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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Dr.
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 26041-9001
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.
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Start Over Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Date range 1996

Weisberg, Sarelle T., Papers, 1982/2006 0.3 Cubic Feet Box 8

FAIA; New York Architect and principal of Anhouse + Weisberg Associates. Educated at Vassar College (B.A., Art History, 1950), and Columbia University (M. Arch., 1972). Supervising architect/engineer and airport planner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1979-1984). Downstate Design Manager for the New York State Facilities Development Corporation (1984-1994), where she managed construction projects for the New York State Office of Mental Health and Office of Mental Retardation/Development Disabilities. Collection consists of the dossier Weisberg prepared when applying for Fellowship in the AIA and other biographical and professional information.

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  2. IAWA Small Collections, 1907/2013
  3. Persons and Associations

Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918/2006 2.2 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985
This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.
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Wena Dows Architectural Collection, 1952/2005 21.1 Cubic Feet 1 box; 86 oversize folders

Dows, Wena W., 1928-
Architect Wena Dows earned her B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950 and began working independently, specializing in residential remodeling, in 1954. Along with her architectural commitments she also worked as a nutritionist. The Wena Dows Architectural Collection contains drawings, supporting text documents, photographs and slides of Dows' addition and renovation projects for residences in California from 1952 to 2005, along with information about a few commercial projects.
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Wendy Scott Bertrand Architectural Collection, 1954/2012 15.73 Cubic Feet

Bertrand, Wendy
Wendy Bertrand is a registered architect, rug weaver, self-described feminist and author living in Northern California since 1967. This collection documents her personal and professional activism and activities between 1954-2012, including her architectural studies, organizational activities, family life, travel, professional writing, textile projects, and career with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Forest Service.
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