This collection includes pennants and banners from the University dating from early 1900 to about the 1980s. Through these years the institution's name changed several times along with the seal, the pennants and banners represent some of these name and seal changes.

In 1884, the State of Virginia opened the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. The school underwent several names changes including State Normal School for Women in Farmville, State Teachers College at Farmville, Longwood College and then finally in 2002, the school was formally renamed Longwood University. Early in the school's founding the academic focus was on training students to become teachers, the original crest introduced in 1886 was a dove in the center with the moto "Education to All – We Teach to Teach." In 1949, the name of the school was changed from State Teachers College to Longwood University as the school began to offer more liberal arts options to students, but the seal remained the same. In 1973, when the college officially became co-ed it became clear that the college seal was no longer representative of the schools mission, so in May 1974, the Board of Visitors officially adopted the Rotunda as the new college seal.

Provenance These materials make up an artificial collection that was and will continue to be, collected by Greenwood Library as well as other offices and departments at Longwood University. Several of the pennants were originally collected by the Alumni relations office and then transferred to the Archives.