Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)
Dates
- Usage: 1944 - 1970
Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Marshall W. Fishwick Collection
This collection contains course and teaching related materials, photographs, manuscripts, audiovisual and electronic material, scrapbooks, and the professional and personal correspondence of Marshall William Fishwick, professor of Humanities and Communication Studies at Virginia Tech, 1976-2003.
Bobby Foushee Collection,
The collection includes yearbook photos of Foushee; receipt from purchase of 1956 Bugle, and a letter and envelope. The letter is missing the bottom third, but appears to be from the Civilian Student Body and is addressed to "Dear Senator."
Framed photograph of Thomas Watkins Hatcher
Framed black and white photograph (24 x 28 inches) of Thomas Watson Hatcher, head Department of Mathematics, 1943-1963
Framed reproductions of images from the Special Collections Historical Photograph Collection
Framed V.P.I. Science Hall Plate
A gold square shaped frame with a light green matting. Held in the center of the frame with three clear plastic prongs is a small plate, around the size of a tea cup saucer. The plate has a light pink boarder with a repeating floral motif in gold. A light green boarder is inside of the pink boarder. The center of the plate has an image of the Science Hall with grass infront and a blue sky behind.
G. Preston Frazer Artwork
This collection contains eighteen (18) sketches and drawings created by G. Preston Frazer (1908-2003), a professor of art at Virginia Tech. The majority of the drawings depict scenes of Blacksburg, Virginia, and the Virginia Tech campus, though several of the drawings depict nude models. This collection also contains a sketchpad that belonged to Frazer.
G. Preston Frazer Collection
The collection contains correspondence between G. Preston Frazer and Marcus L. Oliver. Additional materials include photocopies of newspaper articles, a signed Sixteen Pencil Impressions from Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. booklet, and Frazer's obituary.
Records of the Office of the Vice-President, Charles Clement French
Charles Clement French served as Vice-President of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute from January 1949 through August 1950. The collection contains primarily correspondence but also travel vouchers, budget materials, and materials related to the American Chemical Society of Virginia, American Council on Education, Board of Control of Southern Regional Education; Educational Policy and Program Committee; General Education Board; and student alcohol consumption.
William E. Garnett Papers
The William E. Garnett Papers consist of field notes, surveys, reports, class notes, letters to the editors of Montgomery County, Virginia, newspapers, and reprints of publications.