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The Granville Skidmore Kennedy Family Papers contain several letters, documents, cards, and photographs mostly addressed to Granville Skidmore Kennedy (1899-1986), the Director of the Dairy Division of the Virginia State Health Department, and his wife Wilma Hoyt Kennedy (1906-1989), an elementary school teacher in Henrico County and Roanoke County, Virginia. The letters contain general information about topics like health, work, and life. Most of the letters from 1960-1962 and some financial documents pertain to the sudden death of Granville and Wilma Kennedy's daughter, Elizabeth "Betty" Lois Kennedy (1937-1960), a student at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who died in a car accident in 1960. This collection also contains the correspondence of Edwin M. Kennedy (1901-1974), Granville's brother. Additional documents and letters discuss the residence and care of Linda Lanier Kennedy, Granville's sister, a 1953 list of alumni from the University of Tennessee's College of Agriculture, and an undated letter to "Frank."

The M. Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates. The collection provides a comprehensive history of the personal and professional activities of M. Rupert Cutler from 1981-2021, and also contains some records from 1962-1980. Most records from before 1977 are housed at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. Records from his service in the Carter Administration, 1977-1981, are housed at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta.

Notes on the early iron furnaces in the Allegheny-Botetourt-Roanoke County area of Virginia; a brief history of the John Taylor family, early pioneers in the iron industry; and photographs of the Taylor iron furnaces at Cloverdale, Botetourt County.

This collection contains records from the Roanoke Valley Academy of Medicine from 1905 to 2016. Records include newsletters, history, and organizational documents. The organization formed in 1905 and dissolved in 2019.