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Photograph of Marva Felder (VPI's first African-American Homecoming Queen) and William Billups

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Photograph of women students with sheep

Photographs of Patricia Miller, c.1959

In 1959, Patricia Ann Miller was the first woman to receive a commission at VPI. Each semester, she enrolled in Corps classes, but was denied. She eventually applied for a commission from the Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps and was commissioned…

Photographs of VPI from the 1920s

These photos offer a glimpse of what campus looked like in the first years that women students were admitted.

Photographs relating to early Home Economics history on campus, including images of the labs in 1921 and the building that housed the program in 1931

VT Stories Oral History with Ida Powell, May 17, 2018 (Ms2016-015)

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Ida Powell graduated from Virginia Tech in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in home economics. In this hour-long interview, Powell discusses her experience as a female student attending Virginia Tech's campus in the 1950s as well as her humanitarian…

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