Blacksburg (Va.)

William E. Hoge Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2003-019

Scope and Content Information The Hoge Family papers consists of 164 letters and 65 deeds, along with financial papers, postcards, and extensive genealogical research. The letters detail the lives of the Hoge family, specifically the children, from the 1830s through the 1880s. Several of the letters in the collection are written by Ollie Hoge, spanning from the time when she was a young girl enrolled in the Wytheville Female College to her later days as a wife and mother living in Richmond.Prevalent in the...

Dates: 1810 - 1933

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Virginia Hummel Papers

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1998-014

Scope and Content Information

The Virginia Hummel collection consists of newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, maps, and blueprints collected and created by Virginia Hummel of Blacksburg.

Dates: 1830 - 1998

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

John R. Hutcheson Family Collection,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2015-001

Abstract Correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items document the career and family of John R. Hutcheson. After earning his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), John Redd Hutcheson (1886-1962) began working at the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service in 1914, becoming its director in 1919. Hutcheson was elected as president of VPI in 1945, serving until his nomination as VPI's first chancellor in 1947. The next year he became the first president of...

Dates: 1890 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Independent Order of St. Luke

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1988-121

Scope and Content Information

The bulk of the materials in the collection consist of handbooks, correspondence, receipts, programs, membership records, annual reports, and assessment reports of the Order, collected primarily from members in Blacksburg, Virginia. Also includes the minutes (1920-38) of the Blacksburg chapters of the Busy Bee and Maggie L. Walker (Secretary of the Independent Order of St. Luke) Circles.

Dates: 1877 - 1970

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Invitation, Inauguration Ball, Miss Virginia T. Preston, March 5, 1849 (Ms1992-003)

Digital Record

Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F1_InauguralInvit_1849_0305

Dates: 1849-03-05

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

J. H. Wissler's Coal Property on Both Sides of Prices Mountain in Montgomery County, Virginia

Collection — Object 1

Identifier: Map-0290

Abstract

Map shows J. H. Wissler's Coal Property near Price's Mountain in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Dates: Oct. 30, 1911

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

John Todd to John Brown in Augusta, concerning a runaway wench Todd now wants to sell to Col. [William] Preston.

Digital Record

Identifier: Ms1985-020_John Todd to John Brown

Dates: July 5, 1768

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Patricia Givens Johnson Papers

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1988-007

Abstract

Papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian. Includes correspondence, subject files, printed materials and photographs. Also includes a scrapbook and a few other materials, scattered throughout the collection, which had belonged to Johnson's mother, Lula Porterfield Givens, also a local historian.

Dates: 1920 - 1986

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech