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Start Over Date range 1909 Subjects Montgomery County (Va.)

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

Michael Kinzer Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 2 folders

Kinzer family (Montgomery County, Va.)
This collection consists of documents concerned with the acquisition of land in Montgomery County, Michael Kinzer's last will and testament (1826), and a wallet from the Michael Kinzer family.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ralph Minthorne Brown Papers 2.3 Cubic Feet 5 boxes; 1 oversize folder

Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958
This collection contains the papers of Ralph Minthorne Brown, Virginia Tech head librarian (1926-1947), amateur historian, and naturalist. It 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.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection 3.5 Cubic Feet 5 boxes

The Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection consists of a variety of materials, which range in dates from 1872 to 1977. The collection includes photographs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute memorabilia, printed materials, such as coupons, advertisements, and pamphlets, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondences, diplomas, certificates, family papers, ephemera, publications, newspaper pages, newspaper clippings, calling cards, pay stubs, church offering stubs, and additional materials collected by the family. The collection also has a copied written piece by Dewey M. Shaver recalling her life in Blacksburg, Virginia. The collection includes five series: Correspondences, Ephemera, Family Papers, Photographs, and Printed Materials.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Slusser Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Slusser family
This collection contains loose ledger sheets for the household expenditures of Dr. John B. Slusser, an advertisement from the Pressed Steel Car Company, a reciept from the Virginia Tech dining hall, a United States patent application for a nut-lock invented by Murray C. and William J. Slusser, and pages from a personal account book.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Smith Family Letters 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Smith family (Carroll County, Va.)
The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William Alexander, and Barton Pierce Smith. All four served in Confederate units from Virginia. The collection also includes a family history and notes by Frederick R. Smith.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Richard Eugene Hager (Anne Peyton Judkins Hager) Collection 4.8 Cubic Feet 8 boxes

Hager, Anne Judkins

The materials in the The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Richard Eugene Hager (Anne Peyton Judkins Hager) Collection consists of book manuscripts and unpublished essays, newspaper clippings, land deeds, correspondence, receipts, notes, and copies of wills. Also included are books belonging to the Preston family which include a family Bible, a children's poetry book, and many others. Of particular interest is an 1832 receipt to General Francis Preston (1765-1835) for a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post, writings by Elizabeth Preston Gray about the history of her family, the 1981 nomination of the Aspenvale Cemetary in Smyth County to the National Register of Historic Places, copies of Mary Preston Gray's book manuscript, The Family Tree (about the various family lines), and correspondence from Hatch Dent Poston regarding the sale and purchase of enslaved individuals.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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