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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Scope Note: Used for the years 1970-present

Found in 325 Collections and/or Records:

Warren Strother Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2004-005
Abstract Collection contains official correspondence between Dr. T. Marshall Hahn and various Virginia Polytechnic Institute departments, 319 oral history interviews on cassette tapes, and 48 transcribed interviews. These materials focus on Dr. Hahn’s administration of VPI and were used to create a book entitled From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974 written by Warren Strother and Peter...
Dates: 1964 - 1992

Albert Sturm Papers

 Collection — Box 1-22
Identifier: Ms-1988-019
Scope and Content

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and the Center for Public Administration and Policies at Virginia Tech. Leading expert on state constitutional reform, and director of the 1977 Virginia Tech self-study. Papers include articles, lectures, class and self-study material, and information concerning Phi Beta Kappa. Unprocessed.

Dates: 1968 - 1979

Louis A. Swiger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2004-013
Abstract

Collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, speeches, and awards relating to Louis A. Swiger's career at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Dates: 1986 - 2003

Earl T. Swink Speeches

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-036
Scope and Content

Professor of Agricultural Engineering (1935-70) at Virginia Tech and Vice President of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Papers include speeches about rural electrification, the agricultural engineering profession, and environmental control.

Dates: 1949, 1961-1972

Table Tent Card, Lambda Horizon, n.d. (Ms2014-010)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2014-010_WeberMark_TentCardLambdaHorizon_nd
Dates: n.d.

Richard B. Talbot Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-024
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of speeches, speech resource and research materials, administrative notes, departmental program planning and budgeting materials.

Dates: 1967 - 1994

Talking About Work Oral History Interview Project,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-005
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2008 - 2011

Edwin Talley Agricultural Quadrangle Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2006-021
Abstract

Edwin Talley’s six original pen and ink drawings depict the buildings of Virginia Tech’s Agriculture Quadrangle: Hutcheson, Price, Sandy, Seitz, Smyth, and Saunders.

Dates: 2005 - 2005

Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-2006-024
Scope and Content Robert Creede Taylor (1866-1915) lived in Montgomery County, Virginia most of his life. He attended Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Virginia Tech) in the 1880s, and thereafter worked in Roanoke before returning to Christiansburg, Virginia in 1893. He married Helen May Pelton, and they had three children. He died in 1915 after a long illness. The Taylors are related to many other Montgomery County and Roanoke families, and these families and their involvement in area...
Dates: 2003 - 2006

Harry Downing Temple Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-039
Scope and Content The Col. Harry Downing Temple Jr. Papers contains materials related to Temple's personal life, interest in heraldry and insignia, and his research and publications on the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. The majority of the collection is comprised of research for The Bugle's Echo, including handwritten manuscripts, drafts, and copies of research material. Most of the research materials are photocopies from the Bugle,...
Dates: 1872 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2001