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150th_099. turkey hens 1925.jpg
This newspaper clipping describes the women's basketball team's victory over the "Bashful Basketeers" of Concord State. One of the captions uses the term "Turkey Hens", which is what the women's team called themselves. Because the University did not…

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This photo depicts Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, who was the first woman to receive a degree from V. P. I.

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These pages are from the Bulletin of VPI, Vol. XV, No. 6, Sept. 1922, and it advertises different opportunites that V. P. I. had for women in 1922/1923. The item focuses on opportunites within the applied sciences, but also discusses other fields…

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…

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Photo of Linda Adams, the first African American woman to graduate from Virginia Tech, from the 1968 Bugle

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Photo of Johnnie Miles, one of first two black female professors at Virginia Tech

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Dr. Mildred Tate, first Dean of Women, talking to female students on first day at VPI, 1955

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Ella Agnew and Maude Wallace were home demonstration agents for Virginia Cooperative Extension and Mrs. Mary Moore Davis served as professor of the home economics department at Virginia Tech.

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Portrait of Yvonne Rohran Tung from the 1950 Bugle

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Carrie Taylor Sibold's diploma for Bachelor of Science in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute State Agricultural and Mechanical College, awarded June 9, 1925.

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From left to right: Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, Ruth Terrett, Lucy Lee Lancaster, Lousie Jacobs, Carrie Taylor Sibold

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Selected pages of Hayden's class lecture notebook, with sketches, from a class at Ohio State University

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Montgomery Female College certificate "awarded to Eugenia V. Sullivan for Purity and Correctness in the Use of the English Language"

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Program lists the performance exercises of the "Eureka Class", including recitations and recitals, as well as a list of students.

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…

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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