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James Longstreet Correspondence (Ms1993-003)
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…
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J. W. Ryland Diary, 1863-1865 (Ms2019-011)
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…
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Huff-Hylton Families Papers, 1803-1816, 1858-1882, 1975, n.d (Ms1998-001)
The collection consists of items from the early 1800s pertaining to the business dealings of Samuel Huff of Montgomery (now Floyd) County. Materials…
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Multicultural Diversity Oral History Project (Ms2002-001)
This collection includes oral history accounts from people of various backgrounds with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area.
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William Latham Candler Papers, 1861-1863 (Ms1997-007)
The collection consists of fourteen letters, dating from September 8, 1861, to February 15, 1863, from Candler to his uncle Charles [probably maternal…
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Landon Duncan Letters, 1812-1837 (Ms1997-023)
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,…
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Henry C. Carpenter Letters, 1862-1864 (1996-008)
The papers consist of letters from Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley…
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James J. Pandapas Audiotape and Papers, 1966-1988, 1997 (Ms1997-011)
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…
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Christiansburg Industrial Institute Oral History Project (Ms2019-037)
This collection consists of oral history accounts from former students and other participants from Christiansburg Industrial Institute. Interviews…
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Yonson (Johnson) Family Collection, 1803-1859 (Ms2013-080)
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…
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Jacob Cassel Papers, 1865-1881 (Ms2008-086)
The Jacob Cassel Papers stem from the business, social, and ideological activities of a landowner from Smyth County, Virginia, in the nineteenth…
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Stanford E. Chaillé Collection, 1860-1903 (Ms2008-031)
The Stanford E. Chaillé Collection consists of letters, government-issued documents, printed material, and two photo albums containing thirty-six…
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Norfolk & Western Railway Menus, c. late 1940s-1960s? (Ms2013-080)
The collection contains breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and beverage menus from the Norfolk & Western Railway, as well as two unused carbon copy…
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Cordie Cheek Papers, 1933-1934 (Ms1987-026)
Black youth lynched in Glendale, Tennessee, after being accused of assaulting a white girl. Collection includes typescript interviews with witnesses,…
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Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939 (Ms2011-004)
The collection consists of one postcard of Notre-Dame from Sherwood Anderson to Bert and Clara Dickenson and a photograph of Sherwood Anderson and…
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Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938 (Ms1973-002)
This collection contains materials relating to author Sherwood Anderson. The collection is notable for the personal letters written by Anderson to…
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Sherwood Anderson Dust Jackets, Covers, & Illustrations
This collection contains dust jackets and book covers scanned from various editions of Sherwood Anderson titles. Scans were primarily created for use…
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Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d. (Ms2015-020)
This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood…
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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…
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Jaffe-Lankes Family Correspondence, 1930-1942, 1980-1985 (Ms2019-014)
This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence…
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Black History Oral History Collection (Ms2003-011)
This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between…
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Joseph T. Harris Correspondence, 1861-1862 (Ms2018-016)
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…
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Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. Collection, 1933-1997 (Ms1990-062)
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…
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Photographs from the Beulah O. Allen Collection (Ms2014-002)
The digital collection currently contains ONLY the photographs from Series IV of the Beulah O. Allen Collection, which includes images of places…
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Denim Day 40th Anniversary Oral History Collection (Ms2019-001)
This collection includes oral history accounts of the first Denim Day event at Virginia Tech in January 1979.
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James Francis Heizer & Phoebe Anne McCormick Heizer Collection, 1861-1868 (Ms2016-013)
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 Letters, 1862-1863 (Ms1991-011)
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…
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Bugles
This collection contains digitized versions the Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook, from 1896 to 2004. Please note: The Buglewas not issued between…
Olive Chadeayne Architectural Collection, 1924-1956 (Ms1990-057)
Olive Chadeayne was born on February 9, 1904 in Ossining, New York. Educated in California, Chadeayne began studying architecture at the University of…
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Marie-Louise Laleyan Architectural Collection, 1961-2007 (Ms2013-090)
Marie-Louise Laleyan was a San Francisco based architect with 48 years of experience including 30 years as principal of Laleyan Architects…
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Culinary Thymes Newsletter
The Peacock-Harper Culinary History Friends began publishing the Culinary Thymes newsletter in 2001. Issues were published regularly through part of…
Jean Linden Young Papers, 1945-1997 (Ms1998-022)
The Jean Linden Young papers consist of materials created and collected by Young during her lifetime. They include notes written as an instructor at…
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Lorraine Rudoff Architectural Collection, 1950-1980 (Ms1990-025)
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…
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Nelson Family Papers, 1783-1872 (Ms1989-021)
This collection consists of papers from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia. The papers consist of correspondence among the family members,…
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John Henning Woods Papers, 1856-1873 (Ms2017-030)
This collection includes three memoir volumes and three diaries written by John Henning Woods, a Southern Unionist, Confederate conscript, and Civil…
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Black Women at VT Oral History Project (Ms1995-026)
The Black Women at Virginia Tech History Project is a multi-phase research and educational project that involves identification of the first black…
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James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952, 1954 (Ms2017-005)
This collection contains four letters written by author James Farrell to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson between February 1952 and May of 1954. The two…
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Los Angeles Modern Bartending School Collection, c.1930s, 1937/1944 (Ms2017-007)
The Los Angeles Modern Bartending School Collection includes two bartending guides for students. The untitled "Bartender's Guide" is likely from the…
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Cocktail Ephemera Collection, c.1870s-2000s (Ms2013-027)
The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to…
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