War Ration Book One for Emily Allen of Christiansburg, VA. Ration books were required during World War II to purchase a variety of goods such as sugar, meat, etc.
From the first paragraph of the second sheet: "The United States Geological Survey is making a series of standard topographic maps to cover the United States. This work has been in progress since 1882, and the published maps cover more than 47…
Feature sheet from 1929 Virginia Polytechnic Institute yearbook, The Bugle, for senior Patrick Henry Price. The sheet has his photograph and a list of his activities, and a photo of his mother, Elizabeth Snider Price, as an inset.
This enlistment card was sent to the donor's grandmother, J. B. Bishop, notifying her that her son, Carl S. Bishop, had joined the US Army in 1937. The donor obtained the card from her grandmother's estate. This record includes an image of the…
Scrapbook page containing a telegram from Kenneth M. Frost and newspaper clippings about servicemen from Montgomery County, VA during World War II. The clipping is contained in one of two scrapbooks with information about the World War II period in…
Newspaper Articles (possibly from the Montgomery News Messenger) relating to World War I pasted to a card stock page. "12th Regiment U. S. Marines Reported Arrived in France"
Photograph of the Prices Fork School as it appeared c. 1915. Prices Fork developed during the mid-nineteenth century in an area settled by the Price family in the mid-1700s. There were several other schools built in this design about 1910 in…
Photograph on mat of Patrick Henry Price and classmates at the Prices Fork School in 1913. Prices Fork developed during the mid-nineteenth century in an area settled by the Price family in the mid-1700s.
Photograph of the Shultz family home on the corner of Church and Clay Streets in Blacksburg, Virginia, across the street from Blacksburg Middle School. This photograph was taken between 1950 and 1960.