Collections : [Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]

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 Places Virginia Level Collection

Alexandria and Fairfax Counties [Virginia] Civil War Correspondence, 1861/1862 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Ash, William (3rd Regiment, Vermont Infantry)
The Alexandria and Fairfax Counties [Virginia] Civil War Correspondence consists of 40 letters by 31 soldiers, dated between 1861 and 1862. Letters were written by soldiers stationed in and around Alexandria and Fairfax counties and Washington, D.C., in the first 12-16 months of the American Civil War.
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Anti-Saloon League of Virginia Notice, 1903/1909 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

West, J. W., Rev.
This collection includes an undated Notice of Temperate Meetings held by Rev. J. W. West, Field Secretary of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia. It includes subjects discussed and testimonials and probably dates between 1903-1909. The Anti-Saloon League of Virginia existed from 1901 to 1933, at the end of prohibition.
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Bassett Furniture Company Letters to Richardson Electric Co., 1922 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Bassett Furniture Industries
This collection includes two letters from the Bassett Furniture Company to Richardson Electric Co. in 1922. The first letter from J. D. Bassett, President, is in regards to a burned out motor, and the second letter from J. C. Hooker, Secretary and Treasurer, is in regards to the installation of a hot air furnace.
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James I. Robertson Jr. Papers, 1849/2011 30.4 Cubic Feet 43 boxes and 1 oversize folder

Robertson, James I., Jr.
This collection includes research notes, manuscripts, typescript drafts, working copies and galley proofs for books and articles written by Virginia Tech's Alumni Distinguished Professor of History James I. Robertson Jr., 1982-2001. Large collection of notes, papers, and correspondence relateing to Virginia Civil War counties and units. Also contains a small set of general materials which includes items related to the preservation of lands adjacent to Manassas National Battlefield Park.
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James R. Perdue Family Collection, 1868/1919 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Perdue, James Robert, 1837-1915
This collection includes the papers of James R. Perdue and his family. Items include a program for the Battle of the Crater reunion, a Sunday School concert flyer, seven obituaries for Perdue, a letter from J. R. Perdue, Jr., and two ledgers. Perdue (1837-1915) was a banker from Manchester, Virginia, and served as a Confederate soldier in the Otey Battery, Virginia Artillery during the American Civil War.
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Judith Fenner Barnard Collection, 1914/1974 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Barnard, Judith Roane Fenner, 1896-1984
This collection includes a memobook and journal owned by Judith Fenner Barnard (1896-1984), a teacher in Roadsville, Virginia, and Prince George County, Virginia. The memobook, dated July 1964, contains recipes, addresses, hospital records, and a seating arrangement for a dinner party. The journal, 1914-1972 includes journal entries about the Barnard family's lives and handwritten recipes.
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Nat Goldman Correspondence, 1946/1949 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Goldman, Nat (Nathan), b. 1919
This collection includes the correspondance of Nat Goldman, an auditor for the Textile Workers Union of America CIO. His letters from 1946 through 1949 are addressed to his girlfiend Rebecca "Reba" Baron in New York City, New York, including love letters to her and descriptions of his travels and work for the union. He writes about the innerworkings of locations and dissenment within the union. Most of the letters are from Virginia, but there are a few from his travels to Tennessee, Conecticut, and Wisconsin.
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