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Records of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 84.84 Cubic Feet 117 boxes

Drinkard, Alfred Washington, Jr.
The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station (VAES) was established in 1886 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the federal Hatch Act of 1887 for the purpose of providing practical and useful information on agricultural and scientific subjects. The collection includes 114 surveys books for ten counties in Virginia from 1931 through 1940, as well as files dated 1903-1947 of weather reports, annual reports of investigations of the field laboratories, and a large amount of documentation of various research projects related to crops, orchards, animals, and more. There is also the correspondence of A. W. Drinkard, Jr., director of VAES, with state entomologist and plant pathologist W. J. Schoene, professors at VPI, agricultural organizations, and others.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Reid Stanger Fulton Papers 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Fulton, Reid Stanger, 1886-1979
This collection contains correspondence, legal papers, and printed materials of Reid Stanger Fulton, economics instructor, avid book collector, and owner of Graham Mansion at Max Meadows, Virginia.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Repass/Spangler Family Correspondence, 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Spangler, Henry M., B.1828; d.1893 (Stowers' Company, Virginia Militia)
The collection includes two original letters, one 1936 handwritten copy of an 1861 letter, and an undated letter. All correspondence relates to the Repass and Spangler families of Wythe County, Virginia.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Richards-Woody Family Papers, 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Richards-Woody family
The Richards-Woody Family Papers comprise correspondence, photographs, obituaries, legal documents, and a family history of the Richards-Woody family. The collection includes Civil War-era correspondence between King David Richards and his wife, Harriet Love Richards, describing several accounts of battles fought by the Confederate Army's 57th Virginia Infantry during the years 1862 and 1863.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Roy Jay Holden Papers 6 Cubic Feet 6 boxes

Holden, Roy Jay, 1870-1945
The Roy Jay Holden Papers include field notes, charts and maps, and geological surveys and research results, covering the history of mineralogy and geology, especially in Virginia, including work at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) Engineering Experiment Station. In addition to detailed materials on iron ores in Virginia, especially west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, there are reports on mines and furnaces in twenty-five counties of the state. The collection also contains Holden's notebooks, copies of addresses and speeches he made, and records from the VPI Geology Department, where Holden (1870-1945) taught from 1905 until his death.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

R. Taylor Scott and R. Carter Scott Collection 1 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

The collection consists of over 500 correspondence and papers pertaining to the legal and political careers of Robert Taylor Scott and Richard Carter Scott, father and son, Virginia lawyers, judges, and politicians. The Scotts were partners in a Richmond based law firm, Scott & Scott, and both served as Virginia's Attorney General in the late nineteenth century.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ruby Bishop West Collection 2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

West, Ruby Bishop, d.1984
This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Rudolph Dixon Michael Papers 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Michael, Rudolph Dixon, 1904-1994
This collection contains the papers of Virginia Tech alumnus and agricultural information editor, Rudolph Dixon Michael. It contains correspondence and notes relating to the histories Blacksburg, the Preston family, and Smithfield Plantation (including maps of the grounds and the cemetery). It also contains a few campus photographs and printed materials related to Virginia Tech.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Russell Family Correspondence 2.2 Cubic Feet 5 boxes

The Russell Family Correspondence Collections consists of postcards and letters from 1927-1943 written by Edgar V. "Buck" Russell and Alice Elizabeth Russell Duke. Most letters were written to their mother and father. Throughout the letters, Edgar and Alice discuss their lives and time in college. The letters provide many details into their daily lives and can be viewed as letters and diary entries. Their letters also demonstrate how the family struggled with two children in college during the Great Depression.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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