Browse Collections (220 total)
Byron Nelson Cooper Papers, 1925-1971 (Ms1973-004)
This collection contains the papers of Byron Nelson Cooper, head of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Department of Geological Sciences from 1946…
Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection
The Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection includes materials from 1926-1971. The collection contains information relating…
Robert E. Marshak Papers (Ms1988-060)
The collection consist of Marshak's professional and personal papers, detailing his career as university professor in physics at the University of…
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers Records
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Biographical Vertical Files
In general, vertical files at Special Collections and University Archives include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or…
Hermann C. Niemeyer Papers (Ms1987-062)
This collection contains the papers of Hermann C. Niemeyer, a student at Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) during the…
Record Group Vertical Files
In general, vertical files at Special Collections include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and…
150th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection
This collection includes materials included in the 2022 physical and digital exhibits created for the 150th anniversary of the university by Special…
Oral History Clips: April 16, 2007
This collection includes excerpts from oral histories about the events of April 16, 2007, when 32 Hokies were tragically killed on Virginia Tech's…
Oral History Clips: Graduate Life Center
This collection includes excerpts from oral histories about the Graduate Life Center on Virginia's Tech Blacksburg campus.
Harold S. Hill Collection (Ms2007-001)
This digital collection includes selected digitized drawings and plans from the Harold S. Hill Collection, located throughout Southwest Virginia.
Charles M. and Nancy G. Figgat Letters (Acc2019-132)
This collection contains two letters to and from Nancy (Nannie) G. Figgat and her husband, Charles Figgat, written while he was serving in the Civil…
Charles M. Figgat[t] Letters (Acc2020-006)
This collection contains three letters to and from Nancy (Nannie) G. Figgat and her husband, Charles Figgat, written while he was serving in the Civil…
A. J. Davis Family Collection (Ms2012-067)
The A. J. Davis Family Collection includes journals; scrapbooks; professional and biographical information; photographs, sketches, and ephemera; and a…
Voces of a Pandemic Oral History Collection (Ms2021-023)
This collection includes oral history accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic from the Spanish speaking community in Southwest Virginia.
Department of Biochemistry Oral History Collection (Ms2003-009)
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The Black Appalachians Oral History Project consists of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute…
Virginia Tech Course Catalogs
Annual undergraduate and graduate course catalogs of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses,…
M. Rupert Cutler Papers (Ms2020-005)
The M. Rupert Cutler Papers include personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and…
2020-2021 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2020-2021 Student Government Association Legislation
2020-2021 General Assembly Meeting Minutes (RG 31/16)
Materials include 2020-2021 meeting minutes of the Student Government Association General Assembly. This collection only includes minutes from the…
2019-2020 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2019-2020 Student Government Association Legislation
2018-2019 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2018-2019 Student Government Association Legislation
2013-2014 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2013-2014 Student Government Association Legislation
Student Government Association Records (RG 31/16)
This collection includes Student Government Association (SGA) legislation from 2103-2014, 2018-2021, and General Assembly meeting minutes from 2021.
Contributors: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Student Government Association.
Official Minutes [Virginia Tech Board of Visitors] (RG 1/1)
Minutes of the Board of Visitors from 1898-1936.
Note: Minutes are mostly typed and the pdfs are text searchable. All but about two years of the…
Records of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors (RG 1)
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Black Matters: A Teach-In On Language, Literature, Rhetoric, Writing, and Verbal Art Collection (Ms2020-006)
TheBlack Matters: A Teach-In On Language, Literature, Rhetoric, Writing, and Verbal Art Collection includes video recorded by Zoom for the teach-in…
Board of Visitors Collection, 125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection
This part of the 125th Anniversary Collection relates to the Board of Visitors (BoV) and includes photographs of Boards and individual rectors, pdfs…
The Tin Horn
Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after they were first…
Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers, 1784-1881, n.d. (Ms1997-002)
The Smithfield Preston Foundation collection consists of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of…
Beverly Willis Architectural Collection, 1954 - 1999
The Beverly Willis Architectural Collection spans the years 1954 to 1999 and is comprised primarily of records documenting Willis’s work as an…
Harry Downing Temple Jr., Papers, 1872-2004 (bulk, 1930-2001) (Ms1988-039)
The Harry Downing Temple, Jr., Papers contains materials related to Temple's personal life, interest in heraldry and insignia, and his research and…
Presidential Photographs and Biographies, 125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection
This part of the online collection includes images of past presidents of the university, as well as a photograph of Dr. Duncan Lyle Kinnear, author of…
Corps of Cadets History, 125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection
This part of the online collection includes documents and images related to the history of the Corps of Cadets.
This collection includes materials…
Anti-Asian Panic and the Pandemic: A Virtual Teach-In Collection (Ms2020-003)
The Anti-Asian Panic and the Pandemic: A Virtual Teach-InCollection includes video recorded by Zoom for the teach-in event held on April 2, 2020. It…
Fletcher Family Digital Collection on Solitude
Members of the Fletcher family lived at Solitude from 1908-1914. This collection of materials includes scanned photographs, scrapbook pages, a short…
Solitude Photographs and Papers, ca. 1960s-1980s (Ms1993-024)
This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude. The photographs in this…
Solitude Exhibit Materials
This collection includes materials included in an early 2000s online exhibit on the history of Solitude. The original exhibit was a series of webpages…
125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection
This collection includes materials included in an 1997 online exhibit created for the 125th anniversary of the university. The original exhibit was a…
Keystone View Company Papers (Ms2010-052)
The collection consists predominantly of correspondence by between salesmen in the field and the management of the Keystone View Company from…
Doug Burton Papers (Ms2020-001)
This collection contains Doug Burton's papers and memorabilia from a Pratt-funded Virginia Tech engineering trip to the USSR and Finland taken in…
Fries Textile Plant Records, 1900-1988 (Ms1989-039)
This collection is a selection of materials from The Fries Textile Plant Records, which includes correspondence, production data, personnel ledgers,…
James Longstreet Correspondence (Ms1993-003)
Confederate general in the Civil War; after the war he was head of an insurance company and held a series of Federal appointments. Author of From…
J. W. Ryland Diary, 1863-1865 (Ms2019-011)
The J. W. Ryland Diary consists of a single Civil War diary kept by J. W. Ryland between September 1863-1865. In his diary, Ryland records activities…
Huff-Hylton Families Papers, 1803-1816, 1858-1882, 1975, n.d (Ms1998-001)
The collection consists of items from the early 1800s pertaining to the business dealings of Samuel Huff of Montgomery (now Floyd) County. Materials…
Multicultural Diversity Oral History Project (Ms2002-001)
This collection includes oral history accounts from people of various backgrounds with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area.