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The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook, 1934-1937, Ms2023-039, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in November 2010.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook was completed in June 2023.

Biographical Note

Lucie Ligon Gibboney (1917-2007) was born on April 3, 1917, to Jacob Haller and Lucie (Ligon) Gibboney in South Carolina. In Monroe, West Virignia, in 1936, she married James Montgomery Graham, Jr. (1916-1976), who graduated from Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in 1938. They had at least two children, Caroline R. and David H. James worked as a draftsman and later as a mechanical engineer for the federal government, while Lucie worked as a homemaker.

After her first husband's death, Lucie married widower Charles Newell Sanders (1914-1990) on June 16, 1979, in Wytheville, Virginia.

All three are buried in Graham Cemetery in Grahams Forge, Wythe County, Virginia.

External sources:

U.S. Federal Censuses, 1930-1950

"James Montgomery Graham Jr.", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96183824/james-montgomery-graham , accessed on June 5, 2023.

"Lucy Gibboney Graham Sanders", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96183897/lucy-gibboney-sanders , accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Lucie Ligon Gibboney" in the West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/10562046:2538 , accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Lucie Gibboney Graham" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, findagrave.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/29106745:9279 , accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Charles Newell Sanders", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96150599/charles-newell-sanders , accessed on December 12, 2023.

Scope and Content

The Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook contains dance cards, football programs, correspondence, dried flowers, ticket stubs, menus, photographs and other ephemera. Much of the materials relate to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia. Gibboney probably collected these materials while visiting James M. Graham, Jr., a 1938 graduate of VPI, to document memories from their time together in the New River Valley.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Blacksburg (Va.)
• Scrapbooks
• Students and alumni
• University History
• Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Lucie L. Gibboney Scrapbook by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).