Featured Exhibit: Celebrating Virginia Tech: A Chronology of 150 Years
Created for the 150th Anniversary of Virginia Tech in Spring 2022, this digital exhibit and its complementary physical exhibit identify important events in Virginia Tech's history illustrated with photographs, artifacts, newsletters, newspaper clippings, oral histories, and more from collections and…
Featured Collection: Civil War Diaries
Diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War that are part of Virginia Tech Special Collections.
Featured Item: Scrapbook of poetry, newspaper clippings and pressed flowers, likely by Virginia Bedinger Lucas, sister of Daniel Bedinger Lucas, c. 1860s (Ms1995-012)
A scrapbook of poetry, newspaper clippings and pressed flowers from the 1860s, likely created by Virginia Bedinger Lucas, younger sister of Daniel…
Featured Item: Blue Journal, John Henning Woods, 1864 (Ms2017-030)
Covering the period of Woods' imprisonment from March to July of 1864, this diary contains thorough entries on genealogy, Woods' thoughts on slavery,…
Recently Added Items
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Photograph of Doctors, Nurses, and Others, (Ms2019-009)
This is a sepia photograph of doctors, nurses, and others, presumably at Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
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Sheet of Cinderella stamps with card, 1929 (Ms2019-009)
This document is a series of Cinderella stamps with a person ringing a bell with the words "Health Greetings 1929". On the back of the stamps is a…
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Sheet of Christmas Cinderella stamps, 1928 (Ms2019-009)
This document is a series of Cinderella stamps with a ship with a two-barred cross on its sail, sailing the sea with "Christmas Greetings 1928" above…