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C. David Loeks Papers 7.7 Cubic Feet 15 boxes; 1 oversize folder

Loeks, C. David (Conrad David), 1923-2006
Papers of city planner C. David Loeks (1923-2006), St. Paul city planning director; Twin Cities Metropolitan Planning Commission executive director; Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress chief executive officer; Hudson Basin Project executive director; and Virginia Tech professor of urban and regional planning, consisting largely of reports and background materials generated by Loeks' work on various planning projects.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Charles Burchard Collection 36.9 Cubic Feet 37 boxes; 9 folders

Burchard, Charles, 1913-1990
The Charles Burchard Collection includes personal and professional correspondence, architectural drawings from private practice work, publications, subject files, administrative papers relating to Burchard's teaching at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (1946-1953), as a senior partner at A.M. Kinney and Associates in Cincinnati, Ohio (1953-1963), and from his tenure as dean of the College of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (later Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). Materials in this collection span Burchard's education and career, dating from between about 1935 and 1989.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Charles Goodsell Collection 6 Cubic Feet 24 boxes

Goodsell, Charles
This collection includes photographs and negatives of public buildings--mostly within the United States--produced by Charles Goodsell for use in two of his books, The Social Meaning of Civic Space: Studying Political Authority through Architecture and The American Statehouse. Also includes published copies of the books.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Charles Sears Oral History Interview 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Sears, Charles, d. 1998
Audiocassette tape contains an oral history interview with Virginia Tech Professor Charles Sears, conducted by John Straw, University Archivist. Sears discusses the history of the Virginia Tech Geology Department (today the Department of Geosciences), where he served as a professor and founded the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Christopher C. Kraft Papers 28 Cubic Feet 27 boxes; 6 folders [plus 2 boxes of duplicate materials]

Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019
The Christopher C. Kraft Papers consists of approximately 28 cu. ft. of manuscripts, particularly NACA and NASA reports and documents, meeting notes and agendas, and research materials. A later donation contains the manuscript for 2001 Kraft's autobiography. Kraft (1924-2019) graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) in 1944 and went on to become NASA's first flight director and the director of the Johnson Space Center.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Clarence Trent Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Trent, Clarence E. (Clarence Elmore), 1904-1991
The collection comprises the papers of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) alum and professor Clarence E. Trent (1904-1991), having to do with his involvement in American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Lutheran Campus Ministry at VPI, and his engineering education.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Collection, 7 Cubic Feet 7 boxes, 1 framed oversize picture

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
The collection contains material collected by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). Materials include pamphlets, scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, slides, video tapes, invitations, and programs from department, college, and university events.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

College of Education History Records 0.6 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

The College of Education History Records primarily consist of oral history interviews regarding the history of the College of Education at Virginia Tech. Interviews were conducted in November and December of 1989 by the students of Patrick Carlton, Associate Professor of Education at Virginia Tech. The interviewees were faculty at the College of Education.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

College of Education Restructuring Records 3 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Education (1971-1996)
The collection includes publicly circulated e-mails, reports, and meeting handouts that served as major communications during the restructuring of Virginia Tech's College of Education. Also contains transcripts of speeches given by officials as well as some meetings, and field notes by Jan Nespor of meetings with the "task forces." Also contains materials relating to the immediate response to Virginia Tech President Paul Torgersen's decision and the early planning for the merger with the College of Human Resources. The records essentially stop after January 1996.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Conan W. Vaughan, Jr., Papers 1 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Vaughan, Conan W., Jr., 1906-1990
The papers document the life of Virginia Tech alum Conan W. Vaughan, Jr. (1906-1990) and consist of photographs, correspondence, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, files, and other literature almost exclusively from Vaughan's tour of duty (1941-1944) in Iceland and Europe during World War II, and his involvement in the U.S. Army Reserve in the late 1940s and 1950s. Of special interest are copies of correspondence between Vaughan and George Washington Carver, which run from 1928 to 1942.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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