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 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "University History," too.

Found in 521 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Sibold Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1983-011
Abstract

The Arthur Sibold Collection includes VPI reunion materials. There is a VPI statistical data book, four postcards to Sibold, a 1914 class roster, a reunion news bulletin, and a letter directed to the alumni.

Dates: 1964, 1975, n.d.

Carrie T. Sibold Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-043
Abstract

The collection consists of scrapbooks, journals, V.P.I. reunion materials, photograph albums, family diplomas, and the diary of Nannie V. Sibold. As a whole, the collection dates from 1912 to 1990. However, Carrie T. Sibold's scrapbook journals, which run from 1974 to 1990, constitute the the bulk of the collection material.

Dates: 1912 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1990

Leon Dalmain Simmons Memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1998-030
Scope and Content

Member of the Engineering Class of 1934. Collection includes plaques and certificates awarded to Simmons, including a plaque from the Century Club and the Alumni Association.

Dates: 1933 - 1987

G. S. Sivley Postcard

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-035
Scope and Content

Postcard with a printed message about VAMC 1877 tuition, signed by Charles L. C. Minor. Addressed to G. S. Lively of Mountain Grove.

Dates: 1877 - 1877

Slideshow, Design in the New Environment Drag Show, Mark Weber, c.1986

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2014-010_WeberMark_Dragshow_c1986
Dates: c.1986

Slusser Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1960-001
Abstract

Collection contains loose ledger sheets for the household expenditures of Dr. John B. Slusser, an advertisement from the Pressed Steel Car Company, a reciept from the Virginia Tech dining hall, a United States patent application for a nut-lock invented by Murray C. and William J. Slusser, and pages from a personal account book.

Dates: 1852 - 1912

F.H. Smith Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1964-002
Abstract

This collection contains a carbon copy of a letter written to Captain M. F. Maury from Francis Henney Smith at Virginia Military Institute.

Dates: 1867 - 1867

Ellison A. Smyth, Sr. Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1981-098
Abstract

The Ellison A. Smyth, Sr. collection contains papers including his correspondence with professional and amateur scientists, collectors, dealers and suppliers around the world concerning entomology and zoology, his publications, and field journals from his entomological work.

Dates: 1859 - 1927

Solitude Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1990-138
Scope and Content

Letter written December 27, 1860, from an unidentified man at Solitude, the Preston home in Blacksburg, Virginia, to Miss Martha.

Dates: 1860 - 1860

Solitude Photographs and Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1993-024
Scope and Content

Historic home of Blacksburg, Virginia, built by the Preston family in the early 1800s. Purchased by the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) in 1872, and remains the oldest building on campus. Photographs consist of thirty-four mounted photographs from Eleanor Stover McEver's collection of various views and details of Solitude, with identifying labels. Also includes other papers, such as newspaper clippings and postcards, with information about Solitude.

Dates: 1960s-1980s