Women -- History
Found in 402 Collections and/or Records:
Kimiko Suzuki Architectural Collection,
The collection contains 3 sets of drawings and a publication for the Susume Abe residence completed in 1967. Abe was a famous education critic in Japan.
Talking About Work Oral History Interview Project,
Oral history interviews conducted by students of Dr. Emily Satterwhite's HUM 2504 Introduction to American Studies class with interviewees who work on or near the Virginia Tech campus. Interviews explore the particular jobs of the interviewees and the issues related to working for these interviewees. The collection also contains annotated bibliographies and reflections papers created by students about their interview experience. There are images of some of the interviewees.
Rutsu Tanimura Drawings
Rutsu Tanimura is an architect in Nagoya City, Japan. The collection comprises two drawing panels for Asahidai House by Tanimura. The panels demonstrate the design for a house on a sloping site in Aichi-pre.
Martha Ann Hite Tant Genealogy Records
Photocopies of genealogical research and records, including family Bible records, family group sheets, and pedigree charts relating to ancestors of Martha Ann Hite Tant, including the Agee, Brown, Davenport, Davidson, Floyd, Haden, Harman, Hite/Hight, Linkous, Marrs, May, Mills, Owen(s), Preston, Salmon(s), Scott, Shelton, and Trollinger families, of Henry, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, and Tazewell counties, Virginia, and elsewhere.
Mildred Tate Letter
The collection consists of a letter from Mildred Tate to Mrs. Gillette inviting her to a dinner at the Hillcrest Dormitory on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
"That Exceptional One: Women in American Architecture, 1888-1988," Exhibition
This collection includes a traveling exhibit created by the American Architectural Foundation of the American Institute of Architects about women in American architecture. The exhibit starts with Louise Bethune, who in 1888 was the first woman to join the AIA. Materials include exhibit panels, planning documents and research for the creation of the exhibit.
The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Richard Eugene Hager (Anne Peyton Judkins Hager) Collection
Thursday Book Club [Blacksburg, Virginia] Records
Records--including meeting minutes and book lending cards--of the Thursday Book Club, organized by women residents (originally under the name Round Dozen Book Club) of Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1928.
Fanny W. Tinsley Memoirs
Typescript memoir by Fanny W. Tinsley regarding her American Civil War experiences during the Union occupation of her Hanover County, Virginia neighborhood and the ensuing Battle of Mechanicsville.
Susana Torre Architectural Collection
After earning her degree in architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentinean Susana Torre arrived in New York in 1968 to study and practice architecture. Women's place in architecture and renovation of buildings are topics of particular interest to her. The Susana Torre collection consists of professional correspondence, project files, architectural drawings and sketches of some of her works, research notes, published articles about and by Torre, and teaching notes.