Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
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
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers, Ms2001-005, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
3.8 Cubic Feet 1 box, 8 oversize folders
Creator:
Currie, Virginia M. Herz, 1913-2006
Abstract:
This collection contains watercolors executed by Virginia M. Herz Currie, as well as information pertaining to the 1995 Valiant Woman Award and a scrapbook.
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], Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers, Ms2001-005, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers contain watercolors probably done while she was a student in the architectural program at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s. There is also a scrapbook from a neighborhood beautification project in Chicago in 1966 and the 1995 Valiant Woman Award.

Biographical / historical:

Virginia M. Herz was born in Minnesota in 1913. She graduated in 1936 from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis with a degree in Interior Architecture. While in the program she met her future husband, fellow architecture student, Leonard James Currie and they married in 1937. The couple traveled over much of the world including Bogota, Columbia, Penang, Malausia, Boston, Chicago, and Blacksburg, Virginia. The American Institute of Architects elected Currie to Honorary Society Membership in recognition of her voluntary efforts to improve the natural and built environment, and in particular for her leadership in the Blacksburg Beautification program resulting in landscaped medians throughout town. The couple had three children - Barbara, Robert, and Elizabeth. Currie died in 2006 at the age of 92.

Acquisition information:
The Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers were donated to Special Collections in 2001.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Virginia M. Herz Currie Papers commenced and was completed in 2001.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard