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The collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Sullivan Family Papers, Ms1956-001, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The collection was donated to Virginia Tech in April 1956.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Sullivan Family Papers was completed in 2002.
Members of the Sullivan family include T.E. Sullivan, a licensed attorney; C.W. Sullivan, treasurer of Montgomery County; A.O. Sullivan, paymaster to the Virginia House of Delegates; Reverend J.O. Sullivan, the president of the Stonewall Jackson Institute in Abingdon, Virginia; Miss Lake V. Sullivan, a teacher at the Stonewall Jackson Institute and principal of Stuart Female College; and Mary Maude Sullivan.
The Sullivan Family Papers (1800-1957) comprises tax books and receipts, personal letters, brochures, souvenirs, photographs, tax books and ledgers. The tax books and receipts series contains large ledger size sheets, tax receipts and tickets for Montgomery County. The personal correspondence series includes letters and postcards addressed to Miss Lake V. Sullivan from various family members and friends. The brochures, souvenirs and photographs series contains many miscellaneous materials relating to the Sullivan family. The ledgers and tax books series has a book of tax tickets for the Blacksburg tax district; A.O. Sullivan's Pay-master ledger book for the Constitutional Convention; C.W. Sullivan's Bank Book for the Farmers National Bank in Salem, Virginia and the Montgomery Savings Bank; A.O. Sullivan's Pay-roll book for the Virginia House of Delegates; and Lorentz and Sullivan's mill ledger books for Blacksburg, Virginia district taxes.
TAX TICKETS AND RECEIPTS, 1800-1902 (Box 1, Folder 1-6)
This series comprises various tax receipts and tax tickets from Montgomery County and the state of Virginia. The tickets are arranged by the type of ticket and then chronologically.
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1883-1889 (Box 1, Folder 7)
This set of the series contains the personal correspondence of Miss Lake V. Sullivan which is arranged chronologically.
BROCHURES, SOUVENIRS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, 1860-1957 (Box 1, Folder 8)
This series is composed of various brochures, souvenirs and photographs, and is not arranged.
LEDGERS AND TAX BOOKS, 1882-1902 (Box 2)
This series includes tax books and ledgers and is not arranged.
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