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Montgomery County (Va.)

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "Local/Regional History," too.

Found in 767 Collections and/or Records:

Martha Dillard Audiocassette Tapes

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1998-027
Scope and Content

Oral history interviews (3 on 3 cassette tapes) conducted by artist Martha Dillard in connection with Watershed, an exhibition of Dillard's paintings of the Ellett Valley in Montgomery County, Virginia. Interviewees include T. Cartmel and Liz Brown, Anna Laura Tribble, and Josie Shotts about the valley of the North Fork of the Roanoke River. Collection also includes postcards and flyers relating to the exhibition. Interviews untranscribed, notes available.

Dates: 1992 - 1992

Edward D'Invilliers Report,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1959-002
Abstract

The collection consists of a typescript carbon copy of a geological report on the Virginia Anthracite Coal Company property, Price and Brush Mountains in Montgomery County, Virginia by Edward d'Invilliers.

Dates: 1905 - 1905

Discharge of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Wilkes Jr., undated (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F13_LeutDischargd
Dates: n.d.

Division of the Annie Laura Gerald Land, Vicker, Montgomery Co., Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0285
Abstract

Map shows the divisions of the Annie Laura Gerald Land in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Dates: April 1939

Dormitory No. 4, Va. Polytechnic Inst. (Heating Plans)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0354
Abstract

Document shows the heating plans for dormitory 4 at VPI in Blacksburg, Virginia. It contains some hand-written annotations.

Dates: Sept 30, 1902

Alfred Washington Drinkard, Jr., Diary

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1996-019
Scope and Content

Director of Agricultural Experiment Station at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1917-1945; assistant director of Agricultural Experiment Station, 1945 until his retirement in 1948. Collection consists of a Daily Desk Diary, which mentions persons and events in Blacksburg and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Dates: 1947 - 1947

Harry C. Dudley Account Books,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1940-007
Abstract

Ledgers detailing expenses and customer accounts of general store, saw mill, and lime kiln in Montgomery County, Virginia during the early 20th century.

Dates: 1910 - 1939

David Earhart Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2002-017
Abstract

Thirty letters written by David Earhart while serving in the Stonewall Jackson Brigade, 4th Virginia Infantry, Company L. Correspondents include his wife Mary Elizabeth Caddell Earhart, his parents, his slaves, and his sister Mag. Also included are a letter to Mary Earhart after David Earhart was killed at Chancellorsville, images (probably ambrotypes) of Mary and David Earhart), a later cartede visite of Mary Earhart, and additional family correspondence.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Earl Palmer Appalachian Photograph and Artifact Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-025
Scope and Content Information This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and traditional culture of rural Appalachia in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The collection is divided among the following series: photographs, duplicate photographs, written materials, and oversize photographs.The Photographs series contains approximately 750 photos taken by Palmer from the 1940s...
Dates: 1880 - 1989

Henry Edmundson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-085
Abstract

The Henry Edmundson Letters contain nine letters, eight of which were written to Edmundson and one, the earliest of the nine, written by Edmundson in 1814 to General John Preston. The senders of the various letters include William Ballard Preston; Francis H. Smith, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute (V.M.I.); Bernard Peyton; Isaac White; and Joseph Robert Woods.

Dates: 1814 - 1847