Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
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:
Milka T. Bliznakov Papers and Architectural Drawings
Milka Bliznakov was a Bulgarian architect, architectural historian, and professor who practiced in Bulgaria, France, and the United States. The collection consists of her publications, research, correspondence, professional documentation of her practice, conference participation materials, teaching materials, and documents related to her involvement as the founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Block Plan of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., Showing the Proposed Layout of the Evans-Almirall Hot Water Heating Mains
Map shows the plan for heating mains at VPI in 1909.
Blue Ridge Discovery Center Collection,
Educational/informational materials published by the Blue Ridge Discovery Center.
Blue Ridge Parkway Folklore Project Records
The collection includes records from an oral history project conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service created between 1978 and 1979.
Cynthia Addington Boatwright Papers
The materials in this collection include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, programs, and files created and collected by Boatwright in her lifetime. The majority of the materials focus on Boatwright's tenure as President of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs from 1941 to 1944.
Dorothy H. Bodell Papers,
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents, and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.
Betty Belle Boone Diary
Diary of Betty Belle Boone, a young, unmarried woman of Boones Mill, Virginia, from January 1893 to September 1894, detailing household chores and social activities.
Squire Bosworth Papers,
Papers of Squire Bosworth, a physician and county court clerk of Randolph County, Virginia/West Virginia, including correspondence, legal papers, and financial documents.
Henry B. Boynton Papers,
This collection contains the papers of architect Henry B. Boynton. The bulk of the materials consists of financial and organizational material for the firm of Smithey & Boynton, and awards and honors bestowed on Boynton.
Herman J. Bradley Correspondence
Union soldier in the Civil War, possibly in the Army of the Potomac. Correspondence consists of two letters to Bradley's family. One letter was written November 10, 1861, for Bradley to his brother by Darius Russell, about Bradley's ill condition. The second was written November 7, 1864(?), by Bradley to his parents, from Camp Cedar Creek, Virginia. Writes about the guerilla action in the area and their capture of General Alfred N. Duffie.