Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)
Organization
Dates
- Usage: 1896 - 1944
Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Joseph F. Ware Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-022
Abstract
The collection contains 102 letters from Joseph F. Ware to his wife, Susie, in Blacksburg, Virginia, while he was serving overseas during and after World War I. The other significant portion of this collection contains nearly 200 photographs.
Dates:
1900 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1920
James R. Werth Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1957-003
Abstract
This collection contains two letters to James R. Werth from friends in 1902 and 1903.
Dates:
1902 - 1903