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Patricia Givens Johnson Papers, 1920/1986 2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Johnson, Patricia Givens, 1932-1996
This collection consists of papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian. It includes correspondence, subject files, printed materials and photographs. It also includes a scrapbook and a few other materials, scattered throughout the collection, which had belonged to Johnson's mother, Lula Porterfield Givens, also a local historian.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Records of the Appalachian Student Organizing Committee, 1964/1975, bulk 1971/1974 12.4 Cubic Feet 10 boxes and 1 oversize folder

Appalachian Student Organizing Committee. Virginia Tech Chapter
The Appalachian Student Organizing Committee (or Appalachian Student Committee) was an approved student organization at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the early 1970s. The collection consists primarily of the papers of David Tice and Allan Cox, student organizers of the Appalachian Student Organizing Committee. Materials include correspondence, clippings files, small-press and local publications on Appalachian issues, petitions, and notes and drafts. The materials in the collection deal with various topics, including strip mining and land use issues, poverty, health care and free clinics, coal mining and coal miners, strikes, local political races, issues at Virginia Tech, and the Vietnam War and other national and international issues.
  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

Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection, 1872/1977 3.5 Cubic Feet 5 boxes

The Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection consists of a variety of materials, which range in dates from 1872 to 1977. The collection includes photographs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute memorabilia, printed materials, such as coupons, advertisements, and pamphlets, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondences, diplomas, certificates, family papers, ephemera, publications, newspaper pages, newspaper clippings, calling cards, pay stubs, church offering stubs, and additional materials collected by the family. The collection also has a copied written piece by Dewey M. Shaver recalling her life in Blacksburg, Virginia. The collection includes five series: Correspondences, Ephemera, Family Papers, Photographs, and Printed Materials.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records, 1922/1985 ca. 313 Cubic Feet 993 boxes, 5 oversize folders

Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers (1935-1992) (Roanoke, Va.)
The collection contains project files and drawings related to more than 1,500 residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings, predominantly in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed by Smithey & Boynton, mostly between 1935 and 1957.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Smith Family Letters, 1861/1996, bulk 1861/1865 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Smith family (Carroll County, Va.)
The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William Alexander, and Barton Pierce Smith. All four served in Confederate units from Virginia. The collection also includes a family history and notes by Frederick R. Smith.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Richard Eugene Hager (Anne Peyton Judkins Hager) Collection, 1802/2007 4.8 Cubic Feet 8 boxes

Hager, Anne Judkins

The materials in the The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Richard Eugene Hager (Anne Peyton Judkins Hager) Collection consists of book manuscripts and unpublished essays, newspaper clippings, land deeds, correspondence, receipts, notes, and copies of wills. Also included are books belonging to the Preston family which include a family Bible, a children's poetry book, and many others. Of particular interest is an 1832 receipt to General Francis Preston (1765-1835) for a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post, writings by Elizabeth Preston Gray about the history of her family, the 1981 nomination of the Aspenvale Cemetary in Smyth County to the National Register of Historic Places, copies of Mary Preston Gray's book manuscript, The Family Tree (about the various family lines), and correspondence from Hatch Dent Poston regarding the sale and purchase of enslaved individuals.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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