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This is a two story frame building with tin roof, ordinary wood floors, wood sheathed walls and ceiling. Central steam heat. Used as veterinary hospital.

This is a two and one story frame cow bard with tin roof. Concrete first floor; electric lights; two frame silos.

This is a large frame barn with tin roof; there is a small one story frame milk house adjoining with concrete floor and tin roof, this contains high pressure steam boiler with brick chimney. There is one frame silo and two concrete silos. Thee is…

This is a photograph of a barn on the campus of Virginia Agricultrual and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Insititute.

This is a two story frame building with tin rood; second floor is used for storage of grain. First floor is used for storage of farm machinery, also contains blacksmith shop with hand forge. There is also a coal stove in this building with brick…

This is a one story and basement frame building with tin roof; first floor contains four rows of benches from which stock is judged; basement contains five stalls and a pipeless furnace. Building is electric lighted.

This is a two story frame building with wood shingle roof; horse stalls first floor, hay loft second. Electric lights. Two metal corn cribs near end of building.

This is a two story frame building with tin roof; used for storage of experimental crops. Electric lights.

This is a one and two story frame building with tin roof; one sory section used for storage purposes.

This is a one and two story frame building with a tin roof; second floor used for storage of feed and hay. Electric lighted; there is one frame silo

One story frame, wood shingle roof building; one section of roof is tin covered. Building used for storage of plumbers supplies and one automobile truck. Electric lights and no heat.

Two-storyframe building, tin roof. Central steam heat; electric light; no basement. Occupied by College tailors for manufacture and repairing uniforms

There are nine chicken houses and about twenty small brooder houses; all of these are frame with composition roofs.

This is a two-story and basement frame building with concrete wall to first floor and a tin roof. Electric lighted; hot water heat.

Frame building with wood shingle roof; contains electric driven apple sorting machine.

2 one-story frame buildings with either tin or composition roof. B- Apple Storage Building, C- Storage of Matresses, Building is new & in good condition with small basement open on one side.

4 frame buildings wih tin or composition roof. labeled C-F, C- Storage of Matresses, Building is new & in good condition with small basement open on one side. D- Used for storage of beds, chairs, etc. It is two stories in height. E- Stable, This is a…

5 one-story buildings labeled D-J, Stone or wooden with metal roofing

This is a one, two, and three story limestone building with fire resistive floors and roof. Roof of two and three sections is concrete tile on steel beams; roof of one story section is sheet rock on steel purlins on steel trusses. Central Steam heat.…

This is a fire resistive building with exception of roof of gymnasium which is plank on steel purlins on steel trusses. Walls are faced with limestone backed with brick. Floors and roof of front section, which is three stories in height, are…

This is a three story and basement fire resistive building faced with 8" of limestone backed with 8" of brick. Building has steel frame with concrete slab. Tile partitions; central steam heat. Building contains large electrical laboratories; drafting…

This is a large one story fire resistive building with the exception of small section at front end which has wooden roof, slate covered. Exterior walls are limestone; roof reinforced concrete; interior division walls are brick and cinder block.

This is a fire resistive building having steel frame and brick panel walls; concrete roof on steel trusses. Outside brick stack 180 ft high, which is equipped with lighning rod. There are two 250 horse power and two 350 horse power boilers, coal…

This is a four story and basement brick building with slate roof on wood joist; floors are fire resistive, being concrete in hallways and wood on steel joist in dormitory rooms. Interior brick walls each side of hall and 4" gypsum partitions between…

This building is fire resistive except roof, walls are stone backed with 8" hallow tile; floors are concrete metal lumber construction; roof ordinary wood joist slate convered. Room partitions are 4" gypsum block. There is no basement; central steam…

This building was built on the foundations of the old boiler plant and is a one story and basement brick building with steel columns supporting roof, which is plank on steel beams. Floor is reinforced concrete. Tile partitions; central steam heat.…

This is a fire resistive building, three stories and basement with stone walls backed with 8" of brick; reinforced concrete floors and roof. Brick and tile partitions.

PDF of full insurance survey of the buildings of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, prepared in 1931 by Charles Lunsford & Sons, Roanoke, Va.; Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia, Pa.; and F. Wharton Baker, engineer.…

This is an envelope that list the address of Lt. Charles W. Knowles.

A typed poem titled "I Planted a Rose: A Tribute to the Hokie Nation" written by Charlie McCauley with an accompanying handwritten letter to Debbie Day. The handwritten letter has been cropped in this exhibit to protect certain personal information…

An advertising pamphlet for Charlie White-Moon's "Com-Cel-Sar," a cure-all medicine made of roots and herbs. The booklet contains advertisements and testimonials about the effectiveness of the product, as well as information about how it is…

A page from "The Cowboy and Com-Cel-Sar" displaying customer testimonials.

Page 15 of "The Cowboy and Com-Cel-Sar" featuring customer testimonials.

Pages 46 and 47 from "The Cowboy and Com-Cel-Sar" detailing the nature of the testimonials in the booklet.

Picture of a woman on a bridge

A picture of Charlotte Gale

A picture of Mr. Lattie Pratt and Ms. Nellie Roaher in front of a house near Crockitts Springs, VA

Nellie Roaher and Lattie Pratt in front of corn stalks

L. L. Gale, C. D. Gale, and Louise Gale pose on, in, and beside a wooden wheelbarrow

Louise Gale, Mr, Strauthers, and four children pose on a log over a creek

N&W Office, Roanoke with Dr. Galis Buggy in front of building. Black Church in rear of office.

Blanch Gale taken in her grandmothers costume.

Miss Mollie's horse, taken in Norfolk, VA

A parade of horses in Forepaugh Hills Circus, Roanoke VA

Taken at Brocketts, Mr. Garrett, Dr. Wiley, and third partie

Miss Davemport and Mr. Langham in Crocketts Springs,