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This photo is of FutureHAUS, a smart house designed and built by students and faculty in the VT colleges of Architecture and Urban Studies and of Engineering to demonstrate the contributions of the university to conservation and sustainability in…

This photo by Dan Mirolli, taken on June 24, 2019, is of the Fraction Family House at Solitude on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. The building is believed to have been a dwelling for enslaved people built around 1843. Upwards of 250…

This photo depicts the forge and foundry on campus as it was in the 1890s. The building was located behind the Preston and Olin buildings.

This photo by Logan Wallace of VT University Relations taken October 18, 2017, illustrates the game-ball run tradition. Members of the Ranger Company of the Army ROTC program run the homecoming football game ball around the campus for 100 miles,…

From left to right: Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, Ruth Terrett, Lucy Lee Lancaster, Lousie Jacobs, Carrie Taylor Sibold

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

This photo depicts five unidentified women in an office at the first Northern Virginia Graduate Center in Reston, Virginia.

This photo depicts the first continuosly-used mascot costume for the Gobbler.

Photograph of Femoyer Hall in 1968

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

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.

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

Ella Agnew and Maude Wallace were home demonstration agents for Virginia Cooperative Extension and Mrs. Mary Moore Davis served as professor of the home economics department at Virginia Tech.

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.

Portrait of E. T. Yeaman "before he married." the date is unknown.

Photograph of the Duck Pond on VPI campus, undated

"Famous? bookstore in Leningrad." - Doug Burton

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 by Ahmed Mustafa of VT University Relations is of Deborah Petrine receiving from President Tim Sands a resolution of appreciation for her service as the first female Rector of the VT Board of Visitors, among other contributions, at the…

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

This photo by Sarah Myers is of the Creativity and Innovation District dormitory shortly before opening for the Fall 2021 semester, taken on July 23, 2021.

This photo depicts the creamery and cheese factory on campus in 1897. The building was located close to where Price Hall is today.

This photo depicts the creamery and cannery on campus that was later converted into additional dorm space for campus farm workers.

This is a photo of Cowgill Hall (background) and the skylights of Burchard Hall on Cowgill Plaza on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. 2020.

This photo depicts Company F of the Corps of Cadets in 1905.

Michael Collins undergoes a pre-flight suit check before the Gemini 10 launch

Michael Collins undergoes a pre-flight suit check before the Gemini 10 launch

Close up of Michael Collins in helmet (and full space suit) before the Gemini 10 Launch

Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young inside the cockpit during a Simultaneous Launch Demonstration.

Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Astronaut Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden, walking with a priest following a mass service.

Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Astronaut Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden, sit in front of the television in the Collins home near the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.

Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Astronaut Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden, leaving a church building with a priest after attending a mass service.

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 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 by Chiravi Patel of the VT University Relations depicts students in Stefan Al’s studio in November 2020 in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies' geodesic dome put up near Cowgill Hall to help with social distancing during the…

This photo by Logan Wallace of VT University Relations shows a class in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences held at Kentland Farm, May 2, 2017.