Browse Collections (237 total)

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

Photographic negatives of Norfolk and Western railroads and trains.

Photographs of Norfolk and Western construction.

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

Railroad photographs compiled by I. N. Drake.

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

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

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

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

A collection of photographs created by Henry Flippen Turner.

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

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