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

 Organization

Dates

  • Usage: 1896 - 1944

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Dewitt Clinton Wolfe, Jr., Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-001
Abstract

This collection contains two scrapbooks of photographs and ephemera compiled by DeWitt Clinton Wolfe, Jr., a 1921 graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a member of the VPI Corps of Cadets. The materials document Wolfe's experiences as a student in the Cadet Corps from about 1919 to 1921, including sporting events, camping excursions, "rat parades" and as a trumpet player in the Cadet Corps band. The collection also contains a CD with selected scanned photographs from the albums.

Dates: 1919 - 1921