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As of June 2026, collections from the former Imagebase site can now be accessed here. All are listed in the Collection Tree and can also be found through the search function. Images from Blacksburg and Virginia Tech reside primarily in the Historical Photograph Collection.

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Historic Photographs

This section includes historical photographs included in the exhibit from various time periods. Additional historical photographs, not part of the original exhibit, are available online:

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Unknown cadet, 1896

Photographs of cadets in 1886

VPI Class of 1896

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College Officers in 1893

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Class of 1888

Anatomy Class, spring 1892

Students at the Cenotaph, 1972

Group photographs, 1888-1972

Cadets with the fire truck, 1918

Students' belonging on a horse cart, 1918

Cadet with the mail cart, 1918

Student matresses on the quad, 1918

Rat parade, 1918

Rat parade, 1918

Students waiting for the train, 1918

Photographs around campus in 1918

Photograph of a cadet on a bottom bunk

Photograph of "Dutch Alley," c.1874-1875

Photograph of an early dormitory in Barracks No. 1, c.1880

Photograph of cadets having a party in a dorm room, 1898

Photograph of a Midnight Feast of the Rockbridge Club

Photograph of Cecil Fisher's barracks room in 1905

Photograph of a cadet at a standing desk, possibly in a dorm room, 1905

Photograph of a typical barracks room

Cartoon, "Rat Peabody Has to Have V.P.I. Surroundings..."

Photograph of three students in robes in a dorm room, 1924

Photograph of cadets cleaning rifles in a dorm room, 1924

Photograph of a barracks room, April 1930

Photograph of a room in Barracks No. 4, Company E, December 1932

Photograph of a dorm party in Hillcrest Hall, c.1967-1968

Photograph of two women students in a dorm with a sign reading "No prison labor beyond this point," 1974

Photograph of a student in a dorm room, 1974

Photograph of a student in a dorm room, 1975

Photograph of two women students in a dorm room

Photograph of two women students sitting on beds in a dorm room

Barracks and dorm life, c.1870s-c.1970s