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I certainly wouldn’t think they would consider take anything as a large portion of our collection is stuff that they did not want and gave to us in the first place, all covered by  agreements. Personally, I think we need to just keep working on the archives and finding a way for it to work that’s what Jim Gilliam would’ve done and that’s what he would’ve wanted and quit all this talk about closing up shop

Larry Evans
> On Dec 7, 2024, at 5:55 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> I won’t add anything to the discussion in detail.
> 
> But referring to the original post stating the donation was 2.3 cubic feet of materials.
> 
> Just so you all will know that is basically a little over two standard file boxes or banker boxes of materials. Basically that is roughly a file cabinet drawer full of materials.
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> In other words, not really a lot of materials. At some point, I may go an calculate roughly how many cubic feet of material is in our archives, but I can assure you there is a lot more than that.
> 
> Best
> Ken Miller
> 
>> On Dec 7, 2024, at 9:03 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 6:59 AM Carl wrote:
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>> Do you think they would take our N&W records?
>> 
>> Carl Barna
>> Emmaus, PA
>>  The Library of Virginia collects manuscripts, records, and digital artifacts from a variety of sources. In a report about recent acquisitions, this was included:
>> Someone above my pay grade would need to address this in more detail, but probably not. I was surprised that the library accepted this collection. A number of years ago there was a push to improve coordination between multiple historical groups in Roanoke and beyond. The N&W Historical Society was tagged as the best custodian of records -- paper, maps, drawings, other media, etc. The Virginia Museum of Transportation was tagged as the collection of static displays (and the J) and the Roanoke Chapter of the NRHS was tagged as the restorer and operator of moveable equipment. As such, the latter two organizations unloaded all their "paper" onto the NWHS. Included in this process was a transfer of materials from the Library of Virginia. The society is still wading through the "windfall" from this effort.
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>> Of course, it hasn't panned out perfectly. When Norfolk Southern shut down the East End Shops, the society was forced to pack up and vacate the archives space in GOB East. However, a large portion of the N&W records were not passed on to the society (mostly the records that had been sent to Virginia Tech, then called back) but sent to the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. This included early minute and record ledgers, records from all the predecessor railroads (minute books, etc.), and correspondence files from early N&W presidents -- Kimball and Johnson.
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>> Ken and other officers are welcome to expand/update/correct my impressions of what has transpired.
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>> 
>> Bruce in Blacksburg
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