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1. circa 1925

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

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. 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

   
3. Administration building at Catawba Sanatorium - Exterior view of the administration building at Catawba Sanatorium located in Catawba, Virginia, several miles north of Salem, Virginia. The date "1927" appears on the image.The sanatorium opened on the grounds of the former Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs resort in 1909 with a total of 16 patients. An existing resort structure probably met administrative needs until this more modern and functional building was constructed. According to an article by Melville Carrico published in the Roanoke Times around 1937 the tuberculosis facility was housing and treating 350 patients.

   1990.69.883

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Administration Building at Roanoke College - Roanoke College is a private, co-ed, 4-year, liberal arts college located in Salem, Virginia, and established in 1842. It is the second-oldest Lutheran-affiliated college in the United States.

   1998.24.126.2

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Administration Building at Roanoke College - Roanoke College is a private, co-ed, 4-year, liberal arts college located in Salem, Virginia, and established in 1842. It is the second-oldest Lutheran-affiliated college in the United States.

   1998.24.126.1

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. Administration Building at Roanoke College - Roanoke College is a private, coed 4-year liberal arts college located in Salem, Virginia and established in 1842. It is the second oldest Lutheran affiliated college in the United States.

   1998.24.127

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Administration Building at Roanoke College - Roanoke College is a private, coed 4-year liberal arts college located in Salem, Virginia and established in 1842. It is the second oldest Lutheran-affiliated college in the United States. It was a men's college until 1930 when it became co-educational.

   1970.29.37.3

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Administration Building at Roanoke College - Roanoke College is a private, co-ed, 4-year, liberal arts college located in Salem, Virginia, established in 1842. It is the second-oldest Lutheran-affiliated college in the United States.

   1998.24.128

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. Agreement between Building Committee of St. Paul's Church and James Hoffman - April 7, 1869

   A contract between the building committee of St. Paul's Church in Salem and James Hoffman that the later would paint the house and kitchen of the church. The contract includes the amount Hoffman would be paid on completion, plus the details of the color of the paint and where Hoffman is contracted to paint.

   Record Type: Archive

   
10. American Flag from 1932 - Small silk American flag from 1932. The flag was given to the donor as a child when President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Salem, Virginia, to dedicate the Veterans Administration Hospital. The flag has 48 stars.

    1986.58

    Record Type: Object

    
11. Auditorium, Roanoke, VA - circa 1940

    Auditorium, Roanoke, VA

    Record Type: Archive

    
12. Baseball player - Two black and white photographs of Glenn H. Lemon wearing the baseball uniform of the Virginia Bridge & Iron Company. He was a student at the time. Summer baseball games were plentiful in the Roanoke, Virginia area when this photograph was taken in the mid 1920s. In addition to Virginia Bridge, teams were fielded by Walker Machine & Foundry Corp., Norfolk & Western Railway Co., Times-World Corp., Viscose, Appalachian Power Company, and the towns of Salem and Vinton. Many of the games were played at Maher Field. Lemon resided with his family at 109 McClanahan Place in the City of Roanoke, the setting for this photograph. Mill Mountain can be seen in the background.

    2011.51.001

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. BIE Day - Business-Industry-Education Day, or BIE Day, was a gathering of teachers to find out more about business and industry. Teachers chose from a list of businesses they were interested in and spent the day as the company's guest. This event lasted about 3-4 years in the early 1950's. These photographs were taken at Rowe Furniture in Salem, Virginia in 1953.

    1998.24.260

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. BIE Day - Business-Industry-Education Day, or BIE Day, was a gathering of teachers to find out more about business and industry. Teachers chose from a list of businesses they were interested in and spent the day as the company's guest. This event lasted about 3-4 years in the early 1950's. These photographs were taken at Rowe Furniture in Salem, Virginia in 1953.

    1998.24.259

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. BIE Day - Business-Industry-Education Day, or BIE Day, was a gathering of teachers to find out more about business and industry. Teachers chose from a list of businesses they were interested in and spent the day as the company's guest. This event lasted about 3-4 years in the early 1950's. These photographs were taken at Rowe Furniture in Salem, Virginia in 1953.

    1998.24.258

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. BIE Day - Business-Industry-Education Day, or BIE Day, was a gathering of teachers to find out more about business and industry. Teachers chose from a list of businesses they were interested in and spent the day as the company's guest. This event lasted about 3-4 years in the early 1950's. These photos were taken at Rowe Furniture in Salem, Virginia in 1953. Business executives greet the teachers before they tour the factory.

    1998.24.261

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. BIE Day - Business-Industry-Education Day, or BIE Day, was a gathering of teachers to find out more about business and industry. Teachers chose from a list of businesses they were interested in and spent the day as the company's guest. This event lasted about 3-4 years in the early 1950's. These photos were taken at Rowe Furniture in Salem, Virginia in 1953. Teachers on bus to visit one of the businesses.

    1998.24.262

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. BIE Day, 1953 - Business-Industry-Education Day, or BIE Day, where all Roanoke City teachers got together with business and industry to learn more about them. Teachers chose from a list of businesses and spent the day as that company's guest. This event lasted about 3-4 years in the early 1950's. These photographs were taken at Rowe Furniture in Salem, Virginia.

    1998.24.257

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. Booklet - circa 1925

    A hard-cover booklet of at least 26 pages, though some are not inscribed with an insert, dated January 1, 1934 and signed by S. H. McVitty of Salem, Virginia. The contents of the booklet are written in poetic form about an African-American gentleman named Wat Jones. The booklet is titled "UNCLE WAT" and was written by John Drinkwater and privately printed by the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company of Roanoke. This is book 46 of 125 total cop...

    Record Type: Archive

    
20. Brauer Chapel at Catawba Sanatorium - circa 1955

    Postcard of the Brauer Chapel located on the grounds of Catawba Sanatorium, a few miles north of Salem, Virginia. The chapel was built at a cost of $8,000 and dedicated on Easter Sunday, April 23, 1916. It is named in honor of Charles E. Brauer, a Richmond, Virginia barber, who contracted tuberculosis, was treated at Catawba, and while there organized both the Sunday School program and the campaign that raised the funds for construction of the ch...

    Record Type: Archive