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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)

 Organization

Dates

  • Usage: 1944 - 1970

Found in 262 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur M. Squires Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-006
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of extensive correspondence, unpublished research reports, lectures, trip reports, reprints, trip diaries (1968-82), photographs (1979) from his trip to China, daily work books (1959-81), and subject files spanning entire career. This collection is unprocessed.

Dates: 1888 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1986

Street Map and Guide to Blacksburg, Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0269
Abstract

Map shows streets of Blacksburg, Virginia, with local businesses advertised around the border. Document also contains index for main buildings of VPI.

Dates: 1956

Warren Strother Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2004-005
Abstract The Warren Strother Collection contains official correspondence between Dr. T. Marshall Hahn and various Virginia Polytechnic Institute departments, 319 oral history interviews on cassette tapes, and 48 transcribed interviews. These materials focus on Dr. Hahn’s administration of VPI and were used to create a book entitled From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974 written by Warren...
Dates: 1964 - 1992

Albert L. Sturm Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-019
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Albert L. Sturm, professor of political science at Virginia Tech and a noted expert on state constitutions and constitutional revision. Included are correspondence, reports, and printed materials relating to academic instruction, administration, and consultation; Sturm's books, articles, and public addresses; and topical files on politics and constitutionalnoal development and revision.

Dates: 1904 - 1988

William H. Sutherland Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-040
Abstract

The collection contains a small group of Sutherland's correspondence, as well as VPI publications, newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to VPI and Sutherland's military service.

Dates: 1940 - 1949

Earl T. Swink Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-036
Abstract

Papers of Earl Thomas Swink, Sr. (1907-1996), professor of agricultural engineering (1935-1970) at Virginia Tech, incuding presentation texts, printed materials, a biographical sketch, and a paper by Chas. E. Seitz entitled "Agricultural Engineering at V.P.I."

Dates: 1949 - 1972

Richard B. Talbot Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-024
Abstract The collection consists primarily of speeches, speech resource and research materials, administrative notes, administrative reports, departmental program planning and budgeting materials. This collection contains several reports from the United States Department of Agriculture. The collection also contains multiple reports about the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and several about the need for a Veterinary Medicine College in New England and New Jersey. The collection also...
Dates: 1967 - 1994

Leland B. Tate Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1956-004
Abstract

The collection contains newspaper clippings relating to industrial and economic development in the New River Valley, with an emphasis on the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, together with studies titled "Facts About the Blacksburg Community" and "Some Facts About Virginia's People."

Dates: 1940-[1955?], n.d.

Harry Downing Temple Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-039
Abstract

The Harry Downing Temple, Jr., Papers contains materials related to Temple's personal life, interest in heraldry and insignia, and his research and publications on the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. Materials date from about 1872 to 2004.

Dates: 1872 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2001

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Proposed State Reservation and Circuit Drive to Include Smithfield and Preston Cemetery

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0340
Abstract

Map shows proposals for roads and reservation on the VPI campus. The reverse contains some hand-written notes. Accompanied by a photostatic copy.

Dates: 1925