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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "University History," too.

Found in 219 Collections and/or Records:

Louis O'Shaughnessy Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-010
Abstract

The collection contains 1903 to 1905 letters from Louis O'Shaughnessy to his future wife, Ida Surface, and one letter from O'Shaughnessy to G. T. Surface.

Dates: 1903 - 1905

Bernard L. Parsons Papers and Photographs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1992-053
Scope and Contents

Collection includes pamphlets, books and reports relating to soil erosion, land drainage, and other agricultural issues.

Dates: 1918 - 1942

Passenger Pigeon Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-082
Abstract

The collection consists of Virginia Tech librarian Ralph Brown's 1945 compilation of correspondence on passenger pigeons.

Dates: 1945

William MacFarland Patton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1954-001
Abstract

This collection contains papers of William MacFarland Patton, civil engineer and professor at Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech). It includes a partial draft of Patton's book, A Practical Treatise on Foundations and draft of an unpublished textbook on civil engineering, together with patent documentation for two inventions.

Dates: 1893, 1896, n.d.

Jean Phillips Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1998-026
Abstract

Papers--including professional correspondence, book promotional materials, and two biographical essays--of Jean Allen Phillips, professor (1969-1985) of human nutrition and foods at Virginia Tech.

Dates: 1966 - 1986

Records of the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Department of Religion and Culture

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-15-21
Abstract The Department of Philosophy and Religion was formed in 1955, splitting into the departments of Philosophy and of Religion in 1983. The latter became the Religious Studies Program in 1994-1995, then the Department of Religion and Culture in 2009. This collection contains the records of these departments from 1960-2016. Materials include five-year departmental reviews, research, degree and grant proposals, course offerings, newletters, information on guest speakers and faculty members, and...
Dates: 1960 - 2016

H. L. Phlegar Report of Scholarship

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-050
Abstract

The H. L. Phlegar Report of Scholarship is a report card for Phlegar from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in October 1882. The report is signed by V. E. Shephard, secretary of the faculty at the college.

Dates: 1882

Dan H. Pletta Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-006
Abstract

The Dan H. Pletta Papers includes treatises, transcripts of talks and correspondence dealing with all aspects of the field of engineering, but especially with the role of education in producing a professional engineer, qualifications for practice, the public purpose of engineering, ethics, and whistleblowing. Pletta (1903-1996) was professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech (1932-1972) and department head from 1958-1970.

Dates: 1942 - 1996

Portrait of Kendall Weisiger

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1961-002_WeisigerKendall

Emmett Russell Price Scrapbooks,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-011
Abstract

This collection contains the scrapbooks of Emmett Russell Price, professor of Agricultural Journalism at VPI, from 1910-1944. The scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings about Blacksburg and VPI.

Dates: 1910 - 1943