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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
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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
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Start Over Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Collection Pocahontas Mines Collection, 1883/1997 Level Series

Series II. Unscanned rolls and documents, 1883/1997 360 Cubic Feet 464 boxes

Series II. Unscanned rolls and documents, 1883-1997, contains 464 boxes, totaling approximately 360 cu. ft. Most rolls are mining and topographical maps, mechanical and architectural drawings, and photographs that have not been scanned. Some rolls may be duplicates, very similar to, or of the same mine/area as scanned maps in Series I and are noted when possible by identifying the CON digital file number (e.g. "similar to CON2501" or "see also CON153").

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Series I. Scanned rolls, 1891/1992 135 Cubic Feet 261 boxes (3475 items) Box 1-6, Box 7, Box 8-34, Box 35, Box 36-100, Box 102-106, Box 107, Box 108-134, Box 135, Box 136-147, Box 149-168, Box 169, Box 170-182, Box 183, Box 184-225, Box 226, Box 227-229, Box 232, Box 234, Box 235, Box 237, Box 462, Box 477, Box 484, Box 519, 557, Box 582-583, Box 585, 590, 594, Box 586, Box 588, Box 589, Box 591, Box 593, Box 595, Box 596, Box 597-601, Box 602, Box 603, 605, 607, 609, Box 604, Box 606, Box 608

Series I. Scanned rolls, 1891-1992, contain 3475 maps in 261 boxes, totalling approximately 135 cu. ft. Most of these rolls are mining or mine survey maps, and when possible, the maps are identified with title, company, coalbed, mine name, county, state, USGS quadrangle, dates, and notes. Related scanned rolls are identified by CON number, and some related items are unscanned and identified in Series II. The items in this series have been scanned, and their digital file ids are the CON# (e.g. CON1_1 or CON3209) assigned by the DMME. Some maps also have OSM Doc, MSHA, and/or USBM numbers.

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Series IV. Ledgers, 1916/1993 45.02 Cubic Feet 42 boxes

Series IV. Ledgers, 1916-1993, contains 42 boxes, totaling 45.02 cu. ft. It primarily consists of survey record books (not field notebooks). Many record "Survey By", "Traverse by", Notebook No., Page No., Station, Azimuth, Reduced Vernier, Cosine, Horizontal Distances, Sine, Latitude (North and South), Departure (East and West), Sums of Latitude (N&S) and of Departure (E&W), Remarks. N.B.: TT looks like pi sometimes.

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