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Ms1988_009_B03_F06_001.tif
Receipt for regalia order from Edward Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, Ga.) to Marie Johnson, Household of Ruth (Blacksburg, Va.)

Ms1988_009_B03_F05_001.pdf
Handwritten financial record for Household of Ruth in Blacksburg, Va

Ms1988_009_B03_F01_001.pdf
Printed booklet listing membership questions and handwritten answers for the Household of Ruth, the women's organization for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. Answers include names, signatures, birth location, age, etc.

stu1972.jpg
Photograph of students at the cenotaph, 1972.

WomensBball_TinHorn_1929.pdf
This is the text of the history of early women's basketball at VPI, taken from The Tin Horn, the 1929 women's yearbook. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary digital exhibit.

LD5655.V8.T5_1930.pdf
The third volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

LD5655.V8.T5_1929.pdf
The second volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

idapowell.jpg
Ida Powell graduated from Virginia Tech in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in home economics. In this hour-long interview, Powell discusses her experience as a female student attending Virginia Tech's campus in the 1950s as well as her humanitarian…

Ms2016-004__HillOliviaTutwiler_diary_1919_FrontCover.jpg
Diary of Olivia Tutwiler (later Olivia Tutwiler Hill), a young teacher living in Blacksburg and Childress, Virginia, in 1919. The focus is primarily on a crush that Tutwiler had on a Virginia Tech cadet, but entries also chronicle an active social…

Ms1990-070_BoatwrightCynthia_B1F10_Portrait_1940s50s_a.jpg
Portrait photograph of Cynthia Addington Boatwright (1898-1973), taken sometime in the 1940s or 1950s at Jenkins Studio in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Boatwright was deeply involved in civic and political life, as a member of the Methodist…

Ms1988-007_JohnsonPatriciaGivens_B1F1_Correspondence_1987_0711.jpg
Letter from Scott D. Breckenridge Jr. (former Deputy Director of the CIA) to Patricia Givens Johnson, local historian, author and teacher in Christiansburg, VA. Breckenridge Jr. corresponded with Givens Johnson about her scholarship on the Preston…

Ms2014-013_ChristiansburgDAR_B1F7_Pamphlet_1965a.jpg
Program and dinner menu for the 1965 Diamond Jubilee event held by the Col William Christian Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Christiansburg, Virginia, 1965.

Ms1963-002_BlacksburgWomansClub_B1F1_Correspondence_1965_0505.jpg
Correspondence sent by Mrs F.N. Atkins (Blacksburg Woman's Club President) to Sargent Shriver in the Office of Economic Opportunity (Washington D.C.) on May 3, 1965 expressing the support of the Blacksburg Woman's Club for the Montgomery-Floyd…

Ms1988_009_oddfellowsHouseholdOfRuthCorresp_postcard_1916_1128a.jpg
Correspondence between two members of the Blacksburg chapter of the Household of Ruth, a women's auxiliary organization to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.

Ms1952-002_TateMildred_Letter_1940_0907.jpg
The letter is from Mildred Tate to Mrs. Gillette inviting her to a dinner at Hillcrest, the women's dormitory at Virginia Tech, held by Mrs. White on September 11, 1940.

tinhorn_1931.pdf
The fourth and final volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years…

tinhorn_1925.pdf
The first volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they…

Ms1987-034_Preston,SarahB_LandDeed_1835a.jpg
The Sarah Buchanan Preston Land Deed collection consists of a manuscript copy of a land transfer indenture statement for lands in Russell, Tazewell, and Scott counties, Virginia. The land was sold by Preston to John and Edward Fulton of Washington…

Ms2011_019_WallaceMaud_1929_0814c.jpg
This letter was written by Maude E. Wallace of Virginia Agricultural Extension Service, Blacksburg, VA, to Sarah Pitts of George Peabody College, Nashville, TN, on 14 August 1929. Ms. Pitts had been hired to work as an Extension agent, but had not…

Ms2009_048_001.jpg
Elizabeth Hughes claim for damages done to her home by unidentified Confederate forces in 1862. The claim is dated 1868, and details the loss of property stolen and destroyed by fire.

Ms2008-028_LeeAnna_Letter_1861_1217.jpg
This collection contains a letter of invitation from Anna Lee to Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard of the Confederate Army to attend a country dance at Meadow Farm in Henrico County, Virginia, on Christmas evening 1861. The letter is dated…

LD5655A4_1996.pdf
A booklet published in 1996 commemorating the 75th anniversary of female enrollment at Virginia Tech. The booklet includes a history and profiles of many early female graduates.
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