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The Gazebo at Yellow Sulphur Springs

The Old Hotel & Gazebo at Yellow Sulphur Springs

The New Hotel at Yellow Sulphur Springs

Joel L. Webster Receipt from Franklin County, Virginia

John and William Jameson Tax on Land Note

Joel L. Webster Tax Notation

Michael Snider Tax Notation

Photo of VPI in 1872.

Photo titled "V.P.I. as it was when opened - 1872."

A hand-sized black bible with a metal closure.

The title page of a bible. Contains the old and new testaments, translated from the original tongues by the New York: American Bible Society.

VAMC Cadet-1872. A VAMC Cadet in 1872.

January 29, 1872, Letter to Mollie from Mother, S.P. Scollay, in Middleway W. VA at Smithfield, Mollie has Daughter Page and siste Lizzie.

John and William Jameson Notice from Sheriff

John Jameson $13.60 paid in full, signed J. W. Hartwell.

Commission of Dr. Harvey Black as a Visitor

A receipt/ contract where Cassel is boarding and feeding Captain William Howe's stallion.

A certification made by George Atkins that a fence running along the south of his land was not jointly owned by him and Cassel, but belongs only to Cassel.

The second letter dates to May 15, 1872 and is written by Sarah Caperton Preston to Colonel Grabowski at Virginia Military Institute (VMI). The letter is a response to a previous notice from the Colonel about her son’s (Hugh Caperton Preston) recent…

Document allowing Jacob Cassel to use a patented design of a beehive.

Preston and Olin Building. It was the only building on campus when Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College opened its doors on Oct. 1, 1872.

A VAMC Cadet

Montgomery Female College

Commission of Dr. Harvey Black.

List of students attending VAMC in 1872-1873, including name and home county

First Session, 1872-73. Annual course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.

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Scrap paper with math and writing.

Cadet

Silver Threads Among the Gold, lyrics by Eben E. Rexford, composed by H.P. Danks, 1873.

Letter from Thomas Simmons to his family, George Short, Lidda Stanley, and children.

Program of the Sophosonian Literary Society

Maury Literary Society Program

Photograph of Jim Harris (James W. M. Harris).

Second Session, 1873-74. Annual course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.

A Cadet Private, 1874

Opened in April 1874 in the vicinity of Price Hall.

Cadet Officer

Main Building

Looking North, Ponce De Leon, southwest Roanoke city, site of present Y.W.C.A.

Handwritten diary of A. J. Davis (pdf)

Letter from the creators of the original seal attesting to the authenticity of the replica.

A notice demanding possession of William Scott's land and house.

John R. Webster paid $29.34 to Jesse Webster

Page 1 of A. J. Davis' graduation speech at the University of Kentucky, Commercial College