Digital Archives Collections

Contains images and documents primarily from McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections relating to Southwestern Virginia, Appalachian history, and beyond. Audio-visual materials include high resolution videos of oral histories with local veterans, banjo and traditional regional music styles, and rare Burmese recordings.

Click here to go to the full Digital Archives site.

Collections within the Digital Archives

Image of an old hand-cranked washing machine. Click here to go to the Appalachian Collections.
Image is the title frame of the streaming video for A Conversation with Jim Wayne Miller, part of the Highland Summer Conference series. Click here to go to the Audiovisual Collections site.
Image of an issue of the Grapurchat newspaper. Click here to go to the Radford University Archives site.
Image of a page from an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages. Click here to go to the Special Collections site.

Vimeo Site

Image of Sam Shelor playing the banjo on stage. Click here to go to the Banjo Masters site.
Image of Alison Armstrong holding a t-shirt in front of her. Shirt is white and has the words, "This librarian fights fascists" across the top. Click here to go to the Womens' March site.
Image of James Everhart, a Vietnam War veteran. Click here to go to the Radford Veterans Living History Project.