Browse Collections (220 total)
Photographs from the Beulah O. Allen Collection (Ms2014-002)
The digital collection currently contains ONLY the photographs from Series IV of the Beulah O. Allen Collection, which includes images of places…
Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. Collection, 1933-1997 (Ms1990-062)
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…
Joseph T. Harris Correspondence, 1861-1862 (Ms2018-016)
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…
Black History Oral History Collection (Ms2003-011)
This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between…
Jaffe-Lankes Family Correspondence, 1930-1942, 1980-1985 (Ms2019-014)
This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence…
Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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…
Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d. (Ms2015-020)
This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood…
Sherwood Anderson Dust Jackets, Covers, & Illustrations
This collection contains dust jackets and book covers scanned from various editions of Sherwood Anderson titles. Scans were primarily created for use…
Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938 (Ms1973-002)
This collection contains materials relating to author Sherwood Anderson. The collection is notable for the personal letters written by Anderson to…
Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939 (Ms2011-004)
The collection consists of one postcard of Notre-Dame from Sherwood Anderson to Bert and Clara Dickenson and a photograph of Sherwood Anderson and…
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,…
Norfolk & Western Railway Menus, c. late 1940s-1960s? (Ms2013-080)
The collection contains breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and beverage menus from the Norfolk & Western Railway, as well as two unused carbon copy…
Stanford E. Chaillé Collection, 1860-1903 (Ms2008-031)
The Stanford E. Chaillé Collection consists of letters, government-issued documents, printed material, and two photo albums containing thirty-six…
Jacob Cassel Papers, 1865-1881 (Ms2008-086)
The Jacob Cassel Papers stem from the business, social, and ideological activities of a landowner from Smyth County, Virginia, in the nineteenth…
Yonson (Johnson) Family Collection, 1803-1859 (Ms2013-080)
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…
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…
James J. Pandapas Audiotape and Papers, 1966-1988, 1997 (Ms1997-011)
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…
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…
Landon Duncan Letters, 1812-1837 (Ms1997-023)
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,…
William Latham Candler Papers, 1861-1863 (Ms1997-007)
The collection consists of fourteen letters, dating from September 8, 1861, to February 15, 1863, from Candler to his uncle Charles [probably maternal…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Records of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors (RG 1)
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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…
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.
2013-2014 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2013-2014 Student Government Association Legislation
2018-2019 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2018-2019 Student Government Association Legislation
2019-2020 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2019-2020 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…
2020-2021 Legislation (RG 31/16)
2020-2021 Student Government Association Legislation
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…
Virginia Tech Course Catalogs
Annual undergraduate and graduate course catalogs of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses,…