Historical Photograph Collection Historical Photograph Collection, c. 1890s-present Photographs.001
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Business Number: 540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu
URL:
http://spec.lib.vt.edu
Special Collections and University Archives Staff
Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Identification
Photographs.001
Title
Historical Photograph Collection (List of Subjects) c. 1890s-present
Quantity
41.15 Cubic Feet, 60 boxes; 12 oversize boxes; 1 oversize folder; and 2 oversize drawers
Language
The materials in the collection are in English.
Abstract
The photograph collection at Special Collections and University Archives consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia
Tech, dating back to the 1890s. The collection is also home to historic images of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, the New River
Valley, and Southwest Virginia in general. A photograph collection of faculty and staff from the university is maintained
separately.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.
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Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Existence and Location of Copies
Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [folder title],
Historical Photograph Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The Historical Photograph Collection consists primarily of images donated or transferred to the University Libraries and/or
Special Collections and University Archives over time.
The photograph collection at Special Collections and University Archives consists primarily of historical photographs of Virginia
Tech, dating back to the 1890s. Subjects include, but are not limited to: athletics, the Corps of Cadets, campus views and
buildings, events and celebrations, Agricultural Extension sites/work, and candid images of students and campus groups. A
alphabetically organized photograph collection of faculty and staff from the university is maintained separately.
The collection is also home to historic images of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, the New River Valley, and Southwest Virginia
in general. Subjects include, but are not limited to: historic sites and buildings, Blacksburg views and buildings, scenes
from surrounding towns/cities/counties, agriculture activities, and candid images of people.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject. Each subject listed has at least one photograph; some subjects have
multiple folders.
See also the following collections at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives:
J. Bolton McBryde Collection, Ms1992-059 contains the original hand-painted photographs of early VPI campus. (There are copies of these photographs in the Historical
Photograph Collection under Campus Views.)
Agricultural extension work
Blacksburg (Va.)
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Montgomery County (Va.)
Photographs
University History
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896)
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1896-1944)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Corps of Cadets (1944-1970)
Women -- History
ACADEMIC BUILDINGS, FIRST AND SECOND [items also in Oversize Box 1]
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING (OLD) (Housed administration offices from 1904 to 1936; also known as Rock House and Alwood House.)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS [items also in Oversize Box 1]
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BUILDING
Agricultural Hall -- see PRICE HALL
AGRICULTURE [items also in Oversize Box 1]
AIR FORCE - RANDOLPH FIELD
AIRPLANES (see also AIRPORT, AVIATION)
AIRPORT (see also AIRPLANES, AVIATION) [items also in Oversize Box 1]
ALUMNI (individuals; arranged alphabetically)
ALUMNI - PRESS PRINTS (Small prints of unidentified individual alumni)
Amphitheatre -- see GARDEN AMPHITHEATRE
Apollo Club -- see GLEE CLUB
ARCHITECTURE DEPT. - College of Architecture and Urban Studies
ARCHWAYS [items also in Oversize Box 1]
ARMY SPECIALIZED TRAINING PROGRAM (ASTP) [items also in Oversize Box 1]
Athletics -- see SPORTS and/or specific name of sport
AVIATION (see also AIRPORT, AIRPLANES)
BAND (see also HIGHTY TIGHTIES, MARCHING VIRGINIANS, MUSIC)
BARRACKS [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASEBALL - PRE-1900 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASEBALL - 1900-20 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASEBALL - 1940-50 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASKETBALL - 1908-20 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASKETBALL - 1920-40 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASKETBALL - 1940-50 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASKETBALL - 1950-60 [items also in Oversize Box 1]
BASKETBALL - 1980-present [items also in Oversize Box 1 and Oversize Box 9]
BASKETBALL - 1973 NIT FINALS
BASKETBALL - 1994-95 NIT [items also in Oversize Folder 1]
BATTALION [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Black Students -- see AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
BLACKSBURG - BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY - PRE-1900
BLACKSBURG - BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY - 1900-19
BLACKSBURG - BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY - 1920-39
BLACKSBURG - BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY - 1940-59
BLACKSBURG - BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY - 1960-present
BLACKSBURG - CHURCHES - pre-1900
BLACKSBURG - CHURCHES - 1900-19
BLACKSBURG - CHURCHES - 1920-39
BLACKSBURG - CHURCHES - 1940-59
BLACKSBURG - CHURCHES - 1960-present
BLACKSBURG - DOWNTOWN - pre-1900
BLACKSBURG - DOWNTOWN - 1900-19 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
BLACKSBURG - DOWNTOWN - 1920-39 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
BLACKSBURG - DOWNTOWN - 1940-59 [items also in Oversize Folder 1]
BLACKSBURG - DOWNTOWN - 1960-
BLACKSBURG - HOUSES - PRE-1900
BLACKSBURG - HOUSES - 1900-19
BLACKSBURG - HOUSES - 1920-39
BLACKSBURG - HOUSES - 1940-59
BLACKSBURG - HOUSES - 1960-present
BLACKSBURG - PEOPLE - pre-1900
BLACKSBURG - PEOPLE - 1900-19 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
BLACKSBURG - PEOPLE - 1920-39 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
BLACKSBURG - SCHOOLS - 1920-39
BLACKSBURG - SCHOOLS - 1940-59 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
BLACKSBURG - VIEWS - PRE-1900
BLACKSBURG - VIEWS - 1900-19 [items also in Oversize Drawer 1 and Oversize Drawer 2]
BLACKSBURG - VIEWS - 1920-39
BLACKSBURG - VIEWS - 1940-59
BLACKSBURG - PICTORIAL BROCHURES
BOOKSTORE (Old; in Barracks No. 1)
BROOKS FOREST PRODUCTS CENTER
BUGLE - 1922 COLLECTION (Some of the photographs used in the 1922 Bugle (the Virginia Tech student yearbook))
BUGLE - 1937 COLLECTION (Some of the photographs used in the 1937 Bugle (the Virginia Tech student yearbook))
BUGLE - 1959 COLLECTION (Some of the photographs used in the 1959 Bugle (the Virginia Tech student yearbook))
BUGLE - 1960 COLLECTION (Some of the photographs used in the 1960 Bugle (the Virginia Tech student yearbook))
BUILDING DETAILS (see also ARCHWAYS)
BUILDINGS (see also names of specific building)
BUILDINGS, CAMPUS (UNIDENTIFIED)
BUILDINGS, UNIDENTIFIED [items also in Oversize Box 2]
BURRUSS HALL [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CAMPUS AERIALS - (subdivided by decade: 1950-59, 1960-69, 1970-79
Campus life -- see STUDENTS
CAMPUS MAPS - 1950-69 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CAMPUS PICTORIAL BROCHURES
CAMPUS SCENES (includes people and activities; see also STUDENTS, CAMPUS WINTER SCENES)
CAMPUS VIEWS - NO DATES (includes buildings and physical environs) [items also in Oversize Box 2 and Oversize Folder 1]
CAMPUS VIEWS - 1870-1880s [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CAMPUS VIEWS - 1910-19 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CAMPUS VIEWS - 1960-69 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CAMPUS VIEWS - 1980-89 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CEC -- see CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTER
CENTENNIAL--VIRGINIA TECH (1972) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CENTENNIAL ISSUE (MONTGOMERY NEWS MESSENGER) (Eleven photographs of other colleges used for a special edition of the Montgomery
News Messenger.)
Chapel (Old) -- see LIBRARY (OLD)
CHAPEL (WAR MEMORIAL) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CLASSES AND CLASS REUNIONS (chronological by graduation year)
Coliseum -- see CASSELL COLISEUM
College of Education -- see EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF
COLLEGIANS (see also MUSIC)
COMMENCEMENT [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Commissioning Ceremonies -- see CORPS - COMMISSIONING
CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTER (CEC)
CORPS [item also in Oversize Box 2]
CORPS - COMPANY A [items also in Oversize Box 2]
CORPS - COMPANY B [items also in Oversize Box 2]
DANCES [items also in Oversize Box 2]
DINING HALL - INTERIOR SHOTS
Donaldson Brown CED -- see CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTER (CEC)
DORMITORY ROOMS [items also in Oversize Box 2]
DRAPER CABIN / DRAPER'S MEADOW
DRILL FIELD [items also in Oversize Box 2 and Oversize Folder 1]
EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Equine Medical Center -- see MARION DUPONT SCOTT EQUINE MEDICAL CENTER
FACULTY (filed separately, alphabetical by name)
FARM BUILDINGS (see also BARNS) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
FOOTBALL - 1890s [items also in Oversize Box 3 and Oversize Box 8]
FOOTBALL - 1900-10 [items also in Oversize Box 3 and Oversize Folder 1]
FOOTBALL - 1910-20 [items also in Oversize Box 3]
FOOTBALL - 1920-30 [items also in Oversize Box 3 and Oversize Folder 1]
FOOTBALL - 1930-40 [items also in Oversize Box 3]
FOOTBALL - 1940-50 [items also in Oversize Box 3]
FOOTBALL - 1970-80 [items also in Oversize Box 3, Oversize Box 10, and Oversize Box 12]
FOOTBALL - INDIVIDUALS (arranged alphabetically by name)
FOUR-H
General
Oversize 4-H State Conference photograph (c.1930s) is in Oversize Box 2.
FRATERNITIES -- see SORORITIES AND FRATERNITIES
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
GLEE CLUB (see also MUSIC) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
GROUPS SHOTS (MISCELLANEOUS)
GUBERNATORIAL VISITS TO CAMPUS
Gymnasium -- see WAR MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM
HENDERSON HALL (see also INFIRMARY, HOSPITAL)
HIGHTY-TIGHTIES (see also BAND, MUSIC) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
HOME ECONOMICS [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Hospital -- see HENDERSON HALL
INDIVIDUALS (see also FACULTY and names of specific individuals and groups)
INFIRMARY (see also Henderson Hall)
Johnston Hall -- see AMBLER JOHNSTON HALL
LABORATORIES (Bio, Cardiac, Soils, Vet Med) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
LANE HALL (see also BARRACKS) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
LAVERY, WILLIAM [items also in Oversize Box 2]
LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER (LRC) TV - early 1980s
Library (New) -- see NEWMAN LIBRARY
LIBRARY (OLD) (see also LIBRARY STAFF) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
McBRYDE BUILDING (1914-66) (see also MECHANIC ARTS BUILDING)
McBRYDE HALL [items also in Oversize Box 2]
McCORMICK FARM [items also in Oversize Box 6, Oversize Box 7, and Oversize Drawer 1]
MACHINE SHOPS [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Major Williams Hall -- see WILLIAMS HALL
MALL [items also in Oversize Box 2]
MARION DUPONT SCOTT EQUINE MEDICAL CENTER [items also in Oversize Box 2]
MECHANIC ARTS BUILDING (see also McBRYDE BUILDING)
Memorial Chapel -- see CHAPEL (WAR MEMORIAL)
MILITARY SPRING MANEUVERS (1942)
MUSIC (see also BAND, COLLEGIANS, GLEE CLUB, HIGHTY TIGHTIES, MARCHING VIRGINIANS)
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
NEW VIRGINIANS [items also in Oversize Box 2]
NEWMAN LIBRARY (see also FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, LIBRARY STAFF) [items also in Oversize Box 2]
NEWMAN LIBRARY ADDITION - CONSTRUCTION
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY (For more railroad photographs, see the Norfolk and Western Historical Photograph Collection.)
OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP (1918)
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
PARADES (see also RAT PARADES)
PAYNE, CHARLES K. [items also in Oversize Box 2]
PERFORMING ARTS BUILDING (see also YMCA)
POLITICIANS (Includes Jim Turn, John Dalton, Bob Bradford, Governor Godwin, Fred Pollard, Linwood Holten, and Richard M. Nixon.)
PRESTON AND OLIN BUILDING
PRICE HALL (formerly Agricultural Hall)
RAT PARADES [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Rector Field House -- see FIELD HOUSE (RECTOR)
Rectors, Board of Visitors -- see BOARD OF VISITORS
"ROCK, THE" (MEMORIAL) (see also WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL)
ST. LOUIS [MISSOURI] WORLD'S FAIR (1904)
SATELLITE TRACKING STATION
SLUSHER SIGNS/DISPLAYS/EXHIBITS
SORORITIES AND FRATERNITIES
SOUTH CAROLINA INTER-STATE AND WEST INDIAN EXPOSITION (1901-1902 Charleston, S.C.)
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA [items also in Oversize Box 2]
SPORTS - INTERCOLLEGIATE, 1972-82
STEAM LAUNDRY (see also LAUNDRY)
Stone Quarry -- see QUARRY
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS [items also in Oversize Box 2]
STUDENT UNREST [items also in Oversize Box 2]
STUDENTS - MEN [items also in Oversize Box 2]
STUDENTS - WOMEN [items also in Oversize Box 2]
Tech Buccaneers -- see MUSIC
TRACK - 1911-30 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
TRACK - 1930-60 [items also in Oversize Box 2]
VETERINARY SCIENCE BUILDING
VIRGINIA SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
VIRGINIA TECH UNION
Existence and Location of Originals
Photographs are located in Historical Photograph Collection, Oversize Box 2.
Virginia Water Resources Research Center -- see WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH CENTER
War Memorial Chapel -- see CHAPEL (WAR MEMORIAL)
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH CENTER
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS (Virginia)
Women Students -- see STUDENTS - WOMEN
WORKING - WORKERS AND WORK SITES - AT VIRGINIA TECH
WORLD WAR I MONUMENT (see also "ROCK, THE")