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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
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
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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
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Start Over Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Collection Roy Jay Holden Papers
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Roy Jay Holden Papers

6 Cubic Feet 6 boxes
The Roy Jay Holden Papers include field notes, charts and maps, and geological surveys and research results, covering the history of mineralogy and geology, especially in Virginia, including work at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) Engineering Experiment Station. In addition to detailed materials on iron ores in Virginia, especially west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, there are reports on mines and furnaces in twenty-five counties of the state. The collection also contains Holden's notebooks, copies of addresses and speeches he made, and records from the VPI Geology Department, where Holden (1870-1945) taught from 1905 until his death.
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A-C Box 1

  • Anderson, William A.
  • Appalachian Geology
  • Augusta Mill & Merchantile Co.
  • Blacksburg, Town of
  • Bockee, John J.
  • Bomb (to test the stability of natural silicates in iron furnaces)
  • Brown, J. Wilcox
  • Calcite & Aragmite Experiements
  • Campbell, M. R.
  • Caves
  • Cement
  • Cement--thesis
  • Charts & Maps
  • Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
  • Cline, W. S.
  • Clippings (newspaper) re: cement, lime mortar
  • Curd, William C.
  • Curve (results of carbonation of limestone)

  1. Series III: General Files

Addresses & Radio Talks Box 4

  • Africa
  • "Aladdin Was a Piker"
  • "Algonkian Formations in the Blue Ridge of Virginia"
  • "Animals of the Past"
  • "Appalachian Alluvial Diamonds"
  • Aurora Borealis
  • Automobile Touring--1930, 1936, 1937
  • Canadian Northland, Tales of, 1938
  • "Touring in Ontario" (Canada)
  • Coal: "Origin of Coal"
  • Coal: Coal Map of Virginia, Discussion of, for Virginia Planning Board
  • Coal: "A Visit to a Coal Mine," 1931
  • Coal: Underground trip--Pocahontas Fuel Co.
  • Commencement address, 1945: "To Think or Not to Think"
  • Colorado River, The
  • Columbia Lavas, The, 1930
  • "Conservation of Natural Resources," 1932
  • "Dust" (Atmospheric), 1933
  • "Earth, Looking into the," 1930
  • Earth, Tales of the
  • Fenstreams
  • First Families of America
  • F.F.V.
  • Geology Recitations, 1933: What is geology? (Ja. 12): Piedmont Section of Virginia; (Mar. 9): General questions about geology; (May 11): "How do mountains grow?" etc.; (June 8): Geology trip.
  • Gas Well, Virginia's First (4 pp.), 1932
  • Gems
  • Genesis vs. Geology
  • Glacier National Park, 1930
  • Gold, 1935, 1938
  • Helictites in Virginia
  • Imperial Valley, The (Southern California) (3 pp.)
  • Iron in Virginia, Mining & Manufacturing of (4 pp.), 1931, 1944
  • Iron Gate Gap (4 pp.), 1932
  • Inorganic Resources of Virginia, Utilization of, in Chemical Manufacture (Arsenopyrite; Portland & Natural Cements; Lime; Gypsum; Salt; Sulphuric Acid; Manganese; Ceramic Materials; Nitrate; Copper; Lead & Zinc) (5 pp.)
  • Magmatic Carbonation - Carbothermal Metamorphism
  • Metallic Resources of Virginia
  • Natural Bridge National Forest, 1931
  • National Resources, Conservation of, 1932
  • Narrows, The (3 pp.), 1931
  • New River ("Our Oldest River"), 1931
  • Non-Ferrous Metals in Virginia, 1931
  • "Origin of Life"
  • Petroleum in Virginia, 1930
  • Phi Kappa Phi, Talk before, 1936
  • Piedmont, Virginia, Geology of (8 pp.), 1933
  • "Plant Life Though the Ages" (8 pp.)
  • Prehistory (13 pp.), "Measuring Prehistoric Time," 1937
  • 'Punch Jones' Sparkler
  • Rocky Mountains, The
  • "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" (7 pp.), 1943, Phi Kappa Phi
  • Stamp Collection, The Hobby of, 1936
  • Starch Manufacture in Virginia, 1931
  • Underground trip--see Coal (above)
  • Water (& chlorine)
  • Water Power, Virginia (4 pp.), 1932
  • Water, Yellow Sulphur Spring, Origin of the Sulphate
  • Miscellaneous

  1. Series I: Professional Papers

Counties Box 2

  • Alleghany
  • Augusta
  • Bath & Bedford
  • Botetourt
  • Bland
  • Buchanan & Dickerson
  • Clarke
  • Craig
  • Frederick
  • Giles
  • Highland
  • Lee
  • Montgomery
  • Page
  • Pulaski
  • Roanoke
  • Rockbridge
  • Rockingham
  • Russell
  • Scott
  • Shennandoah (& Warren)
  • Smyth
  • Tazewell
  • Washington
  • Wise
  • Wythe

  1. Series III: General Files

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