Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

Blacksburg, Christiansburg. Raines Real Estate, Inc. 24 x 18 in. [FOLDER D-6]

Records (including membership ledgers, circular letters, programs, and newspapers clippings) of association organized to invite outside classical music and dance artists to perform on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute campus.

The collection includes information about the planning, creation, organization, and operation of the Blacksburg Community Federation from 1926 through 1957.

Blacksburg Deaths Journal contains a chronological listing of area deaths. Entries date from February 20, 1917 to February 14, 1947 and contain information like name, age, date of death, place of death, time and location of burial, and church membership.

Papers, including correspondence, in-house publications, presentations, press clippings, and external reports, relating to Blacksburg Electronic Village, an experimental online community network connecting the town of Blacksburg, Virginia.

Map shows the Houston Farm in the southern part of Blacksburg, Virginia.

Map, in blueprint, shows the Mary Henderson Lots of Blacksburg, Virginia.

Records--including correspondence, minutes, programs, financial records, scrapbooks, rosters, and bylaws--of the Blacksburg Music Club, an organization founded to promote the study of music among its members and to stimulate local interest through regularly scheduled musical programs. Also includes materials from the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs and the National Federation of Music Clubs.

Project of the University Libraries of Virginia Tech to collect information on the history of Blacksburg, Virginia. Collection contains taped interviews, most with transcripts, of the following Blacksburg residents: Cliff Busby, Georgia Croy, S.H. Kessinger, Lucy Lee Lancaster, George Litton, Howard Price, Carrie T. Sibold, and Ellison A. Smyth.

unframed picture; no VTF number; banner with ""Buy your Lyceum Ticket Now…"" in picture