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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: Use this for collections relating to Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Appalachia.

Found in 1734 Collections and/or Records:

Emmett Russell Price Scrapbooks,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-011
Abstract

This collection contains the scrapbooks of Emmett Russell Price, professor of Agricultural Journalism at VPI, from 1910-1944. The scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings about Blacksburg and VPI.

Dates: 1910 - 1943

Price Family Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-047
Abstract

The Price Family Collection includes letters, photograph albums, receipts, and other ephemera. The collection is divided into three series: Correspondence, Photographs and Artifacts, and Ephemera.

Dates: 1840 - 1905

Harvey Lee Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-001
Scope and Content This collection consists of notes and outlines of various Montgomery County families which Price used to write his four volume series "Outlines of Montgomery County Families" which is available in the Special Collections department of Virginia Tech. Material in the Harvey Lee Price collection include Price's own background research, notes, transcribed historical documents, and correspondence with numerous families with historical connections to Montgomery County. Also included are...
Dates: 1853, 1927-49, n.d.

Price House Landscaping Plan, Price House Existing Site Plan (3 sheets)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0237
Abstract

Site plans show the species of trees to be included in the landscaping of Price House in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1989, 1986

James Bane Price Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-008
Abstract

The collection consists of eight account books from the James Bane Price store in Prices Fork (Montgomery County), Virginia; the books provide details of daily transactions, expenditures and costumer accounts and span the years 1871 to 1897.

Dates: 1871 - 1897

Jimmie L. Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-048
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...
Dates: 1986 - 2003

Price-List of Building Lots at Radford ... Until January 1st, 1889

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0254
Abstract

Broadside lists prices of lots in Radford, Virginia. It accompanies a map (Map.0255) that shows lot locations.

Dates: ca. 1889

Program, Dedication of Col William Henderson French Marker, September 16, 1961 (Ms1988-047)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_047_EllettFamily_DedicationProgram_WmHendersonFrenchMarker_1961_0916_
Dates: 1865 - 1961

Promissory Note, Signed by S. N. Bosworth, Beverly WV., January 22, 1892 (Ms2010-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_PromissoryNote_1892_0122
Dates: 1892-01-22

Properties of the Blacksburg Realty Corporation and Reliance Mills. Blacksburg, Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0277
Abstract

Map in blueprint shows properties on the corner of College Ave. and Main Street in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: June 22, 1939