Browse Collections (237 total)

Denim Day 40th Anniversary Oral History Collection (Ms2019-001)

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This collection includes oral history accounts of the first Denim Day event at Virginia Tech in January 1979.

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Photographs from the Beulah O. Allen Collection (Ms2014-002)

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

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Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. Collection, 1933-1997 (Ms1990-062)

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Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. (1919-1944) was a Lieutenant in the army during World War II. He served his country bravely and was killed on the beaches of…

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Joseph T. Harris Correspondence, 1861-1862 (Ms2018-016)

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Letters written by Joseph T. Harris of the 12th Ohio Infantry to his sister, Mollie Swope from various locations in western Virginia. The letters are…

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Black History Oral History Collection (Ms2003-011)

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This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between…

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Jaffe-Lankes Family Correspondence, 1930-1942, 1980-1985 (Ms2019-014)

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This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence…

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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)

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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…

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Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d. (Ms2015-020)

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This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood…

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Sherwood Anderson Dust Jackets, Covers, & Illustrations

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This collection contains dust jackets and book covers scanned from various editions of Sherwood Anderson titles. Scans were primarily created for use…

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Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938 (Ms1973-002)

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This collection contains materials relating to author Sherwood Anderson. The collection is notable for the personal letters written by Anderson to…

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Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939 (Ms2011-004)

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The collection consists of one postcard of Notre-Dame from Sherwood Anderson to Bert and Clara Dickenson and a photograph of Sherwood Anderson and…

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Cordie Cheek Papers, 1933-1934 (Ms1987-026)

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Black youth lynched in Glendale, Tennessee, after being accused of assaulting a white girl. Collection includes typescript interviews with witnesses,…

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Norfolk & Western Railway Menus, c. late 1940s-1960s? (Ms2013-080)

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

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Stanford E. Chaillé Collection, 1860-1903 (Ms2008-031)

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The Stanford E. Chaillé Collection consists of letters, government-issued documents, printed material, and two photo albums containing thirty-six…

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Jacob Cassel Papers, 1865-1881 (Ms2008-086)

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The Jacob Cassel Papers stem from the business, social, and ideological activities of a landowner from Smyth County, Virginia, in the nineteenth…

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Yonson (Johnson) Family Collection, 1803-1859 (Ms2013-080)

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Baltzer Yonson was born on 10 October 1774 and died c.1850. Yonson married Mary Thompson, born in 1799, and they had 10 children. The descendants of…

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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…

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James J. Pandapas Audiotape and Papers, 1966-1988, 1997 (Ms1997-011)

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The collection consists of audio-tapes of an interview conducted on July 16, 1997, in which Pandapas talks about his life and career as a businessman…

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Henry C. Carpenter Letters, 1862-1864 (1996-008)

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The papers consist of letters from Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley…

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Landon Duncan Letters, 1812-1837 (Ms1997-023)

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The collection consists of six letters. Two of the letters (1812, 1814) were written by Landon Duncan to his uncle Alamander Duncan in Stokes County,…

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William Latham Candler Papers, 1861-1863 (Ms1997-007)

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The collection consists of fourteen letters, dating from September 8, 1861, to February 15, 1863, from Candler to his uncle Charles [probably maternal…

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Multicultural Diversity Oral History Project (Ms2002-001)

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

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Huff-Hylton Families Papers, 1803-1816, 1858-1882, 1975, n.d (Ms1998-001)

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The collection consists of items from the early 1800s pertaining to the business dealings of Samuel Huff of Montgomery (now Floyd) County. Materials…

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J. W. Ryland Diary, 1863-1865 (Ms2019-011)

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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…

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James Longstreet Correspondence (Ms1993-003)

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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…

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Fries Textile Plant Records, 1900-1988 (Ms1989-039)

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This collection is a selection of materials from The Fries Textile Plant Records, which includes correspondence, production data, personnel ledgers,…

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Doug Burton Papers (Ms2020-001)

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This collection contains Doug Burton's papers and memorabilia from a Pratt-funded Virginia Tech engineering trip to the USSR and Finland taken in…

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Keystone View Company Papers (Ms2010-052)

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The collection consists predominantly of correspondence by between salesmen in the field and the management of the Keystone View Company from…

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125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection

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This collection includes materials included in an 1997 online exhibit created for the 125th anniversary of the university. The original exhibit was a…

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Solitude Exhibit Materials

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This collection includes materials included in an early 2000s online exhibit on the history of Solitude. The original exhibit was a series of webpages…

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Solitude Photographs and Papers, ca. 1960s-1980s (Ms1993-024)

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This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude. The photographs in this…

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Fletcher Family Digital Collection on Solitude

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Members of the Fletcher family lived at Solitude from 1908-1914. This collection of materials includes scanned photographs, scrapbook pages, a short…

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Anti-Asian Panic and the Pandemic: A Virtual Teach-In Collection (Ms2020-003)

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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…

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Corps of Cadets History, 125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection

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This part of the online collection includes documents and images related to the history of the Corps of Cadets.

This collection includes materials…

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Presidential Photographs and Biographies, 125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection

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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…

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Harry Downing Temple Jr., Papers, 1872-2004 (bulk, 1930-2001) (Ms1988-039)

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The Harry Downing Temple, Jr., Papers contains materials related to Temple's personal life, interest in heraldry and insignia, and his research and…

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Beverly Willis Architectural Collection, 1954 - 1999

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The Beverly Willis Architectural Collection spans the years 1954 to 1999 and is comprised primarily of records documenting Willis’s work as an…

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Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers, 1784-1881, n.d. (Ms1997-002)

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The Smithfield Preston Foundation collection consists of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of…

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The Tin Horn

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Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after they were first…

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Board of Visitors Collection, 125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech Collection

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This part of the 125th Anniversary Collection relates to the Board of Visitors (BoV) and includes photographs of Boards and individual rectors, pdfs…

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Official Minutes [Virginia Tech Board of Visitors] (RG 1/1)

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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…

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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.

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2013-2014 Legislation (RG 31/16)

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2013-2014 Student Government Association Legislation

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2018-2019 Legislation (RG 31/16)

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2018-2019 Student Government Association Legislation

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2019-2020 Legislation (RG 31/16)

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2019-2020 Student Government Association Legislation

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2020-2021 General Assembly Meeting Minutes (RG 31/16)

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Materials include 2020-2021 meeting minutes of the Student Government Association General Assembly. This collection only includes minutes from the…

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2020-2021 Legislation (RG 31/16)

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2020-2021 Student Government Association Legislation

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M. Rupert Cutler Papers (Ms2020-005)

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The M. Rupert Cutler Papers include personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and…

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