Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

Winston Family Letters

Collection — Folder 1

Identifier: Ms-1995-004

Scope and Content Copies of transcripts of various the Civil War letters of three brothers: Ambrose Whitlock Winston (1835-97), Charles James Winston (1837-87), and William Henry Harrison Winston (1841-1935), of Campbell County, Virginia, to their aunt, Mary Harris Clark. The brothers all served in Company G, 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. The letters were written between November 1861 and March 1865 from camps in Virginia and North Carolina. They write of mutual friends killed or...

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Wise County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highway Systems

Collection — Object 1

Identifier: Map-0181

Abstract

Map shows primary and secondary roads in Wise County, Virginia, and it includes an explanatory legend.

Dates: 1947

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Henry H. Wiss Papers

Collection — Folder 1

Identifier: Ms-1996-013

Scope and Content

Professor of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1947 to 1983. Collection consists of twelve architectural drawings and four photographs of Wiss's private residence in Blacksburg, Virginia, designed by him in 1960.

Dates: 1960, n.d.

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Woman's Missionary Union Minute Book,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2011-073

Abstract

The Woman's Missionary Union Minute Book contains the minutes of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Liberty Hill Baptist Church in Grayson County, Virginia. The minute book includes meeting minutes dating from 1907 through 1929. The minute book also includes limited financial records including dues collected to support the group and funds collected for various charitable causes and support for other churches in the area.

Dates: 1907 - 1929

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Women's Biography Project Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Ms-1995-028

Scope and Content Collection of oral history interviews regarding the stories of individual women from the local community. Interviews conducted in the fall of 1994 by students of Dr. Kathleen W. Jones, assistant professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech. Interviewees were Thelma Booth, Rose Burnett, Kate Huff Bruce, Thelma Eaves, Wenona S. Gardner, Dot Humphries, Agnes Hurt, Esther Jones, Herta Lopez, Leola Pearce Pearson, Pauline Pitsinger, Marge Robinson, Dorothy Shueler, Laura Scott, Alison...

Dates: 1994 - 1994

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Women's Home & Foreign Mission Society of Luther Chapel Ledger,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2011-072

Abstract

Ledger contains the treasurer's reports and financial records of the Women's Home and Foreign Mission Society of Luther Chapel in Washington County, VA. Entries date from 1907 through 1922.

Dates: 1907 - 1922

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Greenville D. Wood Account Books,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1940-028

Abstract

Account books for Floyd County, Virginia general mercantile store, providing customer names, dates of purchase, transaction descriptions and dates.

Dates: 1894 - 1912

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Wood, Kasey, and Wood Account Books,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2008-035

Abstract

The Wood, Kasey, and Wood Account Books document the transactions of a general store and zinc distributor in Max Meadows, Virginia, during the mid- to late nineteenth century. Materials include two detailed ledgers, three day books, and one cash book.

Dates: 1864 - 1891

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech