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University History

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 721 Collections and/or Records:

Edward Dillon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1970-008
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Edward Dillon to his mother, February 22, 1889, and a VAMC cadet coat and trousers (removed to Textile Collection).

Dates: 1889

Diploma Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-039
Abstract This collection contains university diplomas for various people related to Virginia Tech, both alumni and faculty. This collection includes 16 Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees awarded between 1877 and 1964, with 15 from Virginia Tech. Diplomas are for William S. Adkisson, Katherine Sue Arrington, R.E.L. Aylor, John Poindexter Billingsley, William Mayo Brodie, J.M. Carrington, Calvert Lewis Estill, Howard Rucker Keister Jr., Howard Rucker Keister Sr., Harvey B. McDonald, Charles...
Dates: 1877 - 1964

Directory of Administrators and New Faculty 1998 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-004
Abstract

The collection consists of one-page vitas and photographs of administrators and new faculty in 1988 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Dates: 1988

Document, Proposal to Establish a Pride Resource Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., March 31, 2015 (RG 8/16)

 Digital Record
Identifier: RG08_16_Proposal_to_Establish_A_Pride_Resource_Center_at_Virginia_Tech_2015_03_31

Peter C. Dodge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-012
Abstract

The collection contains VT student memorabilia, ca. 1938-1948.

Dates: ca. 1938-1948

David S. Doggett Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-004
Abstract

The collection contains David S. Doggett's letters to his father in Richmond, Virginia, from 1912-1915, while he was a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Dates: 1912-1915, n.d.

Alfred Washington Drinkard, Jr. Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-019
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1947

Drum Major's Mace

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Artifact-003
Scope and Contents

Drum major's mace used at Virginia Tech. Approximately three feet long, wrapped in orange and maroon ribbon.

Dates: 1917

William F. Drumeller, Jr., Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-007
Abstract

The William F. Drumeller, Jr., Collection, 1909-1991, includes Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) publications, school papers (including notes and notebooks), ephemera, engineering publications and reports, correspondences, and photographs of Drumeller, a student and cadet at VPI from 1942-1943 and 1946-1949. Materials describe the railway and coal industries in West Virginia in the mid- to late twentieth century.

Dates: 1909 - 1991