Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

Bill issued to Elias Crabill by Zea & Pirkey, a Strasburg, Virginia mercantile business, for purchases of food staples, fabrics, and clothing accessories made by Crabill's sister.

The Craft Family Collection includes correspondence to and from Jacob Craft during the Civil War, and also includes correspondences written to his daughter Blanche from various soldiers during World War I.

Typescript copies of seventy-five letters from the management of a resort hotel in Craig County, Virginia, about reservations, accommodations, and the restorative powers of the spring water, to potential guests and other resorts. 

The collection consists of a manuscript receipt book created by/belonging to Bettie D. Cramer of Wheeling, West Virginia, c. 1883. The notebook contains recipes, housekeeping tips, and elocution exercises.

Cripple Creek, Virginia Quadrangle. U. S. Geological Survey, 1968. 22 x 27 in. [FOLDER C-5]

J. W. Crockett Papers consist of a broadside, "The Center as Conservative Balance," and an unstamped Congressional cover from George C. Cabell to Crockett of Floyd County, Virginia.

The Lucy Herndon Crockett Papers consists of type and manuscript versions of some of Crockett's published and unpublished novels, her illustrations and art for her publications, and a small group of personal papers and papers about her. Materials date from about 1940 to 2015.

The collection includes a broadside advertising the sale of the Crockett Mineral Springs Hotel in Montgomery County, Virginia, as well as hotel equipment and land. It also contains a letter from S. S. Griffith to Dr. J. Harry Smith, written in 1930 on Crocket Arsenic-Lithia Springs letterhead.

Legal document from a Wythe County, Virginia man listing his land and slave holdings.

The John F. Crosby Papers collection contains John Crosby's research, letters of inquiry, correspondence, and genealogy charts pertaining to his manuscript "Brother vs. Brother: Divided Families in the Civil War.