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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:

Business Section, City of Richmond

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0171
Abstract

Map shows business districts of Richmond, Virginia, from Eleventh to North Fourth streets, between East Main and East Broad, with business names and some tax statuses within plots of land. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Richmond, as well as a tourist map and aerial photographs of the city.

Dates: ca. 1950

Business Section, City of Roanoke

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0191
Abstract

Map shows business districts of Roanoke, Virginia, from 2nd Commerce to 2nd Randolph streets, between Franklin Rd/Tazewell Avenue and Salem Avenue, with business names and some tax statuses within plots of land. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Roanoke, as well as aerial photographs of the city.

Dates: ca. 1950

Business Section, Lynchburg, Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0145
Abstract

Map shows the business section of Lynchburg, Virginia, from 4th to 13th streets, between Church, Main, and Commerce streets. Reverse side gives historical, demographic, and business information about the city of Lynchburg, as well as a tourist map and an aerial photograph of the city.

Dates: ca. 1950

Byllesby Dam, Carroll County, Virginia, Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-095
Abstract

This scrapbook page contains five photographs taken in and around the Byllesby Dam in Carroll County, Virginia.

Dates: [c.1912?]

William Addison Caldwell Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-048
Scope and Content Born in Craig County, Virginia; first student to enroll at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech), in October 1872. Graduated in 1876. Papers consist of Caldwell's report card from the 1875 academic year, with the envelope it was sent in; a bible given to Caldwell in 1878 as a graduation gift; a letter written by him in Wrightsville, North Carolina, in 1910, a month and a half before his death, to his niece Katherine Caldwell in Radford, Virginia; and a...
Dates: 1875, 1878, 1910

Cambria Train Station, Christiansburg, VA

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-156
Scope and Contents

VTF 3114; bright colors; CocaCola sign

Dates: n.d.

John P. E. Campbell Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-056
Abstract

Letter from John P. E. Campbell (50th Regiment, Virginia Infantry) to his wife, April 13, 1863.

Dates: 1863 - 1863

Campus Guide to Virginia Tech

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0334
Abstract

Map is part of a campus guide for Virginia Tech. It contains campus information and an index for department locations.

Dates: ca. 1969