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John P. Sheffey Papers 0.6 Linear Feet 1 box; 1 oversize folder

Sheffey, John Preston
This collection includes the letters of a Confederate cavalry officer to his wife in Wytheville, Virginia, together with other Civil War and family correspondence, military documents, writings, printed material and ephemera.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Joshua W. Culver Correspondence 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Culver, Joshua W.
The collection includes eight manuscript letters of a Union soldier during the American Civil War, written in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; and four letters written to and from other Culver family members.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Kent's Store Records 57 Cubic Feet 125 boxes

Kent's Store (Kents Store, Va.)
This collection includes the business records of Kent's Store in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Account books, including daybooks, journals and ledgers maintained by general mercantile businesses Kent & Parrish, G. H. Kent & Co. and G. H. Kent. Other records include cash books; bill books; post office ledgers; pharmaceutical, fertilizer, mill work, and blacksmith account ledgers; and James M. Kent estate records.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Kincaid Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Kincaid family (Bath County, Va.)
The Kincaid Family Papers consist of bills, receipts, notes, and accounts of Charles, James, William, and John Kincaid, members of a Bath County, Virginia, family, from 1803-1880.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lincoln-Look Family Papers 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Look, Sarah A(nn). B(urt). Lincoln
This collection contains the correspondence of Nathan L. (1819-1909) and Sarah A. B. Lincoln Look (1826-1857), who settled in Virginia in the 1840s and lived in Loudoun, Botetourt, Montgomery, and Smyth counties. There is also correspondence with other members of the Lincoln and Look families in Massachusetts and New York; together with transcripts and summaries of the letters; and a few pieces of miscellanea.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Look Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Look family
This collection contains the 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.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers 0.9 Cubic Feet 2 boxes, 2 oversize folders

Urquhart, Lucy Dickinson, 1881-1975
The Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers, 1865-1973, contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, and poetry and advertisements by Lucy Dickinson Urquhart (1881-1975), an advertising copywriter and local historian in Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence, papers, and other materials related to her family.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Martha L. Johnson Family Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Martha L. Johnson family

This collection contains the papers of the family of Martha L. Robinson Johnson, nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. The collection consists largely of correspondence to Johnson from various family members and friends, providing a chronicle of the life of a Southwest Virginia family during the mid-nineteenth century, mostly from a feminine perspective. The letters focus on childbirth, death, illness, folk medicine, fashion, sewing, knitting, quilting, gardening, food, spirituality and the Civil War. The letters were mailed from various locales--mostly in Virginia--including Hillsville, Copper Mines, Orange Court House, Lynchburg, Texas House, Chatham Hill, Coal Hill, Warm Springs, Red Sulphur Springs, Spring Valley, Grayson County, Cove and Hickory Grove. Though the majority of the correspondence is addressed to Martha Johnson, the collection also contains correspondence to and from her husband, Robert C. Johnson, a Carroll County tavern keeper, postmaster and commissioner of revenue.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Martin Urner Ledger 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Urner, Martin, 1813-1868
The collection contains a single ledger from Martin Urner's harness and saddle-making business in New Market, Virginia. The ledger includes customer and payment information from 1867 to 1881.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mary C. Gregory Letters 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Powell, Mary Craufurd Gregory, 1847-1928
The Mary C. Gregory Letters are a collection of 11 letters written by Gregory in Alexandria, Virginia, to her cousin Edward, dated from January 10, 1875 to January 9, 1876. Gregory discusses personal updates and subjects such as the weather, her health, and books.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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