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New Alexandria Land and River Improvement Company Ledgers, 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

New Alexandria Land and River Improvement Company (1888-1928)
The collection includes two ledgers for the New Alexandria Land and River Improvement Company dated from 1892-1906. The ledgers contain documentation of transactions, land sales, commissions, and loans with detailed accounts of revenues and interest.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Overseer's Journal 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Bishop, Erastus R. , b. ca. 1828
This collection includes a journal of an unidentified overseer - possibly Erastus Bishop of Petersburg, Virginia - with names of enslaved people and amount of crops each person picked, including cotton, peas, corn. It also lists when and which enslaved person was sick each day, money obtained for a crop, home remedies for common illnesses, and the journey itinerary for a cargo ship.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The Personal Papers of Dorothea E. Abbott, 1950-1999 29 boxes

Abbott, Dorothea E., 1921-1999

The personal papers described here are those collected and generated by Dorothea E. Abbott of Arlington, Virginia, in the course of her research about Arlington and other Virginia localities, Florida, Martha and George Washington, and other topics of interest to her. RG 91 is 12.1 linear feet.

  1. Arlington Public Library

Thomas R. Martin Letters 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Martin, Thomas R., b. abt. 1848?
The collection contains two letters written by Pvt Thomas R. Martin, Company F, 10th Virginia Cavalry (1st Cavalry Regiment, Wise Legion) to his parents. One is dated September 22, 1861 and written from Sewell, VA (now WV), the second is from Gordonsville in May 1863.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Central Railroad Company Rental Receipt, 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Virginia Central Railroad Company
This collection contains a rental receipt for the labor of Isaac, an enslaved man. The receipt was issued by the Virginia Central Railroad Company in 1855 to Mrs. Elisabeth S. Lindsay and promises a payment of $175 to Lindsay after the one year rental period ends.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision Records 2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Revision
The collection contains the records of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision, including articles of the constitution, minutes and summaries of actions, reports of subcommittees, correspondence and memoranda, commentary, drafts, and galley proofs of revised constitution.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Elections Collection 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 oversized folder

The Virginia Elections Collection contains United States polls and ballots collected from Amelia County, Virginia, from 1804, 1808, and 1865. Some of the material pertains to election polls in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. One of these is the ballot for an amendment to the Virginia Constitution, allowing former Confederate government officials to serve in the Virginia government.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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