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Betty Lou Ramsey, Professor of Interior Design, Papers 45.8 Linear Feet Summary: 47 ft. 10 in. (37 records cartons, 15 in. each); (2 small flat storage boxes, 3 1/2 in. each); (4 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each);

Ramsey, Betty Lou

Personal and professional papers of Betty Lou Ramsey (1929-2014), Professor Emerita and founder of the Interior Design Program at West Virginia University. This collection is unprocessed. Collection includes curriculum files, student papers, children's pedagogical material, business papers, travel records, personal papers, artifacts, and books.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Beuford Smith Archives (SC-32) 0.25 Linear Feet 1 box; 54 items

Smith, Beuford, 1941-
The collection helps document the formation of the Kamoinge Workshop in the early 1960s, including a notebook with minutes from their earliest meetings. Photographs from the collection show the early members of Kamoinge, and in particular focuses on the life of Louis H. Draper (1935-2002).
  1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Bill Lawrence Papers 9.65 Linear Feet

Lawrence, Bill, 1969-

This collection is composed entirely of scripts from Bill Lawrence. It includes approximately 90 scripts, including one from a 1996 episode of the television series "Spin City," and the rest from the television series "Scrubs" from the period 2001-2008. Many of the scripts are broadcast drafts, but the later ones become mostly shooting drafts. The scripts are ordered by the script number and not necessarily by date broadcast. Many of the scripts are signed by Bill Lawrence.

  1. College of William and Mary

Billy Coffindaffer, Higher Education Papers .4 Linear Feet 5 in. (1 document case)

Coffindaffer, Billy L.

Papers and publications related to career of Billy Coffindaffer. He served as director of West Virginia University (WVU) Extension Service, led the combined colleges of Concord and Bluefield State, and was instrumental in the planning and construction of WVU's Parkersburg campus, serving as its first leader. Materials include:

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bishop James Madison Society records 4.01 Linear Feet

Bishop James Madison Society

The Bishop James Madison Society records contains correspondence, printed materials, photographs, scrapbooks and audiovisual materials documenting the activities of the Bishop James Madison Society, a secret society on the campus of William & Mary founded in 1812. Materials include posters, fliers and ephemeral material related to the daily activites and members of the Bishop James Madison Society.

  1. College of William and Mary

Blackley Family papers 14.37 cubic feet 30 boxes, 2 flat folders

Blackley family
The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.
  1. James Madison University

Blacksburg Baptist Church Records 18 Cubic Feet 11 boxes and 1 oversize folder

The collection consists of records from the Blacksburg Baptist Church, currently known as Church on Main in Blacksburg. The boxes contain materials related to financial records, minutes, church history, scrapbooks, photographs, ledger books, cassette tapes, correspondence, and more. The collection is organized based on organizations and types of records. This includes the Baptist Young People's Union, Church Building Committee, Church Bulletins, Correspondences, Financials, Leadership, Manuscripts, Membership, Photographs, Women's Missionary Society, and Women's Missionary Union. There are also printed out copies of microfilm pages which have been sorted into the "microfilm copies" and "permanent file copies." Many of the documents in these two series are duplicates of the original materials found in the other series. Some of the materials in the microfilm and permanent file copies are not found in the originals.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg Electronic Village Collection 0.7 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Blacksburg Electronic Village
The collection includes papers, including correspondence, in-house publications, presentations, press clippings, and external reports, relating to Blacksburg Electronic Village, an experimental online community network connecting the town of Blacksburg, Virginia.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project Records 0.8 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Blackwell, Jacquelyn Butler
The Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project was a multi-phase research and educational collaborative program of the Virginia Tech University Libraries and the Women's Center at Virginia Tech. The collection includes audiocassette tapes, DAT tapes, floppy disks, background and biographical information, and transcripts of interviews with some of the first Black female students and employees at Virginia Tech. The interviews focus on the entry experience of the individual into the Virginia Tech community and the interviewees' perceptions of the climate and attitudes within the university community, particularly as pertains to race and gender.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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