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Selected page, Notebook, Florence Kenyon Hayden, n.d. (Ms2009-054)
Selected pages of Hayden's class lecture notebook, with sketches, from a class at Ohio State University
Sketch, unidentified building (Ms2003-015)
Travel sketch of unidentified building done by Lilia Skala.
John H. Hancock Diary, 1862-1863 (Ms2008-008)
The diary of John H. Hancock, who served in Company H, 29th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War. The diary entries cover January-June 1862, with a single entry made from Paris, Kentucky on April 1, 1863. Hancock's diary entries relate largely…
James P. Hawkins Diary, 1864-1865 (Ms2008-025)
A bound expense/account notebook of James P. Hawkins, agent of the Southern Express Company, which also contains diary entries from 2 April - 10 April 1865. Also included are a collection of loose pages with Hawkins's diary entries for 11 April - 11…
Photograph, First Virginia Tech Coeds at Graduation, 1925
From left to right: Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, Ruth Terrett, Lucy Lee Lancaster, Lousie Jacobs, Carrie Taylor Sibold
Diploma, Carrie Taylor Sibold, Virginia Polytechnic Institute State Agricultural and Mechanical College, June 9, 1925 (Ms1990-043)
Carrie Taylor Sibold's diploma for Bachelor of Science in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute State Agricultural and Mechanical College, awarded June 9, 1925.
Photograph, Yvonne Rohran Tung, 1950
Portrait of Yvonne Rohran Tung from the 1950 Bugle
Photograph, Virginia Tech chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1938
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)
Photograph, Ella Agnew, Mrs. Mary Moore Davis, Maude Wallace, May 1947
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, Mildred Tate talking to female students, 1955
Dr. Mildred Tate, first Dean of Women, talking to female students on first day at VPI, 1955
Photograph, Marjorie Townsend receiving Knight of the Italian Republic Order, October 1972 (Ms1986-003)
Photograph of Marjorie Rhodes Townsend receiving the Knight of the Italian Republic Order award in October 1972 for her contributions to the Italian space program. Marjorie Rhodes Townsend, born in 1930, entered The George Washington University…
Travel sketch, Sigrid Rupp, Guanejuato, Mexico, November 15, 1988. (Ms1997-006)
Travel sketch produced by Sigrid Rupp on an architectural study trip in Guanejuato, Mexico, November 15, 1988. Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp was born January 3, 1943, in Bremerhaven, Germany. She studied architecture at the University of California-Berkeley,…
Fashion Sketch, Judith Roque-Gourary, nd (Ms2011-074)
Fashion sketch produced by Judith (Dita) Roque-Gourary for a school assignment as a student at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture et des Arts Decoratifs de Belgique. Judith (Dita) Roque-Gourary was born July 26, 1915 in St. Petersburg,…
Architectural Drawing, Kimiko Suzuki, Abe House #430328, nd (Ms2013-089)
Floor plan, bird's eye view and perspective drawings of the Susume Abe residence completed in 1967 by Kimiko Suzuki. Abe was a famous education critic in Japan. Kimiko Suzuki (1929-1992) attended Japan Women’s University and was their first graduate…
Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Manufactory Trade Card, 1784? (Ms2015-045)
Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Manufactory Trade Card, probably printed about 1784. The Coade stone business was started by Eleanor Coade in 1769 and operated into the 1833, later run by a business partner after Coade's death. The trade card was…
"Blonde Designs, Builds Houses in Marin", Newspaper clipping, Lois Gottlieb and builder, Marin County, California, March 21, 1953. (Ms1997-003)
1953 newspaper clipping for an article titled "Blonde Designs, Builds Houses in Marin" from Marin Magazine (Marin County, California) featuring Lois Gottlieb and a colleague reviewing building plans.
John Harville Diary 5, 1862-1863 (Ms2010-053)
Harville's fifth diary, from August 5 1862 to May 29, 1863.
John Harville Diary 6, 1863 (Ms2010-053)
Harville's sixth diary, from June 5 to November 26, 1863.
Postcard to Nettie Anderson, Household of Ruth (Ms1988-009)
Correspondence between two members of the Blacksburg chapter of the Household of Ruth, a women's auxiliary organization to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.
Correspondence, Mrs F.N. Atkins [Blacksburg Woman's Club President] to Sargent Shriver,Washington, D.C., May 3, 1965 (Ms1963-002)
Correspondence sent by Mrs F.N. Atkins (Blacksburg Woman's Club President) to Sargent Shriver in the Office of Economic Opportunity (Washington D.C.) on May 3, 1965 expressing the support of the Blacksburg Woman's Club for the Montgomery-Floyd…
Program and Menu, Diamond Jubilee Dinner, Col. William Christian Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Christiansburg, Virginia,1965 (Ms2014-013)
Program and dinner menu for the 1965 Diamond Jubilee event held by the Col William Christian Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Christiansburg, Virginia, 1965.
Correspondence, Scott D. Breckenridge Jr. to Patricia Givens Johnson, Christiansburg, VA, July 11, 1988 (Ms1988-007)
Letter from Scott D. Breckenridge Jr. (former Deputy Director of the CIA) to Patricia Givens Johnson, local historian, author and teacher in Christiansburg, VA. Breckenridge Jr. corresponded with Givens Johnson about her scholarship on the Preston…
Virginia Republican Party Flyer
The Virginia Republican Party Flyer is a list, titled "The Republican Ticket" and printed on newsprint, of the so-called " Lily Black" Republican ticket of 1921 (an African American offshoot of the Republican party). Sought-after offices include:…
Portrait, Cynthia Addington Boatwright, Big Stone Gap, VA, c. 1940s/1950s, (Ms1990-070)
Portrait photograph of Cynthia Addington Boatwright (1898-1973), taken sometime in the 1940s or 1950s at Jenkins Studio in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
Boatwright was deeply involved in civic and political life, as a member of the Methodist…
Boatwright was deeply involved in civic and political life, as a member of the Methodist…
Photograph, Johnnie Miles, c. 1980s
Photo of Johnnie Miles, one of first two black female professors at Virginia Tech
Photograph, Linda Adams, 1968
Photo of Linda Adams, the first African American woman to graduate from Virginia Tech, from the 1968 Bugle
