Browse Collections (220 total)

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

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

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

Photographs taken by Dale Belcher, depicting Appalachian culture, buildings, and people in southwestern Virginia; Kentucky; North Carolina; and West…

The materials in this collection include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, programs, and files created and collected by Boatwright in her…

The Culinary Pamphlet Collection is an artificial collection created in January 2011. The collection includes small publications and pamphlets created…

The Culinary Ephemera Collection was established in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats that relate to food and…

These images are of members of the Croy and related families. The digital images were donated to Special Collections in 2015 and do NOT exist in…

The collection includes a broadside advertising the sale of the Crockett Mineral Springs Hotel in Montgomery County, Virginia, as well as hotel…

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

This collection includes materials…

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

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

Founded in Washington, D. C. in 1890, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution arose from a desire on the part of women to…

A collection of scanned articles from the Collegiate Times, the campus newspaper at Virginia Tech, documenting events and opinions related to the…

The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to…

The collection consists of a trade card for an English builder and manufacturer of artificial stone, probably printed about 1784. The Coade stone…

Diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War that are part of Virginia Tech Special Collections.

This collection consists of oral history accounts from former students and other participants from Christiansburg Industrial Institute. Interviews…

This collection contains individual images from publication and pamphlets in Special Collections and University Archives relating to the history of…

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 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…

A collection of railroad photographs and correspondence belonging to the Aliff family.

The collection consists of 65 letters written between Catlett Conway and family members during the years 1892-1920. The majority of the letters are…

A collection of panoramic photographs taken around the Virginia Tech campus, including the Drill Field, Duck Pond, Horticulture Gardens, Lane Stadium…

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

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

Arising from a desire to improve the cultural and environmental aspects of life in the Blacksburg area, the Woman's Civic Betterment Club was founded…

The Blacksburg Odd Fellows lodge was probably formed in December of 1904. It was a branch of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, a mutual relief…

The Black Women at Virginia Tech History Project, a multi-phase research and education program, involves:

The identification of the first black…

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

Beginning in 2021, graduate students sponsored by Virginia Tech's Center for Communicating Science, began interviewing Black professionals engaged in…

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

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

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

This collection consists of a handwritten, bound manuscript providing a book-length, vehement critique of the military leadership and personal…

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…

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

The Ann A. Hertzler Collection contains biographical information, publications, project and subject files, and artifacts relating to Hertzler's…

This collection contains four letters from members of the Allison family (John P and James Polk), as well as a surgeon's certificate for William H…