This is an image of the container used to market Baker's Breakfast Cocoa featuring the iconic "Bella Chocolatiere," or chocolate lady." It comes from ther 1928 cookbook titles "Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa".
This is an image of Hershey's sweet milk chocolate, chocolate syrup, and Sweet milk chocolate with almond bars from the pamphlet "The Hershey's Recipe Book."
This is an image of Hershey's products adversized in the 1949 pamphlet "Hershey's Recipes," featuring Hershey's breakfast cocoa, syrup, semi-sweet chocolate and "Dainties."
Newspaper clipping of an article in the Washington Post about six women receiving awards from the Federal Women's Award program for outstanding careers in the U.S. Civil Service. Marjorie Rhodes Townsend is featured.
Home of Sandy Bosworth: Culinary Committee review of books for addition to Peacock Harper Collection in Special Collections, Newman Library, Blacksburg, Virginia
This is a two story frame stuccoed building with composition shingle roof, ordinary wood floors and steam heater in basement. It was not being used at time of our inspection but was being refinished and after November 1st, 1931 will be occupied by…
This is a three story, basement and attic stone building, slate roof, ordinary wood floors, wood lath and plaster finish. There are brick interior partition walls each side of hallway and each side of stairway. Central Steam heat.
One story frame, composition roof building, concrete floor; steam heat and low pressure steam boiler. Building is used for the storage and demonstration of farm machinery.
Home of Alice Johnson: Mrs. Alice Johnson and Gail MacMillan discussing the Janet Cameron scrapbook. In 2000, The Virginia Tech College of Human Resources and Education (CHRE) appointed Jean Robbins to form a committee to promote the preservation of…
Home of Alice Johnson: Mrs. Alice Johnson and Gail MacMillan discussing the Janet Cameron scrapbook. In 2000, The Virginia Tech College of Human Resources and Education (CHRE) appointed Jean Robbins to form a committee to promote the preservation of…
Photographs taken of the "All Roads Lead Back" statue. Originally on the corner of College and Draper but has been sold. Sponsored by Blacksburg Partnership.
Part of joint project report/design development, exploring the alternative building designs as anchors, with accompanying notes, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752
Photograph of Ann Hertzler working outside at a resource table at the homecoming event. Behind her are tables under a tent, with several unidentifed people in attendence.
This press release from before the Apollo 12 launch provides information about tours of the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, and other points of interest. It also provides information about available bus transportation for the…
This black and white illustration is an artist's conception of the Soviet and American spacecraft guiding in to rendezvous in the first international manned space mission.
Menu for the American astronauts during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission. The menu was calculated to provide an appropriate number of calories each day. It also details how each food is packaged.
This small poster commemorates the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international manned space mission. Published by NASA, it features an illustration of the spacecraft on the front, and information about the project on the back. The project…
Postcard featuring a photograph of the Apollo/Saturn V Facilities Vehicle on the way to the launch pad. Mike Cooper has written a note to "Mom + Dad" on the back of the card.
Architecural drawings of the old McBryde Building by Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.), an architectural and engineering firm that often worked on buildings at VPI.
Article and photograph of the appointment of Dr. Laura Jane Harper as Dean of Home Econcomics for Virginia Tech and Radford University, from the Blacksburg Virginian, August 18, 1960.
Portion of front page of The Virginia Tech, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 26, 1906 issue reports on the resignation of President McBryde. There is also an article on a coming performance of The Mikado and on the arrival of the Clemson football team.
Article from the Blacksburg Sentinel, reporting on a fire that destroyed the Kappa Alpha fraternity house on North Main Street in Blacksburg, October 3, 1998.