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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)

 Organization

Dates

  • Usage: 1896 - 1944

Found in 252 Collections and/or Records:

James Bernard Jones Memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1968-006
Abstract

The James Bernard Jones Memorabilia contains several pieces of ephemera related to Virginia Polytechnic Institute: a pamphlet on the programs of study available at VPI (ca. 1913), a Thanksgiving menu (1917), and a commencement program (1922). It also includes a certificate of Jones' Sunday school attendance (1916).

Dates: 1913 - 1922
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / James Bernard Jones Memorabilia

Joseph Lonsdale Hunter Mechanical Drawing Set

 Collection
Identifier: Artifact-032
Abstract The Joseph Lonsdale Hunter Mechanical Drawing Set collection is housed in a small wooden box with a key hole. On the top of the box is a small gold plate, likely meant to be engraved but never was. Inside the box is a blue velvet lined tray that holds eight mechanical drawing tools. The lid of the box is lined with purple velvet. On the sides of the tray are two purple ribbons that lift the tray out of the box. Under the tray are two booklets, "Tables for Measuring Timber" and "Log Rule and...
Dates: c. 1900
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Joseph Lonsdale Hunter Mechanical Drawing Set

Kappa Sigma Kappa, Zeta Chapter, V.A.M.C.

 Collection — Item 1
Identifier: Art-147
Scope and Contents

photographs

Dates: 1883
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Kappa Sigma Kappa, Zeta Chapter, V.A.M.C.

James P. King Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1970-005
Abstract

The collection contains college memorabilia of James Peter King, a 1926 graduate of Virginia Tech.

Dates: 1922 - 1926
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / James P. King Collection

Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-057
Abstract

This collection contains architecural drawings, papers, publications, thesis, correspondence, and a sketchbook from Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr. (1921-2019), a student and faculty member at Virginia Polytechnic Institute's College of Architecture in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: c. 1940-1955
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers

John A. Kircher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-078
Abstract

This collection contains publications, photographs, postcards, programs, and other memorabilia from John A. Kircher's time at Virginia Tech under the Army Specialized Training Program in 1943-1944.

Dates: 1889, 1943-1944, 1999, undated; Majority of material found within 1943 - 1944
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / John A. Kircher Papers

S. H. Knick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-055
Abstract

Papers of Samuel Herbert Knick (1886-1914), of Rockbridge County, Virginia, relating to his time as a student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, including a student handbook and a letter and postcard addressed to Knick's brother, W. Hampton Knick.

Dates: 1904 - 1906
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / S. H. Knick Collection

Dayton M. Kohler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1971-002
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1889 - 1971
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Dayton M. Kohler Papers

Carl George Krieger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-013
Abstract The Carl George Krieger Papers include correspondence, speeches, notebooks, photographs, audio and video recordings, a scrapbook, and clippings and magazine articles on topics related to agriculture, gas, oil, tractors, air and water pollution, waste treatment, and public relations. Krieger (1905-1979) was the first agricultural engineering graduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1926, and he was a gas engine specialist and a pioneer in the development of the high-compression...
Dates: 1930 - 1968
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Carl George Krieger Papers

Eustis A. Lancaster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1971-003
Abstract

The Eustis A. Lancaster Papers comprises a handmade scrapbook containing pictures of VPI scenes and campus buildings, ca. 1900. 

Dates: 1900
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Eustis A. Lancaster Papers

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