Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook, 1934-1937, Ms2023-039, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.4 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
Gibboney, Lucie Ligon, 1917-2007 and Sanders, Lucie Graham
Abstract:
The Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook contains dance cards, football programs, correspondence, dried flowers, ticket stubs, menus, photographs and other ephemera. Much of the materials relate to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia. Gibboney (1917-2007) probably collected these materials while visiting her future husband, James M. Graham, Jr. (1916-1976), a 1938 graduate of VPI, to document memories from their time together in the New River Valley.
Language:
The material in this collection is in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook, 1934-1937, Ms2023-039, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook contains dance cards, football programs, correspondence, dried flowers, ticket stubs, menus, photographs and other ephemera. Much of the materials relate to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia. Gibboney probably collected these materials while visiting James M. Graham, Jr., a 1938 graduate of VPI, to document memories from their time together in the New River Valley.

Biographical / historical:

Lucie Ligon Gibboney (1917-2007) was born on April 3, 1917, to Jacob Haller and Lucie (Ligon) Gibboney in South Carolina. In Monroe, West Virignia, in 1936, she married James Montgomery Graham, Jr. (1916-1976), who graduated from Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in 1938. They had at least two children, Caroline R. and David H. James worked as a draftsman and later as a mechanical engineer for the federal government, while Lucie worked as a homemaker.

After her first husband's death, Lucie married widower Charles Newell Sanders (1914-1990) on June 16, 1979, in Wytheville, Virginia.

All three are buried in Graham Cemetery in Grahams Forge, Wythe County, Virginia.

External sources:

U.S. Federal Censuses, 1930-1950

"James Montgomery Graham Jr.", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96183824/james-montgomery-graham, accessed on June 5, 2023.

"Lucy Gibboney Graham Sanders", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96183897/lucy-gibboney-sanders, accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Lucie Ligon Gibboney" in the West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/10562046:2538, accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Lucie Gibboney Graham" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, findagrave.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/29106745:9279, accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Charles Newell Sanders", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96150599/charles-newell-sanders, accessed on December 12, 2023.

Acquisition information:
The Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in November 2010.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook was completed in June 2023.