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Richmond City Stadium, Virginia

Sketch showing Blacksburg, Virginia in 1853.

Sitting (left to right): President C.L.C. Minor, Charles Martin, M.G. Ellzey, V.E. Shepherd, Gray Carroll. Standing (left to right): J.H. Lane, W.R. Boggs.

Charles Landon Carter Minor, President of VAMC from 1872 to 1879.

Brigadier General James H. Lane, First Commandant of Cadets at VAMC.

Charles Martin, a VAMC professor.

Professor M. G. Ellzey, a VAMC professor.

White Sulphur Springs

Gray Carroll, a professor at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Collection Shops - first story; Dormitory - second floor ("Dutch Alley")

This publication describes the formation of VAMC, proposed programs and system of organization in 1872. It was part of the serial the Virginia School Report (1872) to the Superintendent of Public Instruction,

Photograph of William Buchanan Conway, M.D., first college physician.

19 Murray Street, Fincastle, Virginia. Home, in 1872, of Mr. Benjamin Carper Hedrick, a professional tailor, where the first VAMC uniforms were made.

The Gazebo at Yellow Sulphur Springs

The Old Hotel & Gazebo at Yellow Sulphur Springs

The New Hotel at Yellow Sulphur Springs

Commission of Dr. Harvey Black as a Visitor

A VAMC Cadet

Montgomery Female College

Commission of Dr. Harvey Black.

List of students attending VAMC in 1872-1873, including name and home county

First Session, 1872-73. Annual course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.

Cadet

Program of the Sophosonian Literary Society

Maury Literary Society Program

Second Session, 1873-74. Annual course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.

A Cadet Private, 1874

Opened in April 1874 in the vicinity of Price Hall.

Cadet Officer

Main Building

Maury Literary Society Program

VAMC Certificate of Completion of Session with Distinction

Photograph of Main Street taken in 1875.

Program from Lee Society Event

Photograph of Main Street taken in 1875.

Cochran Medal of Maury Literary Society

Maury Literary Society Medal

Maury Literary Society Medal

Commencement Program, August 1875

J. H. Foley statue of "Stonewall" Jackson

Cadet Officers, 1875-1876

Cadet Officer

Brig. Gen. William Robertson Boggs, CSA

Fourth Session, 1875-76.Annual course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.

Photograph of Cadet Hermann C. Niemeyer of VAMC, from Portsmouth, VA, 1876.

"Alleghany Baseball Club" - 8 June 1876 Front Row (seated), left to right: John T. Coleman (first base), Henry M. Smith (short stop), P. Meriwether Fry (catcher), Sheppard (pitcher), & George W. Lindsay (second base). Rear Row (standing), Left to…

Blacksburg Cornet Band

This the exam completion certificate for Cadet Hermann C. Niemeyer. Before the 1880s, VAMC only issued certificates of completion, not degrees, August 9, 1876.