Salem (Va.)
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Bell Chrome Postcard Postmarked: Roanoke, 1936
J.W. Bell Co., Inc. Lynchburg, VA
Postcards
Portion of South Quadrangle with Dormitories, Hollins College, VA
Roanoke (Va.)
Caption on reverse: "Hollins College, situated seven miles from the city of Roanoke. Oldest college for women in Virginia, founded by Charles Lewis Cocke. Began with Valley Union Seminary of 1842. An accredited liberal arts college with an endowment and board of trustees. A Southern collection with a nation-wide patronage.
Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C.
St. Andrews Catholic Church, Roanoke, Va.
Gooch-Cosby Co., Roanoke, Va.
Interior St. Andrew's Cathedral, ROANOKE, Va.
Interior view of nave facing altar. Postmarked: June, 1908. Message on reverse: "Hello Ernest, I shall be glad to go up to see you all Sunday night. I shall arrive on the evening train. Do let me meet the little man you have in [store?]. Frances J."
Postmarked: September, 1907 Message on reverse: "Hello Coz How are you living? I am still existing. Come down, Soon ha ha. 13.12.23."
H.C. Barnes, Inc. Roanoke, Va. Made in Germany.
"Little Falls" on Stony Creek, Giles County, Virginia
Giles County (Va.)
Waterfalls
1908
Caption on reverse: Hotel Patrick Henry Roanoke, Virginia 400 Rooms with Bath, Ceiling Fan, Circulating Ice Water. Garage direct entrance to Lobby. Fay M. Thomas, Manager. Postcard is a Lumitone Photo Print, This company published highly stylized view-cards in tinted halftone lithography.
Radford (Va.)
Postcard. Postmarked Sep 18 1907 Made in Germany
Tazewell County (Va.)
Postcard. Made in Germany. Postmark illegible.
Postcard. Postmarked July 28, 1907 Printed in Germany.
1907
C C C C (Commercial Colortype Co., Chicago)
Radford State Normal. Administration Building. East Radford, Va.
Postcard made by The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
View of Valley From Highway No. 11, Draper's Mountain, Pulaski, VA.
Pulaski County (Va.)
Caption on reverse: DRAPER'S MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA To the South and West lies Draper's Valley, named for John Draper, who settled here in 1765. He moved hence from Draper's Meadows (Blacksburg) where his wife was captured by the Indians in the Massacre of 1755. Six years later Draper ransomed her. He served as an officeer in the Point Pleasant Indian Expedition in 1774. Postmarked Apr 18 1945
Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N. C.
1945
Mountain Scenery Along C. & O. RY., Near Lexington, Virginia
Postcard. Logo: "Bell-Chrome Superior Quality" C.T.American Art R-22959 Photo credit in upper right corner: "McCown-Photo"
Saint Paul Nation Bank Building. Saint Paul, Va.
Postmarked August 26 4PM 1914 Message on reverse: "Mother dear, it was so muddy today we could not come home but if Friday is a better one we will walk [word obscured] if not please send for me Sat. evening - Love Olive
1914
Entrance to Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, VA.
1922
The James H. Hagy Wagon Co., Abingdon, Va. Established 1855. Incorporated 1904.
Abingdon (Va.)
Postmarked July 1910 Message on back: "Dear Boy, You must be good & mind what is told you. How are you getting along any way, are you getting home sick. Write us a card You Papa W.[?]"
The Kraemer Art Co., Cincinnati-Leipsie (Made in Germany)
1910
R.P.O. postmark (railway post office) indicates that this was mailed at a mobile post office. The route and train number are indicated. Postmarked "Lynch & Norton R.P.O. TR..6, Feb 24 1910" Addressed to Mrs. S. B. Schomaker, Blue Grass, Virginia Tunnel currently property of Norfolk & Southern. Date on lintel is 1905. Located at at 36.902711, -82.328600
B & W. Postcard. "Photo-Tone" Eagle Quality. The Eagle Post Card View Co., N.Y.
Eagle Post Card View Co., N.Y.
Excelsior Pocahontas Coal Co. Mines No.1 & 2. Pocahontas Smokeless Coal
Double postcard. Mine in Excelsior, McDowell County, West Virginia on the Norfolk & Western Railway. Photo credit on right side: Haines Photo Co., Conneaut, Ohio. Note: The Haines Photo Company was a Conneaut, Ohio-based American photography studio that specialized in panoramic images of popular American tourist destinations. It operated from 1908 until the late 1910s. More than 400 of the firm's photographs have been digitized by the Library of Congress
Postmarked Coeburn, VA, MAR 20 1908 Rec Castlewood, VA MAR 20 1908 Dealer's notation "Early Mining damage" handwritten on back.
Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Folks at Home,' Suffolk, Virginia, September 16, 1862 (Ms2009-071)
John C. Watkins
See the Finding Aid for the John C. Watkins Letters
mdb
Permission to publish material from the John C. Watkins Letters must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Letters
Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Friends at Home,' Camp Suffolk, Virginia, November 23-24, 1862 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Sisters, Camp Suffolk, Virginia, December 8-9, 1862 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Friends at Home,' March 9, 1863 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Friends at Home,' Camp Suffolk, Virginia, April 9, 1863 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Folks at Home,' Camp Suffolk, Virginia, April 17, 1863 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Folks at Home,' Camp Suffolk, Virginia, April 24, 1863 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Camp Suffolk, Virginia, May 5-6, 1863 (Ms2009-071)
Letter dated 6 May 1863 was written on the fourth and last page of the letter dated 5 May.
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Camp Suffolk, Virginia, May 18, 1863 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Washington, DC, March 31, 1864 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Washington, DC, May 23, 1864 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Washington, DC, May 22, 1865 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Washington, DC, April 17, 1866 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, August 23, 1868 [fragment] (Ms2009-071)
Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, November 22, 1868 (Ms2009-071)
Letter, Harriet Watkins to Friends, Winnemucca, Nevada, January 17, 1870 [fragment] (Ms2009-071)
Harriet (Hattie) Clark Clary Watkins
Letter, John C. Watkins, Undated fragment (Ms2009-071)
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Hall [Montgomery County Va.], October 7, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
Civil War
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Permission to publish material from the John Newton Carnahan collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Hall [Montgomery County Va.], October 27, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Wytheville Va., November 10, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862 (Ms2009-112)
Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Tazewell County Va., November 15, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Near Cedar Bluff [Tazewell County Va.], November, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
Letter, John Carnahan to Wife, Floyd County Ky., December 15, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
Letter, John Carnahan to Sons, Paintsville Ky., December 21, 1861 (Ms2009-112)