Captured Remembrance: Photography from from the April 16, 2007, Condolence Archives

Captured Remembrance: Photography from the April 16, 2007, Condolence Archives

Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives of the University Libraries 2007-2010 was created by the University Archives, under the direction of University Archivist, Tamara Kennelly, to preserve this outpouring of support from communities across the world. Virginia Tech received over 90,000 letters, cards, posters, banners, poems, photographs, artifacts, textiles, books, certificates, and more from people and organizations all around the world and left at memorials on the Blacksburg campus. Special Collections and University Archives collected representative items in the Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives of the University Libraries, a collection of over 500 cubic feet of material. Items from every continent, 80 countries, and all 50 U.S. states are represented in the collection. 

Starting in the summer of 2007, representative artifacts were digitally photographed to share with the world. Those artifacts are publicly available online as part of the Virginia Tech April 16, 2007, Condolence Archives of the University Libraries on VTechWorks at https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/11385.

We continue to remember the 32 victims:

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Credits

Curated by Amelia Verkerk and Jules Crowder-Parera