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Article by Mrs. W. D. Altman from the July 1, 1976 Montgomery News Messenger Bicentennial Edition.

Article by Mrs. W. D. Altman from the May 30, 1957 Montgomery News Messenger.

Notes for a talk given by Miss Mary Apperson at Blacksburg High School in 1944 as reprinted in the Montgomery News Messenger Bicentennial Edition, July 1, 1976.

Article from the Virginia Tech Engineer by Howard Shaeffer Avery, VPI class of 1928.

Article in the Montgomery News Messenger about the Junior Women's Club in Blacksburg, Va.

List of Mayors who have served the Town of Blacksburg from 1871 to the present.

Ralph M. Brown's extracts from the V.P.I. Historical Index, 1872-1938.

VPI President Julian Burruss comments on the large numbers of students joining the United States Army in the February 25, 1943 Virginia Tech.

Handmade card and poem titled "A Child Loaned" from the female inmates of Cambridge Springs Prison.

An article by Thomas N. Conrad (V.A.M.C. president from 1882 to 1886) from the Blacksburg Post, December 10, 1896.

An article in the Blacksburg Home News, September 9, 1916, describing the state of the town.

Untitled inspirational speech aimed at students within the geology program.

A comedic play in two acts about the social and family aspects of recruiting a new professor.

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

List of marriages in 1893 by Rosanna Croy Dawson.

List of accidents and odd occurences by Rosanna Croy Dawson, from her diary, "Blacksburg in 1898."

List of people who moved and where they moved to.

Records of what Dawson preserved in 1898 and when.

Records of planting and other work done in the family garden in 1898.

Records of household quantities of flour and cornmeal.

Records of household quantities of lamp oil.

List of deaths in 1893.

List of births in 1898.

List of deaths in 1898.

List of marriages in 1898.

Records of events at the church in 1898.

Records of the work Will Washington did for the Croy Dawson family in 1898.

Dawson on Tilda Gray in her 1890 diary.

Records of butter in the household in 1898.

Records from 1898 of shopping and household visits.

Record of the building of the Alex Black House in Blacksburg, VA.

Record of small events in the life of Rosanna Croy Dawson in 1898.

Record of gifts received in 1898.

A lengthy recollection of his father's Blacksburg from the 1920s to the 1940s by Dr. Ronald B. Dietrick.

Keith Furr recalls life in Blacksburg during the 1960s in an email to Laura Katz Smith in 1996.

Excerpts from the 1935 article by William Edward Garnett, rural sociologist.

Letter in the April 20, 1932, Montgomery News Messenger about the town spring.

Rocket Navigation by Samuel Herrick, published while he was a member of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Volume 31, number 7 of Spectrum, a magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. This issue is titled "The Moon Landing: a 25th Anniversary Perspective."

Published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and NASA, this report documents the findings of the Ad Hoc Mars Airplane Science Working Group, which was formed in 1978 to assess the possibility of a remotely…

Willliam H. Phillips' copy of the review of the stabilization and control of the lunar module during approach and landing. The request for a review was directed at Phillips, but other engineers at the Langley Research Center also contributed.

Blacksburg, VA, history from 1748 to 1900 by D. McCombs in 1981.

A recollection of the town and its history by R.D. Michael.

A report written by Dr. Bruce C. Murray, presented at the Western Meeting of the American Rocket Society, in Los Angeles, California, in May 1960. This was included in Herrick's subject files.

NASA Educational Brief #1002, titled "Nutrition in Space: Project Gemini," which provides information about meals given to astronauts while in space. Attached is NASA Educational Brief #10004, "Gemini Spacesuits," which details the parts of an…

A small booklet containing payload flight assignments for NASA's mixed fleet as of February 1991. "Avitabile" is written in ink on the front cover, indicating that this was his copy.

Published by NASA, this pamphlet is one of a series of nine curriculum-related pamphlets for teachers and students of space science.

Transcripts of the radio communication between the command module and the Apollo-Soyuz teams.

Telegram sent by W. E. Aliff to Zena Shott

A description of the original laying out of the town, by Daniel Pezzoni in March, 1984.