Virginia Polytechnic Institute

This collection contains the papers, photographs, diplomas, certificates, correspondence, and scrapbooks of Benjamin Cottrell from 1910-1983. Cottrell, a 1916 VPI graduate with a degree in Civil Engineering, spent part of his career working on railroads and highways in Central and South America.

The collection contains information gathered by Lieutenant Colonel John A. Coulter II while he was researching the life and military service of Richard T. Shea, Jr. The materials include biographical information about Shea from the 1940's and 1950's and writings from the second half of the 20th century about him and the Battle of Pork Chop Hill.

The Clinton H. Cowgill Collection contains selected personal and professional correspondence, writing, incomplete architectural drawings, and career documentation of the founder of VPI's architecture program, Clinton Cowgill.

VPI class of 1955. Collection includes four group project reports of experiments completed in August to September 1954 as part of the curriculum for Chemical Engineering 401. R. H. Crewdson was foreman of the group which included R. S. Luttrell and N. H. Bakshi.

Graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (B.S. Arch., 1971). Papers consist of a typescript book, Space Structure Building Systems Applied to a Housing Complex and an Airport Terminal Facility, presented to the VPI College of Architecture in August 1970.

Map shows the VPI campus, dated February 9, 1908. Two copies of the same map in the same scale, with one cropped smaller than the other. The smaller map contains hand-written annotations, which include names of faculty residents.

Map shows plans for VPI campus developments.

Document shows the heating plans for dormitory 4 at VPI in Blacksburg, Virginia. It contains some hand-written annotations.

Director of Agricultural Experiment Station at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1917-1945; assistant director of Agricultural Experiment Station, 1945 until his retirement in 1948. Collection consists of a Daily Desk Diary, which mentions persons and events in Blacksburg and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.