"Go Hoakies [Hokies]" Plastic Cup
Cups
Drinking vessels
Souvenirs
Memorabilia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Tech Hokies (Football team)--Miscellanea.
Images of a "Go Hoakies" plastic cup, which represents Virginia Tech's fighting gobblers. The term "Hoakies" is misspelled - "Hokies" is the accepted spelling.
Record includes 6 images of the cup, taken at varying angles
Item was photographed on April 23, 2016 by Spenser Slough
Unknown
Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1970
1975
2016-04-23
Booth, Tom
Booth, Derley
Slough, Spenser D.
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Booth, Tom
Booth, Derley
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Montgomery County (Va.)
Blacksburg (Va.)
1779 Land Warrant for William Preston
Montgomery County (Va.)
Land Office Treasury Warrant dated 4 December 1779 authorizing William Preston to survey 200 acres of land for William Preston. Single sheet with hand-sewn repair of tear and red wax seal. Preston Preston (1729-1783) was a surveyor, commissioner, and militia colonel. He and his wife Susannah built Smithfield Plantation in present-day Blacksburg.
Commonwealth of Virginia
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
4 December 1779
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Gin Hickok in 1990.
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90.07.01
Montgomery County
VA
Blacksburg
1770-1780
1862 Montgomery County Confederate note
Montgomery County, Va. -- History
Montgomery County Confederate 25 cent fractional note dated August 1, 1862.
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1862
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Neil Jablonski and Jennifer Jablonski in 2015.
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English
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2015.37.60
Montgomery County
VA
1870 Montgomery Female College Reward of Merit
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Small card certificate that is a Reward of Merit given to Annie Sullivan for "attendance upon Recitations and all College Exercises" for the month of October 1870.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
October 1870
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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87.03.04a
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1870-1880
1870 Montgomery Female College Reward of Merit
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Small card certificate that is a Reward of Merit given to Annie Sullivan for "Punctuality and Improvement" (and Penmanship) for the month of November 1870.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
November 1870
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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87.03.04b
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1870-1880
1870 Montgomery Female College Reward of Merit
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Small card certificate that is a Reward of Merit given to Annie Sullivan for "neatness and order with books and desk" for the month of November 1870.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
November 1870
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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English
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87.03.04c
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1870-1880
1870 Montgomery Female College Reward of Merit
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Small card certificate that is a Reward of Merit given to Annie Sullivan for "attendance upon Recitations and all College Exercises" for the month of November 1870.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
November 1870
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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English
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87.03.04d
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1870-1880
1883 Montgomery Female College Receipt
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Single sheet of Montgomery Female College letterhead with a handwritten receipt for $45 received from Captain John C. Wade [of Christiansburg] for the tuition for daughters Jennie and Kate Wade in 1882-1883 signed by principal Oceana Pollock.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
10 July 1883
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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87.03.37
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1880-1890
1883 Trout & Ellis "This Way Freemen!" Political Ribbon
Virginia -- History
This 1883 Trout & Ellis polictcal ribbon carries the Virginia State seal and the slogan "This Way Freemen!" The slogan was a motto of the Virginia Democratic Party in 1883 and Henry S. Trout was a Democratic office-holder in that era. He was a state senator (1883-86) and mayor of Roanoke (1892-94).
The ribbon was given to R. L. Lucas (owner of Thompson-Hagan Drug Co.) in 1961 by Virginia Deal Lawrence.
Trout & Ellis campaign
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1883
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Thompson-Hagan Drug Co. in 1985.
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85.03.41
VA
1883-1884 Annual Catalogue [Catalog] Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Female College, Christiansburg, VA
Contains a lists courses of study, names of graduates, etc. for 1883-1884. The Montgomery Female College was founded in 1852. It was first located on South Franklin Street, Christiansburg and relocated to a building on College Street (the site of the former Christiansburg High School) in 1860. The school closed in 1908.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1883-1884
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Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Thompson-Hagan Drug Co. in 1985.
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English
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85.03.45
Christiansburg, VA
Montgomery County, VA
1880-1890
1884 Senior Class Evening Program for Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Single-fold program for "Senior Class Evening" for Montgomery Female College on 30 May 1884. Contains list of essays and musical pieces performed with the names of the performers.
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
30 May 1884
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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English
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87.03.06
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1880-1890
1886 Montgomery Female College Commencement Program
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)
Single-fold program for Commencement at Montgomery Female College on 9 June 1886. Also contains programs for the Senior Evening and Commencement Concert with names of speakers and performers. Inscribed "Mary Williams"
Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
30 May 1884
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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English
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87.03.05
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1880-1890
1886 Program of Juvenile Entertainment presented at Montgomery Female College
Program
The program of "Juvenile Entertainment" presented at Montgomery Female College for 5 June 1886 lists the performers and performances.
Montgmery Female College
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
5 June 1886
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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English
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87.03.02
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
Virginia
1880-1890
1913 Diary of Anna Harless (age 16) of Christiansburg, Va.
Montgomery County (Va.)
Handwritten diary written in January and February of 1913 by Anna Temple Harless (1897-1976). She later married Julius Goodman.
Anna Temple Harless
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1913
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Beasley Family in 1989.
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English
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89.03.30
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1910-1920
1917 Funeral Program for Professor Charlie B. Williams of Alleghany Springs
Montgomery County (Va.)
Single sheet program with an obituary or funeral service for Prof. Charlie B. Williams at First Baptist Church, Allegheny [Alleghany] Springs, Montgomery County, Va. who was a graduate of Christiansburg Institute
Mitchell, Rev. W. H.
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1917
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Ann Hunt in 2016.
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English
Document
2016.47.01
Alleghany Springs
Montgomery County
VA
1910-1920
1943 High School Graduation Card sent to Robertine Hughes Jordan
Christiansburg, Va. -- History
Greeting card given to Robertine Hughes Jordan on the occasion of her graduation from Christiansburg High School in 1943. Found in the spiral bound scrapbook made by Mrs. Jordan.
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1943
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Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Wayne Haymaker in 1990.
Scrapbook made by Robertine Hughes Jordan, 1941-1943
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90.09.07_Misc38
Christiansburg, VA
1940-1950
1946 Photograph of World War II Veterans in Christiansburg
Christiansburg, VA --History
Black and white photograph of a parade of men in Army and Navy uniforms taken in fall 1946 in downtown Christiansburg; Bank of Christiansburg in background.
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1946
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FIC 2014.26.04
Christiansburg, VA
1940-1950
A Map of the Internal Improvements of Virginia
Historical geography--Maps.
Topographic maps.
Virginia--Maps.
Physical maps.
Prepared by C. Crozet, late Principal Engineer of Virginia under a resolution of the General Assembly, adopted March 15th, 1818.
Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1848, by Claudius Crozet, in the Clerk's office of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Engraved at P.S. Duval's Lith. Establ., Ranstead Place, Philadel.
Donated by William McElfresh.
Crozet, Claudius
Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
P.S. Duval's Lith. Establ.
1818-03-15
1848
2016-04-30
McElfresh, William
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V018
Virginia
West Virginia
1810-1820
1840-1850
19th century
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen Membership Card
Montgomery County (Va.)
Membership card for William M. King to the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America. King lived in Christiansburg and worked for the Norfolk & Western Railroad from at least 1910 until at least 1923.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
1918
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Mike and Jennie Reilly in 2013.
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English
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2013.10.01_005
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
VA
1910-1920
c. 1875 Letter to Lake Sullivan from a student at Montgomery Female College
Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.). Letters (Correspondence)--1870-1880.
Letter to "My Darling Cousin" from of Christiansburg; 15 May 18?? [circa 1875]. The letter includes a hand drawn calligraphy card "Miss Lake Sullivan Ripley, Tennessee" with image of a bird made by "Mr. Scott"; mentions exams and concert performance; may be written by Lucy G. Holman who graduated from Montgomery Female Academy in 1877 (she was the daughter of Dr. George P. and Martha F. Homan who lived in the Old Jailer's House at 203 W. Main St., Christiansburg (see census and Kanode, 42, 108, 262))
Montgomery Female College. Letters (Correspondence)--1870-1880.
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center
c. 1875
All Rights Reserved. Please contact the Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center for permission to reproduce this item. Donated to the Montgomery Museum by Florence Allen and Emily Allen in 1987.
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English
Document
2014.32.02
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
Virginia
1870-1880