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This collection consists of oral history accounts from former students and other participants from Christiansburg Industrial Institute. Interviews…

Baltzer Yonson was born on 10 October 1774 and died c.1850. Yonson married Mary Thompson, born in 1799, and they had 10 children. The descendants of…

The Jacob Cassel Papers stem from the business, social, and ideological activities of a landowner from Smyth County, Virginia, in the nineteenth…

The Stanford E. Chaillé Collection consists of letters, government-issued documents, printed material, and two photo albums containing thirty-six…

The collection contains breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and beverage menus from the Norfolk & Western Railway, as well as two unused carbon copy…

Black youth lynched in Glendale, Tennessee, after being accused of assaulting a white girl. Collection includes typescript interviews with witnesses,…

The collection consists of one postcard of Notre-Dame from Sherwood Anderson to Bert and Clara Dickenson and a photograph of Sherwood Anderson and…

This collection contains materials relating to author Sherwood Anderson. The collection is notable for the personal letters written by Anderson to…

This collection contains dust jackets and book covers scanned from various editions of Sherwood Anderson titles. Scans were primarily created for use…

This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood…

The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by…

This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence…

This collection includes oral history accounts from various African Americans with experience at Virginia Tech and/or in the Blacksburg area between…

Letters written by Joseph T. Harris of the 12th Ohio Infantry to his sister, Mollie Swope from various locations in western Virginia. The letters are…

Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. (1919-1944) was a Lieutenant in the army during World War II. He served his country bravely and was killed on the beaches of…

The digital collection currently contains ONLY the photographs from Series IV of the Beulah O. Allen Collection, which includes images of places…

This collection includes oral history accounts of the first Denim Day event at Virginia Tech in January 1979.

This collection consists of 100+ letters written between the years of 1863–1868, accompanied by a book entitled, The Heizer Family: American Pioneers…

Lewis Wood was a private in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, possibly serving as the company's cook. He entered service at age 37…

The Virginia Tech yearbooks

Olive Chadeayne was born on February 9, 1904 in Ossining, New York. Educated in California, Chadeayne began studying architecture at the University of…

Marie-Louise Laleyan was a San Francisco based architect with 48 years of experience including 30 years as principal of Laleyan Architects…

The Peacock-Harper Culinary History Friends began publishing the Culinary Thymes newsletter in 2001. Issues were published regularly through part of…

The Jean Linden Young papers consist of materials created and collected by Young during her lifetime. They include notes written as an instructor at…

Lorraine Rudoff was born in Bridgeport, CT in 1920 and began her education in New York City public schools before attending the Cooper Union School of…

This collection consists of papers from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia. The papers consist of correspondence among the family members,…

This collection includes three memoir volumes and three diaries written by John Henning Woods, a Southern Unionist, Confederate conscript, and Civil…

The Black Women at Virginia Tech History Project is a multi-phase research and educational project that involves identification of the first black…

This collection contains four letters written by author James Farrell to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson between February 1952 and May of 1954. The two…

The Los Angeles Modern Bartending School Collection includes two bartending guides for students. The untitled "Bartender's Guide" is likely from the…

The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to…

The Culinary Pamphlet Collection is an artificial collection created in January 2011. The collection includes small publications and pamphlets created…

This collection consists of an account book maintained by James E. Yates, a livestock trader in Rappahannock County, Virginia during the late 19th and…

These images are of members of the Croy and related families. The digital images were donated to Special Collections in 2015 and do NOT exist in…

The collection includes a letter written by J. A. Snavley, its envelope, and an advertisement postcard/mailer for Scientific American publications.…

The collection includes a broadside advertising the sale of the Crockett Mineral Springs Hotel in Montgomery County, Virginia, as well as hotel…

The Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives of the University Libraries consists mainly of condolence items received by the university following the…

This collection consists of a handwritten, bound manuscript providing a book-length, vehement critique of the military leadership and personal…