MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

English Showalter transcriptions of the Watts family papers

Unprocessed Material — Folder: ViU2022-0064_ER001

Identifier: ViU-2022-0064

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Content Description

This collection includes primarily Microsoft Word files consisting of transcriptions of 1,220 documents in the papers of the Watts family of Oaklands, Roanoke County, Virginia. Also included are a small number of jpegs of selected documents. The files are currently arranged in folders by document number. These transcripts are of documents in the Watt's family papers.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Gift of English Showalter, 23 February, 2022.

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Dates

Creation: c.2007-2019

Extent

.107 Gigabytes (2,588 files: 2,371 Microsoft Word files, 176 open office documents, 23 Jpegs, 13 Apple/Double files, 3 TIFFS, and 1 pdf, )

Inventory

2,588 files

Physical Storage Information

Folder: ViU2022-0064_ER001 (Flash_memory)

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