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:
Brian Ackler Papers
Graduate of Virginia Tech (1971), and one of the founders and editors of Alice, a Blacksburg, Virginia, underground newspaper. Collection consists of issues of Alice (1968-1971); a tape recording of a student reply to a University radio program about student unrest; and a paper written by Ackler, "Alice: the Study of a Free Press."
Acknowledgment of the President's Warrant of Pardon, Signed: Robert T. Preston, Solitude, December 29, 1865, and Certified document of the United States of America, Signed William Seward, January 9, 1866 (Ms1992-003)
Elizabeth Kent Adams Papers
Adams Express Company Ledger
The collection consists of a ledger for the Adams Express Company recording shipments being moved from Hot Springs, Virginia, to Warm Springs, Virginia, between May and September of 1912.
Clement M. Adkisson Account Book,
Ledger from Halifax County, Virginia general mercantile store, with entries listing customer names, together with descriptions of items purchased and dates and prices of purchases.
Thomas Adriance Papers,
The collection consists almost exclusively of performance programs, playbills, and other threater literature of theater, dance, and music performances attended by Adriance.
African-American Tenant Farmer Photographs, Clarksville, Virginia
This collection contains six black and white photographs of a tenant farm in Clarksville, Virginia.
African-American Tenant Farmer Photographs, Clarksville, Virginia, c. 1920 (Ms2009-110)
Henrie H. Alexander Letter
The collection consists of a letter written June 10,1862, from Alexander in Blacksburg, to Captain W. G. Price in Wytheville, Virginia, about a recent skirmish with the Union soldiers at Salt Sulphur Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia).