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Beulah O. Allen Collection,
Appalachian Oral History Project
This collection contains oral history interview cassette tapes and tape logs for 23 interviews conducted by students with 25 interviewees in the local community. Most interviews were collected as part of a 1991 Appalachian Community Studies class of Professor Jean Speer of the Department of Humanities at Virginia Tech. Unless noted, interviews have not been transcribed. For some interviewees, there is a student paper based on the interview.
Records of the Appalachian Student Organizing Committee
Black History Oral History Collection
This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between the 1950s and the early 2000s.
Marvin Blecher Audiocassette Tape
Oral history interview conducted by Virginia Tech student Christina Roemer with Marvin and Freda Blecher of Blacksburg, Virginia, about their involvement in the Jewish community in the town and the Hillel student organization at Virginia Tech. Dr. Marvin Blecher served as faculty advisor for Hillel from 1973 to 1983. Also includes information about the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center and other Jewish communities in the region.
Milka T. Bliznakov Papers and Architectural Drawings
Milka Bliznakov was a Bulgarian architect, architectural historian, and professor who practiced in Bulgaria, France, and the United States. The collection consists of her publications, research, correspondence, professional documentation of her practice, conference participation materials, teaching materials, and documents related to her involvement as the founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Ralph Minthorne Brown Papers
This collection contains the papers of Ralph Minthorne Brown, Virginia Tech head librarian (1926-1947), amateur historian and naturalist. It includes materials on Virginia Tech and local history, including typed transcripts of sources gathered for an intended history of Virginia Tech. Also included are Brown's Blacksburg ornithological and weather observations, a bibliography of Matthew Fontaine Maury, and other writings.
Leonard J. Currie Papers,
Alfred Washington Drinkard, Jr., Diary
Director of Agricultural Experiment Station at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1917-1945; assistant director of Agricultural Experiment Station, 1945 until his retirement in 1948. Collection consists of a Daily Desk Diary, which mentions persons and events in Blacksburg and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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.
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 27
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- Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 2
- Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 2
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 2
- Allen, Beulah O. (Beulah Oyama), 1905-1992 1
- Appalachian Student Organizing Committee. Virginia Tech Chapter 1
- Blecher, Freda 1
- Blecher, Marvin 1
- Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 1
- Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) 1
- Currie, Leonard J. (Leonard James), 1913-1996 1
- Drinkard, Alfred Washington, Jr. 1
- Frazer, George Preston 1
- Garnett, William E. (William Edward), 1885-1970 1
- Hill, Henry H. (Henry Harris Bunker) 1
- Hutcheson, Eleanor Parrott 1
- Hutcheson, John Redd, 1886-1962 1
- John R. Hutcheson family 1
- Kite, Garland D. 1
- Kroontje, Wybe 1
- Lancaster, Lucy Lee, 1905-1989 1
- Magill, Orrin R. (Orrin Rankin), 1887-1976 1
- McBryde, James Bolton, 1866-1925 1
- McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 1
- McCombs, Dorothy F., 1923-1990 1
- Michael, Rudolph Dixon, 1904-1994 1
- O'Shaughnessy, Ida L. Surface 1
- O'Shaughnessy, Louis 1
- Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Price family 1
- Price, Emmett Russell, 1874-1944 1
- Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951 1
- Radford Army Ammunition Plant (U.S.) 1
- Roemer, Christina 1
- Sanders, Harry W. (Harry Warinner), 1895-1984 1
- Shackelford, George Green, 1921-2010 1
- Sibold, Carrie T. (Carrie Taylor), 1904-1990 1
- Sibold, Chloe M., 1899-1976 1
- Sibold, Nannie V. (Nannie Virginia), 1897-1957 1
- Sibold, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1909-1930 1
- Slusser family 1
- Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Smyth, Ellison A. (Ellison Adger), 1863-1941 1
- Tate, Leland B., 1905-1999 1
- Townes, William 1
- Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 1
- Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture (1974-1978) 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture and Urban Studies (1978-2022) 1
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. College of Architecture 1
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 1
- Ware, Joseph F., 1880-1969 1
- Ware, Susana Howe Robinson, b. abt. 1897 1
- Warm Hearth Village (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- West, Lindsay Butte, 1934-2018 1
- Wiss, Henry H. 1
- Worley, Charles S., Jr. 1 + ∧ less