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Earl Palmer Appalachian Photograph and Artifact Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-025
Abstract

This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and traditional culture of rural Appalachia in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Materials date frome 1880 to 1989, but are primarily from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection is divided among the following series: photographs, duplicate photographs, written materials, oversize photographs, and artifacts.

Dates: 1880 - 1989

Eleanore Pettersen Architectural Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-018
Abstract Eleanore K. Pettersen (1916-2003) received a Certificate in Architecture from Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in 1941, and was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin from 1941-1943. She was one of the first women licensed as an architect in the state of New Jersey in 1950, and was the first woman in New Jersey to open her own architectural office. She primarily designed residences and was also very active in professional and civic organizations. She became a Fellow...
Dates: 1915 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000

J. C. Porter Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-079
Abstract

Photographic album containing approximately 240 photographs (all c. 1890) of structures and scenes in several southwestern Virginia counties, including Bland, Craig, Giles, and Smyth.

Dates: c. 1890

Records of the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP)

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-05-18-01
Abstract

This collection comprises the records of the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP), dating 1993 through 2017. This includes printed emails, newspaper articles, publicity, and information about the organization's summer research internship. It mainly contains photographs of students participating in the summer research internship, most from the years 2001 through 2004.

Dates: 1993 - 2017

Sigrid L. Rupp Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-006
Abstract Sigrid L. Rupp (1943-2004) was principal architect of her own firm, SLR/Architects in Palo Alto, California from 1976 to 1998. Born in Germany in 1943, she relocated to California with her family in 1953. She earned a B. Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. SLR/Architects specialized in technical facilities and industrial work providing architectural services for many of the pre-eminent Silicon Valley firms in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection consists of...
Dates: 1950 - 2004

Lilia Sofer Skala Student Portfolio

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-015
Abstract

This collection includes a student portfolio of Lilia Sofer Skala, who studied architecture at the University of Dresden from 1915 to 1920. It consists of her work as a student, including architectural drawings, sketches, photographs, and watercolor paintings, copies of her academic records, and other printed material.

Dates: 1915-1928, 2003, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1928

Solitude Photographs and Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Ms-1993-024
Scope and Contents

Historic home of Blacksburg, Virginia, built by the Preston family in the early 1800s. Purchased by the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) in 1872, and remains the oldest building on campus. Photographs consist of thirty-four mounted photographs from Eleanor Stover McEver's collection of various views and details of Solitude, with identifying labels. Also includes other papers, such as newspaper clippings and postcards, with information about Solitude.

Dates: 1960s-1980s

Southwest Virginia Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-014
Abstract

This collection contains over one hundred photographs from a family that lived in southwest Virginia during the period of 1913 through 1917. Several pictures depict Virginia Tech (VPI) during this period. Other images show the family's travels throughout the American South.

Dates: ca. 1913-1917

Arthur M. Squires Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-006
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of extensive correspondence, unpublished research reports, lectures, trip reports, reprints, trip diaries (1968-82), photographs (1979) from his trip to China, daily work books (1959-81), and subject files spanning entire career. This collection is unprocessed.

Dates: 1888 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1986

Stereoview Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-056
Scope and Contents

The collection includes stereoviews, mostly of Civil War-era or Civil War-related images. Items in the collection are individually described in the contents list of the finding aid.

Please note: Stereoviews can be viewed without equipment, but Special Collections does have a stereoscope available upon request.

Dates: 1865, n.d.

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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 13
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Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896) 2
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 2
Air Reduction Company (1915-1971) 1
American Brake Shoe Company 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Robert Lane, 1907-1951 1
Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 1
Atlas Flour Mills (Milwaukee, WI) 1
Avery, Howard S. (Howard Shaeffer), 1906-1996 1
Baber, Jerry 1
Belcher, Dale 1
Blokker, Mildred 1
Bratton, Charles 1
Browder, Richard 1
Campbell, Anne Judkins 1
Choneva, Krasimira 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Cowan, , Margaret Kent, 1905-1992 1
Criag, Helen 1
Davis, George C., 1882-1968 1
Design Collaborative (1970-?) 1
Eleanore Pettersen Associates 1
Elliott, Moses, 1775-1849 1
Elliott, Richard Moses, 1844-1908 1
Elliott, S. Maria (Sophronia Maria), 1854-1942 1
Gale, Charlotte D. 1
Griffiths, Rick 1
Harris, William Gideon 1
Hoekzema, Abbey 1
Hoge-Berkeley Studio (Staunton, Va.) 1
Holland, Angie 1
Huddle family 1
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Huddle, Charles, Sr. 1
Huddle, Royall 1
Ivanhoe Furnace Company 1
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Kline, John 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
Lancaster, Lucy Lee, 1905-1989 1
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 1
Leech, Preston 1
Libby Prison 1
Liddle, Nelson 1
MacLeod, Duncan Alexander, 1926-1951 1
Mahone, Sarah 1
McCormick, John 1
McMurran, S. M. (Stockton Mosby), 1887-1920 1
Memorial Hospital (Danville, Va.) 1
Merrey, Caroline 1
Musgrave, Joseph S., Sr. (Joseph Simmons), 1865-1949 1
National Carbide Company 1
Palmer, Earl, 1905-1996 1
Petersen, Kim 1
Pettersen, Eleanore, 1916-2003 1
Porter, J. C. 1
Reid, Jeff 1
Reid, Kristine 1
Rich, Miriam 1
Riggs, Tammy 1
Rupp, Sigrid Lorenzen, 1943-2004 1
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Skala, Lilia Sofer, 1896-1994 1
Solesbee, Jessica 1
Squires, Arthur M., 1916- 1
Stanley, Laura 1
Tartaro, Mary 1
Taylor, Welford Dunaway 1
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Whitley, O. Gaines, Sr. 1
Wiss, Henry H. 1
Worley, Charles S., Jr. 1
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Wright, Daniel E. 1
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