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Athletic event. Probably a track meet

Barracks No. 1, VPI. Barracks No. 1 on Left. Khaki, for warm weather added 1903/04-1909-10.

Barracks No.1. Barracks No. 1, Water pump in the foreground, between 1888-89.

Bell, W. K. .

VPI cadets sitting in Blacksburg Baptist church for Sunday school

Blacksburg Cadet Band-1884. Negative # 199, Glade Cornet Band ("Goose Creek Boys"), Eustis Lancaster (second from left), Arthur Lancaster (fourth from left), May 3, 1884.

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

Brig. General Frank Jennings Parish, USAFR (Retired). Born 1923, died August 5, 2008. Attended Virgina Tech and at the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered for service in the Army Air Corps. He served 42 years as a command pilot in the U. s. Air…

Cadet. Negative # 42

Cadet Band.

Cadet Honor Court 1949-50.

Cadet Inspection in front of Patton Hall, 1926.

Essay, "Cadet Life during The First Year of the Virginia Agricultural And Mechanical College at Blacksburg, Virginia, October 1, 1872 - July 10, 1873, by Harry Downing Temple, Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired, V.P.I. Class of 1934."

This essay was…

Cadet Lindsay Cherry with Company A at Va. Tech.

Cadet Rats at mattress throwing event.

Cadets at drill.

Cadets at Ring Ceremony.

Cadets at site of fire.

Cadets at site of fire in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Cadets at VAMC.

Cadets at VAMC.

Cadets at Virginia Tech.

Cadets at Virginia Tech.

Cadets before the Guard Room. Harry Downing Temple Photograph Collection

Cadets pose stiffly outside their guard room at Virginia Tech.

Left to right: J.C. Cox, E.J. Rowan & F. D. Berry

Cadets going to mess - campus, Virginia Tech.

Cadets in review.

Cadets on campus, Virginia Tech.

Carrie Taylor Sibold, Virginia Polytechnic Institute State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Bachelor of Science in Biology.

Celebration of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Virginia Tech.

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

This newspaper article discusses women being admitted into the Corps of Cadets for the first time in school history.

Commissionary Ceremony for VPI Cadets, 1942-43.

Company A, Virginia Polytechnic Institute cadets 1920's.

PDF of article from previous 125th Anniversary website

Corps of Cadets.

Corps of Cadets Company E.

Corps of Cadets in formation.

Corps of Cadets, Virginia Tech.

Corps of Cadets, Virginia Tech.

Crowd on VPI Drillfield.

Dormitory room and cadets.

Dr. Robert T. Ellett. Physician at Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College (1879-1885).

PDF transcript of an oral history interview with Emily Pillsbury Davis. Pillsbury was the "L" Squadron commander in the Corps of Cadets in 1975-1976.

This transcript was created from files on a previous iteration of the 125th Anniversary website.…

Epsilon Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, 1971. Composite photograph of Epsilon chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha following the dissolution of the VPI Cotillion Club, 1971-72 was the first full year of opertions since the chapter's rechartering in 1971.

Essex E. Finney, Class of 1959. Essex E. Finney......Macon, Va. Agricultural Engineering, VPI ''59

Essex Finney and his mother Etta B. Finney. Essex Finney and his mother Etta B. Finney at the Powhatan County Fair in the 1940s. Essex Finney was one of the first Black students at Virginia Tech.

Essex Finney at Princeton University. In 1973-74, Dr. Finney was a Princeton Fellow in Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He is shown on the left in the second row. Essex was a member of the Class of Mid-Career…

Essex Finney on his grandfather's farm. Essex grew up on his grandfather's farm in Macon, Virginia. He is shown here in 1953 with his prized Hereford bull which he exhibited at the Powhatan County Fair. Essex Finney was one of the first Black…

Essex Finney, right, and Edward Finney. Essex and his cousin, Edward Finney, the high school vocational agriculture teacher, discuss the desirable traits of hogs. Edward took Essex on his first visit to Virginia Tech and provided guidance during his…

Female cadets at V.P.I..