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629 8th Ave S. W. - Cabinet card style photograph of several light colored clapboard two story homes with gabled roofs and a single gabled dormer window. Metal fencing runs in front of the houses separating the yards from the sidewalk and dirt road in the immediate foreground. Rocking chairs have been placed on the covered front porch, as well as several small potted plants. House is a typical four square 1900s construction with four rooms on the bottom floor and four rooms on the second floor, as evidenced by the four windows visible on the side of the house. Photograph is mounted to a tan mounting board. On the reverse, written in graphite are several repeating annotations: Hugh D. Haley born here May 7 1908 at 5 to 8 on Thursday morning 629, 8 ave S.W. Hugh Duffey Haley born here May 9 1908 at 8 to 8 on Thursday morning 629, 8 ave S.W.

2024.45.01

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Child Pestering Sleeping Cat - Photo shows a child pestering a sleeping cat in a yard, a shed can be seen to the left of the child.

2020.20.11

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Church with Man in Front - Photo shows a man in black attire walking in front of a church with power lines to his right. Area is most likely a suberb, as there are other houses surrounding the church in the background.

2020.20.03

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Historical Society of Western Virginia Newsletter - September 1999

Historical Society of Western Virginia September 1999 newsletter. Newsletter includes highlights of the Museums and Historical Society activities. The newsletter talks about the museum's fall programs, which focused on the roles of George and Martha Washington and Thomas Jefferson on frontier colonial history. The museum conducted a 'haunted haunts' tour, acquired a new Minolta CS Pro model copier, advertised for the museums fall Western Au...

Record Type: Archive

Home of William Fleming - Photo is of the home of William Fleming, back of photo states home is William Fleming's as well as both the birth year and death year. The house's white picket fencing can be seen in the foreground with trees on both sides of the house.

2009.54.05.03

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Home of William Fleming. - Photo is of the home of William Fleming, back states home is William Fleming's as well as both the birth year and death year of him.

2009.54.05.04

Record Type: Photo

House in the Winter - Photograph is of a small house surrounded by four trees, snow can be see on the ground and roof of house and can be assumed to have been taken during the winter months.

2020.20.04

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Photo of St. John's Church - Photo of St. John's Church in Downtown Roanoke on a street corner, power lines and poles and a tree can be seen along with several houses on each side of the church. Back of photo has written details of that day's weather as well.

2009.54.03.13

Record Type: Photo

Roanoke's First Electric Train - A black and white photograph of the first electric train running on the tracks below a neighborhood. The neighborhood sits up on a grassy hill. The train is made up of a locomotive, a caboose, and coal hoppers.

1975.05.6

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Scrapbook page of Gale / Harding families - Black page from a photographic scrapbook album. One side has a single photograph of a woman in the center (Gretchen Harding) of two men. She wears an oversized coat clasped at the center over a white high collared bodice with a large broach at the collar. She has a conical hat that is partically hidden in shadows. The man to the left (Sparrell S. Gale) wears a suit with the belt unbuckled, and holds a fedora in his left proper had. He has a severe center part of his hair. The man on the right (T.M. Harding) wears a dark suit and tie with a high stock collar parted at the neck. He holds his fedora in his right proper hand. The group stands in front of a home with four steps to a porch. On the other side are two photographs affixed at the upper left and lower right of the page. The upper left is of a man (T.M. Harding Jr.?) with dark slicked back hair holding a baby. The other is of a woman (Minnie Lahm Harding) with a Gibson Girl hairstyle in a ruffled dress holding the same baby (Margaretta Gale?)

2024.26.4

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Southwest Historic District Poster - 1986

Aerial illustration by David Cain, on commission from the City of Roanoke's Office of Community Planning. The illustration depicts the Historic Southwest District neighborhood, and is all hand drawn with ink, pencil, film, and colored pencil on vellum. Illustration of the neighborhood used for the poster (2020.04.1 & 2), three roads leading into the rows of houses. Green spaces occupy three of the four corners. In the center background, Mill ...

Record Type: Archive

Southwest Historic District Poster - 1986

Double sided poster illustrated by David Cain, on commission from the City of Roanoke's Office of Community Planning. The poster depicts the Historic Southwest District neighborhood. The front of the poster depicts the illustration of the neighborhood, three roads leading into the rows of houses. Green spaces occupy three of the four corners. In the center background, Mill Mountain and the Star sit over the neighborhood. The Roanoke River is...

Record Type: Archive

Southwest Historic District Poster - 1986

Double sided poster illustrated by David Cain, on commission from the City of Roanoke's Office of Community Planning. The poster depicts the Historic Southwest District neighborhood. The front of the poster depicts the illustration of the neighborhood, three roads leading into the rows of houses. Green spaces occupy three of the four corners. In the center background, Mill Mountain and the Star sit over the neighborhood. The Roanoke River is...

Record Type: Archive