Guide to the Manuscript Collections
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NALLE, CHARLES RAVENSCROFT. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, 1902-1904. Lived in the Somerset, Virginia, area until at least around 1910. Collection contains 32 photographs taken from 1902 to 1904 with the subject matter ranging from individuals and animals to the Vatican. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-097.
NANASY, ILONA. ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION, 1978-2003. 0.1 cu. ft. Architect of Budapest, Hungary. Began working in 1978 at the Hungarian Ministry of Housing, then opened a private practice in 1991. Collection consists of residential, commercial and competition projects. International Archive of Women in Architecture. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms2005-010.
[NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, CIVIL WAR LETTER, n.d.] 0.1 cu. ft. Letter from a Union soldier named Chris to Mrs. Curtis. Writes that although he is staying in the best hotel in town the food is still terrible and expresses his opinion about blacks in the city. Transcript available. Ms89-080.
[NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, CIVIL WAR LETTER, 1864.] 0.1 cu. ft. Letter from a Union soldier named Clinton to "Friend Ettie," written January 5, 1864. Writes that he intends to settle down and get married after the war, and asks Ettie to look for a "goodlooking amiable young lady that wishes to change her situation in life." Ms89-071.
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON COMMUNITY SERVICES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION. RECORDS, 1969-91. 8.0 cu. ft. Formed in 1969 as part of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges community services project funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. When the Council structure of the AACJC was reorganized in 1972, the NCCSCE became one of the operating councils of the AACJC. Currently involves more than 1000 members in the United States and Canada. Its goals include encouraging the growth of community services and continuing education as a response to the lifelong learning needs of all citizens. Collection includes membership lists, minutes, treasurer's reports, newsletters, correspondence, National conference proceedings, handbooks, and annual reports. Unprocessed. Ms87-019.
"NATIONAL DIARY" RECIPE BOOK. [1914?]. 0.1 cu. ft. Daily diary filled with handwritten and news-clipping recipes. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-051.
NATURAL TUNNEL, SCOTT COUNTY, VIRGINIA. COLLECTION, [c.1932-1958]. consists of a wood postcard printed with a sketch of the tunnel. On the back is a message to Mrs. Chaz Etter in Rural Retreat, Virginia. Also includes a photocopy of a sketch of the tunnel. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-085.
NEATHERY, J. MARSHALL. GENEALOGY, 1996. 1 vol. Resident of Rolesville, North Carolina, amateur genealogist, and Baptist minister. Typescript, spiral bound genealogy entitled "Neathery Siblings Had Eight Ancestors in the Civil War: Five of Them at Gettysburg." Describes the lives of eight ancestors related to the Neathery family who served in the Confederacy during the Civil War. These ancestors include: William Robert Currin (1838- 1913) Company G, 30th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; William Faucett (1837-1904) Company I, 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment; Granville Grissom (1814-90), Company C, 3rd Battalion North Carolina Senior Reserves; James C. Currin (1836-1915) Company G, 30th North Carolina Regiment and Company K, 55th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; Jeremiah Hamilton Currin (1832-68), Augustus Dennis Frazier (1833-1903), and James Simeon Hobgood (1836-1911), all of Company K, 55th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; and George Daniel Nethery (1834-99), Company G, 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Five of these men fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. Ms96-002.
NELSON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1828-83, n.d. 0.6 cu. ft. Clarke County, Virginia, family. Papers consist of correspondence among the family members, particularly between Adelaide Nelson and her daughter Nannie, (approx. fifteen letters), and the Civil War letters of prisoner of war G. Washington ("Wash") Nelson to Mollie Scollay of Shepardstown, Virginia (approx. fifty letters). Wash was captured in 1863 and held at Johnson's Island, Ohio, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Fort Delaware, Delaware. Civil War papers also include muster rolls, one of them signed by J.E.B. Stuart, of Captain Hugh Nelson's company, the Clarke County, Company D., Sixth Cavalry Volunteers. Ms89-021.
[NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, DAYBOOK, 1837-45.] 1 vol. Ledger with accounts of itemized purchases, money owed to individuals, recipes, and freight costs and wharfage from the New Bedford, Massachusetts, port. Ms88-106.
NEW ENGLAND PRESS ASSOCIATION. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, ca. 1880. Press association organized in the late 1860s from the Boston Press Association. Merged into the Associated Press in 1897. Sixty-four photographs taken on a tour of a group of New England Press Association members to North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland. Photographs include scenes of Belle Meade, a horse farm in Tennessee owned by Civil War Confederate General William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903). Also includes scenes of the wreck of an East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad car at Rock Bridge, Tennessee; Luray Caverns in Virginia; Antietam Civil War battle site; the Tennessee State Capitol; and the East Tennessee and North Carolina Railroad. Original returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta.. Images available on the VT Imagebase. Ms91-024.
NEW FARMERS OF AMERICA, MARYLAND ASSOCIATION. RECORDS, 1928-60. 0.2 cu. ft., ca. 110 items. A national organization for black students studying vocational agriculture. Founded in 1927 as the New Farmers of Virginia to be an organization similar in aims to the all-white Future Farmers of America. Collection is largely photographic, and depicts NFA activities in Maryland. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms80-002.
NEW JERSEY ZINC CORPORATION [AUSTINVILLE, VIRGINIA]. RECORDS, 1911-69. Ca. 30.0 cu. ft. New Jersey Zinc purchased the mines in Wythe County from the Bertha Mineral Company in 1902, and became its parent company. Originally formed from the southwest Virginia lead mines discovered by Colonel John Chiswell in 1756. Collection consists of maps, blueprints, and files of the corporation's Austinville operations. Unprocessed. Ms91-032.
NEW RIVER GROCERY COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1905-06. 1 vol. Grayson County, Virginia, general store. Order book. Ms40-026.
NEW RIVER INVESTMENT COMPANY. DEEDS, 1890-1892. Company chartered in 1889 for developing land in Montgomery County, Virginia. One deed from 1890 and three drafts of a deed from 1892. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-073.
NEW RIVER MINERAL COMPANY. STOCK CERTIFICATE, ca. 1882. 0.1 cu. ft. Mineral company operating at Ivanhoe (Wythe County), Virginia during the late nineteenth century. Unissued certificate for shares of the company�s stock. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-036.
NEW RIVER VALLEY PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION. REPORTS AND FILES, 1959-91, n.d. 3.0 cu. ft. Collection consists of reports, files, and other literature gathered and used by the commission to aid their planning for the New River Valley of Virginia. Some of the records deal with forestation, wilderness management, water systems, economic concerns, and housing in the New River Valley and other areas of southern Appalachia. Includes publications from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Inventory available. Ms98-024.
NEWLEE FAMILY. PAPERS, 1916, 1980, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia, family. Colonel Robert G. Newlee was a sergeant in the 1st Virginia Regiment in the Mexican War, and raised a company in Blacksburg known as the Montgomery Mountain Boys in the Civil War. Papers include a history (1980) of Smithfield Plantation, the Preston family, and Virginia Newlee (Robert's daughter) written by George Shackleford; an obituary of Colonel Newlee; and a newspaper clipping (1916) with the muster roll of the Company of Virginia Volunteers in the Mexican War. Also includes a muster roll of Company L, Fourth Virginia Regiment, of which Newlee was captain. Ms82-021.
NEWMAN, CAROL M. (1879-1941). PAPERS, 1897-1956. 0.6 cu. ft. Professor of English at Virginia Tech. Born in Wytheville, Virginia, graduated from King College in Tennessee in 1897 with a B.A., received his M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1901 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1903, and obtained an LL.D. degree from King College in 1927. Came to Virginia Tech as an Associate Professor of English in 1903, and became successively Professor of Rhetoric, Professor of English, and Head of the English Department. Secretary of the Athletic Council, 1904-39. Papers include correspondence, honorary awards from Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon, and other societies, Athletic Council material, English examinations, lectures and speeches, and material on the possible donation of the George William Walker Memorial Book Collection. Also contains correspondence, including a letter from Albert J. Nock; newspaper clippings on notable literary figures, and on other literature related topics; lists of books for recommended reading; material on the dedication of the Newman Library (1956); and a list of VPI staff from 1872-1919. Ms78-003.
NEWMAN, CAROL M. JR. (1911-97) PAPERS, 1930-81. 0.3 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia native, received B.S. degree from Virginia Tech in 1931 and M.A. in English from the University of Virginia in 1946. Served in the Navy in World War II. Fiction editor and writer for the New Yorker, (1949-72), and Professor of English at Virginia Tech (1934-49, 1972-75.) Papers include correspondence, material from the Commencement of 1931 in which Newman gave the valedictory speech, Newman's writings and other files for the New Yorker (1944-72), including letters and notes from Louis Auchincloss, S.J. Perelman, J.D. Salenger, William Shawn, John Updike, E.B. White, cartoons from Frank Modell, a manuscript poem by John Updike, and an August 31, 1946, issue of the New Yorker. Also included is Newman's 1931 Virginia Tech diploma, his honorary degree from Phi Kappa Phi, and a 1934 photograph of the New York chapter VPI Alumni dinner. Most of the materials have comments by Newman attached. Ms78-004.
NEWMAN, J. PRESTON (d. 1982). PAPERS, 1910-75, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Professor of English (1935-52) at Virginia Tech. Collection includes four poems (1935-38, n.d.). Also consists of papers relating to Ralph Minthorne Brown, a librarian at Virginia Tech, including four publications by Brown autographed to Newman; a letter (1975) to Newman from P.H. McGauley (Virginia Tech faculty, 1927-28, 1950-51) giving a profile of Brown; three radio talks by Brown on "The Joy of Walking," "Prairies," and "Sunrises," and a booklet of verses by Brown. Ms82-016.
NEWMAN, WALTER S. (1895-1978). RECORDS, 1947-1962. 24.0 cu. ft. Walter Stephenson Newman (1895-1978) was president of Virginia Tech from 1947 to 1962. As president, Newman conferred more degrees than all his predecessors combined and oversaw more than $20,000,000 in campus construction. The Records of the Office of the President, Walter S. Newman (1895 to 1978) span the years 1947 to 1962, with the bulk of the material dating from 1947 to 1961. The collection consists primarily of Newman's General Correspondence. Also included, and interfiled with general correspondence, are budget requests and statements, financial reports, enrollment statistics, architects' contracts, audits, commencement and inaugural ephemera, statements to the Federal Power Commission, a few photographs, and reports on Virginia's public school system submitted to the Moses Commission. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
[NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, CIVIL WAR LETTER, 1864]. 0.1 cu. ft. Letter from a Union corporal from Massachusetts in the Civil War. Writes to his brother at home, telling him that he will try for a commission when he soon returns on furlough. Has heard that "there are a number of chances for commissions in colored regiments" that the Governor of Massachusetts was raising, and he hopes to become an officer in one. Ms89-075.
NICOLAY, JOHN. PAPERS, 1790-1985. 1.4 cu. ft. Former Blacksburg, Virginia, resident and historian. Collection consists of papers Nicolay has used for his research on Montgomery County, Virginia, history. Topics include poverty in Montgomery County, blacks, local churches, and the Edie Family of Christiansburg, Virginia. Materials include oral history tapes, slides, and the transcript for Nicolay's paper, "Slave and Black Commentaries: An Oral History Project Reflecting on Wake Forest, Montgomery County, Virginia," written with Clyde Kessler; original documents, receipts, court records and warrants for arrest; historical photographs of the area by Earl Palmer; material from Moutainside Magazine, edited by Nicolay from 1983 to 1984, including writings by Beverly Brinlee, Jess Carr, Fred Waage, and William White; chapters from Ann Swain's Radford University thesis about the Christiansburg Industrial Institute; and other material relating to the history of Montgomery County. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms87-027.
NINOVA, TSVETANA (1923- ). ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, 1971-1994. 0.5 cu. ft. Born in Popitsa, Bulgaria. Worked in France designing apartment buildings and in Bulgaria with the Regional Design Organization and as a private architect. Drawings consist of a résumé and ink drawings on lucid paper of a railroad station in Ikhtiman, rest shop facilities in Kolotino and an apartment building in Bulgaria. Inventory available. International Archive of Women in Architecture. Ms2000-006.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN PASSENGER STATION. PHOTOGRAPH, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. The Marion, Virginia, station operated as a passenger station from 1882-1971. The collection contains a single black and white aerial image of the station. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-029.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES. COLLECTION, 1855-1967. 1.2 cu. ft. Reorganized in 1896 from the Norfolk and Western Railroad; merged with Southern Railway in 1982 to form Norfolk Southern Corporation. Financial and legal documents, reports, maps, construction files, printed materials and photographs relating to the railway, its predecessor and subsidiary lines and other associated enterprises, including the Atlantic & Danville Railway; Bluefield Inn; Hotel Roanoke; New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road"); Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad; Norfolk and Western Railroad; Roanoke Machine Works, and the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-037.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL RECORDS, 1874-1907. 0.5 cu. ft. Three ledgers containing records relating to the personnel of the company's accounting department, listing employee name, age, marital status, date of hire, jobs worked, and wages earned. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Norfolk & Western Railway Archives. Ms92-058.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONSTRUCTION SITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 1967-81, n.d. 0.6 cu. ft. Collection of approximately 360 photographs of railroad construction in Southwest Virginia. Ms97-027.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, ca. 1905-69. Approximately 10,000 photographic images taken by the Norfolk and Western Railway's Public Relations Department. Subjects include locomotives; cars; coal mines; stations; cities and towns; Roanoke, Virginia, and the Hotel Roanoke; farm scenes; resorts; train wrecks; colleges and universities; group and individual portraits; and caves and caverns. Some photographs date from as early as the 1880s, and a large group of glass plates dates from the early 1900s, but the bulk of the photograph collection dates from the 1920s or later. Other railroads covered by the collection in addition to the Norfolk and Western include the Atlantic and Danville; the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio; the Big Stony; the Chesapeake and Ohio; the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Virginia; the Lynchburg and Durham; the New River, Holston, and Western; the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis; the Norfolk and Virginia Beach; the Ohio Railroad; the Ohio and Northwestern; the Ohio River and Columbus; the Ohio River and Western; the Virginian; the Virginia and Tennessee; and the Wabash. Originals returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Images available on the VT Imagebase. Ms88-120.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. PHOTOGRAPH, [1925?]. 0.1 cu. ft. Rail carrier headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. Photograph of group believed to be Roanoke, Virginia employees of the company. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-019.
NORMAN, M.T. LETTER, 1864. 0.1 cu. ft. Confederate soldier in the Civil War in the 37th Battalion Cavalry, Johnson Brigade. Letter written from Camp Mount Jackson, Virginia, to his wife Nancy. Includes an account of the burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Transcript available. Ms87-015.
NORRIS, E.B. PAPERS, 1930-1954. 1.0 cu. ft. Dean of Engineering at VPI from 1928-1952 and as Director of the Engineering Experiment Station from 1931 to 1952. Collection includes reports concerning the agriculture and engineering departments, reports on individual development, newspaper clippings, catalogues, brochures, and correspondence, particularly regarding then-President Burruss. Ms1981-103.
NORTON, H. E. LETTER, 1865. 0.1 cu. ft. Soldier in Michigan brigade during and after the Civil War. Letter to friends describing journey west, complaining of the regiment's not having been mustered out at the close of the war, and discussing rumors of an upcoming assignment to guard a government train bound for Nebraska Territory. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-074.
NOVAKOVA, ZDENKA MARIE. ARCHITECTURAL PAPERS. 0.2 cu. ft. Architect and artist of the Czech Republic. Graduated from Prague Technical University in 1963 with a degree in architecture and has designed several architectural projects in the Czech Republic, most notably the interior of a Gothic church in the town of Most. Papers consist of architectural drawings, photographs, a booklet about her work, an exhibit booklet, and a CD with plans. International Archive of Women in Architecture. Ms94-019.
NOWICKI, STANISLAWA. ARCHITECTURAL PAPERS, 1950-53. 0.1 cu. ft. Born in Poland in 1912, She attended Warsaw Polytechnic and worked in Paris and through a scholarship offered by the French Government. She worked on the Polish Pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition and had the opportunity to work with Le Corbousier at Expo '37. In 1938 after graduating from Warsaw Polytechnic she married and moved to the United States. In the fall of 1951 she began teaching the first year studio at the University of Pennsylvania. Her papers consist of a biographical sketch as well as recollections written by student of the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. There are photographs taken of her house in Villanova, PA, and a photograph of a curtain that Nowicki designed for the Coliseum in Raleigh. Inventory available online. International Archive of Women in Architecture. Ms2001-031.
NUCLEAR PIONEERS: CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENTS. VIDEOTAPES AND PAPERS, 1991. 0.5 cu. ft. Collection consists of seven videotapes recorded at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (or Virginia Tech) in August 1991 of interviews with six nuclear pioneers: Sigvard Eklund, Bertrand Goldschmidt, Robert E. Marshak, Glenn T. Seaborg, Gerald F. Tape, and Herbert F. York. Five of the tapes cover four main topics in nuclear history during the period from about 1945 through 1965: weapons and the arms race, civilian vs. military control in post-World War II United States, peaceful uses of the atom and basic research, and international perspectives: research, development, and cooperation. Two additional tapes cover a two-hour public round table where the pioneers were interviewed by Jerry Bishop of the Wall Street Journal, Gloria Lubkin of Physics Today, Albert Moyer of Virginia Tech, and Paul Torgersen of Virginia Tech. Also includes supporting documentation for the sessions. Ms93-004.
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