Browse Collections (275 total)
Campus Panoramic Photographs, 1995-2000
A collection of panoramic photographs taken around the Virginia Tech campus, including the Drill Field, Duck Pond, Horticulture Gardens, Lane Stadium…
The Benjamin M. Peck Diaries (Ms2015-003)
Benjamin M Peck was born on October 5, 1838, in Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army into Company "B" of…
LGBTQ History at Virginia Tech
A collection documenting the history of the LGBTQ communities at Virginia Tech.
Allison Family Correspondence, 1862-1864 (Ms2011-060)
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…
Everett and Warren Hutchins Papers (Ms2009-014)
This collection contains five items relating to Everett and Warren Hutchins, two brothers who served in Massachusetts military units during the Civil…
African-American Tenant Farmer Photographs, Clarksville, Va., c. 1920-1930 (Ms2009-110)
These photographs depict the conditions of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville,…
William A. Leonard Papers, 1864-1865 (Ms2011-106)
The collection includes William A. Leonard's letters home from February-July 1865, as well as his diary from August 1864-April 1865. Leonard served as…
Alice
An underground progressive newspaper published by The Blacksburg Free Press between 1968 and 1970. The articles were written mainly by Virginia Tech…
Regional History and the Appalachian South
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Squire Bosworth Papers, 1848-1892 (Ms2010-060)
This collection contains papers of Squire Bosworth, a physician and county court clerk of Randolph County, Virginia/West Virginia. The collection…
Civil War Diaries
Diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War that are part of Virginia Tech Special Collections.
Alexandria and Fairfax Counties [Virginia] Civil War Correspondence, 1861-1862 (Ms2013-029)
The Alexandria and Fairfax Counties [Virginia] Civil War Correspondence collection consists of 19 letters by 17 soldiers, and the letters date from…
Contributors: kad
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (Ms1974-003)
The Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (bulk 1821-1948) documents the families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection…
Contributors: AES
J. Hoge Tyler Family Collection, 1802-1956 (Ms1967-002)
"This collection contains the papers of James Hoge Tyler, Virginia state senator (1877-1879), lieutenant governor (1890-1894), governor (1898-1902),…
Contributors: AES
William MacFarland Patton Papers, 1896 (Ms1954-001)
This collection contains the papers of William MacFarland Patton, a professor of civil engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The collection…
Contributors: AES
Shell Family Papers, 1871-1932 (Ms1959-001)
The Shell family moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia in the mid-1700s where they joined other early settlers in Montgomery County. While in Virginia,…
Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Museum
For more information about this collection, please contact museum curator Samantha Parish Riggins at samsales@vt.edu
John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from…
John C. Watkins Letters, Ms2009-071
This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins.…
Contributors: mdb
Postcards from Appalachia (Ms2015-032)
These postcards are contained in the Appalachian Postcard Collection in Special Collections at Newman Library.