Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Organization
Dates
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1974-003
Abstract
Papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. Includes the Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.
Dates:
1779 - 1984
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (Ms1974-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1974-003
Showacre Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-030
Abstract
The Showacre Family Papers consists of a handwritten copy of a eulogy for Charles Showacre by Reverend William Runyan and given on May 22, 1864, and an acceptance letter dated September 23, 1873, admitting George D. Showarce to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Dates:
1864, 1873
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech