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This photo depicts Thomas Hall shortly after it was built. Thomas hall was a dormitory that was named after Medal of Honor recipient, Herbert Thomas.

These clippings discuss Virginia Polytechnic Institute's name change to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

This song was written by Cadet Charles Steinwedel after the Gobbles upset Georgetown in football in 1942.

This song was written by Cadet Charles Steinwedel after the Gobbles upset Georgetown in football in 1942.

This photo depicts the seal of Virginia Polytechnic Institute after the University's name was changed in 1944.

This photo depicts the women's basketball team playing a game in the 1980s. The Virginia Tech player who is pictured is Renee Dennis, #44, played from 1983-1987 and was the first Virginia Tech woman to have her jersey retired.

This Virginia Tech class ring is from the Class of 1911. 1911 was also the first year that the University made class rings. This photo is from the VT Alumni Association.

This photo depicts the Shops Building shortly after it burned down in 1913.

This newspaper article describes several smallpox cases that occurred in Blacksburg in 1913. It is aso noted in the article that everyone at the University had been vaccinated prior to the outbreak.

This composite photo depicts Charles Owens, John Sears, Floyd Meade, Alonzo Freeman, and Preston Mays. These men were some of the first African American that were connected to the University.

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

This photo deicts Charles E. Vawter Jr., who was a Professor of Physics at V. P. I. until his resignation in 1917.

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

This is the cover of sheet music entitled "The Sentiment of Every American Mother: America Here's My Boy," ca. 1917, by Andrew B. Sterling and Arthur Lange, which is about mother's sending their sons off to war during the First World War.

This pamphlet put out by the United States Food Administration asks people to eat less wheat and meat so that more can be sent to the soldiers fighting in World War I.

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 poster warns people not to enter a specific area without permission from the Board of Health becuase of the Influenza outbreak.

This photo depicts the World War I memorial, also known as "The Rock", that is on campus. This memorial was first unveiled in July 1919 just before the commencement ceremonies.

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

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

This photo depicts the Alumni Registration and Information Area at the Golden Jubliee. Also pictured are several alumni from the Classes of 1875 through 1895. The welcome banner that was hung up in Blackburg was also pictured.

This photo depicts the alumni gathering at the main tent at the Golden Jubilee. The inside of the tent is also pictured. Also pictured is an ariel view of campus after Golden Jubilee.

This photo depicts the Agricultural Building at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

These pages are from the Bulletin of VPI, Vol. XV, No. 6, Sept. 1922, and it advertises different opportunites that V. P. I. had for women in 1922/1923. The item focuses on opportunites within the applied sciences, but also discusses other fields…

This photo depicts a class in the woodworking shop in McBryde Hall in 1921.

This photo depicts Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, who was the first woman to receive a degree from V. P. I.

This photo depicts Lane Hall (Barracks No. 1) presumably after the sophmore banquet.

This photo depicts President J. A. Burruss breaking ground to start the construction of a new athletic stadium.

These architechtual drawings depict the proposed plans for War Memoial Hall and Gymnasium.

This photo depicts the Agricultural Extension Division Building shortly after its construction was finished and it had been occupied.

This newspaper clipping shows a photograph of electic lines leading to an unidentified farm.

This map depicts the proposed lay-out of the V. P. I. campus in 1925.

This newspaper clipping describes the women's basketball team's victory over the "Bashful Basketeers" of Concord State. One of the captions uses the term "Turkey Hens", which is what the women's team called themselves. Because the University did not…

This composite photo of Patton Hall includes a drawing by Carneal & Johnston, Architects, of the intended final building and a photo of the hall when the first floor was completed and occupied by the School of Engineering in Fall 1925. The…

This cover from the Bulletin of VPI, Vol. XIX, No. 1, November 1925, indicates the need for funds for a new dormitory on campus, and this photo depicts the Home Economics Building, ca. 1925, which was previously the Agricultural Extension Division…

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 is of a plaque on the table where Future Farmers of Virginia (later expanded to Future Farmers of America) was founded by Walter S. Newman, H. C. Groseclose, H. W. Sanders, and E. C. Magill, all associated with V.P.I.'s Department of…

This composite depicts War Memorial Hall, its gymnasium, and Miles Stadium while under contruction in 1926.

This composite includes photos from Dedication Day for Miles Stadium and War Memorial Hall on October 23, 1926. Alumni were invited to a homecoming for the dedication of War Memorial Hall at 10am, the dedication of Miles Stadium at 2:15pm, and the…

This photo from the President's report to the Board of Visitors at the January 28, 1926, meeting, illustrates the dire need for dormitories on campus. By 1925, four students shared a 13 ft. x 15 ft. dorm room, and to make floor space they tied their…

These photos depict the new Barracks No. 6 building, dedicated in September 1927, and Barracks No. 7, which was converted from the Science Hall and opened in November 1927.

This photo depicts the Class of 1928's class ring. The rings were presented to every member of the class at the first "Ring Banquet" held by the Class of 1928 in their junior year on January 22, 1927. This photo is from the VT Alumni Association.

This photo is of the road down Faculty Row, with Patton Hall visible on the left.

By the time this drawing, produced by the Manning Offices Inc., a landscape design firm, was published in the September 1927 issue of the V.P.I. Bulletin, the original was already hanging in the President's office. A few of the new structures…

This composite includes 3 photos of construction on the campus. On the left is the new power plant, on the top is the new stone dormitory Barracks No. 8, and on the bottom is of Patton Hall with 3 finished floors on the left and the Administration on…

This photo is of the deHaviland DH-4 airplane donated to the university by the U.S. Navy for use by students. It arrived without an engine, but the U.S. Army donated two 400 hp V-12 Liberty engines, one to be installed in the DH-4, the other for…

This photo depicts the college infirmary (now Henderson Hall) after an expansion nearly doubled its capacity. The addition was completed by the start of the end of 1929.

In the fall of 1929, a sparse, but moderately sound-proof studio was built in an unused room in the tower of War Memorial Hall. The first broadcast aired on January 6, 1930.

This photograph is of the Global Climate Strike protest at the Pylons and War Memorial Chapel and Court, held on September 20, 2019. It is probably by professor Emily Satterwhite.