Jimmie L. Price Papers
Scope and Content Information
His collection consists of four videotapes of interviews conducted by Price with Montgomery County residents, including an interview in 1986 with Elizabeth Kent Adams about the Kentland property; interviews conducted in 1987 with four Montgomery County residents, including Robert H. Surface, Albert Hamlin, Evans Linkous, and Arnold Linkous, about coal mines and mining in the county; and an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, whose ancestors were slaves and later servants at Kentland, and an interview (7 August 2003) with Josephine Scrivenor, who lived at Kentland as a girl. Also includes sketches of Kentland and coal operations, drawn by Price as described by the interviewees.
Dates
- Creation: 1986 - 2003
Creator
- Price, Jimmie L. (Person)
Access
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Jimme L. Price Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical/Historical Information
Jimmie L. Price is a Blacksburg, Virginia, resident, minister, and local historian. Hi is the author of Malissia Said, and on of the co-authors of Millstone Manufacture in Virginia: Interviews with the Last Brush Mountain Millstone Makers and of A Brief History of Several Coal Mines of Montgomery County. The son of coal miner Henry Price, Jimmie Price founded the Coal Miner's Heritage Association.
Full Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The videotapes and are arranged according to the date of the interview. The folders are chronologically ordered.
General Physical Description note
0.1 cubic feet; 1 Box; 4 Videotapes; 2 Folders
- Title
- A Guide to the Jimmie L. Price Papers 1986-2003
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Katz Smith
- Date
- © 2001 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu