Browse Collections (275 total)

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…

This collection consists of a single document appraising the values of enslaved persons and lands held by Robert Edmiston, of Washington County,…

This collection consists of a single letter written by William L. Scott, a private in Company B, 15th North Carolina Infantry, during the American…

Letter written by Fenner Wilson, a private in Company D, 45th North Carolina Infantry, during the American Civil War, to his brother, B. G. (Basley…

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

The collection contains the condolence materials received by the Marching Virginians after April 16, 2007. Much of the material pertains to Ryan…

One of one hundred electrotype replica copies made from the original Great Seal of the Confederate States of America in the early 1870s. Of the…

This collection contains subject files, clippings, memorabilia and artifacts related to the American Civil War. There are seven series, five of which…

The Homer E. Davis Papers is a collection of photographs resulting from an effort to record the gravesites of American Civil War generals. Also…

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…

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

A collection of photographs created by Henry Flippen Turner.

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

A time table for trains created by the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. This time table details several train routes, and their arrival and…

A photo album featuring images of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company buildings and lines, as well as scenic views in the Roanoke area.

This collection contains photographs of the McCormick Farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Walnut Grove Farm belonged to the McCormick family until 1954,…

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

Railroad photographs compiled by I. N. Drake.

Photographs of Clarence Keith, a Norfolk & Western employee, and his family.

Photographs of Norfolk and Western construction.

Photographic negatives of Norfolk and Western railroads and trains.

Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers…

The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory…

This collection contains materials related to the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space exploration programs of the National Aeronautics and Space…

The collection consists of reference material NASA artist James Dean used in producing the artwork for Michael Collins' book Liftoff: The Story of…

The collection includes the papers of William Hewitt Phillips, NACA and NASA Langley Research Center aerospace engineer (and chief of Flight Dynamics…

This collection contains materials belonging to American astronaut, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (1924-1993). This collection contains materials about the…

This collection contains materials from an ABC News employee (most likely a technician) named Mike Cooper in the late 1960s. Subjects include the 1969…

This collection contains photographs relating to the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company.

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.

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

This collection includes images from various smaller collections, that all relate to culinary history, the collection includes images from the…

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

The Gobble de Art project was sponsored by The Blacksburg Partnership. The purpose of the project was to increase awareness and interest in Blacksburg…

PORTER, J.C. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, ca. 1880. 1 vol. Scrapbook of approximately 240 (all ca. 1880) photographs of structures and scenes in several…

This collection is comprised of a 1930s set of intaglio prints and a photocopy of Karl and Wilma previous hit Belser's next hit 1938 Christmas card…

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

The Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, notes, newspaper clippings, historic…

Insurance Survey of the buildings of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, prepared in 1931 by Charles Lunsford & Sons, Roanoke, Va.;…

Collection consists of pages from a scrapbook including photographs and materials from Adam Finch's time attending the Virginia Agricultural and…

The Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers contain watercolors probably done while she was a student in the architectural program at the University of…

The Alberta Pfeiffer Architectural Collection contains 15 boxes and 3 oversize folders consisting of drawings, photographs, and correspondence…

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

The Susan Speigel collection consists of a bound limited edition compilation of postcards depicting architectural sketches by Speigel entitled…

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, member of the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes, and national president (1954-1956) of the…

The Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Collection consists of architectural drawings of remodelings, alterations, additions, and new designs of…

The Lilia Gramatikova Architectural Collection consists of a drawing (photocopy) of Gramatikova's personal residence in Sofia (1965), photographs of…

The Susana Torre Architectural Collection consist of twenty-four cubic feet of material including professional correspondence, project files, research…