Browse Collections (275 total)

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…

This collection contains the papers of the Croy family of Blacksburg, Virginia, together with materials from other related families in Montgomery…

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 collection consists of 30 images documenting the Metabolism Study conducted by the College of Home Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. In…

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…

Collection consists of 2 color photomontages of Marquard's commissions in Berlin: the restoration of a group of apartment buildings on Rosenthaler…

This contains a collection of small manuscripts related to various aspects of the American Civil War and obtained from various sources.

Collection of poetry composed during the Civil War by M. M. Williams.

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…

This collection contains the photographs of Charles T. Goodsell, a professor of public administration and public affairs at Virginia Polytechnic…

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, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (bulk 1821-1948) documents the families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection…

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…

This collection consists of oral history interviews conducted in 2021 with Black researchers. Beginning in 2021, graduate students supported by…

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…

The Berta Rahm Architectural Collection consists of exhibition panels of her main works exhibited in 1963 at the Congress of the Union Internationale…

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…

Harold H. Bailey (1878-1962),ornithologist and author of The Birds of Virginia (Lynchburg [Virginia]: J. P. Bell, 1913), and John Eugene Law…

The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its…

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