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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:

Samuel Kinzie Survey,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-044
Abstract

The Samuel Kinzie Survey contains a survey of Kinzie properties in Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Virginia made in 1899 by C.S. Charlton.

Dates: 1899 - 1899

Frank C. Kitts, Jr. Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-020
Abstract

A scrapbook assembled by Frank C, Kitts, Jr., containing mementoes from his life during 1919-1936. He went to Tazewell High School in Tazewell County, Virginia, and was a mail carrier and member of the U.S. Guard Band. His scrapbook contains items such as letters, locks of hair, newspaper clippings, high school football and play tickets, calling cards, and poems.

Dates: 1919 - 1936

S. H. Knick Collection,

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-055
Scope and Content

Rockbridge County, Virginia native. Collection consists of a Virginia Polytechnic Institute handbook of 1905-06, a letter to Frank Sherwood from Sgt. Bozworth, and a letter and a post card from Herbert to his brother, W. Hampton Knick.

Dates: 1862, 1904-1906

Lambsburg, Virginia - North Carolina Quadrangle,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0734
Abstract

Lambsburg, Virginia - North Carolina Quadrangle. U. S. Geological Survey, 1965. 22 x 27 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Dates: 1965 - 1965

Margaret S. Marston Lampe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-003
Scope and Content Information The papers of Margaret S. Marston Lampe span the dates 1978-1987 and are comprised mostly of correspondence, final report drafts, briefing material, meeting minutes, and newspaper clippings. The collection is organized into the following series: National Commission on Excellence in Education, Elementary and Secondary Mathematics, National Institute of Education Laboratory, Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education, and Virginia Board of Education.The majority of this...
Dates: 1978 - 1987

Lucy Lee Lancaster Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-069
Abstract Lucy Lee Lancaster was born in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1905 and lived there until she died in 1989. She was one of the first women admitted to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (popularly known as VPI), and after graduating in 1925, she went on to earn her MLS from Columbia University Library School. She worked at the VPI library for the rest of her career. The Lancaster papers contain biographical materials, family papers, genealogy research,...
Dates: 1915 - 1989

Land Survey, Montgomery County, Virginia,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-023
Abstract

The collection consists of map of Montgomery County as it was in 1784. The acreage, divided into thirty-two tracts of one thousand acres each, is situated on the Guyandotte River, a tributary of the Ohio, in present day West Virginia.

Dates: 1784 - 1784

Land Survey, Montgomery County, Virginia, 1784 (Ms2011-023)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2011-023
Dates: 1784

Lane Hall, Virginia Tech

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-096
Scope and Contents

unframed watercolor; not VTF number

Dates: n.d.

Jacob W. Lantz Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-003
Abstract

Correspondence and account books of Jacob W. Lantz, proprietor of a general store in Smythe County, Virginia, and manager of local properties owned by the Lobdell Car Wheel Company.

Dates: 1908 - 1944