Blacksburg (Va.)
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "Montgomery County" and "Local/Regional History," too.Found in 537 Collections and/or Records:
Blacksburg [Virginia], Town of, Miscellaneous Records
Collection consists of a variety of Blacksburg town documents and reports collected by Virginia Polytechnic Institute librarians. Includes financial statements (1927-1951), a typescript annual report (1954), a population study (1944), Chamber of Commerce brochures, and information on elections (1936-1968).
Blacksburg Woman's Club Records,
Records of the Blacksburg Woman's Club. Includes club correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks and printed material.
Marvin Blecher Audiocassette Tape
Oral history interview conducted by Virginia Tech student Christina Roemer with Marvin and Freda Blecher of Blacksburg, Virginia, about their involvement in the Jewish community in the town and the Hillel student organization at Virginia Tech. Dr. Marvin Blecher served as faculty advisor for Hillel from 1973 to 1983. Also includes information about the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center and other Jewish communities in the region.
Milka T. Bliznakov Papers and Architectural Drawings
Milka Bliznakov was a Bulgarian architect, architectural historian, and professor who practiced in Bulgaria, France, and the United States. The collection consists of her publications, research, correspondence, professional documentation of her practice, conference participation materials, teaching materials, and documents related to her involvement as the founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Block Plan of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., Showing the Proposed Layout of the Evans-Almirall Hot Water Heating Mains
Map shows the plan for heating mains at VPI in 1909.
Dorothy H. Bodell Papers,
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents, and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.
Brown Family Papers,
The collection consists of receipts, bills, Promissory notes, tax notes, letters, and other various papers created between 1825 and 1912 by members of the Brown, and other related families.
Ralph Minthorne Brown Papers
Papers of Ralph Minthorne Brown, Virginia Tech head librarian (1926-1947), amateur historian and naturalist. Includes materials on Virginia Tech and local history, including typed transcripts of sources gathered for an intended history of Virginia Tech. Also included are Brown's Blacksburg ornithological and weather observations, a bibliography of Matthew Fontaine Maury, and other writings.