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| Southwest Virginia (2038 image records) |
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| Elarth, Wilhelmina van Ingen Collection, Ms69-004 (10 images) | | The Wilhelmina van Ingen-Elarth Collection includes photographs of three generations of the van Ingen family, correspondence, personal daily diaries, academic and publicity announcements, and photographs/postcards from travels and studies in Europe. It also includes a small group of Aegean and Mexican pre-Columbian artifacts and sherds, Ms van Ingen was Professor of History and Art at Wheaton College (Mass.) (1935-46). During this time she married Herschel A. Elarth, then Professor of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. From 1947-54, the couple was at the University of Manitoba, where she taught History of Art.
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| Episcopal Diocese of SW Virginia (119 images) | | EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. RECORDS, 1919-1990. . Diocese created from the Diocese of Southern Virginia in 1919, covering those parts of Virginia south and west of Nelson, Amherst, and Campbell counties, with
administrative headquarters in Roanoke.. Ms85-004 |
| Hotel Roanoke (2 images) | | Hotel located in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, built by Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. |
| Institute of Ulster Scots Studies (16 images) | | To promote the understanding of Ulster Scots history, culture and heritage through research and scholarship within local, national and international contexts.
* To recover for posterity, the significance of the cultural, political and intellectual movement of ideas influenced by the Ulster Scots people.
* To develop a transnational approach which will be geographically and politically pluralist and embrace a multiplicity of perspectives. It will stress, as is appropriate for a trans-oceanic enterprise, the fluidity of the cultural process and the dynamism of cultural exchange rather than the parochial rootedness of ethnic history. The approach will be polycentric, broadening intellectual horizons rather than restricting them
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| Porter Photograph Album (237 images) | | PORTER, J.C. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, ca. 1880. 1 vol. Scrapbook of approximately 240 (all ca. 1880) photographs of structures and scenes in several southwestern Virginia counties, including Bland, Craig, Giles, and Smyth. Includes photographs of a Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad station in New Castle and Mountain Lake resort hotel, both in Giles County. Photographs believed to have been taken and compiled by Porter. Ms90-079 |
| Smithfield Preston Collection (193 images) | | SMITHFIELD PRESTON FOUNDATION. PAPERS, 1784-1881, n.d. 204 items. Collection consists of letters written by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Most of the correspondents are the children and grandchildren of William and Susanna Smith Preston, settlers of Montgomery County, Virginia, who built their home, "Smithfield," in 1772. Inventory available. Ms97-002. |
8 Image Records in This Folio
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Hiram Tracy Jones family photograph 1890 |
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reunion, , Virginia, Kessler, Chapman, Walker, Bailey |
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Man with banjo |
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Appalachian regios (People ) - Pictorial works, Southwest Virginia, music, rural life |
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Mary Porter Bridge |
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Mary Porter, Bridge, East River, Glyn Lyn, Virginia |
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Train station at Tazewell, Virginia |
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depot, railroad, steam engine |
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