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Beginning with the 1964-1965 academic year, VPI reorganized its schools into six colleges: the College of Engineering, College of Architecture, College of Business, College of Home Economics, College of Architecture, and College of Arts and Sciences.…

This is the text of the history of early women's basketball at VPI, taken from The Tin Horn, the 1929 women's yearbook. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

The third volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

The second volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

University history related video.

Photo of Linda Adams, the first African American woman to graduate from Virginia Tech, from the 1968 Bugle

Portrait of Yvonne Rohran Tung from the 1950 Bugle

The fourth and final volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years…

The first volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they…

This is a PDF of Doug Burton's personal diary, in which he wrote about the trip engineering students took to the USSR in the spring of 1979.

One painted plywood display with law enforcement badges attached

A map of the area set aside for the right-of-way for Highway 94.

The Virginia Brewing Company letter was written on September 27, 1909 by Louis A. Scholz, President of the company, and Henry Scholz, Secretary and Treasurer of the company requesting support for anti-Prohibition laws in Virginia.

Transcripts for the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors minutes, 1898-1907

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors meeting minutes for 1898-1909.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors meeting minutes for 1931-1936.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors meeting minutes for 1926-1931.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors meeting minutes for 1921-1926.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors meeting minutes for 1910-1920.

Photograph of Eggleston Hall, with Owens Hall and the town of Blacksburg in the background in 1940.

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…

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…

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…

Group photo of the Virginia Tech chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from the 1938 Bugle, picturing Carmen Venegas (first row, second from left)

Carrie Taylor Sibold's diploma for Bachelor of Science in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute State Agricultural and Mechanical College, awarded June 9, 1925.

This collection contains a letter written by Virginia House of Delegates member William Vinson to his wife and children in Wayne County, (West) Virginia. After noting his homesickness, Vinson proceeds to write of the possibility of the general…

A handwritten letter from Savannah Vincent. The cover has the words "Virginia Tech University, Hokies Rock." The inside repeats the phrases on the outside and has a drawing of the Hokie Bird.

Heavenward, composed and arranged by Guillaume Vilbre, 1894.

A handwritten poem on pink construction paper by Victoria M. sent to Virginia Tech following the tragic events of April 16, 2007.

Image of the logo for the Virginia Tech Veterans Caucus

Black and white photo of china dishes on a table in Smithfield Plantation

Front Row: Beverly H. Sgro, James E. Turner, Charles W. Steger - President, Thomas D. Rust*. Middle Row: Mitchell O. Carr, Joseph Wampler, Jacob A. Lutz III, John G. Rocovich, Jr., Donald R. Johnson, Donald W. Huffman. Back Row: L. Leon Geyer, Philip…

Back Row: Jacob A. Lutz III, Bennie J. Etheridge, Donald R. Johnson, Donald W. Huffman, Willaiam C. Latham, John G Rocovich, Jr. Middle Row: Sarah Airey, Philip S. Thompson, Stephanie Scheer, Beverly Sgro, Michael G. Miller. Front Row: Mitzi R.…

Back Row: Noel C. Taylor, Micheal G. Miller, Ritchard K. Bambach, Bennie J. Etheridge. Middle Row: Donald R. Johnson, John G Rocovich, Jr., W. Heywood Fralin, Gary P. Clisham, Donald W. Huffman, Thomas D. Rust. Front Row: Elaine Humphrey, Paul…

Front Row: Rodman Layman, Susan Phillips Bari, Joseph Jenkins (Vice Rector), James Turner (Rector), Paul Torgersen (President), Donald Huffman, Noel Taylor. Row 2: Ellsworth "Skip" Furman (Faculty Representative), Krista Johnston (Undergraduate…

Letter from William H. Vaughan to Mr. John Williams.

Male Common Nighthawk. USA, Arizona, Cochise, Chiricahua Mountains, Bonita Canyon.

Male Red-eyed Verio. USA, Arizona, Cochise, Chiricahua Mts.

Female Belted Kingfisher. USA, Arizona, Chiricahua Mountains, Pickett Canyon.

661 pages

Male Red Bellied Woodpecker. USA, Florida, Gainesville.

Letter from Van Fleet to his parents, discussing how they took rebel entrenchments.

Letter from Van Fleet to his parents, describing daily duties and being fired upon by Rebel cannons.

235 pages

This is a 50-page scrapbook compiled by Herbert E. Valentine with newspaper clippings written in 1911-1912 about his regiment's war activities, photographs from a monument dedication ceremony for his regiment in New Berne, North Carolina in 1908, and…