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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
Primary Collecting Areas:
Local/regional history (Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, and Appalachian South); the American Civil War; Science and technology history (incl. aerospace, aeronautics, engineering, and speculative fiction); History of women in architecture (incl. the International Archive of Women in Architecture); Culinary history (incl. Virginia and southern cookery, children’s cookbooks and nutrition, food production and technology, and cocktail history); University Archives
Description:
Special Collections is located in Carol M. Newman Library at Virginia Tech. Special Collections includes manuscript collections, rare books, and the University Archives, as well as state, local and historical maps and photographs. Our mission is to collect and preserve unique, historical materials and provide access to them in their original form.
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Start Over Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Date range 1823
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Bigler-Sessler-John Family Papers

0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box
The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and accounting receipts and records relating to the Bigler, Sessler, and John families of southwest Virginia.
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Bigler-Sessler-John Family Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

John family
The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and accounting receipts and records relating to the Bigler, Sessler, and John families of southwest Virginia.
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Jacob Morgan Account Book

0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
The Jacob Morgan Account Book describes transactions with Union Bank of Alexandria (1814-1819) and transactions involving sewn goods and farm produce (1846-1858)
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Jacob Morgan Account Book 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

The Jacob Morgan Account Book describes transactions with Union Bank of Alexandria (1814-1819) and transactions involving sewn goods and farm produce (1846-1858)
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Dickson Family Papers

2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes
The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s.
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Dickson Family Papers 2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)
The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s.

Items Box 1, Folder 24

27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)

  1. Robert Dickson
  2. Legal Documents
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Dorothy McCombs Collection,

8.6 Cubic Feet 19 boxes
The collection contains personal research notes, subject files, and writings; materials relating to the Virginia Tech University Libraries; course notes; dissertation research; work on textiles and arts & crafts history; genealogy notes; brochures on historic sites around Virginia; and maps collected by Dorothy McCombs. Materials date from about 1970-1989.
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Alexander McNutt Glasgow Family Papers

0.7 Cubic Feet 2 boxes
This colelction includes correspondence and financial/legal papers of the Alexander McNutt Glasgow family of Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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Alexander McNutt Glasgow Family Papers 0.7 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Glasgow family
This colelction includes correspondence and financial/legal papers of the Alexander McNutt Glasgow family of Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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Anna Burton Ellett Collection

0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box; 1 oversize folder
This collection contains materials relating to early residents of Southwest Virginia (particularly James Patton, William Preston, and John Preston) and the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth in 1932, all collected by Anna Burton Ellett, a Blacksburg resident and active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
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Anna Burton Ellett Collection 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box; 1 oversize folder

Ellett, Anna Burton, 1886-1974
This collection contains materials relating to early residents of Southwest Virginia (particularly James Patton, William Preston, and John Preston) and the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth in 1932, all collected by Anna Burton Ellett, a Blacksburg resident and active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers

ca. 9 Cubic Feet 13 boxes; 7 oversize folders; 1 oversize roll
The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also includes historical and other related documents dating from before the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield.
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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers ca. 9 Cubic Feet 13 boxes; 7 oversize folders; 1 oversize roll

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009)
The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also includes historical and other related documents dating from before the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield.
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Daniel Bedinger Lucas Papers

1.8 Cubic Feet 4 boxes
The Daniel Bedinger Lucas papers consist of scrapbooks, correspondence, poems and essays, newspapers, and other materials collected and created by Lucas, including several items created by his sister, Virginia Lucas, also a poet.
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Daniel Bedinger Lucas Papers 1.8 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Lucas, Daniel Bedinger, 1836-1909
The Daniel Bedinger Lucas papers consist of scrapbooks, correspondence, poems and essays, newspapers, and other materials collected and created by Lucas, including several items created by his sister, Virginia Lucas, also a poet.
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Augusta County and Bath County, Virginia, Receipts,

0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
The collection contains various receipts mostly from Augusta and Bath County, VA. These items date from 1780 to 1848.
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Bear Family Papers

0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
This collection consists of diaries, books, and letters of various members of the Bear family of Churchville, Augusta County, Virginia. It includes a diary written in 1862 by Harvey Bear describing the war activity around him and his service as a wagon teamster for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Also includes two diaries written in 1878-1879 by Harvey's son George, an 1863 general order for Stonewall Jackson's Second Army Corp of the Army of Northern Virginia, and an 1849 letter from a member of the Virginia House of Delegates to Harvey Bear about a vote on resolutions regarding enslaved people.
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Bear Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Bear family (Augusta County, Va.)
This collection consists of diaries, books, and letters of various members of the Bear family of Churchville, Augusta County, Virginia. It includes a diary written in 1862 by Harvey Bear describing the war activity around him and his service as a wagon teamster for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Also includes two diaries written in 1878-1879 by Harvey's son George, an 1863 general order for Stonewall Jackson's Second Army Corp of the Army of Northern Virginia, and an 1849 letter from a member of the Virginia House of Delegates to Harvey Bear about a vote on resolutions regarding enslaved people.

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