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Association for Women in Architecture Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-022
Abstract

The Association for Women in Architecture (AWA) was originally founded in 1922 as Alpha Alpha Gamma, a national sorority for women architecture students. In 1934, the alumnae of the sorority formed the Association of Women in Architecture (AWA) (later Association for Women in Architecture) as an organization for professional women architects. Records include committee reports, correspondence, membership forms and rosters, photographs, scrapbooks, treasurer's files, and newsletters.

Dates: 1928 - 1992

Maria Aubock Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-007
Abstract

The collection contains work by Austrian architect Maria Aubock and includes an exhibition catalog, fliers, speaking notes from a conference, a magazine with an article by Aubock, and a competition catalog with an intro by Aubock. Also included are 2 color publications, three folded color brochures, and one smaller catalog.

Dates: 1980 - 2006

Gae Aulenti Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2000-014
Abstract

Italian architect Gae Aulenti's ability to transform historic public buildings into museum spaces is documented in the Gae Aulenti Architectural Collection by newspaper and magazine articles, biographical information, and her conceptual computer-drawn designs for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, California.

Dates: 1987 - 2003

Baldwin-Stoddard Family Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-005
Abstract This collection comprises one notebook of an incomplete, first person narrative about Martha Lee Baron Stoddard and May Baldwin Stoddard of Boston, Massachusetts. The narrative is written after 1893 by the Stoddards' aunt Mattie to their cousins, Albert and Harry Baldwin. The author discusses the Stoddards' childhood in Boston, attendance to Phillips Brooks' church, and traveling with Martha to Europe and her death in Italy. The volume also contains the transcription of a letter to May after...
Dates: c. 1893-1900s

Diana Balmori Landscape Architectural Drawings

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Identifier: Ms-2004-001
Abstract

This collections include the architectural drawings of Diana Balmori, landscape architect and design principal of Balmori Associates. It also includes schematic and construction drawings and presentation boards for three design projects.

Dates: 1990 - 1995

Barry-Parker Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-052
Abstract

Letters of the Barry, Parker, and related families of Holly Springs, Mississippi; Somerset, Kentucky; and elsewhere, focusing on family matters, including lengthy, detailed accounts of the illnesses and deaths of John G. Parker and Ann Barry Dewey, who both died in Somerset in 1856.

Dates: 1855 - 1860

Minnie A. Baughman Commonplace Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2018-038
Abstract

The collection consists of a commonplace book owned by Minnie Baughman of Richmond, Virginia. Mary Amelia Baughman, known as "Minnie," was the daughter of George and Mary Jane Greer Baughman and sister of Confederate soldiers, George, Jr., Greer H., Charles C., and Emilius A. Baughman. The book dates from November 1864 to July 1865 and contains Minnie's algebra work, French vocabulary, grammar, and a large amount of poetry and Confederate patriotic songs.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Isobel Baylor Scrapbook

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Identifier: Ms-2024-032
Abstract

The Isobel Baylor Scrapbook is a scrapbook created by Baylor that includes playbills, letters, inivtations, newspaper clippings and more. The scrapbook commeorates her time at High Point High School in High Point, North Carolina, and subjects include theater and social life.

Dates: 1925 - 1928

Vivian Coleman Bear Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-086
Abstract

The collection contains the papers of Roanoke, Virginia resident Vivian Coleman Bear, including correspondence from E. Ferd Weigand and other suitors; family correspondence and financial documents relating to the Clemens and Staley families; Bible with genealogical notes and clippings; photographs; and ephemera.

Dates: 1844 - 1916

Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, Civil War Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-009
Abstract

Letter written by "Aunt Hetty" (or Netty) at Bedford [Pennsylvania] on August 26, 1861, and addressed to "My dear John," relaying personal and local news, including the presence of Confederate Colonel [John] Pegram, recuperating at the local springs.

Dates: 1861

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International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 119
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 21
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Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 6
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 5
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Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010 4
International Union of Women Architects 4
Dunay, Donna 3
Gottlieb, Lois Davidson 3
Horton, Inge S. 3
Kent family 3
Matsukawa-Tsuchida, Junko 3
Preston, John, 1764-1827 3
Preston, Susanna Smith, 1740-1823 3
Preston, William, 1729-1783 3
Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.) 3
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 3
Alexander, Dorothy Baxter 2
Alonso, Carmen Espegel 2
American Institute of Architects 2
American Institute of Architects. Women in Architecture 2
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 2
Blacksburg Woman’s Club (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Bonney, Claire 2
California Women in Environmental Design 2
Channel, Mary Brown, 1907-2006 2
Cloyd family 2
Croy family (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
Currie, Virginia M. Herz, 1913-2006 2
Duncombe, A. Jane, 1925- 2
Eastman, Ann Heidbreder 2
Figgat, Nancy Godwin, 1835-1919 2
Harkness, Sarah Pillsbury, 1914-2013 2
Hayden, Florence Kenyon 2
Hubacher-Constam, Annemarie 2
Korobina, Irina Mikhailovna 2
Møller, Alice Finnerup 2
Nakahara, Nobuko, 1929-2008 2
Nanasy, Ilona 2
Oron, Joyce, 1954- 2
Patton, James, 1692-1755 (Preston family, Montgomery County, Va.) 2
Pettersen, Eleanore, 1916-2003 2
Preston family (Abingdon, Va.) 2
Rufer-Eckmann, Claire, 1914-1974 2
Schroeder, Han, 1918-1992 2
Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete, 1897-2000 2
Skala, Lilia Sofer, 1896-1994 2
Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993 2
Sokolina, Anna P. 2
Somaya, Brinda 2
Stratigakus, Despina 2
Torre, Susana, 1944- 2
Tyng, Anne Griswold, 1920-2011 2
Urquhart, Lucy Dickinson, 1881-1975 2
Vermont Design Institute 2
Vinciarelli, Lauretta 2
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 2
Weström, Hilde, b. 1912 2
Whitman, Bertha Yerex, b.1892 2
Willis, Beverly, 1928- 2
Wood, Joan 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
A. W. Luster 1
Adamczewska-Wjchert, Hanna 1
Adams, Elizabeth Kent 1
Agnew, Ella G., 1871-1958 1
Alex, Iris 1
Almeida, Marília Sant'Anna de, 1948- 1
Alonso, Martha 1
American Association of University Women. Blacksburg Branch (Va.) 1
American Library Association 1
Amiss, Edwin 1
Anisimova, Irina 1
Antonakakis, Susana 1
Appalachian Quilt Project 1
Apperson family 1
Apperson, Alex 1
Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
Apperson, Mary 1
Architectural League of New York 1
Armistead, Mary Frances 1
Art League of Philadelphia 1
Artemis Designs, Inc 1
Association for Women in Architecture (U.S.) 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) (1889-2009) 1
Association of Collegiate Scholars in Architecture 1
Aubock, Maria, 1951- 1
Aulenti, Gae, 1929-2012 1
Austrian Cultural Forum 1
Babcock, H. O. 1
Bailey, Ilena M. 1
Bailey, Pattie Dobson Talley, b.1888 1
Baker family 1
Baldwin-Stoddard family 1
Balmori, Diana 1
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