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Records of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903/1947 84.84 Cubic Feet 117 boxes

Drinkard, Alfred Washington, Jr.
The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station (VAES) was established in 1886 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the federal Hatch Act of 1887 for the purpose of providing practical and useful information on agricultural and scientific subjects. The collection includes 114 surveys books for ten counties in Virginia from 1931 through 1940, as well as files dated 1903-1947 of weather reports, annual reports of investigations of the field laboratories, and a large amount of documentation of various research projects related to crops, orchards, animals, and more. There is also the correspondence of A. W. Drinkard, Jr., director of VAES, with state entomologist and plant pathologist W. J. Schoene, professors at VPI, agricultural organizations, and others.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Richards-Woody Family Papers,, 1803/1992 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Richards-Woody family
The Richards-Woody Family Papers comprise correspondence, photographs, obituaries, legal documents, and a family history of the Richards-Woody family. The collection includes Civil War-era correspondence between King David Richards and his wife, Harriet Love Richards, describing several accounts of battles fought by the Confederate Army's 57th Virginia Infantry during the years 1862 and 1863.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records, 2025 27.5 Cubic Feet 23 boxes

Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (Roanoke, Va.)
The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) Records document the management of the club from its founding in 1932. The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, NPS and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. The RATC continues its original mission to maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail (AT), and the club covers over 120 miles of the AT, including McAfee Knob, Dragon's Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ruby Bishop West Collection, 1858/1981 2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

West, Ruby Bishop, d.1984
This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Rudolph Dixon Michael Papers, 1925/1984 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Michael, Rudolph Dixon, 1904-1994
This collection contains the papers of Virginia Tech alumnus and agricultural information editor, Rudolph Dixon Michael. It contains correspondence and notes relating to the histories Blacksburg, the Preston family, and Smithfield Plantation (including maps of the grounds and the cemetery). It also contains a few campus photographs and printed materials related to Virginia Tech.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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