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Front Row (left to right): Suzanne Obenshain, Michael J. Quillen - Rector, Charles W. Steger - President, George Nolen - Vice Rector, Nancy V. Dye, M.D. Middle Row (left to right): Sarah M. Karpanty - Faculty Representative; Robyn T. Jones - Graduate…

This is the text of an article for Diversity News in 1997 on the first black students at Virginia Tech. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit. Please note: The Black History…

PDF version of the interactive timeline in the 125th Anniversary digital exhibit. This version was made from the original site and developed for ease of search. Links in the document have been updated to reflect the new location of digital resources.…

Front Row (left to right): Cordel L. Faulk; Ashley Francis - Graduate Student Representative; Deborah L. Petrine - Rector; Timothy D. Sands - President; James L. Chapman IV - Vice Rector; William D. "Bill" Fairchild III. Middle Row (left to right):…

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.

This newsletter descibes several different programs that the aeronautics department was offering in Aircraft Mechanics.

This map shows what Virginia Tech's campus looked like in 1964.

Beginning with the 1964-1965 academic year, VPI reorganized its schools into six colleges: the College of Engineering, College of Architecture, College of Business, College of Home Economics, College of Architecture, and College of Arts and Sciences.…

This is the text of the history of early women's basketball at VPI, taken from The Tin Horn, the 1929 women's yearbook. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

The third volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

The second volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

Photo of Linda Adams, the first African American woman to graduate from Virginia Tech, from the 1968 Bugle

Portrait of Yvonne Rohran Tung from the 1950 Bugle

The fourth and final volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years…

The first volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they…

Black and white photo of china dishes on a table in Smithfield Plantation

Front Row: Beverly H. Sgro, James E. Turner, Charles W. Steger - President, Thomas D. Rust*. Middle Row: Mitchell O. Carr, Joseph Wampler, Jacob A. Lutz III, John G. Rocovich, Jr., Donald R. Johnson, Donald W. Huffman. Back Row: L. Leon Geyer, Philip…

Back Row: Jacob A. Lutz III, Bennie J. Etheridge, Donald R. Johnson, Donald W. Huffman, Willaiam C. Latham, John G Rocovich, Jr. Middle Row: Sarah Airey, Philip S. Thompson, Stephanie Scheer, Beverly Sgro, Michael G. Miller. Front Row: Mitzi R.…

Back Row: Noel C. Taylor, Micheal G. Miller, Ritchard K. Bambach, Bennie J. Etheridge. Middle Row: Donald R. Johnson, John G Rocovich, Jr., W. Heywood Fralin, Gary P. Clisham, Donald W. Huffman, Thomas D. Rust. Front Row: Elaine Humphrey, Paul…

Front Row: Rodman Layman, Susan Phillips Bari, Joseph Jenkins (Vice Rector), James Turner (Rector), Paul Torgersen (President), Donald Huffman, Noel Taylor. Row 2: Ellsworth "Skip" Furman (Faculty Representative), Krista Johnston (Undergraduate…

A mens basketball team poses for a group portrait, possibly the V.P.I basketball team

Standing portrait of a man in uniform with a band drum ,"Uncle sporty" was a V.P.I character from 1890-1909

Men in suits lined up with instruments, "Blacksburg Cadet Band" written at bottom

V.P.I cadets pull a wagon through Alumni gate

Outside of Smithfield plantation house, hog house in the background

Tabletop gravestone in Smithfield Plantation, some kind of cloth or person obscured behind a tree nearby

Low quality image of a road intersection with a traffic light in the center.

Low quality photo of a dirt street in Blacksburg, VA

Photo with a blue tint of the College infirmary on the V.P.I campus, wirtten "Hospital at V.P.I years ago"

The old library at V.P.I covered in snow

People observe the wreckage of the Science Hall after a fire at 1905

Fire at night in the originial library at V.P.I

Photo of a two-story log house on Smithfield Plantation

Overgrown graveyard at Smithfield Plantation

Photo of a wooden bench inside Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, VA

A white one-story building on Smithfield Plantation

V.P.I. cadets lining the outside of Blacksburg Baptist Church

VPI cadets sitting in Blacksburg Baptist church for Sunday school

Firemen and cadets work to extinguish a fire at the Chevrolet Garage in downtown Blacksburg

Cadets work to put out a fire in the Blacksburg Hardware Store in 1923, V.P.I had the only fire department in the town of Blacksburg

Photo from second story building window of police and crowds gathering to watch V.P.I. Cadets put out a fire in Blacksburg Hardware

Firemen and cadets work to extinguish a fire at the Chevrolet Garage in downtown Blacksburg

Men gather around as V.P.I firemen worked to put out a fire at Blacksburg Hardware in downtown Blacksburg.

A lovers lane shaded by Elm trees on the Main Walk in Blacksburg, VA