Browse Collections (275 total)

This collection includes scanned images and items used in a gelatin digital exhibit. It includes Jell-O and Charles B. Knox items, as well as…

This collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by George F. Doyle of Charlestown, Massachusetts. The patriotic Union scrapbook contains items…

This collection includes dance cards from various dances and events hosted by Virginia Tech's German Club. Founded in 1877 to provide a social outlet…

Architect of Denmark and member of the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes (UIFA). Collection consists of books about women architects and…

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…

This digital collection includes selected digitized drawings and plans from the Harold S. Hill Collection, located throughout Southwest Virginia.

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

Materials consist of a photograph of (Henrietta) May Steinmesch; an article, "A Short History of the Association of Women in Architecture," with a…

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

A collection of photographs created by Henry Flippen Turner.

The Herbert E. Valentine Scrapbook is a 50-page scrapbook compiled by Valentine, who served in Company F, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during…

This collection contains the papers of Hermann C. Niemeyer, a student at Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) during the…

The Hilde Weström Architectural Collection consists of biographical information about Weström's career and personal life, original watercolors she…

This collection consists of twenty-two letters of outgoing correspondence from Union soldier Hiram Matthew to his wife Elmira Matthew of…

The photograph collection at Special Collections consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia Tech, dating back to the 1890s. Subjects…

The Gobble de Art project was sponsored by The Blacksburg Partnership. The purpose of the project was to increase awareness and interest in Blacksburg…

The Homer E. Davis Papers is a collection of photographs resulting from an effort to record the gravesites of American Civil War generals. Also…

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

Insurance Survey of the buildings of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, prepared in 1931 by Charles Lunsford & Sons, Roanoke, Va.;…

The Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials includes two series of primary and secondary sources. Series I: Letters,…

The collection includes a letter written by J. A. Snavley, its envelope, and an advertisement postcard/mailer for Scientific American publications.…

PORTER, J.C. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, ca. 1880. 1 vol. Scrapbook of approximately 240 (all ca. 1880) photographs of structures and scenes in several…

"This collection contains the papers of James Hoge Tyler, Virginia state senator (1877-1879), lieutenant governor (1890-1894), governor (1898-1902),…

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…

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

The collection includes two letters and their original envelope from Jacob S. Winans to his father Dr. Isaac Winans. Both letters were sent in the…

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

The collection consists of reference material NASA artist James Dean used in producing the artwork for Michael Collins' book Liftoff: The Story of…

This collection consists of an account book maintained by James E. Yates, a livestock trader in Rappahannock County, Virginia during the late 19th and…

This collection consists of 100+ letters written between the years of 1863–1868, accompanied by a book entitled, The Heizer Family: American Pioneers…

This collection contains materials related to the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space exploration programs of the National Aeronautics and Space…

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…

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…

The principle part of the collection consists of a bound expense/account notebook of James P. Hawkins, agent of the Southern Express Company, which…

The correspondence of James R. Tice, a Confederate soldier in Company B, 42nd Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War, consist of three…

This collection contains four letters written by author James Farrell to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson between February 1952 and May of 1954. The two…

The James W.M. Harris Papers consist of over 200 letters written either from or to Harris or immediate members of his family between 1857 and 1909.…

The Jean Linden Young papers consist of materials created and collected by Young during her lifetime. They include notes written as an instructor at…

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, member of the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes, and national president (1954-1956) of the…

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…

This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins.…

This collection includes three memoir volumes and three diaries written by John Henning Woods, a Southern Unionist, Confederate conscript, and Civil…

Confederate soldier in the 4th Virginia Regiment, Co. D, Ewell Corps, Stonewall Brigade, during the Civil War. Letter written November 22, 1863, to…

This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from…

John T. Cowan was born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia). He was a member of the original board of trustees for the Virginia Agricultural…