Repository: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / Date range: 2019

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

Description:

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.

Email: specref@vt.edu

Phone: (540) 231-6308

Fax: (540) 231-3694

Web: spec.lib.vt.edu

Environmental Publications and Correspondence Box 118, Folder 6

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Environmental Publications and Correspondence Box 118, Folder 15

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Environmental Publications and Correspondence Box 118, Folder 30

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ES 520 Environmental Public Policy Course Box 118, Folder 31

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Fries Textile Mill Oral History Collection 7 Volumes 7 oral histories in 13 audio files.

This collection consists of oral history interviews with Fries, Va. locals that either previously worked in the textile mill or grew up around it. Interviews were conducted by Bess Pittman and Kevin Combs.

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Garlinghouse Home Collection, Ranch Home No. 9540, Built Project, c. 1950s - 2023 0.55 Cubic Feet 1 oversize folder

This collection contains two sets of houseplans produced by Garlinghouse, an annotated issue of Garlinghouse Homes from which the plans were ordered, and a set of photographs of the as-built ranch-style home in Kentucky.

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Green New Deal Op Ed Box 116, Folder 21

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Hard Times Blues Collection 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

The Hard Times Blues Collection contains materials about the play Hard Times Blues by Lucy Sweeney and its production by the Dumas Theatre Troupe in 2003. Items include background research, correspondence, and a 2019 revised copy of the play as well as programs, flyers, photographs, and a newspaper article about the 2003 production. The play is about Blacksburg local and Virginia Tech employee Floyd "Hardtimes" Meade (1882-1941), who was influential as a mascot performer and turkey trainer for football games. His turkeys served as an early predecessor to the HokieBird mascot representing Virginia Tech today.

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Hard Times Blues (revised edition) by Lucy Sweeney Box 1, Folder 1

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Historical Maps Collection 45 Cubic Feet 13 flat file drawers

A collection of maps depicting geographic features, transportation routes, geological composition, historical settlements, themes, property divisions, and political boundaries, ranging in geographic scope from local (Virginia Tech campus maps) to global (world maps).

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