Browse Items (2176 total)

This photo depicts Gibboney Field in 1904, after the first permanent bleachers were installed.

This photo depicts the shops building after it's expansion in 1904.

This photo depicts Company F of the Corps of Cadets in 1905.

This photo depicts the agricultural building after its construction had been finished.

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from the first year the family lived at Solitude. Images include pictures of Robert and Richard Fletcher, as well as their parents, Stevenson and Margaret Fletcher.…

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from the first year the family lived at Solitude. Images include a family summer camping trip and exterior view of Solitude in fall 1908, when the family first moved into the…

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn, December 1908. The Fletchers moved into Solitude in November 1908.

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1908 and 1909. Photographs include the Fletcher children on the lawn of Solitude in fall, winter, and spring.

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn with a caretaker, July 1909. The caption reads "Playing on Solitude lawn with nurse Dollie ('Dar-ee') July 1909."

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1909 and 1910. Photographs including the lawn and spring house of Solitude, a family summer camping trip, and a visit from Robert and Richard's grandmother.

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1910. Photographs include Fishersville, Va., and Solitude in summer and winter.

Postcard of Blacksburg, VA, circa 1910. Possibly depicting Alumni Gates.

Photograph of Margaret, Robert, Richard, and Stevenson Fletcher on the Solitude lawn. This photograph was taken after a snow and has the Duck Pond in the background.

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1911 and 1912. Photographs include Main Street in Blacksburg, winter on the Solitude lawn, and planting a dogwood tree in April 1912.

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1913. Photographs include kindergarten on the Solitude lawn and the Fletcher family in their cart (also individual photographs in this collection), as well…

After the Preston and Olin building burned down

Photograph of the Fletcher family in March 1913. This photo has two captions: "Peter born Jan. 18, 1913" and "The family carry-all, March 1913. 'Black Beauty' powered." The photo includes Margaret Rolston Fletcher and four of her children: Robert,…

Photograph of a kindergarten class on the lawn of Solitude, June 1913, labeled "Miss Rosa's kindergarten, at Solitude. June, 1913."

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1913 and 1914. Photographs include exteriors and interiors of Solitude in 1913 and early 1914, many featuring Fletcher children.

Black and white photo of a man and woman with a "Cone's Atlanta" stamp on the back, dated November 20, 1914.

This photo depicts a procession that started infront of the academic buildings and finished at the field house for the commencement ceremony.

Photograph of the McBryde Building under construction, 1915.

Photograph of the Old Library building interior in 1915

This photo depicts the V. P. I. cadets leaving for Fort Myer in 1917.

This photo depicts several men who were enrolled in the Enlisted Men's Technical School. This school was an eight week course that was meant to teach active enlisted soldiers to learn technical skills.

This photo depicts the Officers of the Student Army Training Corps in 1918.

This photo depicts J. A. Burruss. Burruss was the President of the University from 1919 to 1945.

This composite includes a 1919 photo of Eleanor Isabelle Jones, university librarian from 1913 to 1923, and a 1925 photo of Ralph Minthorne Brown, university librarian from 1925 to 1946.

This photo depicts the Corps of Cadets in mess formation sometime during 1920.

Photograph of the home of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

This photograph depicts the tenant house of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

This photograph depicts the house of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

A photograph of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

This photograph shows a tenant farmer known as Aaron and two other unidentified people on the front porch of a tenant house on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.

A photograph of a tenant farmer known as Aaron with a horse. Taken around 1930, while Aaron was working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia.