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

This is the text from a 1944 Roanoke Times article on the merger with Radford and the housing issues for women. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

Photograph of Deborah L. Petrine, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2014-2016

Carrie Taylor Sibold's diploma for Bachelor of Science in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute State Agricultural and Mechanical College, awarded June 9, 1925.

The February 19, 1901 minutes of the Executive Committee of the VPI Board of Visitors contains the lease to rent the approx. 500 acres of Smithfield (not including the house or the yard) from Mrs. Janis P. Boulware for $1000 per year for five years.

Dawing for a bridge designed by McNairy, Claflin & Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

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 is the text of an article by Lucy Lee Lancaster for the Centennial Edition of the New Messenger (December 31, 1969) about the admission of women to VPI and the first graduates. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the…

Photograph of Frank Clement, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1975-1978

Photograph of George Nolan, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2010-2012

Photograph of Guy L. Furr, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1956-1962

Photograph of Harry C. Wyatt, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1964-1970

Photograph of Harvey Black, first rector of the Board of Visitors, 1872-1875

Photograph of Henry Dekker, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1996-1997

History of the members of the Board of Visitors with a link to the lists. The link in the pdf was updated in 2020 to current site for the Board of Visitors history and archives. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original…

Photograph of J. Thompson Brown, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1900-1908 and 1912-1921

Photograph of Jacob A. Lutz, III, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2006-2008

Photograph of James E. Turner, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1997-2002

Photograph of James Hoge Tyler, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1887-1889

Photograph of James L. Chapman, IV, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2016-2017

Jersey calves graze in a field on V.P.I's campus

Photograph of John G. Rocovich, Jr., rector of the Board of Visitors, 2002-2004

Photograph of John R. Lawson, II, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2008-2010

Photograph of Lee C. Tait, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1983-1984

This is a transcription of the list of graduates from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1876, probably taken from the catalog of that year. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary…

Compiled list of rectors of the Board of Visitors from 1872 to 2017. The individual links to rector biographies were removed from the document in 2020 when the exhibit was migrated, and a link was added to current site for the Board of Visitors…

This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

This article for the Autumn 1970 issue of Context includes two short memoirs, one from W. P. Tams, Jr. (Class of 1902), and J. Ambler Johnston (Class of 1904), with an introduction by James I. Robertson, Jr. The article was reprinted on the web in…

This essay was originally written by Clara B. Cox in 1991 and later revised in 1992. It tells the story of the first student to enroll at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872, William Addison Caldwell. This pdf document was created…

Photograph of Lucius E. Johnson, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1910-1912

Map of VPI campu by S.M. Boyd, Jr., March 3, 1915.

This map depicts campus buildings and pathway dimensions, 1911.

This map depicts the buildings (numbered), planned structures, and other infrastructure measurements on campus, 1931.

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

This memoir was written by Class of 1909 graduate, T. P. Hicks, and likely included in a previous university publication. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

Photograph of Michael J. Quillen, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2012-2014

This is the text of a 1964 article for the Roanoke Times by Fred Loeffler about the rise in enrollment of women students and the development of more programs. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary…

This is the text of a 1977 Collegiate Times article about the naming of Harper Hall. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

Front page of The Virginia Tech, reporting that VPI will be constructing an athletic building, as well as a game between football alumni and the JV team, and the opening season dances from the German and Cotillion Clubs, October 23, 1913.

Masthead of the first issue of The Virginia Tech newspaper, reporting on football games with N.C. A&M (North Carolina State), St. Albans School, and the opening "German" dance of the school year, October 21, 1903.

Front page of the Virginia Tech, reporting on the installation of wireless stations on campus, a speech by the secretary of the YMCA, a performance by the Chicago Ladies' Orchestra, and a basketball game between the junior varsity "Rats" and the…

Front page masthead of The Virginia Tech, reporting on the new system of "mass athletics" and encouraging its support, as well as the positive record of the basketball team, Janurary 20, 1921.

This memoir was written by Harvey E. Sheppard (Class of 1932), about his time as a student at the university in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

This photo is of a plaque on the table where Future Farmers of Virginia (later expanded to Future Farmers of America) was founded by Walter S. Newman, H. C. Groseclose, H. W. Sanders, and E. C. Magill, all associated with V.P.I.'s Department of…

Photograph of T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., with a pdf of his inaugural address given in 1963. The address was captured from the original 125th anniversary website.