This photo depicts the women's basketball team playing a game in the 1980s. The Virginia Tech player who is pictured is Renee Dennis, #44, played from 1983-1987 and was the first Virginia Tech woman to have her jersey retired.
This photo depicts a biology classroom that was located in Smyth Hall. The building was originally known as the Natural Sciences Building but was renamed in 1949 to Smyth Hall.
Photograph from the Special Collections dedication and reopening in 2006 shows VT Dean of the University Libraries, Eileen Hitchingham speaking to crowd.
Photograph from the Special Collections dedication and reopening in 2006 shows VT Dean of the University Libraries, Eileen Hitchingham (far right) with individuals and plaque of appreciation for donations from the C.E. Richardson Benevolent…
This photo depicts a woman at the Steger Center in Rian San Vitale, Switzerland. The center was originally named the Center for European Studies and Architecture but was renamed to the Steger Center in 2014.
System X (pronounced ten) is the university's first supercomputer, which was declared the fastest at any university and third fastest in the world in 2003. This photo is undated.
Leticia "Tish" Long is the second female Rector of the VT Board of Visitors in the university's history. This photo of Long is by Christina Franusich on August 31, 2021.
This photo by Torgersen Bridge over the Alumni Mall with the Pylons of the War Memorial Court in the background is by Thomas Miller of VT University Relations in February 12, 2020.
This photo is of the Undergraduate Student Senate (USS) Transition Team in 2021. That year, the Student Government Association was disbanded and the USS formed, with the transition team working on the governing documents for the USS prior to the…
This photo depicts the baseball team, ca. 1894, playing on Sheib Field in the school's colors at the time of black and gray. The Administrative Building (called the "Rock House") is on the left in the background and the Second Academic Building is on…
The groundbreaking of the college’s first building took place with VT president William E. Lavery, Gov. John N. Dalton of Virginia, dean of the college Richard B. Talbot (pictured, left to right) on April 10, 1979. The college opened and classes…
This photo by Clayton Metz of VT University Relations is of an experiment in the Virginia Tech Carilion's Center for Human Neuroscience Research, part of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, 2021.
This photo depicts the World War I memorial, also known as "The Rock", that is on campus. This memorial was first unveiled in July 1919 just before the commencement ceremonies.
These photos depict the new Barracks No. 6 building, dedicated in September 1927, and Barracks No. 7, which was converted from the Science Hall and opened in November 1927.
This composite includes 3 photos of construction on the campus. On the left is the new power plant, on the top is the new stone dormitory Barracks No. 8, and on the bottom is of Patton Hall with 3 finished floors on the left and the Administration on…
This composite includes photos from Dedication Day for Miles Stadium and War Memorial Hall on October 23, 1926. Alumni were invited to a homecoming for the dedication of War Memorial Hall at 10am, the dedication of Miles Stadium at 2:15pm, and the…
This composite includes a 1919 photo of Eleanor Isabelle Jones, university librarian from 1913 to 1923, and a 1925 photo of Ralph Minthorne Brown, university librarian from 1925 to 1946.
In 1904 the Junior Class resigned after a fellow cadet was dismissed from the University. The junior class drafted this statement where they said that if the student was not reinstated that they would all resign from the University.
This is the cover of sheet music entitled "The Sentiment of Every American Mother: America Here's My Boy," ca. 1917, by Andrew B. Sterling and Arthur Lange, which is about mother's sending their sons off to war during the First World War.
"Moonlight and V. P. I." was written in 1942 by Fred Waring and Charles Gaynor after the Corps of Cadets asked Waring to write a song for the 1942 ring dance.