Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)
Dates
- Usage: 1944 - 1970
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Campus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Map shows the campus of VPI.
College and Surrounding Property, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Showing College, Smithfield, and Whitethorne
College and Surrounding Property, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Showing College, Smithfield, and Whitethorne,
Collection consists of four blueprints that show the same geographic region. Full title reads, "College and Surrounding Property, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg Virginia, showing college, Smithfield, and Whitemore." Maps contain some hand-written notes.
College and Surrounding Property, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Showing College, Smithfield, and Whitethorne
Map is a reduction of earlier maps of the land for VPI.
Leonard J. Currie Papers,
Detail Sketch of V.P.I. Campus (2 copies)
Map shows the VPI campus, dated February 9, 1908. Two copies of the same map in the same scale, with one cropped smaller than the other. The smaller map contains hand-written annotations, which include names of faculty residents.
Melvin Feldenheimer Collection
Melvin Feldenheimer graduated from the Virginia Tech in 1944. Collection consists of materials from Feldenheimer's time as a cadet at Virginia Tech. Also included is a recording from a 1946 performance of Mel Felton and the Southern Colonels, a dance band lead by Feldenheimer during his time as a student and following World War II the band reunited and toured the south.
Ruth White Fisher Scrapbook
This collection includes a scrapbook compiled by Blacksburg, Virginia artist Ruth White Fisher, relating to her series of paintings titled "The Evolution of Creativity," donated to Virginia Tech. It includes photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera about the paintings and the donation ceremony.
Marion Clifford Harrison and Theresa Nash Harrison Collection
The Marion Clifford Harrison and Theresa Nash Harrison Collection is a collection of programs, sheet music, correspondence, newspaper clipings, and more. The subjects of the collection primarily include the Carillon at Virginia Tech, Marion Clifford Harrison's academic career, and Theresa Nash Harrison's involvement in music at the university.
Dayton M. Kohler Papers
This collection contains the papers of Dayton M. Kohler (1906-1972), a professor of English at Virginia Tech and an authority on modern American literature. Includes correspondence from noted authors, typescript drafts of essay-reviews for Masterplots, manuscripts of articles written by Kohler, and a collection of materials associated with various authors.