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Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)2019 ( CC0 1.0 )
Processed by: Kira A. Dietz, Archivist, Special Collections
Collection is open for research.
Permission to publish material from J. Bolton McBryde Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: J. Bolton McBryde Collection, Ms1992-059, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The images were donated to Special Collection in 1992.
The J. Bolton McBryde Collection was originally boxed as a named collection within the larger historic photograph collection, in 1992. When the glass plates were discovered in October 2011, the collection was re-housed for preservation purposes, and additional processing and description were completed in November 2011.
James Bolton McBryde was born in Virginia in 1866. His father was John McLaren McBryde, President of VAMC from 1891 through 1907. J. Bolton McBryde taught chemistry at VAMC from 1903 until the time of his death in 1925. He married Mary Read Comfort of Knoxville, Tennessee, around 1906.
The collection consists of photographs, negatives, and glass plate negatives depicting Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Montgomery County, and the New River area. Images are labeled with original labels, but undated. Where images were not labeled, a brief description is included in brackets on the envelope. The collection also includes eight painted views of campus photographed by J. Bolton McBryde and likely handpainted by his wife Mary Comfort McBryde.
Items are arranged by material type.
Oversize photographs of the painted views of VPI are in the Historical Photograph Collection, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.