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Passenger train pulled by Class K locomotive #117 on tracks at the passenger station in Roanoke, Virginia. This is a duplicate of Object ID 2009.05.073. NW 394 - F11 @13 # 3 +1 written on back.

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Passenger train pulled by Class K locomotive #117 on tracks at the passenger station in Roanoke, Virginia. © O. Winston Link stamp on back.

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01/07/1917 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Envelope addressed to Mrs. Nannie B. Robertson, 1043 Franklin Rd, Roanoke, Virginia and postmarked San Bonito, Texas Jan 7, 1917. Stamp has been removed. On the back of envelope the name Sarah had been written and a few numbers.

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01/07/1917 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Letter from "Gordee" Robertson to his mother Nannie (Muh) from San Benito, Texas where he is serving in the U. S. Army and a possible invasion threat by Mexico. He tells of having an abundance of food, and worries that Nannie will deprive herself of what she needs to send him food, tells of news from the Tulsa papers that the governor of Oklahoma had a plan to send his troops home and the legislature blocked his efforts. Gordon states he knows th...

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01/12/1916 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Enveloped addressed to Miss Susan R. Preston, Care Archdeacon Neve, Ivy Depot, Virginia, and forwarded to Mrs. Fred Clark, 1865 Park Road, W. W. Washington D. C. Postmarked at Roanoke VA on Jan 12 1916 at 3:30 AM and at Charlottesville, VA on JAN 12 at 6-PM. Return address was Roanoke Times, Publishers, Roanoke, VA

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03/05/1898 through 02/11/2001 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Letter headed Clerk of Courts, Botetourt County, Fincastle, Virginia, J. W. Matheny, Clerk and Turner McDowell, Dep. Clerk and addressed to Judge Mr. Gordan Robertson, Roanoke, Va writing to the Judge in reply to a letter from him and the Clerk is asking for all the receipts in this matter and any other items he may have paid. These items are for a Court of Appeals action. At the bottom of the page dated August ___1897 is a receipt record for $8...

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03/11/1918 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Letter is headed "Dearest little Muh" [Nannie B. Robertson,] Wed. night, apparently mailed with letter 1969.51.780. He apologizes for not writing more often, he has gotten out of the army and working for a company and he is "beginning to feel like an important cog" and it makes it hard for him to get away, tells a story of an old man from Virginia who is living in the same boarding house that related a story of a Robertson in Scotland who saved ...

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03/11/1918 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

This item contains two letters written close to the same time and apparently mailed in the same envelope. Letter 780 from Gordon Robertson to his sister Peachy telling of an ear ache and hearing loss, apologizes for his previous letter "being full of old gloomy stuff," and he has had a stay in local hospital, but is healing now, thanks for a package from home including magazines to read, comments on the marriage of John P. Coleman to Katherine, t...

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03/12/1918 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Envelope addressed to Miss P. G. Robertson, 1043 Franklin Rd, Roanoke, Virginia and postmarked San Antonio, TEX, MAR 12, 1918. Stamp has been removed.

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03/30/1901 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Letter headed March 30th 1901, to Hon. Wm. Gordon Robertson from S. K. Duerson asking Robertson to become a candidate for [delegate to] the Constitutional Convention, say he has talked to several persons who will back him and not a single man who would oppose him.

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03/30/1901 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Envelope addresses to Hon. Wm. Gordon Robertson, City with a return address printed in the upper right hand corner contains the name Watts, Robertson & Robertson, Attorneys at Law, Roanoke, VA.. There is no stamp or postmark, so apparently the letter was hand delivered.

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03/30/1901 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Envelope without postage or postmark addressed to Hon. Wm Gorgan Robertson, City, with printed return showing Watts, Robertson & Robertson, Attornets at Law, Roanoke, VA.

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08/18/1908 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

Envelope addressed to Mrs. Julia A. Breckinridge, 401 15th Avenue, S. W., Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America from Stella A. Dyer in Karlsbad, Bohemia. Stamp has been removed and post mark on front is not legible and a clear postmark on the reverse side shows Sep. 2, 1908, Roanoke, VA.

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A black and white photograph taken at Roanoke, Virginia showing pasture in the foreground, the railroad and buildings of Valley Lumber Corporation in the midddle ground, and Mill Mountain in the background. The elevated metal pipe extending from right to left across the image carried sawdust from the woodworking mill to an incinerator on the premises of the lumber company. Due to environmental considerations the incinerator, shown issuing smoke, was shut down some years ago.

1998.24.556

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Builders Plate, Circular (brass alloy) - Norfolk & Western Ry. Roanoke Shops, Y6b, Built Mar. 1949, No. 375. In a wooden crate - addressed to: Thomas E. Weir, 10 Lee Avenue, Lexington, Virginia. from: N&W Railway Co., Pond, GSMP., Roanoke, Roanoke, Va. insurance 10 cents, postage 53 cents.

OWL2005.10.01

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circa 1925

A scrapbook of images of Roanoke area businesses on postcards, circa 1925.

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February 6, 1996

Letter from Keith Pritchard, Associate City Editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, to O. Winston Link. The letter references copies of several articles published in the paper following Mr. Link's visit to the Virginia General Assembly at which he was honored for his work photographing steam locomotives in the 1950's.

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