As of June 2026, collections from the former Imagebase site can now be accessed here. All are listed in the Collection Tree and can also be found through the search function. Images from Blacksburg and Virginia Tech reside primarily in the Historical Photograph Collection.

Archived Content Notice: Items on this site tagged "archived" have been archived and are no longer being updated, but remain available for reference and research purposes only.  For accessibility support, please go to Virginia Tech's Accessibility Portal.

Browse Items (33327 total)

Ms1988_060_B35F33_MarshakandThreeUnidentifiedPeople_photo_ca1971.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (second from left) and three unidentified people, probably a father and his two teenage children. The group is standing on a balony posing for the camera. The photo was printed in June 1971.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_UnidentifiedBuilding_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of an unidentifed building. There are several people and cars outside the house.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshakWorking_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak, presumably working in his office.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshaksandTwoUnidentifiedPeople_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (second from left) introducing Ruth Marshak (left) to two unidentified people.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshakIUPAPAssembly_photo_195709.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (left) and an unidentified man talking at the 9th General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), which was in Rome, Italy, from September 17th through the 20th, 1957. Description about…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshakHeadshot_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak is a professional headshot.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshakandUnidentifiedMan_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak sitting on a couch talking with an unidentified man.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshakandTwoUnidentifiedMen_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (left) eating and laughing with two unidentified men.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_MarshakandThreeUnidentifiedMen_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (second from left) and three unidentified men. One of the men appears to be showing Marshak a piece of equipment, and another man is wearing a lab coat with the initials "A.E.C."

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F29_CEKMeesObservatory_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of an unidentified group of people at the C. E. K. Mees Observatory at the University of Rochester. The photo is by Linn Duncan of Pittsford, New York.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_LibraryMarshakandSevenUnidentifiedPeople_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (third from right) and seven unidentified people. One woman standing in the middle appears to be lecturing to the group. Meeting seems to be taking place in a public library or school library in New York City. The…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_LibraryMarshakandTwoUnidentifiedPeople_photo_nd.jpg
Photographs of Robert E. Marshak (right) and two unidentified people. The woman in the center is lecturing to others. Meeting seems to be taking place in a public library or school library in New York City. The photo is undated, but likely from the…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_MarshakandTwoUnidentifiedPeople_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (right) and two unidentifed men in doctoral robes. One of the men (left) is presenting the recipient in the center with a medal that has the seal of the City College of New York on it.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_CCNYWatsonAndTwoUnidentifiedPeople_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Dr. Joseph W. Watson (left) with two other individuals talking and admiring their awards, which have their names and the seal of the City College of New York on them. The award of the recipient in the center says "COHEN" [rest…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_CCNYMarshakWatsonandTwoUnidentifiedPeople_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (left), Joseph W. Watson (second from left), and two unidentified people at award presentation. In another photo, the award of the recipient second from right says "COHEN" [rest illegible] and the award of the…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_CCNYMarshakandTwoUnidentifiedMen_photo_nd.jpg
Photograph of Robert E. Marshak (right) talking and shaking hands with two unidentified men. The photo is undated, but likely from the 1970s.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B33F28_VisitOfChineseChemistryDelegation_photo_1977.jpg
Group photo of Robert E. Marshak (first row, fourth from right) and the members of the Chinese chemistry delegation in 1977.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B26F05_UnidentifiedManSittingPhotocopy_photo_nd.jpg
Photocopy of a photo of an unidentified man stitting outside writing in a notebook in front of the Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B26F05_UnidentifiedGroupPhotocopy_photo_nd.jpg
Photocopy of a group photo of participants at a conference.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B26F05_UnidentifiedGroupofMenPhotocopy_photo_nd.jpg
Photocopy of a photo of an unidentified group of men at a conference.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B26F05_OppenheimerandOsbornePhotocopy_photo_nd.jpg
Photocopy of a photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer (left) talking to Jim Osborne. Handwritten note says "original photo at UR" [University of Rochester?].

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_OppenheimertoMatveyev_letter_19661101.jpg
Response letter, dated November 1, 1966, to a previous letter from A. Matveyev dated October 28, 1966, where Matveyev gave advice on planning a physics conference. Oppenheimer expressed his thanks for the letter and let Matveyev know that he was in…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_OppenheimertoMarshak_letter_nd.jpg
Thank you note, undated, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak. Oppenheimer was thanking Marshak for his note on Okubo [probably University of Rochester physicist Susumu Okubo], and telling him to have a good time on his trip.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_OppenheimertoMarshak_letter_19630416.jpg
Telegram from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak informing him that he will be in Europe on May 8, 1963, to speak to Marshak or "Eklund."

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_OppenheimertoMarshak_letter_19531209.jpg
Letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak regarding his presence in France as well as CERN.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_OppenheimertoMarshak_letter_19471201.jpg
Letter dated December 1, 1947, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak regarding Marshak's appointment as a member of the School of Methematics of the Institute for Advanced Study for the spring 1948 semester.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_OppenheimertoAbrikosovKhalatnikov_letter_19661013.jpg
Thank you letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer to A. A. Abrikosov and I. M. Khalatnikov of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, regarding a previous letter where they gave advice on planning an upcoming conference.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_MatveyevtoOppenheimer_letter_19661028.pdf
Letter from A. Matveyev to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing the program of an upcoming physics conference.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_MarshaktoOppenheimer_letter_19670220.jpg
Telegram dated February 20, 1967, from Ruth and Robert E. Marshak to Kitty Oppenheimer offering condolences for the passing of her husband J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_MarshaktoOppenheimer_letter_19510316.jpg
Letter dated March 16, 1951, from Robert E. Marshak to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing two papers, "Photo Meson Production" by University of Rochester physics student, Morton F. Kaplon, and Marshak's "Meson Reactions in Hydrogren and Deuterium."

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B16F03_MarshaktoOppenheimer_letter_19500928.jpg
Letter dated September 28, 1950, from Robert E. Marshak to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing new physics reaseach related to π− meson-absorption in hydrogen and deuterium.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B14F36_MarshakAffidavit_letter_1943.pdf
Affidavit filled out by H. Halban of the National Research Council of Canada (Montreal Laboratory) for Robert E. Marshak for the Selective Service System in 1943. Halban lists Marshak's duties as performing "secret war research work in specialized…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B11F11_CouncilOnForeignRelations_report_19870219.pdf
The February 19, 1987 report on the council delegation visit to the U. S. S. R. from February 2 through February 6 contains remarks from the delegation members--Peter G. Peterson, Henry A. Kissinger, and Cyrus R. Vance--to the Council on Foreign…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B10F38_MarshaktoFeynman_letter_19850913.jpg
Letter (photocopy) from Robert E. Marshak to Richard P. Feynman thanking him for a previous letter from a conference in Kyoto, Japan, probably referring to Feynman's August 17, 1985 letter acknowledging the contributions of Feynman, Marshak, E. C.…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B10F38_FeynmanRichard_letter_19850817.pdf
Letter (photocopy) from Richard P. Feynman to Robert E. Marshak, dated August 17, 1985, talking about Feynman's joint paper and relationship with Murray Gell-Mann and giving credit to E. C. George Sudarshan and Marshak for their work. Feynman is…

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B10F38_FeynmanRichard_letter_19531219.pdf
Carbon copy of letter from Richard P. Feynman to Enrico Fermi about new physics research.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B10F37_ShelterIslandConference_Photo_194706.jpg
Photo of the men who participated in the Shelter Island Conference, which occured in June of 1947.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B10F25_EinsteinAlbert_letter_19530310.jpg
Letter (photocopy) from Albert Einstein to Robert E. Marshak, dated March 3, 1953, thanking him for giving time and energy to the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa.

Tags:

Ms1988_060_B06F26_EinsteinAlbert_letter_19470806.pdf
Letter from Albert Einstein to Robert E. Marshak dates August 6, 1947. Einstein as chairman of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Sciences, Inc., is asking Marshak and others to push for peace and to ask that the atomic bomb is never used again.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_SWVACounties_JohnBralleyAcctBook_reduced.pdf
Notebook belonging to John Bralley, where he practiced arithmetic (1815-1816). The latter parts of the book contain store accounts from 1832-1846. Parts of the book are written in pig-pen cipher.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_Taylor_nd.jpg
Undated weaving pattern made by Susan Taylor.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_Stuart_nd.jpg
Undated weaving pattern, labeled with both Miss [Mary] Jane Trevey and John B. Stuart.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_Misc_nd.jpg
Unlabeled and undated weaving patterns.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_Fast Thred_nd.jpg
Fast thread pattern for the back shaft of a loom.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_1860_1115.jpg
Sinkin Creek Beauty pattern, made by Mary Jane Trevey.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_1841_0308.jpg
Tennessee Beauty pattern, made by [Mary Jane Trevey].

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_1841_0305a.jpg
Weaving patterns by Mary Jane Trevey.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_1841_0129.jpg
Draft for stars and squares weaving pattern for Mary Jane Trevey.

Tags:

Ms2000-092_F15_Weaving Patterns_1839.jpg
Vines weaving pattern.

Tags:

Output Formats

atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2