Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)
Organization
Dates
- Usage: 1896 - 1944
Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1994-001
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI)
Date: ? (older, manufacturer tag different)
Color: navy blue with red wine colored liner
Material: [wool felt]/lining [wool]
Manufacturer: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Uniform Department, VB Kelsey Supt.
Donor:
Condition: poor condition, holes in lining and exterior material, some have been sewn up, lining deteriorating in places
Special Markings: Black cord [frog] on exterior connecting sides, two metal hooks at collar. Each side has what appears to be a pocket,...
Dates:
n.d.
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1994-002
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI) Date: ? Color: dark blue/almost black exterior, red lining, black collar Material: collar and lining velvet, [cotton] exterior Manufacturer: ? Donor: Condition: good Special Markings: single blue metal clasp at the collar, black cord [frog] just below the collar, bottom of exterior and lining hemmed under, label (?)
Dates:
n.d.
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1994-003
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI)
Date: ?
Color: navy blue with dull red lining
Material: [wool felt]/[wool] lining
Manufacturer: ?
Donor:
Condition: [frog] discolored, hem coming unsewn where it had been doubled up, right button missing under collar, label missing, stains on lining
Special Markings: single hook clasp at the collar, just below hook is a black cord loop, above hook and under collar is a separate piece of material which can fasten to buttons on the underside of the right and or left...
Dates:
n.d.
VPI Coat with Attached Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-013
Scope and Content
Item: coat with attached cape (VPI)
Date: 1938 (?)
Color: Navy blue with black lining in coat and red lining under the cape
Material: wool felt (?) for exterior of coat and lining under cape, the lining in the coat is cotton (?) except in sleeves. (?)
Manufacturer: Label located inside of interior pocket has a picture of an eagle on a shield and reads: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, Uniform Department
Donor:
Condition: fair, no hem on the bottom (may never have been one)...
Dates:
1938?
VPI Corps of Cadets on the steps of the Festival Hall at the World's Fair at St. Louis, Missouri,
Collection
Identifier: Art-325
V.P.I Diploma
Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-077
Scope and Contents
For Cecil Henry Fisher
Dates:
1908
V.P.I "Gobblers"
Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-074
Scope and Contents
VMI vs VPI, Roanoke, Va. Thanksgiving (wooden board with pictures of athletes)
Dates:
1929
VPI Housing Group and War Memorial Developments
Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0346
Abstract
Map is an illustration of the VPI campus in 1922.
Dates:
July 1931
V.P.I President and Faculty
Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-076
Scope and Contents
*see picture file
Dates:
1907