Records of the Office of the President, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
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560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Summary

Extent:
9.8 Cubic Feet 7 boxes
Creator:
Eggleston, J. D. (Joseph Dupuy), 1867-1953
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Records of the Office of the President, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, RG 2/7, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence (1913-1919) including letters to and from state and national political figures; correspondence signed by Eggleston as Acting Director of the Extension Division (1913-1916); correspondence between Eggleston and principals, board members and others of various agricultural high schools relating to financial requests, personnel, etc. (1916-1919); correspondence with county agents and state and national personnel connected with agricultural programs; correspondence with Carneal and Johnston, architects, concerning construction of Shop building, Gymnasium, Professor Vawter's residence, VPI Chapel, McBryde building, Athletic building, and Field House. Other material in the collection includes: Sophomore Court matters (1913-1914); reports of annual meetings of agents (1913-1916); Agricultural Experiment Station reports (1914); U.S.D.A. Weekly Demonstration Work Reports (1914); financial forecasts (1914-1915); annual reports (1915); Smith-Lever salary vouchers, 1915; reports of demonstration agents (1916); departmental needs (1917); telegrams (1917-1919); resolution creating Athletic Director position (1918); Houston property deeds and contracts; speeches and articles. Education for women and African American extension and Y. M. C. A. work are among the issues addressed in the correspondence.

Letter concerning a summer session at VMI.

Letter concerning the organization of vocational classes for women.

Notable letterhead of the Hotel Roanoke.

Reports on African-American agents; notable letterhead of H.O. Lyne, merchant miller; flier for Loves Mill school fair

Houston Deed (1914)

Notable letterhead of Norfolk and Western Railway Company

Signed letter from Booker T. Washington (1914)

Notable letterhead of Richmond Public Schools

Notable letterhead of Appomattox Barred Rock Association; notable letterhead of Dixie Fire Insurance Company

Notable letterhead of Hotel Rueger

Notable letterhead of Murphy's Hotel

Notable letterhead of Hotel Stumpf

Notable letterhead of Delco-Light Products; notable letterhead of Murphy's Hotel

Notable letterhead of the Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates; notable letterhead of the Commonwealth of Virginia, State Chamber

Notable letterhead from R.C. Beverly Heating Company

Notable letterhead of Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute

Notable letterhead of Maryland State Board of Agriculture

Notable letterhead of Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Agriculture and Immigration

Notable letterhead of Central Fredrick Farmer's Club

Notable letterhead of Norfolk and Western Immigration Association

Notable letterhead of League to Enforce Peace

Notable letterhead of Virginia Agricultural Council of Safety

Notable letterhead of Co-Operative Education Association of Virginia

Notable letterhead of Norfolk and Western Railway Company

Notable letterhead of Co-Operative Education Association of Virginia

Notable letterhead of Merchants National Bank of Richmond; notable letterhead of United Daughters of the Confederacy; notable letterhead of Daleville College

Notable letterhead of Baptist Church, Wytheville, Va.

Notable letterhead of the James River Clarion

Notable letterhead of Department of Health, Richmond, VA

Notable letterhead of Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office

Notable letterhead of Sydnor Pump and Well Company

Notable letterhead of Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates

Notable letterhead of Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates; notable letterhead of Murphy's Hotel

United States Department of Agriculture

Notable letterhead of Stacy's Poultry Farm

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General; Commonwealth of Virginia, Auditor of Public Accounts

Notable letterhead of the New Willard Hotel, Washington

Commonwealth of Virginia, Dairy and Feed Division

Notable letterhead of Hatcher-Perry Company, Inc.; United States Department of Agriculture; notable letterhead of Richmond Automobile Club; notable letterhead of Carolina Hotel; notable letterhead of the Law Offices of Pollard and Smith; notable letterhead of Aerial League of America; Shops Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Virginia Road Builders' Association

Richmond Public Schools

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Modern Languages; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office

Notable letterhead from the Times-Dispatch

Notable letterhead of the Southern Summer School

Notable letterhead of National Electric Association and Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)

Notable letterhead for the Richmond Virginian

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering

State Board of Education, Department of Public Education

Co-Operative Education Association of America; National Security League, Committee on Patriotism through Education

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

United States Department of Agriculture

"Meeting Much interest: The Demonstration Train Has Many Visitors in the Southwest;" "A Land of Opportunity: What Demonstration Work Is Doing for the State;" Tribute Paid to Professor Davidson;" "Eggleston's Accomplishments as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Virginia;" "What Is 4-H Club Work;" "An Extract from President Eggleston's Address to the Graduating Class, May 31, 1917"

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA; Virginia State Teacher's Association, Office of President

Virginia Polytechnic Institute Department of Chemistry

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Health, Bureau of Inspections

Notable letterhead from Equal Suffrage League of Virginia; notable letterhead from the Lynchburg News; State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg, VA; notable letterhead from Allegheny Ore and Iron Co.; Norfolk & Western Railway Company; notable letterhead from the Great Radford Fair; N & W Operates Farming Train

Notable letterhead from National Fire and Insurance Company of Hartford, CT

Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office

Notable letterhead from La Fayette Hotel

Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Health, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering; Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health

Co-operative Education Association of Virginia

Grand Lodge of Virginia I.O.O.F., Office of Grand Secretary; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Notable letterhead from Orange Judd Company; notable letterhead from Portsmouth Businessmen's Association

Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General

Commonwealth of Virginia, Dairy and Food Division

Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association

Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office; National Soil Fertility League

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Commonwealth of Virginia, Senate Chamber

Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Office of the General Claim Agent, Casualty Department

Notable letterhead from the J.P. Bell Company, INC; State Normal and Industrial School, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Appointment Committee; State Normal and Industrial School, Harrisonburg, VA, Office of the President; Co-operative Education Association of Virginia

Virginia Polytechnic Institute Athletic Association; Virginia Polytechnic Institute Department of Mathematics; Virginia Polytechnic Institute Office of the Secretary of the Faculty; Virginia Agricultural Experiment

Southern Conference for Education and Industry

Notable letterhead from the London Assurance Corporation

State Board of Education, Department of Public Instruction; Virginia Polytechnic Institute Office of the President

State Board of Education, Department of Public Instruction; Co-Operative Education Association; Notable letterhead from Hotel Main; General Education Board; Notable letterhead form Hotel Zinzendorf

Virginia State Livestock Sanitary Board

Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office; National Institution for Moral Instruction; notable letterhead from the Fastoria Incandescent Lamp Division; National Lamp Works of General Electric Company

Norfolk & Western Railway Company; Notable letterhead from R.F. Johnson Publishing Company; Notable letterhead from Chase City Manufacturing Company

Farmer's Wife; Smith-Lever Law; Farm women's interests

Notable letterhead from the Hotel Richmond; notable letterhead from The Alvarado

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President

Changes in the Virginia Experiment Station

Notable letterhead from the Southern Express Company; notable letterhead from the Greenville Sun

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Experimental Engineering; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Commandant

Commonwealth of Virginia, Commission of Fisheries; Notable letterhead from A.W. Kemp, INC.; Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Agriculture and Immigration

Co-Operative Education Association of Virginia; Virginia State Teacher's Association, Office of the Vice-President

Commonwealth of Virginia, Dairy and Feed Division; Lawrence Priddy Insurance

Notable letterhead from Murphy's Hotel; notable letterhead from Hotel Richmond

Commonwealth of Virginia

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Dean of Faculty; Lewis-Gale Hospital

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biology; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President; Virginia Agriculture Experiment Station

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Veterinary Science

Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Notable letterhead from the (Roanoke) World News; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President; Notable letterhead from Southern Express Company; Notable letterhead from Richmond Evening Journal

Department of Experimental Engineering; Department of Metallurgy and Metallography; Department of Mathematics; Department of Electrical Engineering; School of Graphics; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Shops Department

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemistry; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Dean of Faculty

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Secretary of the Faculty

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Dining Hall Department; Notable letterhead from Harris, Woodson Co. Inc.; The Bugle

Office of the President; Department of Modern Languages; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Shops Department; Department of Electrical Engineering; Department of Biology; Department of Experimental Engineering; Department of Chemistry; Department of Mining Engineering; Department of Physics; Department of Geology; Department of English; Department of Rhetoric; Department of Civil Engineering; Department of Metallurgy and Metallography; Department of Mathematics; Department of Veterinary Science; School of Graphics

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; New York State Department of Health; Commonwealth of Massachusetts--State Board of Insanity

Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates

Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates

Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of the State Corporation Commission; Co-Operative Education Association

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Commandant

Southern Express Company

Letter to the Appropriations Committee regarding College of William and Mary holding summer sessions at VPI; Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates; Commonwealth of Virginia, Senate Chamber; Letterhead from Algoma Orchards; State Board of Education, Department of Public Instruction; Notable letterhead from The Register

Sewage disposal plant for college and town; Proposed highway engineering curse; Estimated expenses of Engineering Department, 1914-1915

Department of Dairying and Animal Husbandry; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Organization of Animal Husbandry Department; History of infection abortion in the VPI herd; Letter re: commercial management of Dairy Husbandry, Animal Husbandry, Farm, and Creamery Departments

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Veterinary Science--appropriation

Status of Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of State Veterinarian; Invitation to the State Veterinary Medical Association Luncheon

Natural occurrence of copper ore under buildings; College water supply; Automatic signals for classes; Proposals for Department of Geology, including museum; Letterhead for Congrès Géologique International

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, College of Agriculture and Experiment Station; VPI Creamery balance sheet, 1912-1913; Skimming station at Vawter's Store; Annual Report, VPI Creamery

"The VPI and Arbor Day," Virginia Polytechnic Institute begins annual Arbor Day Festivities

Stock judging contest proposed; Proposed expenditures for livestock management

Expenditures of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Experimental Engineering; Letter from C.E. Allen, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, General Alumni Association, Secretary's Office; Apparatus needed for Department of Applied Mechanics and Experimental Engineering; Letter regarding improvements underway at VPI (July 29, 1914); Letter regarding upcoming address by Jackson Davis on "industrial side of public school work for Negroes"

Assistant librarian position and salary; Letter to Claudius Lee (Department of Electrical Engineering) regarding need for uniform system of central time

Proposed remodeling of Professor McBryde's cottage; Statement of present condition and needs of the Chemical Department (June 1914); Chart of cost per year of operating VPI Chemical Department for session 1912-1913 with similar departments at other institutions

Statement of need of funds for repair of college buildings (January 1914); Water works department appropriations; Expenditures on the new shops; Septic tank constructions; Power plant service; Library heating

Virginia Polytechnic Institute Athletic Association; Financial Standing of the Field House; Proposed funds for permanent athletic buildings

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Engineering Division; Department of Veterinary Science; School of Mining Engineering; Farm Machinery; Letter from Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College regarding Farm Machinery Course; United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry regarding poultry industry; Dairy and Animal Husbandry Departments; Need for poultry work; Need for Agricultural Engineering Department; Office of D.O. Matthews, Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, Heat and Power, Electric Light Department, Water Works, Campus, Steam Laundry regarding power plant needs; Registrar's chart of matriculates, 1911-1912 to 1915-1916

Needs of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Rhetoric

Letter regarding erection of Shops Department of Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Repairs of various buildings; Shop work in Civil Engineering course; Repair funds

Apparatus and equipment needed for Department of Electrical Engineering; Virginia Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association

Notable letterhead from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Needs of Virginia Polytechnic Institute Department of Mechanical Engineering; VPI Student branch of the American Society of Engineers; Economic management of the power plant

Letterhead, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, School of Graphics; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station--dogs on campus, college spring

Letter from Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Dairy and Food Division regarding testing cows for tuberculosis; Board of Visitors, July 23, 1914

Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the State Crop Pest Commission, Crop Pest Law; Guernsey bull controversy

Needs of Virginia Polytechnic Institute Department of Biology for 1914-1915; List of the more important trees and shrubs on VPI campus

Appropriations for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Department of Physics

Question of permitting cadets to go to the library after "call to quarters"

Value of student military training; Notable letterhead from the Bugle, 1916 with request to move drill hour; Cadets claim the right o have two lights in their room; Organization of VPI regiment; Quality of mess hall fare

Office of the Commandant, Shops Department; Department of Chemistry; Department of Veterinary Science; General Alumni Association, Executive Secretary's Office; Department of Rhetoric; Department of Biology; Office of the Dean of Faculty; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Department of Mechanical Engineering; W.L. Andrews, Commonwealth of Virginia, Senate Chamber

Davidson house

Sewage disposal plant

Letter regarding inspection of other colleges

Equipment for Shops Department of Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Letter regarding town spring; Arc lamps, conditions of water, septic tank

Proposed machinery hall; High School girls and boys basketball teams use of the field house

Creamery Matters

Students aggravating the bulls

Lady wants course in agriculture

Needs of Department of Applied Mechanics and Experimental Engineering; local chapters of national fraternities; Faculty travel

Notable letterhead from H.W. Johns Manville Co.; Estimates; Letterhead of the Barrett Company; Letterhead of the Richmond Lumber Company, Inc.; Letterhead of Enochs Bros.; Letterhead of Nelson Hardware Company; Notable letterhead of the Farrar Lumber Company

State Normal School for Women, East Radford, Virginia

Walks, Street Lights, List of all lights in town to which college is furnishing free current

Notable letterhead from Coast Artillery School, Department of Engineering and Mine Defense, Fort Monroe

Letter from Mannassas Industrial School for Colored Youth

Shops Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1916); Department of Graphics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Notable letterhead of Lawrence Priddy Insurance; notable letterhead from Wichita Mill and Elevator Company

Notable letterhead of Hotel Continental

Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the State Crop Pest Commission

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Commandant

Office of the Registrar; Notable letterhead from Alphons Custodis Chimney Construction Company; Notable letterhead from American Lead Pencil Company

Needs of the Department of Metallurgy and Metallography

Condition of roads to the mines

Business card from the Travelers Hotel

Industrial Commission of Virginia; Bills to provide vocational education; Workers' compensation

Boys agriculture club

Coal car tracer; Pocahontas Coal Sales Company; United States Fuel Administration; Power Plant; Coal shipments; United States Railroad Administration; Opening abandoned milk

Correspondence regarding article about wheelbarrow to be sent to move plant to Charlottesville and Harrisonburg State Normal appropriations

Letterhead of Philadelphia Wood and Textile Association and George Bryan correspondence

Student fees and protocol for reporting grades and absences

Waiters appointed for the session of 1917-1918

Search for Commandant of Cadets

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Dean of Faculty; Office of the Treasurer

Demerits

Dean of General Faculty; Statistics

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Notable letterhead from Troy Laundry Machine Company Ltd.; Notable letterhead from the Bugle, 1916; Certificate from the United States Food Administration appointing Dr. Eggleston Director if Colleges and School, Blacksburg, for the Federal Food Administration for Virginia for the duration of World War I

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Treasurer; notable letterhead from American Surety Company

Building renovations and erection of "shops"

Summer session proposed; College of William and Mary Summer session

Letterhead from the Bugle, 1914; Hazing

Student policy

Notable letterhead from Semora Supply Company

Notable letterhead from the Jacobson Printing Company

Office of the Dean of Faculty; Library; Shops Department; Office of the Treasurer

Power plant; expenditures on new "shops;" working hours

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Dean of Faculty; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of English

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Athletic Association; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Modern Languages; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President

State Normal School for Women

Requests for repairs in college buildings, roads; Coal orders

Commonwealth of Virginia, Dairy and Feed Division; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President

Agricultural High School

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mining Engineering; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Department of Interior, Bureau of Mining

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Agricultural Education; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Registrar

Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Agriculture and Immigration

Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service

Virginia truck experiment station

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Applied Mechanics and Experimental Engineering; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Lecture rooms

Norfolk and Western Railway Company; controversy over L.L. Jewel's will

Funds appropriated by General Assembly; Schenectady chapter of VPI Alumni Association

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Office of the Registrar; Dining Hall Department; Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Insurance; Office of D.O. Matthews, Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, Heat and Power, Electric Light Department, Water Works, Campus, Steam Laundry; Office of the Commandant; Shops Department; Department of Civil Engineering; Department of Physics; Department of Applied Mechanics and Experimental Engineering; Department of Geology; Department of Biology; Office of the President; Department of Electrical Engineering; Department of Graphics; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Department of Veterinary Science; Office of the Treasurer; Electric Light Department

Department of Civil Engineering; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Office of the Registrar; Office of D.O. Matthews, Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, Heat and Power, Electric Light Department, Water Works, Campus, Steam Laundry; Dining Hall Department; Farm Department

Buckeye Coal and Coke Company

Notable letterhead from Robert E. Lee Hall of the Blue Ridge Association; YMCA

Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Treasurer; Coal contract information

VPI General Alumni Association

Office of the Commandant; Office of the Registrar; Office of the Dean of the General Faculty; Department of Geology; Department of Modern Languages

Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

Farmville Herald; J.D. Eggleston editorials

Notable letterhead from the Chase City Manufacturing Company

Notable letterhead from Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Scholarships

Notable letterhead from Merchants' and Farmers' Bank

Notable letterhead from the Farm Journal; notable letterhead from the Prang Company

Notable letterhead from Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Virginia State Livestock Sanitary Board, State Veterinary Department; permit for medicinal whiskey

Agricultural high schools

YMCA--sex education

Letterhead from Town of Blacksburg; Septic tank

Notable letterhead from the John C. Winston Company; views of women in agriculture

Powerhouse boilers

Notable letterhead from the Florida Normal Institute and Commercial College

Department of Interior, Department of Education

Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates

Notable letterhead from Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Coal Delivery

Purchasing

The Royal Society of Literature; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; State Board of education, Department of Public Instruction; Southern Railway System

Agricultural High School for Coloreds; Notable letterhead from Murphy's Hotel

Workers' Compensation Act; Hazing; Appropriations from General Assembly; Coal

Coal; United States Fuel Administration

Salary increases for employees at Virginia agricultural Experiment Station; Annual Report--Experiments Performed

Appropriations, Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office

Electric lighting; act to promote vocational education

Shops Department; Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Summer School; Department of Metallurgy and Metallography; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Requests for appropriations for Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; College for colored youths

Department of Geology; Shops Department; Student fines; Examination schedule; Classroom time; moving picture apparatus

Notable letterhead from Virginia Polytechnic Institute Athletic Association; Office of D.O. Matthews, Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, Hat and Power, Electric Light Department, Water Works, Campus, Steam Laundry; Office of the Treasurer; Department of Modern Languages; Heating the library

Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute

Institution's progress along military lines; Major Lloyd W. Williams; Alumnigram

Creamery matters

Notable letterhead from Herbert Hoover, Washington D.C.; church participation in food conservation

Memorandum regarding importation of nursery stock into the United States

District extension agents in agricultural and home economics

Water rent; Coal mine

Notable letterhead from Cedarville Stock Farm; women extension agent controversy--Miss Scott affair

Cooperative extension work; notable letterhead from Hotel Harrington; Negro farmers; notable letterhead from Negro Teachers' Association

Miss Scott affair

Program clock

Notable letterhead from Allegheny Ore and iron company; notable letterhead from Miller, Rhoads, and Swartz Dry Goods, Inc.; notable letterhead from Norfolk and Western Railway Company; notable letterhead from Sydnor Pump and Well Company; notable letterhead from Virginia Livestock Sanitary Board, State Veterinary Department

Proposed annuity increases; notable letterhead from Allegheny Ore and Iron Company; notable letterhead from Miller, Rhoads, and Swartz Dry Goods, Inc.; notable letterhead from Shenandoah Life Insurance Company; Shops Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; notable letterhead from Commonwealth of Virginia, Senate Chamber

Christiansburg Hospital; correspondence regarding volume of autograph letters

Association of Virginia Colleges; Smith-Hughes Act

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations; Fuel--coal, coal mine

Women Extension agents in Virginia; Miss Scott Affair; Girls' club and home demonstration work

Office of the Dean of Faculty; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Requests for repairs and renovations; Electric lighting

Field House

Correspondence regarding the use of Mumford's Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession in the schools; The Co-operative Education Association of Virginia Admission of women to the university

Correspondence from Robert Moton, principal, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute regarding disposition of German African colonies; Training of colored young men and women

Dining hall rates

Shops Department of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Power plant; Parrott's shop duties controversy; Price increases for faculty

Four issues of Boys' Club letter

Hazing incident--John Fox; VPI in war time

Notable letterhead from Lawrence Priddy Insurance; financing new college shops

Notable letterhead from Pocahontas Coal Sales Company Coal

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Applied Mechanics and Experimental Engineering; Heating; Plunkett coal mines; Water supply; Coal consumption; Vocational Education

Letter regarding Stockton Heath shot in Professor Vawter's home

Notable letterhead from the Grove Stock Farm; notable letterhead from Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute; Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Employment Bureau; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Veterinary Science; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor's Office

Cost of dining hall supplies

Cheese industry at Spring Valley (Grayson County); treatment for "Black Head" disease in turkeys; local fruit culture

Letterhead from Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Notable letterhead from War Camp Community Services; Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General; Coal

Telegraph Service

Telephone Service

Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Education; Agricultural high schools for Negroes; Proposed school in Blacksburg; Rosenwald Fund for rural schools for colored children; Smith-Hughes Act

Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates; Commonwealth of Virginia, Secretary of the Commonwealth; Office of the State Commissioner of Prohibition; Georgia Land and Livestock Company

United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry; State agent for home demonstration work; Smith-Lever fund; Miss Scott affair

Correspondence regarding women's share in Smith-Lever appropriations

Women's clubs; Report of the Demonstration Plot at the State Normal School for 1915, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Game and Inland Fisheries; Virginia State Livestock Sanitary Board, State Veterinary Department

Notable letterhead from Buick; notable letterhead from Federal Motor Truck Company

Question of professional players on football team; controversy over "Bumps" Turner, professional wrestler, on the football team; Letter from the Office of the Commandant regarding fire hazards in the Student Pressing Club

Notable letterhead from the Register; Annual Thanksgiving football game

Correspondence from Department of State, Washington regarding detention of VPI instructor in Italy for military service; Request for salary of V.P.I. Cadet Band for 1918-1919

Notable letterhead from J. Hoge Woolwine regarding V.P.I. competition with the merchants of Blacksburg; Anna Campbell, teacher; Correspondence from G.R. Ragan, architect regarding plan for Blacksburg Public School; Town use of water; Letter from D.H. Keister, Mayor of Blacksburg regarding Main Street, delivery carts, and other town matters

Notepaper from Hotel Roanoke; Correspondence from American League to Limit Armaments; Hazing incident

Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations

Commonwealth of Virginia, House of Delegates

Notable letterhead from Hunt Club Shoes

Letter to J.E. Williams regarding Eggleston's accomplishments during his administration; notable letterhead from the Executive Committee of Publication of the Presbyterian Church in the united States, Editorial Department; Correspondence from Christiansburg Industrial institute regarding Dr. Eggleston's election to Board of Directors of Christiansburg Colored Hospital; notable letterhead from City of Asheville, North Caroline; South Carolina Cotton Association

Correspondence from Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, Commissioner's Office regarding work hours of women employed in the laundry; notable letterhead from the National Automatic Sprinkler Association

Notable letterhead from The Southern Planter; Collegiate Training in Agriculture at VPI

Student expenses; Tabulated Comparative Lists of College Fees etc., 1891-1916

Notable letterhead from the Farmer Boy

Staff and Officers from 1872 to July 1, 1919

Letter from Eggleston regarding requirement to sign pledge before signing for matriculation and order of the Board of Visitors disbanding fraternities; permission to organize Delta Sigma Sigma fraternity

Letter from R.H. Price, member of the Public School Board, Blacksburg District, regarding fraternities

Letterhead from Herman Hecht, Baker of Fine Breads and Cakes

Correspondence from the Bugle

Letterhead from the Richmond Virginia

Norfolk and Western Railway company public relations

Name of the college

Induction in the military

Notable letterhead from Pyrene Manufacturing Company; William L. Pierce insurance statement; Hauling crushed stone on the Norfolk and Western Railway; Proposal for steam heating apparatus

Notable letterhead from the Hotel Carroll; pasteurization of milk

Analyses of the college and town springs

Correspondence from Aubrey E. Strode, 19th Senatorial District (Amherst) Commonwealth of Virginia, Senate Chamber; notable letterhead from Equal Suffrage League of Virginia; notable letterhead from Stonewall Jackson College (for Women), Abington

National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States, Department of the East; Negro work in Virginia; correspondence from Paul N. Derring, General Secretary; Annual Report of the Student Department of the State Young Men's Christian Association, April 1, 1917-April 1, 1918

Biographical / historical:

Joseph D. Eggleston was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1867. He attended college at Hampden-Sydney College, completing his degree in 1886. He taught at schools in several southern states before becoming the superintendent in Asheville, North Carolina in 1891 and later superintendent of schools in Farmville, Virginia. During his tenure as state Superintendent of Public Instruction (1906-1912), he worked hard for improvements in rural schools. In January of 1913, he began work with the Field Service in Rural Education in the US Office of Education. The same year, he resigned to take the post of VPI President (1913-1919).

Eggleston became the seventh president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in 1913. His six-year administration was most notably marked by the development of the agricultural extension program at VPI. In 1914, the Agricultural Extension Division was established. The Virginia General Assembly transferred control of agricultural demonstration work to VPI, so the Home Demonstration program began in 1915. Much of Eggleston's presidential tenure was during the years of World War I. The college became a training school for both the army and navy during this time. A Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program was established at VPI in 1916. In January 1919, the college was designated by the War Department as one of twelve "Distinguished Colleges" in the nation for its contribution to the war effort. In the spring of 1919, Eggleston resigned to become president of Hampden-Sydney College, his alma mater. He served there from 1919 to 1939. Eggleston died in Farmville, Virginia, in 1953.

Acquisition information:
The Records of the Office of the President, Joseph Dupuy Egglestonl were transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in March-June 1973 and June 1978.
Appraisal information:

The headings on the original folders were retained in the inventory even though the language at times is archaic, such as the use of the word "colored."

Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of Records of the Office of the President, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston was completed prior to 1979. Additional processing, arrangement, and description was completed prior to 2000.

Arrangement:

This collection has been divided into three separate series. The collection has been kept in the original order in which it was received even though this order in not consistently alphabetical or chronological.

Physical location:
Please note: This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.