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This collection consists of three items: a prospectus on Blue Valley Gem Company, a letter from Geo. L. McKay & Co., 1906, and a special offer form which states that a free one karat Royal Purple Amethyst would be given to every purchaser of $50 worth or more of stock in the company. The letter is dated May 16, 1906 and was a general letter that accompanied the special offer form.

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This collection consists of a ribbon from the 1894 Bluefield Democratic Club.

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This collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, membership lists, directories, and invoices belonging to the Bluefield Law Library Association. Comprising most of the collection are itemized invoices that list the books and journals that were part of the library collection.

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This collection consists of two items: a receipt from the W. H. Coffman Coke Company, dated March 2, 1896, and a postcard featuring Bluefield Avenue. It is postmarked May 20, 1915.

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The provenance of these records is varied, but all of these records pertain to the buildings and campus of Appalachian. Design, maintenance and construction on the campus of Appalachian State University is generally carried out by the Physical Plant. The blueprints and drawings in this collection date 1928-2010.

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The collection consists of two poems, "A Bed Tyme Rhyme" and "Ice Sicle Soup," by Bob Henry Baber. The poems are printed on card stock with illustrations by Boyd Carr.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of five items. One item is a typescript letter written to Baker on August 6, 1965 by F. P. Bodenheimer. Bodenheimer served on the Board of Trustees and as an officer of the Alumni Association at Appalachian and wrote to Baker about the upcoming Alumni College event. One item is a handwritten letter to Baker by John Corey of the Alumni Association, dated 1965, about the upcoming alumni event, possibly the same referred to in Bodenheimer's letter. There are also three...

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The Bobby McMillon Collection consists of duplicates of Bobby McMillon's recordings of ballad performances found in the Bobby McMillon Collection (#20007), Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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This collection consists of two Bolling & Owens Company receipts, both made out to Mrs. E. A. Thomas. They are dated November 3 and November 18, 1896. They detail sales and payments on the account.

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This collection consists of a bond for payment between George Little and Thomas Hughes of Jefferson County, West Virginia. Little owed Hughes $137.00. Several of Little's belongings are listed as being held against the debt, including feather beds and tables.

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The Bonnie Johnson Weaver Poetry and Papers contains a variety of Ms. Weaver's poetic and prose writing samples, articles she wrote for the Harlan (KY) Daily Enterprise and a booklet of original poetry from the 1980s.

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A songbook by Country music stars Bonnie Lou and Buster, featuring the songs "Two Little Shoes," "Little Paper Boy," and "Oh, Meet Me Jesus." The front cover includes an image of Bonnie Lou. The inside front cover includes an image of both Bonnie Lou and Buster. The back cover includes an image of Bonnie Lou's family.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a daybook and nametags associated with the Boone Chapel Church Sunday School. The daybook is dated 1937-1938 and provides a record of sunday school meetings. The entries include information such as the date, the hymn numbers sung, the attendance in various Sunday School classes and who the teachers were, and the offering for the day. Also noted are the number of visitors and names of the the superintendent and secretary. Some pages list individual names and the...

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This is a collection of records from the Boone Christ's Church United. When it was founded in 1992 as the Metropolitian Community Church of the High Country it was the only church in the area to accept and advocate for members of the LGBT community. Its pastor Cindy Long (1960-) was at the time the only openly lesbian minister of a Christian church in Watauga County.

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The Boone Community Book is a hand-crafted book with mostly original comments and artwork relating to the idea of "community" and the authors' interpretations. Included also are community-related newspaper clippings of events and agencies.

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1 toy windmill & a bumper sticker

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a book containing botanical specimens collected by Mrs. George Harvey (or Harney) in Western Virginia in the summer of 1846. The inscription inside states the book was presented by her husband on December 9, 1858. The book is 80 pages with specimens on the rectos only. The specimens are labeled (some specimens are missing, some are loose), and there are usually two or more specimens to a page. Several pages have poetry written on them. Included among the specimen...

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This collection contains a pamphlet titled “Take a Hike” which includes a message from Bowater on the purpose of the trails, as well as maps of the Bowater trails. There is another pamphlet labeled "Special Maps and Information" which includes additional maps of the area.

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Boyden Carpenter Photograph is a photograph of Boyden Carpenter with his guitar and a "The 'Hill Billy' from Alleghany County" guitar case. This photograph was found in the book, Boyden Carpenter: The Old Gospel Singer.

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The collection consists of a store day book entitled Boyd's Creek at the top of each page. The day book is noted as being from the vicinity of Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee. The amounts and totals of foodstuffs and household items are listed alongside the names of the individuals who purchased them.

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This collection is an accounts/receipts record of the Brading-Rhea Lumber Company of Johnson City, Tennessee, C.M. Miller, receiver on most pages, entries dating 1940-1946.

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The Brazillar and Sallie Davis Family Bible is the family Bible of Brazillar and Sallie Proffitt Davis of Watauga County, North Carolina. The Davises married in 1887. The bible contains records of their family members' births, deaths, and marriages dating from 1868 to 1961.

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Brenda Councill Mural in Belk Library and Information Commons DVD consists of a single DVD produced by Dr. Jeff Fletcher and Greg Williams that features Brenda Councill creating the murals in the atrium of the library, circa 2007.

Scope and Contents This photograph album was created by the Craighill family circa 1890. It consists of 44 photographs, some labeled with handwritten notes identifying various elements in the photographs, such as family members, pets, and family homes. The homes are not labeled geographically but rather with the family member's name and the type of residence, including a farm. Photographs show the family posed around their homes, socializing and playing with pets. Several Craighill family members are...

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A letter from Bruce Crawford to Earl [last name unknown], October 5, 1972. Also included is a "List of Magazines and Books Containing Articles by Bruce Crawford."

Scope and Contents This collection includes items collected by Bryce Gordon and Izoria Sheppard Gordon during their time as students of Appalachian State Teachers College (ASTC) between 1945-1949. Included in the collection are receipts issued by ASTC, Appalachian Athletic Association tickets, ephemera, event programs, and photographs. The ephemera includes football game lineups, a library notice, invitations, a program for the 1948 Junior-Senior circus, and a program for the 1949 Junior-Senior banquet. The...

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This collection is a booklet catalog of two-sided cards featuring on one side, buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois 1893, and on the other side, pictures of carts offered by Buckeye Cart Company of Charleston, West Virginia.

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This collection consists on one brochure titled "A Brief Resume of Information Relative to Buffalo Mineral Water," produced by the Virginia Buffalo Springs Corporation in Buffalo Springs, Virginia. It contains the history of the springs, the water's mineral analysis, and suggested medicinal uses for physicians.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of the Bumgarner family. Primary contributors include Tom Bumgarner (1926-2021), Marie Bumgarner (1931-2013), Charles Simpson Bumgarner (1887-1977), and Annie Bumgarner (1891-1984). The papers include correspondence, genealogy papers, photographs, land, estate, and cemetery records. There are also two photograph albums, three scrapbooks, and Tom Bumgarner's travel diary to U.S. Navy duty stations. Correspondence between Annie Patton and...

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The Burke County Schools (Morganton, North Carolina) Yearbooks collection consists of three yearbooks, actually teacher handbooks, from the Burke County school systems for the Fiscal Years of 1958-1959, 1959-1960, and 1960-1961, along with some miscellaneous loose papers.