Cora Bolton McBryde Collection
Scope and Content
The Cora Bolton McBryde Collection consists of a handwritten recipe book belonging to McBryde, as well as three peraonal artifacts: an anniversary plate, a Tiffany & Co. silver spoon, and a metal mold. Most of the materials are undated, other than the plate (1913), but they likely date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More detailed description of each item is provided in the "Contents List" below.
Dates
- Creation: c.1860s-1910s
Creator
- McBryde, Cora Bolton, 1839-1920 (Former owner, Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from Cora Bolton McBryde Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Note
Cora Bolton was born to James (1812-1869) and Anna Maria Harrison (1813-1873) Bolton in Richmond, Virginia, on August 4, 1839. She was the eldest of six children. Her father was a physician who worked in the Richmond area, includnig during the Civil War. In 1860, Cora, then 19, was living with her family there.
Cora married John McLaren McBryde on November 18, 1863. They had eight children, six of whom lived to adulthood: Janet (1864-1869), James (1866-1925), Anna (later Anna Davidson) (1868-1948) John (1870-?), Charles (1872-1962), Susan (1874-1951), Meade (1877-1959), and Waid (abt. 1878-?). The 1880 census places the McBryde family in Knoxville, Tennessee, where John McBryde was teaching at the time.
By 1891, they had settled in Blacksburg, where Cora would spend the remaining 29 years of her life. Cora died in Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1920 at the age of 80. She is buried in Westview Cemetery.
You can see several photographs of Cora and her family in a post on the Special Collections blog.
Sources:
Cora Bolton McBryde on Find a Grave
Ancestry Library Edition
Full Extent
1.4 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of a handwritten recipe book belonging to Cora Bolton McBryde, as well as three peraonal artifacts: an anniversary plate, a Tiffany & Co. silver spoon, and a metal mold. Most of the materials are undated, other than the plate (1913), but they likely date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Cora Bolton McBryde was the wife of John McLaren McBryde, president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College before and during the transition to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (shortened to Virginia Polytechnic Institute).
Acquisition Information
Materials in the collection were donated to Special Collections in two separate accession: The cookbook in 2013 and the artifacts in 2016.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Cora Bolton McBryde Collection was completed in December 2016.
- Title
- Cora Bolton McBryde Collection, c.1860s-1910s
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
- Date
- © 2016 Virginia Tech. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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