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A summons ordering Squire Bosworth to appear before a local voter registration board to explain why his name should not be stricken from the local roll of voters.

Letter in relation to a claim by John W. Bosworth (acting as the executor of his father's estate) against the U. S. government for goods confiscated by the army during the Civil War.

Letter in relation to a claim by John W. Bosworth (acting as the executor of his father's estate) against the U. S. government for goods confiscated by the army during the Civil War.

Court document in a claim by John W. Bosworth (acting as the executor of his father's estate) against the U. S. government for goods confiscated by the army during the Civil War.

Court document in a claim by John W. Bosworth (acting as the executor of his father's estate) against the U. S. government for goods confiscated by the army during the Civil War.

Transcript of court testimony in a claim by John W. Bosworth (acting as the executor of his father's estate) against the U. S. government for goods confiscated by the army during the Civil War.

Holliday's diaries, the first covering 1 May through 8 August 1864 and the second covering 1 September 1864 through 4 July 1865, begin with the regiment's entry into Virginia's New River Valley and conclude with his return to Ohio at the conclusion…

2014 update to: Robert Gray's The McGavock Family. A Genealogical History of James McGavock and His Descendants from 1760 to 1903. Richmond: W.E. Jones, 1903. CS 71 .M144 1903 (copies in Special Collections and Newman Library)

A list of free Negroes and Mulattoes, compiled by James Barnett, district commissioner of revenue, Montgomery County, Virginia. The list includes places of residence of the free persons as well as a brief job description for each. The list divides…

Photograph of the home of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

This photograph depicts the tenant house of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

This photograph depicts the house of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

A photograph of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

This photograph shows a tenant farmer known as Aaron and two other unidentified people on the front porch of a tenant house on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

A photograph of a tenant farmer known as Aaron with a horse. Taken around 1930, while Aaron was working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia.

This collection contains a letter written by Virginia House of Delegates member William Vinson to his wife and children in Wayne County, (West) Virginia. After noting his homesickness, Vinson proceeds to write of the possibility of the general…

A letter from Isaac Cox to his wife (probably in Saltville), written in Tazewell County, Virginia, June 29, 1862. Cox writes of marching to Princeton (West Virginia) and back in recent days, as well as news of "Bill." The paper on which the letter…

The collection consists of a manuscript map survey of land in Montgomery County, Virginia, belonging to Philadelphia merchant Levi Hollingsworth. The acreage, divided into thirty-two tracts of one thousand acres each, is situated on the Guyandotte…

Tori Elmore grew up in Wytheville, VA, and graduated from Virginia Tech in 2009 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Elmore currently lives in the Blacksburg area and works as a maintenance engineer at the Celanese chemical plant in Narrows, VA. In…

The Lobdell Car Wheel Company had its beginnings in 1830, when Jonathon Bonney and Charles Bush established a small foundry in Wilmington, Delaware. By 1867, the year it was incorporated as the Lobdell Car Wheel Company, the business had added…

Excerpts from the second ritual book of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, relating texts, hymns, passwords, and laws for lodges.

Handwritten list of names and dues paid at Tadmore Light Lodge #6184, Blacksburg Va.

Excerpt from the national Odd Fellow's Journal

Marketing letter promoting regalia and materials for Thanksgiving Services from The Floding Company, Atlanta.

Blue member ribbon with gold print and tassels and "member" pin.

Black and white aerial photograph showing the Town of Blacksburg and New Town's location within it. New Town location designated by red arrow.

Ginger Wagner and unnamed individual sitting on porch of a New Town house (exact date unknown).

New Town house with white car under carport (exact date unknown).

New Town House (exact date unknown).

New Town House 2 (exact date unknown).

Laura Lee Anderson and unnamed individual (exact date unknown).

Black and white photograph of Alexander Black House.

Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation Logo.

Drawn map of early Blacksburg (exact date unknown).

Drawing of Penn Street Church.

Map of early Blacksburg showing "present location of the negro population" (exact date unknown).

Photograph of "Negro school house" building (ca. 1948) in Blacksburg. From "A Negro Neighborhood for Blacksburg, Virginia," by Martha Shupp Phillilps. Master's Thesis in Architecture (1948),