MSS. Manuscript Collections

The collection includes small publications and pamphlets created and distributed by culinary, appliance, and food-related companies from about the 1870s to the 1990s. Most pamphlets contain advertisements, recipes, product information, testimonials, or some combination of all four.

The collection includes a manuscript cookbook containing recipes, home remedies, and crochet instructions written in several different hands.

The collection consists of one postcard of Notre-Dame from Sherwood Anderson to Bert and Clara Dickenson and a photograph of Sherwood Anderson and Bert Dickenson in Florida with a line of fish in between the two men.

William Gideon Harris album contains photographs of the VPI campus and surrounding areas, c.1908-1912, as well as several newsclippings and pieces of poetry. .

The collection contains student papers from Dr. George Green Shackelford's Historic Preservation classes spanning 1963-1989.

The collection consists of a small photograph album belonging to Percy Clayton Hamilton, class of 1912, with photographs from his tenure as a student at VPI.

The collection contains a promotional folder from LactAid, Inc., including information on products and samples.

The collection includes a mathematics notebook containing equations and work problems from Samuel Burger of Botetourt County, Virginia.

The collection contains an original typescript memoir of James Adger Smyth (1837-1920) of Charleston, SC, as well as a transcript of the memoir and an introduction/brief biography by a descendant.

The collection consists of a 19th century manuscript business ledger from Hickory Fork in Gloucester County, Virginia.