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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:

Campus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0335
Abstract

Map shows the campus of VPI.

Dates: 1957

Campus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0323
Abstract

Map comes detatched from a bound brochure for VPI. Reverse of campus map shows some application guidelines and photographs from campus.

Dates: 1971/1972

Cana, Virginia - North Carolina Quadrangle,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0738
Abstract

Cana, Virginia - North Carolina Quadrangle. U. S. Geological Survey, 1968. 22 x 27 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Dates: 1968 - 1968

Caperton Family Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-034
Scope and Content Collection consists of transcripts of letters written by Mary Elizabeth Henderson Caperton of Nelson County, Virginia, to her husband George Henry Caperton, a soldier in the 1st Virginia Regiment of Mounted Volunteers (also known as the 30th Virginia Volunteers Mounted) in the Civil War. Mary Caperton wrote most of the letters from White Thorn, in Blacksburg, Virginia, while staying with Sarah Ann Caperton Preston, her husband's sister, while her husband served in the Confederate Army. She...
Dates: 1861 - 1862

Card, Birthday Note to J. [Joe?] H. Hoge from Clara and Harry, February 28, 1945 (Ms1988-047)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_047_EllettFamily_birthdaycard_1945_0228
Dates: 1865 - 1961

Card, DAR Acceptance Letter to Sue Ellett, January 11, 1911 (Ms1988-047)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_047_EllettFamily_DAR_Acceptance_1911_0111
Dates: 1865 - 1961

John Newton Carnahan Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-112
Abstract

Civil War letters from Private John Newton Carnahan of the 54th Virginia Infantry to his wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children in Pulaski County, Virginia.

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Carneal and Johnston Architectural Drawings,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-008
Scope and Content

The collection contains detail drawings, sketches, and tracings of several campus buildings. Items include 1934 drawings of 1934 Faculty Dormitory and Campus Soical Center, 1939 drawings of Agricultural Hall, 1952 and 1959 drawings of the Academic Science building, 1959 and 1961 drawings of the Engineering building, and 1961 and 1968 sketches of dorm buildings. The collection also contains original detail drawings and tracings of the Biology, Geology, and Education building.

Dates: 1939-1968, n.d.

Henry C. Carpenter Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-008
Abstract

The papers consist of Carpenter's letters written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in parts of Virginia and West Virginia.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

John Carr Civil War Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-035
Abstract

This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of the Civil War-era letters of Private John Carr, who served with the 2nd Stuart Horse Artillery of the Confederate Army.

Dates: 1862 - 1862