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This photo depicts the creamery and cheese factory on campus in 1897. The building was located close to where Price Hall is today.

This is a photograph of Mary Goodwin Lacy that was taken in 1899.

This photo depicts Gibboney Field in 1904, after the first permanent bleachers were installed.

This photo depicts the shops building after it's expansion in 1904.

In 1904 the Junior Class resigned after a fellow cadet was dismissed from the University. The junior class drafted this statement where they said that if the student was not reinstated that they would all resign from the University.

This photo depicts Company F of the Corps of Cadets in 1905.

This photo depicts the agricultural building after its construction had been finished.

This newspaper article describes several smallpox cases that occurred in Blacksburg in 1913. It is aso noted in the article that everyone at the University had been vaccinated prior to the outbreak.

This photo depicts a procession that started infront of the academic buildings and finished at the field house for the commencement ceremony.

This photo depicts the V. P. I. cadets leaving for Fort Myer in 1917.

This pamphlet put out by the United States Food Administration asks people to eat less wheat and meat so that more can be sent to the soldiers fighting in World War I.

This photo depicts several men who were enrolled in the Enlisted Men's Technical School. This school was an eight week course that was meant to teach active enlisted soldiers to learn technical skills.

This photo depicts the Officers of the Student Army Training Corps in 1918.

This poster warns people not to enter a specific area without permission from the Board of Health becuase of the Influenza outbreak.

This photo depicts J. A. Burruss. Burruss was the President of the University from 1919 to 1945.

This composite includes a 1919 photo of Eleanor Isabelle Jones, university librarian from 1913 to 1923, and a 1925 photo of Ralph Minthorne Brown, university librarian from 1925 to 1946.

This photo depicts the Corps of Cadets in mess formation sometime during 1920.

This photo depicts a class in the woodworking shop in McBryde Hall in 1921.

This photo depicts the Alumni Registration and Information Area at the Golden Jubliee. Also pictured are several alumni from the Classes of 1875 through 1895. The welcome banner that was hung up in Blackburg was also pictured.

This photo depicts the alumni gathering at the main tent at the Golden Jubilee. The inside of the tent is also pictured. Also pictured is an ariel view of campus after Golden Jubilee.

These pages are from the Bulletin of VPI, Vol. XV, No. 6, Sept. 1922, and it advertises different opportunites that V. P. I. had for women in 1922/1923. The item focuses on opportunites within the applied sciences, but also discusses other fields…

This photo depicts Lane Hall (Barracks No. 1) presumably after the sophmore banquet.

This photo depicts President J. A. Burruss breaking ground to start the construction of a new athletic stadium.

This newspaper clipping shows a photograph of electic lines leading to an unidentified farm.

This map depicts the proposed lay-out of the V. P. I. campus in 1925.

This newspaper clipping describes the women's basketball team's victory over the "Bashful Basketeers" of Concord State. One of the captions uses the term "Turkey Hens", which is what the women's team called themselves. Because the University did not…

This cover from the Bulletin of VPI, Vol. XIX, No. 1, November 1925, indicates the need for funds for a new dormitory on campus, and this photo depicts the Home Economics Building, ca. 1925, which was previously the Agricultural Extension Division…

This photo from the President's report to the Board of Visitors at the January 28, 1926, meeting, illustrates the dire need for dormitories on campus. By 1925, four students shared a 13 ft. x 15 ft. dorm room, and to make floor space they tied their…

This photo depicts the Agricultural Extension Division Building shortly after its construction was finished and it had been occupied.

This composite depicts War Memorial Hall, its gymnasium, and Miles Stadium while under contruction in 1926.

This composite includes photos from Dedication Day for Miles Stadium and War Memorial Hall on October 23, 1926. Alumni were invited to a homecoming for the dedication of War Memorial Hall at 10am, the dedication of Miles Stadium at 2:15pm, and the…

These photos depict the new Barracks No. 6 building, dedicated in September 1927, and Barracks No. 7, which was converted from the Science Hall and opened in November 1927.

This photo is of the road down Faculty Row, with Patton Hall visible on the left.

By the time this drawing, produced by the Manning Offices Inc., a landscape design firm, was published in the September 1927 issue of the V.P.I. Bulletin, the original was already hanging in the President's office. A few of the new structures…

This composite includes 3 photos of construction on the campus. On the left is the new power plant, on the top is the new stone dormitory Barracks No. 8, and on the bottom is of Patton Hall with 3 finished floors on the left and the Administration on…

"Moonlight and V. P. I." was written in 1942 by Fred Waring and Charles Gaynor after the Corps of Cadets asked Waring to write a song for the 1942 ring dance.

This photo depicts the Glee Club at Virginia Tech from 1942-1943.

This newsletter descibes several different programs that the aeronautics department was offering in Aircraft Mechanics.

This newspaper clipping shows a photograph of the Virginia Tech Board of Vistors. R. L. McConnell, C. A. Boatwright, H. H. Walton, and Dr. M. P. Smith, who were the first women to join the Board of Visitors are pictured.

This newspaper article discusses funding for V. P. I. that was approved by the Federal Works Administration. The funding was for the construction of several new building at the Radford Ordnance Works.

This photo depicts the V. P. I. cheer team in 1947, prior to women being allowed to join.

This newspaper article discusses the opening of a new dormitory at Virginia Tech. This dormitory was named after Lieutenant James Monteith, who was a Medal of Honor recipient.

This newspaper article describes the fire that broke out in the old library in 1953. Nothing was destoryed since all library materials had been moved several weeks before the fire broke out.

This newspaper clipping shows a photo of the construction of a new Physics building that would house the Argonaut Critical Reactor.

This newspaper article from The Roanoke Times is the first mention if the Association of Chinese Students. The article discusses the gift of some reproductions of Chinese artworks to VPI.

This photo depicts the dedication ceremony of War Memorial Chapel.

This map shows what Virginia Tech's campus looked like in 1964.

Starting in 1955, women were officially allowed to join the cheerleading team. This photo depicts the cheer team in 1966.

This peice of correspondence was sent to the members of the Association of Chinese Students to remind them about the upcoming "Chinese Night".

This photo depicts Hutcheson Hall as it was in 1968.