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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Primary Collecting Areas:
Local/regional history (Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, and Appalachian South); the American Civil War; Science and technology history (incl. aerospace, aeronautics, engineering, and speculative fiction); History of women in architecture (incl. the International Archive of Women in Architecture); Culinary history (incl. Virginia and southern cookery, children’s cookbooks and nutrition, food production and technology, and cocktail history); University Archives
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Special Collections is located in Carol M. Newman Library at Virginia Tech. Special Collections includes manuscript collections, rare books, and the University Archives, as well as state, local and historical maps and photographs. Our mission is to collect and preserve unique, historical materials and provide access to them in their original form.
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Start Over Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Date range 1938 Subjects History of Women in Architecture

Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection, 1924/2019 5.2 Cubic Feet 6 boxes; 2 oversize folders

Sokolina, Anna P.
Anna P. Sokolina is an architectural historian. The majority of the collection consists of her publications, professional documentation, conferences participation, exhibit catalogs, teaching materials, and materials related to her involvement in the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
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Architectural League of New York: Archive of Women in Architecture Records, 1892/1976 5.2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes and 4 oversize folders

Architectural League of New York
The Architectural League of New York created the Archive of Women in Architecture Records in 1973 to gather biographical and project data about women professionals in the field of architecture and other related disciplines. This information was used to create a 1977 exhibition and the book, Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective, edited by Susana Torre.
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Claire Rufer-Eckmann Architectural Collection, 1928/1958 3.1 Cubic Feet 1 box, 6 oversize folders

Rufer-Eckmann, Claire, 1914-1974
Claire Rufer-Eckmann (1914-1974) was an architect in Bern, Switzerland. The collection consists of architecture class notes taken by Rufer-Eckmann at l'École Polytechnique Federale de Zurich, 1928-1935, original sketches and a report on her travels in Sweden and Finland in the late 1930s, and over forty working drawings created by her as part of SAFFA 58, an exhibition of women's roles in Switzerland.
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H. May Steinmesch Papers, 1915 - 1975 (bulk 1915-1950), 1915/1975 2.5 Cubic Feet

Steinmesch, H. May, 1893-1979
Henrietta May Steinmesch was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1893. After graduating from the University of Washington in St. Louis, she worked on local governmental and residential projects; during World War II she worked for the Army of Engineers and Air Force, drafting maps and plotting airfields. In 1943, she moved West to California, where she remained until her death in 1979. Materials in the collection consist of watercolors, sketches, block prints, photographs, taped interviews, clippings, and several architectural drawings.
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Mary Anne Shephard Manuscript, 1847/2016 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Shephard, Mary Anne
The Mary Anne Shephard Manuscript is a manuscript titled, "Principles and Illustrations of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture", created by Shephard, possibly from England, in 1847 that details gothic architecture through descriptions and drawings, with an additional focus on churches and ministers. This may be based on Matthew Holbrech Bloxam's The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture (London, 1829). While the majority of the document was written in 1847, there are dates written that reach 1850, 1950, and 2016.
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Mary Brown Channel Architectural Collection, 1936/2002, bulk 1936/1950 11 Cubic Feet 10 boxes and 36 oversize folders

Channel, Mary Brown, 1907-2006
After graduating from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1929, Mary Ramsay Brown Channel earned her degree in architecture at Cornell University in 1933. She returned to her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia, and worked at a firm for two years before opening her own office as the first registered woman architect in Virginia. She became known for her residential and church designs. Her collection includes sketches and drawings for about 160 mostly residential projects in the Portsmouth area. Also included are some college drawings and projects.
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Meeting Minutes of the Art League of Philadelphia and Diary of Art League Member Elsa Marie Hofheinz, 1928/1947 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Hofheinz, Elsa Marie, 1912-2012
This collection contains a book of meeting minutes for the Art League of Philadelphia recorded primarily by secretaries Margaret Nefferdorf and Elsa Hofheinz. The collection also includes Elsa Hofheinz's diary from 1928 when she was in high school.
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Susana Torre Architectural Collection, 1830/2003, bulk 1967/2003 26.4 Cubic Feet 23 boxes, 28 oversize folders, 3 framed drawings, and 1 model

Torre, Susana, 1944-
After earning her degree in architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentinean Susana Torre arrived in New York in 1968 to study and practice architecture. Women's place in architecture and renovation of buildings are topics of particular interest to her. The Susana Torre collection consists of professional correspondence, project files, architectural drawings and sketches of some of her works, research notes, published articles about and by Torre, and teaching notes.
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