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1. 2001 Celebrating Salem: Salem Museum Art Calendar. - 2001

   The Salem Museum Art Calendar for 2001, featuring colored images (including watercolor, acrylic, collage, and photographs) by local artists of Salem, Virginia.

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Letter from Eliza Breckinridge to her sister, Mary B. Woodville - December 1854 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835

   Letter headed "Grove Hill December 1854, Monday morning" from Eliza Breckinridge to her older sister, Mary B. Woodville, telling of her trip from Grove Hill by stage coach to Bonsack, where she caught the [railroad] cars to Lynchburg and stayed with her Uncle Harmer Gilmer. She had dental work done while there and also shopped for a long list of items, wishing she had more money to spend, of the people she met and visited, of her return trip on t...

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Main Street, Looking West - A black and white photograph of Main Street, Salem, Virginia, looking west. Cars from the early 1920s line the street. Streetcar lines are visible on the bricked road, the lines crisscrossing overhead. Brushes frame the image in the immediate foreground. A Western Union sign is visible, along with Salem Lunch.

   1981.72.3

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. President Franklin Roosevelt in Salem, 1934 - A black and white photograph of a parade through the streets of Salem, Virginia when President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the area for the groundbreaking of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salem. That was October 19, 1934, when Franklin D. Roosevelt came to town to dedicate the new 445-acre veterans hospital complex. A reported 85,000 people turned out to see him along his route through the Roanoke Valley. The Roanoke Times and the Roanoke World-News devoted hundreds of column inches to the before-and-after of the dedication. Newspaper accounts recall that Roosevelt, who was then not yet halfway through the first of his four terms, arrived in town on a private seven-car train. The locomotive's engineer, to whom a full news brief was dedicated, boasted an accident-free 50-year career that included piloting trains for the seven previous presidents, going back to McKinley at the turn of the century. Roosevelt, from Jefferson Street, rode in a Packard Phaeton, part of his 20-car caravan, up Campbell Avenue and along a crowd-lined route to the hospital that included 13th Street, Grandin Road, Lee Highway, College Avenue and Roanoke Boulevard. "The wildest enthusiasm during the tour to the grounds was evident at Virginia Heights school, where children let out deafening yells, waving their flags in a symphony of color," one report read. U.S. Representative Clifton Woodrum, Virginia Governor George Peery and Brigadier General Frank Hines also traveled to Salem in the president's motorcade. National Guardsmen, Boy Scouts and students from Roanoke College and Virginia Tech were on hand to direct the traffic of the more than 20,000 cars that were expected. Another report said Roosevelt's microphone was custom-made of bullet-proof armor plating. The device is described as "of desk height and has a rack on which he may place his manuscript." At the time, it was still not publicly known that polio had robbed Roosevelt of his ability to walk. In his speech, the president praised the Virginia landscape around him and called the 16-building institution "a symbolic affirmance of our belief in the underlying patriotic willingness of our veterans to put first things first."

   1981.72.8

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Salem, Virginia--Its Advantages and Attractions - 1891

   One booklet titled "Salem, Virginia, Its Advantages and Attractions As A Place Of Residence, Business, Investment, and Manufacturing." The copyright date is 1891. On pages 22-24, one will find a complete list of Salem's businesses and industries.

   Record Type: Archive

   
6. The Bank of Salem - A black and white photograph of the Bank of Salem building, located at 100 East Main Street on the southeast corner of the intersection of East Main Street and Market Street, in Salem, Virginia. The building served as headquarters of the bank, but is now occupied by Humphrey, Stump & Haynie Insurance, Incorporated.

   1990.69.464

   Record Type: Photo