University History
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 673 Collections and/or Records:
Blue Blouse and Trousers,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-018
Scope and Content
Item: blue blouse and trousers
Date: 1960’s
Uniform left in the military department. Received 25 September 1975, note attached says Trapp 1960.BLUE BLOUSE
Color: navy blue/black lining
Material: [wool blend] [satin] lining
Manufacturer: Blacksburg VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Uniform Department
Condition: Holes in collar where gold pins had been, stitching left in the inside back of the collar where button had been. Holes in the back of lower sleeve underneath black...
Dates:
1960s
Blue Blouse and Trousers,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-019
Scope and Content
Item: blue blouse/trousers
Date: 1960’s
Uniform left in military department, received in spec 25 September 1975BLOUSE
Color: navy blue/ black lining
Material: [wool blend] [satin] black lining
Manufacturer: Blacksburg VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Uniform Department
Condition: Snags on the collar where pins had been. Seams and stitching slightly unraveling around collar. Holes under the black strip on both sleeves where [bottom] [chord holder] had been.
Special...
Dates:
1960s
Blue Blouse and Trousers (2 pair),
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-015
Scope and Content
Item: blue blouse, trousers (2 pair)
Date: 1920BLUE BLOUSE
Color: navy blue with black lining
Material: wool blend, satin lining (?)
Manufacturer: Blacksburg: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Uniform Department
Condition: stitching and lining worn in collar, worn patch on the front right side as well as a small spot on right sleeve (could be a moth hole)
Special Markings: black outline down the center, around the collar, along the bottom, around the sleeve at the bottom and...
Dates:
1920 - 1920
Board of Visitors Protest T-Shirt
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-2014-001
Scope and Contents
Blue short sleeve t-shirt with black silk screened letters: "Virginia Tech Welcome to the 1950s" T-shirt was created by Laury Ward. In March 2003, the Board of Visitors eliminated Virginia Tech's affirmative action hiring practices for hiring and admissions, removed sexual orientation from Virginia Tech's non-discrimination policy, and passed a resolution barring anyone who had "participated in illegal acts of domestic violence and/or terrorism" from holding a meeting on campus unless he or...
Dates:
2003
Books That Made the Difference Project Collection,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-003
Abstract
The Books That Made the Difference Project Collection consists of subject files, clippings, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and audio-visual materials. The project was conceived in l980 by Ann Heidbreder Eastman, formerly of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and executed by Gordon A. Sabine, formerly a professor at this university, and his wife Patricia, who interviewed people across the country, asking what book made the greatest difference in their lives, and what was...
Dates:
1980 - 1986
Patrick A. Bowmaster Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-037
Abstract
This collection consists of papers that Patrick A. Bowmaster wrote for his graduate classes at Virginia Tech. Among these papers is an edited transcript of the diary of Jasper Hawse (1835-1905), an American Civil War soldier born in Hardy County, Virginia. The collection also includes a paper about Emanuel Stance, the first African American to win the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in the post-Civil War period.
Dates:
1994 - 1995
Records of the Office of Vice-President and the Office of Executive Vice-President, Warren W. Brandt
Record Group
Identifier: RG-03-04
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Warren W. Brandt in his capacity as Vice-President of Academic Affairs (1966-1968). However, it also includes many of his files from his period as Executive Vice-President (1968-1969) as well as material from his term as Vice-President and Dean of the Graduate School (1963-1965). There is material and correspondence concerning budget matters, Center for Research in College Instruction of Science and Math, Corps of Cadets, the Dean...
Dates:
1958 - 1969
Rudolph Carl Brauer Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-011
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, campus pictures, bulletins, and programs collected by Rudolph Brauer, graduate of the VPI class of 1915.
Dates:
1915 - 1916
Broad Channel: The Vorticella Polyptych Working Papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1992-016
Scope and Contents
Mural created by Ray Kass, professor of Art and Art History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Mountain Lake Workshop in April 1991. Mural located in Newman Library on the Virginia Tech campus. Working papers consist of drawings and sketches of the mural.
Dates:
1991
Henry Brooke Letter and Flyer
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1949-001
Abstract
The collection consists of a letter written March 1893 from Brooke to Editor Colliery Engineer about an article written by Otto C. Burkhart.
Dates:
1893, c.1909