Browse Collections (275 total)

The Shell family moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia in the mid-1700s where they joined other early settlers in Montgomery County. While in Virginia,…

The Sheet Music Collection contains various songs (lyrics and music) from about 1823 through the mid-20th century. Music in the collection is…

The collection is a set of three 5.5" x 10.5" Sutton prints and a one-page biography of Sutton.

A selection of digital materials included in the Virginia Tech Sesquicentennial Time Capsule as well as materials produced by the committee.

Collection consists of nineteen letters and notes to and from Walton, his parents, his wife Nancy Ann, his brother, and cousins. A majority of the…

Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers…

Born 1917. An architect from Lafayette, California, Stan graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1939. She designed her first home…

The collection consists of 218 letters, military orders, notes, certificates of military appointments, and other items, collected or created by…

This collection consists of a single document appraising the values of enslaved persons and lands held by Robert Edmiston, of Washington County,…

The collection consist of Marshak's professional and personal papers, detailing his career as university professor in physics at the University of…

The Robert E. Lee Collection comprises one personal letter, one portrait, and two reproduced photographs. The letter is from Lee to Reverend W. H.…

A photo album featuring images of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company buildings and lines, as well as scenic views in the Roanoke area.

The Rick Boucher Papers includes records of his Virginia State Senate service and his United States Congress service as a Representative of Virginia's…

The Rick Boucher Papers, 1968-2017 (bulk 1975-2011), document his career in the Virginia State Senate, 1975-1982, and in the United States Congress as…

In general, vertical files at Special Collections include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and…

The Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Collection consists of architectural drawings of remodelings, alterations, additions, and new designs of…

This collection consists of two letters. The first is written by James Francis Preston to his wife, Sarah Caperton Preston; he details the events of…

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…

These postcards are contained in the Appalachian Postcard Collection in Special Collections at Newman Library.

The Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection includes materials from 1926-1971. The collection contains information relating…

Photographs of Clarence Keith, a Norfolk & Western employee, and his family.

The digital collection currently contains ONLY the photographs from Series IV of the Beulah O. Allen Collection, which includes images of places…

The papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian, consist primarily of materials which arose from her research for--and…

This collection includes excerpts from oral histories about the Graduate Life Center on Virginia's Tech Blacksburg campus.

This collection includes excerpts from oral histories about the events of April 16, 2007, when 32 Hokies were tragically killed on Virginia Tech's…

Olive Chadeayne was born on February 9, 1904 in Ossining, New York. Educated in California, Chadeayne began studying architecture at the University of…

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…

O. Gaines Whitley, Sr., a native of Albemarle, North Carolina, was a surveyor for the Norfolk & Western Railway Company in 1912, and he compiled two…

Photographic negatives of Norfolk and Western railroads and trains.

A time table for trains created by the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. This time table details several train routes, and their arrival and…

This collection contains photographs relating to the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company.

Photographs of Norfolk and Western construction.

The collection contains breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and beverage menus from the Norfolk & Western Railway, as well as two unused carbon copy…

The Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, notes, newspaper clippings, historic…

This collection consists of papers from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia. The papers consist of correspondence among the family members,…

A collection of two letters written by Nancy (Nannie) Figgat to her husband Private Charles Figgat, of the 1st Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, Company C.

This collection includes oral history accounts from people of various backgrounds with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area.

Founded as a companion to the Montgomery Male Academy, the Montgomery Collegiate Institute - later Montgomery Female College - opened in…

This collection contains materials from an ABC News employee (most likely a technician) named Mike Cooper in the late 1960s. Subjects include the 1969…

The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory…

The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by…

The Mary Josephine Hartwick VPI Memorabilia and Scrapbook contains a scrapbook filled with photos of the VPI campus as well as inlaid tickets to both…

The Mark A. Weber Papers include minutes, correspondence, constitution, handouts, notes, and newspaper and magazine articles concerning the Virginia…

Marjorie Rhodes Townsend was the first women to earn an engineering degree at The George Washington University, receiving her Bachelor of Electrical…