Browse Collections (220 total)

The Black Appalachians Oral History Project consists of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute…

This collection includes oral history accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic from the Spanish speaking community in Southwest Virginia.

The A. J. Davis Family Collection includes journals; scrapbooks; professional and biographical information; photographs, sketches, and ephemera; and a…

This collection contains three letters to and from Nancy (Nannie) G. Figgat and her husband, Charles Figgat, written while he was serving in the Civil…

This collection contains two letters to and from Nancy (Nannie) G. Figgat and her husband, Charles Figgat, written while he was serving in the Civil…

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

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…

This collection includes materials included in the 2022 physical and digital exhibits created for the 150th anniversary of the university by Special…

In general, vertical files at Special Collections include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and…

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

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vertical files at Special Collections and University Archives include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or…

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

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

This collection contains the papers of Byron Nelson Cooper, head of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Department of Geological Sciences from 1946…

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…

Volumes 1-27 of theVirginia Tech Spectrum, including special issues or supplements. Please note that some individual issues were not part of Special…

This collection contains digitized copies of issues of the Virginia Tech Conductorfrom September 1999 to April 2008. Scans were made from available…

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

This oral history collection accompanies the Fries Textile Plant Records, which were donated to Virginia Tech in 1988 following the mill ceasing all…

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

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

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

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

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…

Written sometime around 1900, the memoirs recount the military career of Archibald Atkinson, Jr., as a doctor in the Confederate Army during the…

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

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

The Bear Family Papers consist of diaries, books, and letters of various members of the Bear family. There is the 1862 diary of Harvey Bear, who…

The John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in…

A digital folio of scanned material from archival collections and University records pertaining to the construction and administration of the Virginia…

Watercolor paintings of fifty fungi found in England accompanied by descriptions.

This collection consists of a photograph album compiled by Charlotte D. Gale of Roanoke, Virginia, at the end of the 19th century. The album contains…

This collection consists of digitized photograph compiled by Marshall "Don" Vaughan. The photographs are of Company E (Class of 1967) during their…

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…

The Slaveship "Elizabeth" Records contain six manuscript pages concerning the trafficking of 324 guinea enslaved persons to M. de Fleurian by Captain…

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

Eight wartime letters by Lee Hendrix (1834-1902) a private in Company B, 1st North Carolina Sharpshooter Battalion during the American Civil War,…

Papers of the Key family of Liberty (Bedford County), Virginia, including four letters from brothers Edward W., Joseph C., and Yelverton P. Key, who…

The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William…

This Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection is a small collection of American Civil War-related materials, containing the correspondence of John…

This collection includes correspondence received by Edgar R. Knapp while he was a steward at the U.S. military hospital in Annapolis, Maryland.…

The G. Horace Tarr Letter collection contains a letter dated May 4, 1863, giving a detailed eye-witness account of the Battle of Chancellorsville…