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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.

Photograph of Kenneth Custalow, Class of 1983. Member of the Mattaponi Tribe in Eastern Virginia.

Article feature of Jim Stroh, first student representative to the Board of Visitors, from the 1984 Bugle.

Photograph depicts Cleopatra Borel-Brown, a member of the Virginia Tech Track and Field Team from the 2009 Bugle. Borel-Brown was the first female Hokie to compete at the Olympics in 2004.

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.

Article and photograph of the appointment of Dr. Laura Jane Harper as Dean of Home Econcomics for Virginia Tech and Radford University, from the Blacksburg Virginian, August 18, 1960.

Photographs of Jean Brickey, Virginia Tech Libraries employee and president of the Virginia Tech Staff Senate, from the Roanoke Times, September 1, 2009.

Image of the logo for the Disability Alliance at Virginia Tech

Image of the logo for the Virginia Tech Veterans Caucus

This racecar hood was used on Dave Butler's 1993 Chevy car in a race at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia, on April 21, 2007.

Photograph of Joanne E. Eustis, the first Faculty Representative on the VT Board of Visitors.

Photograph of Dan W. Waddill, the first Graduate Student Representative on the VT Board of Visitors.

Photograph of Ella Agnew, the first female extension agent in the country and the namesake of Agnew Hall on Virginia Tech's campus.

Photograph of Thomas O. Sandy, the first farm demonstration agent in Virginia.

Photograph of Burruss Hall, main administration building of Virginia Tech in 1939.

Photograph of the L Squadron, the female squadron of the Corps of Cadets in the early 1970s. Cheryl Butler, the first black female squadron leader is pictured in the front row, fourth from the right.

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

Photograph of Eggleston Hall under construction in 1929.

Photograph of Femoyer Hall in 1968

Photograph of the First Ring Dance held at Virginia Tech on March 27, 1934.

Photograph of Hillcrest Hall in 1941

Photograph of Holden Hall in 1968.

Photograph depicts the Mineral Building (also Mining Engineering Building) of the School of Mines on VPI campus. The building was erected around 1908/1909.

Photograph of Newman Library addition under construction, with surrounding buildings, in 1979

Photograph of the Old Library reading room, ca. 1932.

Photograph of Owens Hall, December 1952.

Photograph of Squires Hall soda fountain, ca. 1930s

This publication describes the formation of VAMC, proposed programs and system of organization in 1872. It was part of the serial the Virginia School Report (1872) to the Superintendent of Public Instruction,

Newspaper article reporting on legislation to merge Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the State Teachers' College at Radford, Feburary 15, 1944.

Newspaper article reporting on Virginia Tech's aquisition of a nuclear reactor simualtor for instruction, Janurary 1, 1956

Newspaper article reporting on the aquisition of urainium for the nuclear reactor at Virginia Tech, July 1, 1956

Newspaper article reporting President Hahn's letter announcing the end of compulsory participation in the Corps of Cadets, June 1, 1964.

Magazine article reporting on fire at Architecture Annex the from Virginia Tech Magazine's Spring 1998 issue.

Masthead of the first issue of The Virginia Tech newspaper, reporting on football games with N.C. A&M (North Carolina State), St. Albans School, and the opening "German" dance of the school year, October 21, 1903.

Portion of front page of The Virginia Tech, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 26, 1906 issue reports on the resignation of President McBryde. There is also an article on a coming performance of The Mikado and on the arrival of the Clemson football team.