Repository: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / Date range: 1864

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

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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.

Email: specref@vt.edu

Phone: (540) 231-6308

Fax: (540) 231-3694

Web: spec.lib.vt.edu

Thurman Family Letters 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Thurman family

The collection includes American Civil War-era letters (all photocopies, with one exception) of the Thurman family of Chesterfield and Fluvanna counties, Virginia, including letters from Meredith Branch Thurman (14th Virginia Infantry) and Robert H. Thurman (41st Virginia Infantry) to Jane Rosser Humphrey Thurman, their wife and sister-in-law respectively.

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Timothy S. Walker Letter 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Walker, Timothy S.

Letter from Timothy S. Walker, veteran of 25th Maine Infantry, working aboard a cargo ship at Georgetown, Virginia, during the American Civil War.

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Tintype, Folder 1

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To B.R. Smith from Capt. A. Savage-Fredericksburg, Virginia, Box 1, Folder 2

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To Capt. G.W. Nelson (P.O.W. at Johnson's Island, Ohio) from Mollie Box 2, Folder 7

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To Capt. G.W. Nelson (P.O.W. at Johnson's Island, Ohio), from Mollie Box 2, Folder 10

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Toncrey, Alverda correspondence Box 1, Folder 24

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Town of Beverley, West Virginia Box 38, Folder 15

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Town of Blacksburg Box 38, Folder 16

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Town of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia Box 39, Folder 3

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