The Peacock-Harper Culinary History Friends began publishing the Culinary Thymes newsletter in 2001. Issues were published regularly through part of…

The Jean Linden Young papers consist of materials created and collected by Young during her lifetime. They include notes written as an instructor at…

Lorraine Rudoff was born in Bridgeport, CT in 1920 and began her education in New York City public schools before attending the Cooper Union School of…

This collection consists of papers from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia. The papers consist of correspondence among the family members,…

This collection includes three memoir volumes and three diaries written by John Henning Woods, a Southern Unionist, Confederate conscript, and Civil…

The Black Women at Virginia Tech History Project is a multi-phase research and educational project that involves identification of the first black…

This collection contains four letters written by author James Farrell to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson between February 1952 and May of 1954. The two…

The Los Angeles Modern Bartending School Collection includes two bartending guides for students. The untitled "Bartender's Guide" is likely from the…

The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to…