Browse Collections (227 total)
Montgomery Female College Collection, 1875-1892 (Ms2009-013)
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Founded as a companion to the Montgomery Male Academy, the Montgomery Collegiate Institute - later Montgomery Female College - opened in…
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.
Nancy (Nannie) G. Figgat Correspondence, 1863 (Ms2012-080)
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A collection of two letters written by Nancy (Nannie) Figgat to her husband Private Charles Figgat, of the 1st Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, Company C.
Nelson Family Papers, 1783-1872 (Ms1989-021)
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This collection consists of papers from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia. The papers consist of correspondence among the family members,…
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…
Norfolk and Western Construction Photographs
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Photographs of Norfolk and Western construction.
Norfolk and Western Railroad Co., Time Table No. 6
A time table for trains created by the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. This time table details several train routes, and their arrival and…
Norfolk and Western Railroad Photograph Negatives
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Photographic negatives of Norfolk and Western railroads and trains.
O. Gaines Whitley, Sr., Photograph Albums (Ms1995-021)
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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…
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…
Olive Chadeayne Architectural Collection, 1924-1956 (Ms1990-057)
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Olive Chadeayne was born on February 9, 1904 in Ossining, New York. Educated in California, Chadeayne began studying architecture at the University of…
Oral History Clips: April 16, 2007
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This collection includes excerpts from oral histories about the events of April 16, 2007, when 32 Hokies were tragically killed on Virginia Tech's…
Oral History Clips: Graduate Life Center
This collection includes excerpts from oral histories about the Graduate Life Center on Virginia's Tech Blacksburg campus.
Patricia Givens Johnson Papers
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The papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian, consist primarily of materials which arose from her research for--and…
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…
Phyllis Keith Railroad Photographs
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Photographs of Clarence Keith, a Norfolk & Western employee, and his family.
Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection
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The Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection includes materials from 1926-1971. The collection contains information relating…
Postcards from Appalachia (Ms2015-032)
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These postcards are contained in the Appalachian Postcard Collection in Special Collections at Newman Library.
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…
Preston Family Correspondence, 1861, 1872 (Ms2010-070)
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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…
Record Group Vertical Files
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In general, vertical files at Special Collections include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and…
Records of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors (RG 1)
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Regional History and the Appalachian South
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Rick Boucher Papers (Ms2021-048)
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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…
Rick Boucher Radio and Television Campaign Ads
The Rick Boucher Papers includes records of his Virginia State Senate service and his United States Congress service as a Representative of Virginia's…
Roanoke Railway and Electric Company Photo Album
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A photo album featuring images of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company buildings and lines, as well as scenic views in the Roanoke area.
Robert E. Lee Collection, 1866-1870 (Ms2002-044)
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The Robert E. Lee Collection comprises one personal letter, one portrait, and two reproduced photographs. The letter is from Lee to Reverend W. H.…
Robert E. Marshak Papers (Ms1988-060)
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The collection consist of Marshak's professional and personal papers, detailing his career as university professor in physics at the University of…
Robert Edmiston Inventory, 1815 (Ms1988-077)
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This collection consists of a single document appraising the values of enslaved persons and lands held by Robert Edmiston, of Washington County,…
Robert Taylor Preston Papers (Ms1992-003)
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The collection consists of 218 letters, military orders, notes, certificates of military appointments, and other items, collected or created by…
Samuel Herrick Papers, 1930-1974 (Ms1978-002)
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Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers…
Sephas (Cephas) L. Walton Correspondence, 1861-1865, 1884 (Ms1955-001)
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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…
Sesquicentennial Time Capsule Collection (Ms2022-089)
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A selection of digital materials included in the Virginia Tech Sesquicentennial Time Capsule as well as materials produced by the committee.
Shell Family Papers, 1871-1932 (Ms1959-001)
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The Shell family moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia in the mid-1700s where they joined other early settlers in Montgomery County. While in Virginia,…
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…
Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d. (Ms2015-044)
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This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones between 1916 and 1924 with three undated…
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…
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…
Sigrid L. Rupp Architectural Collection (Ms1997-006)
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Sigrid L. Rupp (1943-2004) was principal architect of her own firm, SLR/Architects in Palo Alto, California from 1976 to 1998. Born in Germany in…
Silas H. Stepp Letters (Ms1992-020)
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Confederate soldier during the Civil War. Enlisted in April 1863 in the 7th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion and transferred in August 1863 to the 6th…
Slaveship "Elizabeth" Records, 1750 (Ms1974-001)
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The Slaveship "Elizabeth" Records contain six manuscript pages concerning the trafficking of 324 guinea enslaved persons to M. de Fleurian by Captain…
Smith Family Letters, 1861-1865, 1912-1996, n. d. (Ms1996-018)
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The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William…
Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers Records
View the items in Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers RecordsSmithfield 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…
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…
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…
Southwest Virginia Counties Collection (Ms2000-092)
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The collection includes letters from various members of the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke…