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Named/Individual Photograph Collections
The Named/Individual Photograph Collections include images from alumni and former faculty and staff, or individuals with ties to campus and the New River Valley. Collections (c.1890-present) depict campus life and events, railroad history, agricultural extension research, Blacksburg and surrounding areas, and some local families.
Historical Photograph Collection (List of Subjects)
The photograph collection at Special Collections and University Archives consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia Tech, dating back to the 1890s. The collection is also home to historic images of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, the New River Valley, and Southwest Virginia in general. A photograph collection of faculty and staff from the university is maintained separately.
Claudius Lee Papers
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous materials relating to the personal life and university and military service of Claudius Lee, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Harry Downing Temple Jr., Papers
The Harry Downing Temple, Jr., Papers contains materials related to Temple's personal life, interest in heraldry and insignia, and his research and publications on the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. Materials date from about 1872 to 2004.
Greenwood H. Nowlin, Jr. Collection
This collection contains five photographs, thirteen stereo views, a leather bound pocket notepad, and twenty receipts covering Greenwood H. Nowlin Jr.'s time at Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech).
Framed reproductions of images from the Special Collections Historical Photograph Collection
O'Shaughnessy Family Papers
This collection consists of papers--including correspondence, schoolwork, diplomas, diaries, photographs, and printed materials--of Louis O'Shaughnessy, professor of mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI); his wife Ida Surface O'Shaughnessy; their daughter, VPI mathematics instructor Betty O'Shaughnessy Bock; and the Surface family (parents and siblings of Ida Surface O'Shaughnessy).
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers
This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.
Record Group Vertical Files
In general, vertical files at Special Collections include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and other papers relating to a specific subject area. Files in this collection relate to Virginia Tech and its history. Topics may include, but are not limited to, colleges and departments, student organizations, administrative offices, centers and other campus units, and athletics.
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- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 17
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 8
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 6
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944) 3
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets 3
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970) 3
- A. W. Luster 2
- Amiss, Edwin 2
- Apperson, Alex 2
- Apperson, Elizabeth Black 2
- Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 2
- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 2
- Apperson, Mary 2
- Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 2
- Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 2
- Black, Mary Kent, b.1836 2
- Caton, Louise 2
- Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 2
- Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 2
- Kent, Germanicus, 1791-1862 2
- Lee, Claudius, 1872-1962 2
- Lemon, Lewis 2
- Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.) 2
- Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 2
- Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia (1887-1935) 2
- W. Stone & Son 2
- Apperson family 1
- Black family 1
- Charles E. Vawter family 1
- Finch, Adam T., 1872-1933 1
- Kent family 1
- Kent, Lewis (enslaved person) 1
- Maury Literary Society (1873-1928) 1
- McBryde, Cora Bolton, 1839-1920 1
- McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923 1
- Nowlin, Greenwood H., Jr. 1
- O'Shaughnessy, Louis 1
- O'Shaughnessy, Mary Elizabeth, 1917- 1
- Perkins, Carter, Jr., 1862-1935 1
- Priddy, Lawrence, Sr., 1874-1944 1
- Surface family 1
- Taylor, Robert Creede, 1866-1915 1
- Temple, Harry Downing 1
- Vawter, C. E. (Charles Erastus), 1841-1905 1 + ∧ less