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Faculty

Cadet

Preston and Olin Building

The Old College Building (Preston and Olin Building)

Photograph of William Frank Henderson, M.D.

Charles Owen came to work for the college in1890 as the janitor in Barracks No. 1. He soon assumed the duty of snare drummer to beat out the first call to Reveille.

John Alexander Harman

Colonel John A. Harman, 2nd Lieut., 7th Cavalry, U.S. Army Commandant of Cadets, 1890-1894.

Dr. John M. McBryde

View of the V.A.M.C. campus looking west from Academic Bldg. No. 2. House in foreground was built for Prof. V.E. Shepard's residence ("Rock House"), later occupied by Prof. William B. Alwood, and still later used as the Admin. Bldg. (Stone House.) In…

Dr. Edward Ernest Sheib, Professor of English, History, and Political Economy.

Cadets

As it appeared before its purchase to be renovated and used as an Infirmary.

Anatomy Class - Spring of 1892

Baseball Team

Looking Northwest from Barracks No.1

Hollins Institute

Hollins Institute

The Roanoke Decennial

Cadet

Cadet

Glade Cornet Band

Captain Thomas Nelson Conrad, President and Professor at Virginia Agricultrual and Mechanical College.

John E. Christian, a professor at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Colonel William Ballard Preston, Commandant of Cadets.

Cadet Officers and NCO's of Company A, with Commandant Preston

Cadets

VAMC, 1881-1882

Barracks Room

Dr. William F. Henderson (on left) with an unknown professor.

1-Col. (2d Lt., 7th US Cavalry) John A. Harman, PMS&T and Commandant of Cadets, 2-Cadet Major Robert Edward Wright, 3-Cadet Captain Adam Tyree Finch, 4-Cadet Captain Edward Patton Miner, 5-Cadet Captain John Walter Stull, 6-Cadet 1st Lietu. Leslie…

Captain--Professor Anderson, Colors--Black & Gray

The new Foundry and Forge building, erected immediately to the rear of the Shops Building. The "Round House" water tank also was constructed at that time.

Shops

Corner of Forge and Foundry

Agricultural Experiment Station with Veterinary Infirmary is in the background.

Powder Magazine, built in 1893.

Naval Rendezvous - Norfolk

International Naval Rendezvous - April 1893

Baseball Game, Spring of 1893

Professor John Hart, acting President from 1880 to 1881.

James Clark

The Preston and Olin Building

Photograph of the corner drug store taken around 1880.

Preston and Olin Institute

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

Agricultural Experiment Station

Montgomery Female College

A pastoral scene near the campus of Virginia Tech.

Smithfield