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Sketch of details at the front of the Theatre and Store building and a cross section of the stairs.

Smithey sketch of the first floor of the propsed theatre for Plank and Whitsett, to be located at Blacksburg, VA.

Map of the Plank and Whitsett lot, propsed site for the Theatre and Store building.

Sketch of the main floor plan in the Theatre and Store building.

Traced sketch of the building front and stairway interior of the Theatre and Store building.

Smithey drawing of a longitudinal section of the proposed theatre for Plank and Whitsett, to be located at Blacksburg, VA.

Cross sections of the Theatre and Store building.

Sketch of the floor plan for a balcony in the Theatre and Store building.

Drawing of a cross section of a lintel in the Theatre and Store building.

Traced drawing of details at the entrance of the Theatre and Store building.

Sketch of seating on the main floor of the Theatre and Store building.

Small sketches of the proposed Theatre and Store building for Blacksburg Realty Corp.

Traced drawing of the interior of the old building at the site of the Theatre and Store Building.

Sketch of the front door and ticket booth of the planned Theatre and Store Building.

Sketch of the front door of the planned Theatre and Store Building.

Sketch of the front of the planned Theatre and Store Building.

Longitudinal section of the planned Theatre and Store Building.

Blueprint for proposed marquise and signs for American Theatre.

Plan for first floor seating in the Theatre and Store Building.

Undated drawing of the second floor and balcony in the Lyric Theatre.

Sketch of a cross section of the flashing block in the Lyric Theatre.

Sketch of a cross section of a stairway in the Lyric Theatre.

Sketch of the foundation of the Lyric Theatre.

Sketch of a cross section of the front door of the planned Lyric Theatre.

Sketched plan for the first floor of the Lyric Theatre.

Sketches of the proposed design for the front entrance of the Lyric Theatre.

Photo of [College Ave.] in Blacksburg, VA.

Front of the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, VA. Likely about 1934.

College avenue in Blacksburg, VA, showing the front of the Lyric Theatre.

Lyric Theatre when it was showing the film Safari, about 1956.

First movie house in Blacksburg, VA.

Newspaper clippings from the Montgomery News Messenger showing the Lyric Theatre in 1909-1910 and in 1930.

Color photo of the auditorium in the Lyric Theatre.

Water usage, retail sales, real estate assessments, and town budgets from 1961-1966 in Blacksburg, VA.

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

A short newspaper article describing the origins of Blacksburg's name.

Genealogy information about the family of Roseanna Croy Dawson.

Introduction to the diaries of Roseanna Croy Dawson.

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

Article about archaeological history in Blacksburg, VA.

Members of the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department sit in the back of the town's first fire truck.

Flower garden at Blacksburg Station.

Flower garden at the Huckleberry station.

Flower garden at the Huckleberry station.

Earl Palmer photograph of the front of a train on the Huckleberry line.

Map of the 1937 Merrimac community, produced by the Appalachian Studies Program and the Landscape Architecture Program at Virginia Tech in 1996.

Map of the railroad in and around Blacksburg, VA.

Map of Montgomery County, VA.

View of a street in Blacksburg. Image used in previous iteration of web exhibit and captions were not provided. Image titles and descriptions were created at the time of exhibit migration.

Originally used by the Catholics in Blacksburg, the parish left the building in the 1970s and it was adapted for use by an Anglican Parish. Image used in previous iteration of web exhibit and captions were not provided. Image titles and descriptions…