University Archives
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:
Virginia Tech University Libraries
Record Group
Identifier: RG-23
Abstract
This collection includes minutes, correspondence, meeting notes, and more from departments, committees, and individuals in the Virginia Tech University Libraries.
Dates:
1925 - 2006
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
V.P.I. Alumni Association World War II Alumni Cards
Record Group
Identifier: RG-29d
Abstract
These cards include information the Alumni Assosication kept on students from Virginia Tech who served in World War II. The cards list personal information about the soldiers organized by class year, from 1892 through 1949. The collection also includes liberated, wounded, and citation records.
Dates:
c. 1939-1959
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-014
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI)
Date: 10-23-14
Color: navy blue with red lining
Material: wool felt (?) lining - wool
Manufacturer: Blacksburg: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, J.H. Kelsey, Supt., Uniform Department
Donor:
Condition: fair, stains and holes in lining as well as exterior, [frog] on right side is missing
Special Markings: label reads: Mr. Byrne Capt. (?), measure 49-38-15, date 10-23-14 (William Hale Byrne, class of 1915, East Falls Church, Fairfax), inside piece of cloth that buttons...
Dates:
1914 - 1914
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-017
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI)
Date: ? first capes in 1897
Color: navy blue with raspberry liner
Material: [wool felt] lining [wool]
Manufacturer:
Condition: a few small holes and stains appear in the liner
Special Markings: black cord [frog] on exterior connecting sides, two metal hooks at collar. Each side has what appears to be a pocket, only after looking closer do you realize the “pockets” are holes to the inside of the cape. Inside on the bottom right-hand corner of the liner was what appears...
Dates:
n.d. (not before 1897)
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1994-001
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI)
Date: ? (older, manufacturer tag different)
Color: navy blue with red wine colored liner
Material: [wool felt]/lining [wool]
Manufacturer: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Uniform Department, VB Kelsey Supt.
Donor:
Condition: poor condition, holes in lining and exterior material, some have been sewn up, lining deteriorating in places
Special Markings: Black cord [frog] on exterior connecting sides, two metal hooks at collar. Each side has what appears to be a pocket,...
Dates:
n.d.
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1994-002
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI) Date: ? Color: dark blue/almost black exterior, red lining, black collar Material: collar and lining velvet, [cotton] exterior Manufacturer: ? Donor: Condition: good Special Markings: single blue metal clasp at the collar, black cord [frog] just below the collar, bottom of exterior and lining hemmed under, label (?)
Dates:
n.d.
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
VPI Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1994-003
Scope and Content
Item: cape (VPI)
Date: ?
Color: navy blue with dull red lining
Material: [wool felt]/[wool] lining
Manufacturer: ?
Donor:
Condition: [frog] discolored, hem coming unsewn where it had been doubled up, right button missing under collar, label missing, stains on lining
Special Markings: single hook clasp at the collar, just below hook is a black cord loop, above hook and under collar is a separate piece of material which can fasten to buttons on the underside of the right and or left...
Dates:
n.d.
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
VPI Coat with Attached Cape,
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Textile-1993-013
Scope and Content
Item: coat with attached cape (VPI)
Date: 1938 (?)
Color: Navy blue with black lining in coat and red lining under the cape
Material: wool felt (?) for exterior of coat and lining under cape, the lining in the coat is cotton (?) except in sleeves. (?)
Manufacturer: Label located inside of interior pocket has a picture of an eagle on a shield and reads: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, Uniform Department
Donor:
Condition: fair, no hem on the bottom (may never have been one)...
Dates:
1938?
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech