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Collection: Selections from the Historical Photograph Collection at Special Collections

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First five women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute

This is a photograph of the first five full-time women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (left to right): Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, Ruth Terrett, Lucy Lee Lancaster, Louise Jacobs, Carrie Taylor Sibold. An additional seven women enrolled…

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Hillcrest Hall, the first women's dormitory on the VPI campus, completed in 1940. Hillcrest was often referred to as the "Skirt Barn" by the campus community in its early years.

Photograph of Anna M. Campbell

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Photograph of Jean Harshburger and Representative William C. Wamper.

Jean Harshburger was the first women elected class president, by the class of 1974. In this photograph, Harshburger is pictured with then Representative William C. Wamper.