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Photograph of two unidentifed study workers preparing food.

Image of two unidentified study workers taken during the metabolic study.

Photograph of two unidentified study workers measuring out portions for the metabolic study.

Photograph of two unidentified study workers weighing and measuring out portions of food for the metabolic study.

Image of two unidentified study workers measuring out portions for the metabolic study.

Photograph of an unidentifed laboratory worker using a food mixer.

Image of an unidentified study worker taking food out of the oven, in a kitchen, for the metabolic study.

Photograph taken of two unidentified study workers measuring out food portions in a kitchen.

Photograph taken of an unidentified worker measuring out liquid in a laboratory used for the metabolic study.

Image of three unidentified study workers preparing food in a kitchen for the metabolic study.

Photograph taken of an unidentified study worker preparing food on the stove for the metabolic study.

Photograph taken of an unidentified study worker medically examining two child study participants.

Image of an unidentified child study participant eating at a table.

Photograph of four unidentified child study participants eating at a table in the dining room.

Photograph taken of an unidentified study worker examining a child participant's nails.

Photograph of four unidentified child study participants in a bedroom with cots.

Photograph of unidentifed child study participants at a swimming pool.

A group of unidentified study participants sitting together in a dining room.

Photograph of portioned out food on top of a stove for the metabolic study.

An unidentified worker is photographed measuring out portions of food for the metabolic study.

Photograph of an unidentifed laboratory worker, working in the laboratory during Dr. Laura J. Harper's metabolic study.

Photograph taken of unidentified child study participants, eating at tables in a dining room.

Photograph taken of five unidentified child study participants.

Image of one of the laboratories, with boxes of equipment on top of desks, used in the metabolic study.

Photograph of the laboratory used for the metabolic study taken from a different perspective.

Photograph taken of the laboratory site used during Dr. Laura J. Harper's metabolic study.

Photograph of Nancy Wakeman sitting in an office inside of Agnew Hall, taken during the metabolic study.

Photograph of summer housing, Agnew Hall taken during Dr. Laura J. Harper's metabolic study.

The Front view of summer housing, now Wallace hall. Photograph taken during Dr. Laura J. Harper's metabolic study.

Photograph taken during Dr. Laura J. Harper's metabolic study of the back view of summer housing, now Wallace Hall.

The collection consists of one household and recipe book from Macon County, AL. A variety of writers left entries within the journal, most notably Miss Zoonomia d. Hoxey Carter and Mrs. M. P. Edwards.

A majority of the collection pertains to…

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.

Ida Powell graduated from Virginia Tech in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in home economics. In this hour-long interview, Powell discusses her experience as a female student attending Virginia Tech's campus in the 1950s as well as her humanitarian…