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James Clark

Professor John Hart, acting President from 1880 to 1881.

View of campus taken around 1891.

Baseball Game, Spring of 1893

International Naval Rendezvous - April 1893

Naval Rendezvous - Norfolk

Powder Magazine, built in 1893.

Agricultural Experiment Station with Veterinary Infirmary is in the background.

Corner of Forge and Foundry

Shops

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.

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

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…

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

Barracks Room

VAMC, 1881-1882

Cadets

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

Colonel William Ballard Preston, Commandant of Cadets.

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

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

Glade Cornet Band

Cadet

Cadet

The Roanoke Decennial

Hollins Institute

Hollins Institute

Looking Northwest from Barracks No.1

Baseball Team

Anatomy Class - Spring of 1892

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

Cadets

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

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. John M. McBryde

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

John Alexander Harman

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.

Photograph of William Frank Henderson, M.D.

The Old College Building (Preston and Olin Building)

Preston and Olin Building

Cadet

Faculty

Solitude - "The Farm House" Infirmary

Cadet Sergeant R. N. Musgrave

Cadet Private

Scott, Hart, Blackford, Shepherd, Clarke, Christian, and Buchanan.

Judge John Gardner, Treasurer from 1881 to 1895.

Photograph of Blacksburg taken between 1879 and 1880.

Brigadier General James H. Lane, First Commandant of Cadets at VAMC.