Browse Collections (240 total)
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…
Charlotte D. Gale Photograph Album (Ms1990-044)
This collection consists of a photograph album compiled by Charlotte D. Gale of Roanoke, Virginia, at the end of the 19th century. The album contains…
Chocolate History Collection
This collection contains individual images from publication and pamphlets in Special Collections and University Archives relating to the history of…
Christiansburg Industrial Institute Oral History Project (Ms2019-037)
This collection consists of oral history accounts from former students and other participants from Christiansburg Industrial Institute. Interviews…
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.
Civil War Poetry
Collection of poetry composed during the Civil War by M. M. Williams.
Civil War Small Manuscripts Collection
This contains a collection of small manuscripts related to various aspects of the American Civil War and obtained from various sources.
Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Manufactory Trade Card (Ms2015-045)
The collection consists of a trade card for an English builder and manufacturer of artificial stone, probably printed about 1784. The Coade stone…
Cocktail Ephemera Collection, c.1870s-2000s (Ms2013-027)
The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to…
College of Home Economics Metabolism Study Collection, 1956-1960 (Ms2005-003)
The collection consists of 30 images documenting the Metabolism Study conducted by the College of Home Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. In…
Collegiate Times LGBTQ Articles
A collection of scanned articles from the Collegiate Times, the campus newspaper at Virginia Tech, documenting events and opinions related to the…
Colonel William Christian Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records
Founded in Washington, D. C. in 1890, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution arose from a desire on the part of women to…
Company E Class of 1967 Digital Photograph Collection
This collection consists of digitized photograph compiled by Marshall "Don" Vaughan. The photographs are of Company E (Class of 1967) during their…
Cordie Cheek Papers, 1933-1934 (Ms1987-026)
Black youth lynched in Glendale, Tennessee, after being accused of assaulting a white girl. Collection includes typescript interviews with witnesses,…
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…
Crockett Mineral Springs Collection, 1930-1931 (Ms2009-105)
The collection includes a broadside advertising the sale of the Crockett Mineral Springs Hotel in Montgomery County, Virginia, as well as hotel…
Croy Family Papers, 1859-1938, (Ms2001-018)
This collection contains the papers of the Croy family of Blacksburg, Virginia, together with materials from other related families in Montgomery…
Croy Family Photographs (Digital Images related to Croy Family Papers, Ms2001-018)
These images are of members of the Croy and related families. The digital images were donated to Special Collections in 2015 and do NOT exist in…
Culinary Ephemera Collection, c.1900s-present (Ms2013-028)
The Culinary Ephemera Collection was established in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats that relate to food and…
Culinary History Images
This collection includes images from various smaller collections, that all relate to culinary history, the collection includes images from the…
Culinary Pamphlet Collection (Ms2011-002)
The Culinary Pamphlet Collection is an artificial collection created in January 2011. The collection includes small publications and pamphlets created…
Cynthia Addington Boatwright Papers
The materials in this collection include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, programs, and files created and collected by Boatwright in her…
Dale Belcher Photographs (Ms1997-021)
Photographs taken by Dale Belcher, depicting Appalachian culture, buildings, and people in southwestern Virginia; Kentucky; North Carolina; and West…
Danville Community College / VPI Extension
A digital folio of scanned material from archival collections and University records pertaining to the construction and administration of the Virginia…
Denim Day 40th Anniversary Oral History Collection (Ms2019-001)
This collection includes oral history accounts of the first Denim Day event at Virginia Tech in January 1979.
Department of Biochemistry Oral History Collection (Ms2003-009)
Beginning in October 2001, current and retired Virginia Tech faculty interviewed department heads, faculty, and staff in celebration of the 50th…
Donald K. "Deke" Slayton Collection, 1974-1979, 1995 (Ms2023-058)
This collection contains materials belonging to American astronaut, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (1924-1993). This collection contains materials about the…
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…
Drake Railroad Collection
Railroad photographs compiled by I. N. Drake.
Earl Palmer Appalachian Photograph and Artifact Collection, 1880-1989 (Ms1989-025)
This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and…
Edgar Knapp Letters, 1862-1864 (Ms2002-015)
This collection includes correspondence received by Edgar R. Knapp while he was a steward at the U.S. military hospital in Annapolis, Maryland.…
Elden E. Billings Collection (Ms1991-036)
This collection contains subject files, clippings, memorabilia and artifacts related to the American Civil War. There are seven series, five of which…
Everett and Warren Hutchins Papers (Ms2009-014)
This collection contains five items relating to Everett and Warren Hutchins, two brothers who served in Massachusetts military units during the Civil…
Faculty/Staff Photograph Collection
This collection contains photographs of faculty and staff members of Virginia Tech, organized by surname.
Fenner Wilson Letter, 1863 (Ms1988-082)
Letter written by Fenner Wilson, a private in Company D, 45th North Carolina Infantry, during the American Civil War, to his brother, B. G. (Basley…
Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection, 1861-1865 (Ms2001-042)
This Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection is a small collection of American Civil War-related materials, containing the correspondence of John…
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…
Fries Textile Mill Oral Histories 2019-2022 (Ms2019-045)
This oral history collection accompanies the Fries Textile Plant Records, which were donated to Virginia Tech in 1988 following the mill ceasing all…
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,…
G. Horace Tarr Letter, 1863 (Ms1987-028)
The G. Horace Tarr Letter collection contains a letter dated May 4, 1863, giving a detailed eye-witness account of the Battle of Chancellorsville…
George F. Doyle Scrapbook (Ms1989-096)
This collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by George F. Doyle of Charlestown, Massachusetts. The patriotic Union scrapbook contains items…
Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, ca. 1872-1874 (Ms2017-022)
One of one hundred electrotype replica copies made from the original Great Seal of the Confederate States of America in the early 1870s. Of the…
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.
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…
Henry C. Carpenter Letters, 1862-1864 (1996-008)
The papers consist of letters from Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley…
Henry Flippen Turner Collection
A collection of photographs created by Henry Flippen Turner.
Herbert E. Valentine Scrapbook (Ms1995-027)
The Herbert E. Valentine Scrapbook is a 50-page scrapbook compiled by Valentine, who served in Company F, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during…
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…
Hiram Matthew Papers, 1863-1865 (Ms1988-090)
This collection consists of twenty-two letters of outgoing correspondence from Union soldier Hiram Matthew to his wife Elmira Matthew of…
Historical Photograph Collection
The photograph collection at Special Collections consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia Tech, dating back to the 1890s. Subjects…