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This is a large frame barn with tin roof; there is a small one story frame milk house adjoining with concrete floor and tin roof, this contains high pressure steam boiler with brick chimney. There is one frame silo and two concrete silos. Thee is…

This is a photograph of a barn on the campus of Virginia Agricultrual and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Insititute.

This is a two story frame building with tin rood; second floor is used for storage of grain. First floor is used for storage of farm machinery, also contains blacksmith shop with hand forge. There is also a coal stove in this building with brick…

This is a one story and basement frame building with tin roof; first floor contains four rows of benches from which stock is judged; basement contains five stalls and a pipeless furnace. Building is electric lighted.

This is a two story frame building with wood shingle roof; horse stalls first floor, hay loft second. Electric lights. Two metal corn cribs near end of building.

This is a two story frame building with tin roof; used for storage of experimental crops. Electric lights.

This is a one and two story frame building with tin roof; one sory section used for storage purposes.

This is a one and two story frame building with a tin roof; second floor used for storage of feed and hay. Electric lighted; there is one frame silo

One story frame, wood shingle roof building; one section of roof is tin covered. Building used for storage of plumbers supplies and one automobile truck. Electric lights and no heat.

Two-storyframe building, tin roof. Central steam heat; electric light; no basement. Occupied by College tailors for manufacture and repairing uniforms

There are nine chicken houses and about twenty small brooder houses; all of these are frame with composition roofs.

This is a two-story and basement frame building with concrete wall to first floor and a tin roof. Electric lighted; hot water heat.

Frame building with wood shingle roof; contains electric driven apple sorting machine.

2 one-story frame buildings with either tin or composition roof. B- Apple Storage Building, C- Storage of Matresses, Building is new & in good condition with small basement open on one side.

4 frame buildings wih tin or composition roof. labeled C-F, C- Storage of Matresses, Building is new & in good condition with small basement open on one side. D- Used for storage of beds, chairs, etc. It is two stories in height. E- Stable, This is a…

5 one-story buildings labeled D-J, Stone or wooden with metal roofing

This is a one, two, and three story limestone building with fire resistive floors and roof. Roof of two and three sections is concrete tile on steel beams; roof of one story section is sheet rock on steel purlins on steel trusses. Central Steam heat.…

This is a fire resistive building with exception of roof of gymnasium which is plank on steel purlins on steel trusses. Walls are faced with limestone backed with brick. Floors and roof of front section, which is three stories in height, are…

This is a three story and basement fire resistive building faced with 8" of limestone backed with 8" of brick. Building has steel frame with concrete slab. Tile partitions; central steam heat. Building contains large electrical laboratories; drafting…

This is a large one story fire resistive building with the exception of small section at front end which has wooden roof, slate covered. Exterior walls are limestone; roof reinforced concrete; interior division walls are brick and cinder block.

This is a fire resistive building having steel frame and brick panel walls; concrete roof on steel trusses. Outside brick stack 180 ft high, which is equipped with lighning rod. There are two 250 horse power and two 350 horse power boilers, coal…

This is a four story and basement brick building with slate roof on wood joist; floors are fire resistive, being concrete in hallways and wood on steel joist in dormitory rooms. Interior brick walls each side of hall and 4" gypsum partitions between…

This building is fire resistive except roof, walls are stone backed with 8" hallow tile; floors are concrete metal lumber construction; roof ordinary wood joist slate convered. Room partitions are 4" gypsum block. There is no basement; central steam…

This building was built on the foundations of the old boiler plant and is a one story and basement brick building with steel columns supporting roof, which is plank on steel beams. Floor is reinforced concrete. Tile partitions; central steam heat.…

This is a fire resistive building, three stories and basement with stone walls backed with 8" of brick; reinforced concrete floors and roof. Brick and tile partitions.

Photographs takensof the "Building Blacksburg" statue. Located at 500 S. Main and sponsored by Synder and Associates.

Cross sections of the Theatre and Store building.

Exterior elevations of playground building for Margaret S. Hayward Playground rehabilitation. Project #0716

Traced sketch of the building front and stairway interior of the Theatre and Store building.

Sketch of a cross section of the front door of the planned Lyric Theatre.

Sketch of the front door and ticket booth of the planned Theatre and Store Building.

Sketch of the front of the planned Theatre and Store Building.

Map of the Plank and Whitsett lot, propsed site for the Theatre and Store building.

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the summer solstice at 11:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the summer solstice at 12:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the winter solstice at 9:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the winter solstice at 12:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the winter solstice at 3:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the equinox at 9:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the equinox at 12:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

Diagram showing projected shadows cast during the equinox at 1:00, for Yerba Buena Gardens, part of a large commercial project. Unbuilt due to disruption of funding. Project #0752

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 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…

Photograph of C. Eugene Rowe, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1970-1975

This is a two story frame dwelling with tin roof; stove heat.

Photograph of a cadet with the mail cart, 1918.

Photograph of cadets with the fire truck, 1918.

Color image.

This racecar hood was used on Dave Butler's 1993 Chevy car in a race at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia, on April 21, 2007.

Photographs taken of the "Carnival of the Mind" statue. Located at 118 S. Main and sponsored by Tech Bookstore.