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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:

Lobdell Car Wheel Company Account Books,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1940-019
Abstract

Records of Smyth and Wythe County, Virginia furnace and store operations of the Lobdell Car Wheel Company, including customer store accounts, payroll records, and furnace operation reports.

Dates: 1881 - 1902

Seldon Longley Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-116
Abstract

This collection contains six pieces of personal correspondence addressed to Seldon Longley, as well as a bank note and leather case.

Dates: 1871-1893, n.d.

Look Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1976-003
Abstract

Papers of the Look family of Wyoming, New York and Marion, Virginia, including correspondence of women's suffragist Susan Look Avery and other family members; cartes-de-visite of Avery and daughter Lydia Avery Coonley; photographs of "Hillside," the Avery family home in Wyoming, New York; and a brochure of the Susan Look Avery Club of Wyoming, New York.

Dates: 1875 - 1907

Louisa County Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0112
Abstract

Minimalist map shows towns in Louisa County, Virginia.

Dates: 1910

Daniel Bedinger Lucas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-012
Abstract

The Daniel Bedinger Lucas papers consist of scrapbooks, correspondence, poems and essays, newspapers, and other materials collected and created by Lucas, including several items created by his daughter, Virginia Lucas, also a poet.

Dates: 1812-1924, n.d.

Luray, Virginia: the Valley Land and Improvement Company. [Map of Shenandoah Valley]

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0051
Abstract

Map is part of a tourist brochure advertising the Luray Inn (the subject of an engraving at the top-center of the map) as well as the many historical attractions, mostly battlefields, in the Shenandoah Valley. Reverse of map contains advertisements for Luray tourism.

Dates: 1890

A. W. Luster Receipt,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-093
Abstract

The A. W. Luster Receipt describes food purchases by Luster in 1906. The author is presumed to be the same Luster--mentioned in Black, Kent, and Apperson family papers--who owned a local store in Blacksburg, VA.

Dates: 1906 - 1906

Lynchburg, Virginia Mercantile Daybook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-2017-024
Dates: 1835 - 1838

Lynchburg, Virginia, Slave Impressment Document,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-048
Abstract

This collection consists of a receipt for the impressment a slave in Lynchburg, Virginia, for work on the city's fortifications in October 1863.

Dates: October 1, 1863

Lyric Theatre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-034
Abstract

The Lyric Theatre Collection contains lobby cards, event programs, film flyers, and several film-related newsletters, dating from 1922 to 2006. The majority of the collection consists of lobby cards (1936-1979) and film flyers (undated, but mostly c.1920s-1950s).

Dates: 1922 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1922 - 1979