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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 Oral History Interview
Oral history interview conducted by Virginia Tech student Christina Roemer with Marvin and Freda Blecher of Blacksburg, Virginia, regarding Blacksburg's Jewish community, the Hillel student organization at Virginia Tech, 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
Daily 1947 diary of Alfred Washington Drinkard, Jr., assistant director of Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1946-1948 (and previous director, 1916-1946), mentioning people and events associated with the experiment station, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Blacksburg, Virginia.
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 Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 3
- Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 2
- Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 2
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- 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 Harris, 1880-1954 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
- Smyth, Ellison A. (Ellison Adger), 1863-1941 1
- Solitude (Blacksburg, Va. : Historic building) 1
- Tate, Leland B., 1905-1999 1
- Taylor, Robert Creede, 1866-1915 1
- Townes, William 1
- Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 1
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- 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. 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
- Wolfe, Dewitt Clinton, Jr., d.1991 1
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