Jimmie L. Price Papers, 1986/2003

Access and use

Location of collection:
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
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Jimmie L. Price Papers, Ms87-048, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
Price, Jimmie L.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Jimmie L. Price Papers, Ms87-048, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

His collection consists of four videotapes of interviews conducted by Price with Montgomery County residents, including an interview in 1986 with Elizabeth Kent Adams about the Kentland property; interviews conducted in 1987 with four Montgomery County residents, including Robert H. Surface, Albert Hamlin, Evans Linkous, and Arnold Linkous, about coal mines and mining in the county; and an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, whose ancestors were slaves and later servants at Kentland, and an interview (7 August 2003) with Josephine Scrivenor, who lived at Kentland as a girl. Also includes sketches of Kentland and coal operations, drawn by Price as described by the interviewees.

This VHS videotape is an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, in which he describes the cattle drives from Tazewell to Kentland, life at Kentland, and the physical layout of the farm. Bannister's family were once slaves on Kentland, and later worked there as servants and laborers.

This VHS videotape consists of interviews with local Montgomery County residents about their experiences working in the local coal mines. Among those interviewed include Robert H. Surface about fossil and coal mines, Albert Hamlin about the Shoal (Strubble's) Creek mine, Evans Linkous about the Merrimac Mine, and Albert Linkous about the Northside Mine at Price's Mountain.

This VHS videotape consists of a history of Kentland Plantation.

This VHS videotape (and one copy) consists of an interview of Josephine Scrivenor by Price at her home in Roanoke, about her recollections of Kentland Plantation.

This file contains "Kentland", a history of Kentland Plantation; "A Working Sketch of Kentland, 1912-1923 per Frank Bannister"; and "Errors in the Videotape entitled: 'Kentland, New River Plantation' " [transcription and handwritten original].

This file contains photocopies of a series of approximately 35 sketches by Jimmie L. Price and Everett Graves based on accounts from local Montgomery County residents. The sketches are of coals mines, coal seams, mine tipples, and the associated buildings and housing for Shoal Creek Mine, Brush Mountain Coalfield Central Division, and Big Vein Mine.

Biographical / historical:

Jimmie L. Price is a Blacksburg, Virginia, resident, minister, and local historian. Hi is the author of Malissia Said, and on of the co-authors of Millstone Manufacture in Virginia: Interviews with the Last Brush Mountain Millstone Makers and of A Brief History of Several Coal Mines of Montgomery County. The son of coal miner Henry Price, Jimmie Price founded the Coal Miner's Heritage Association.

Arrangement:

The videotapes and are arranged according to the date of the interview. The folders are chronologically ordered.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard