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Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers, 1784/1881 0.6 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Madison, Elizabeth Preston, 1762-1837

The Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers consist of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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Solitude Letter, 1860 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Love letter written by L'incounnue ("The Unknown") at Solitude (the Preston home in Blacksburg, Virginia) in 1860, and addressed to "Miss Martha."

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Solitude Photographs and Papers 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude, the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Southside Garden Club Records, 1914/2009 6.9 Cubic Feet 15 boxes

Blacksburg Woman's Club (Blacksburg, Va.)

Materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, minutes and yearbooks from the Blacksburg Woman's Club and organization reports, minutes, pressbooks, yearbooks, and scrapbooks from the Southside Garden Club.

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Spahr Family Collection, 1959/1991 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Spahr family

The Spahr Family Collection contains records of rent payments at the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park and clippings about Joel Bush Spahr's landscaping hobby. Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park, run by the Spahrs, operated from 1959 to 1999 on property to the northwest of Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Stern Old Bachelor's Club [Blacksburg, Virginia] Minute Book, 1928/1932 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Photocopy of a minute book from the Stern Old Bachelor's Club, a Blacksburg, Virginia men's social club, including the club's constitution, membership lists, and guest registers.

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Street Map and Guide to Blacksburg, Virginia, 1956 0.1 Cubic Feet 9 x 14 in.

Map shows streets of Blacksburg, Virginia, with local businesses advertised around the border. Document also contains index for main buildings of VPI.

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Subdivision Map of the John L. Eakin Farm, Blacksburg, Va., 1919 0.1 Cubic Feet 17 x 20 in.

Murrill, A.

Map in blueprint shows the John Leakin Farm in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Sullivan Family Papers, 1800/1957 2 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Sullivan family (Virginia)

This collection contains 19th century tax records and personal correspondence of the Sullivan family of Christiansburg, Virginia.

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Tech Buccaneers 1.61 square feet

As of December 2011, displayed in Purcell's office

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