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VT Special Collections and University Archives

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Located on the first floor of Newman Library. Open M-F 9-5, appointments preferred, walk-ins welcome. More info at https://bit.ly/scua-byappt. Website: https://spec.lib.vt.edu

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VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 12h ago

Take two! A tech issue postponed last week’s episode, so if you thought you missed it, you’re in luck. Join us at 3 p.m. as we explore air crash investigation through the Melvin N. Gough Papers, including crash reports & investigation theory.✈️ 🔗http://twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Air Crash Investigation, featuring a black and white aerial photo of the crash site of a United Air Lines DC-8 on July 11, 1961 at Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · last wk.

Unfortunately, today's stream must be postponed due to some technical difficulties. See you next week!

VT Special Collections and University Archives@vt-scua.bsky.social · last wk.

This week we're heading to the mid-20th century to learn about the field of air crash investigation using the Melvin N. Gough Papers. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. as we explore the investigation theory and example crash reports. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · last wk.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 2w ago

What were famous Americans reading in the 1970s? This week we're exploring their 📚 book recommendations with the papers of librarian Theda Gibson (bit.ly/Ms1977-002). Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 👉 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode Celebrity Book Recommendations, featuring a four by three grid of book covers including from top left: The Call of the Wild, Meridian, The Trees, Look Homeward Angel, The Yearling, The Adventures of Augie March, Little Women, The Americanization of Emily, Ship of Fools, The Forsyte Saga, Portnoy's Complaint, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, we rejoin Fannie Murdoch via her teenage diary as the year turns from 1862 to 1863. Join us at 3:00 p.m. for more of her thoughts, fears, and joys as a young teenage girl in the Confederacy. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Civil War Diary of a Confederate Teen, Part 9, featuring an engraved illustration of two women in dresses, enhanced with color. The image is captioned "Les Modes Parisiennes, January 1863". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · last mo.

It's time to stop and spell the ... orchids! Today's #ArchivalAdventures takes us back to the early 20th century as we learn about orchids using a collection featuring more than 200 photographs of these fascinating plants. Join us at 3:00 p.m. on twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode Orchidology, featuring a sepia toned photograph of an orchid. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's time for an adventure! This week: the story of a man trying to make a living in the fictional jungles of Jupiter's moon Io. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. as we continue our look at Moskowitz' 1940 list of SciFi "classics". 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "The Mad Moon by Stanley G. Weinbaum" – Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 18 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 30, featuring line art of a man pointing dismissively at some extremely long-necked aliens carrying a body as they sheepishly depart. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's time for an adventure! This week: an experimental medical treatment gone awry in Weinbaum's "The Adaptive Ultimate." Join us on #Twitch 3:00 p.m. as we continue our look at Moskowitz' 1940 list of SciFi "classics". 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "The Adaptive Ultimate by Stanley G. Weinbaum" – Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 17 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 29, featuring line art of a woman dramatically stabbing a dagger into her chest while two men look on with shock, one stretching out his hand as if to stop her. The image is captioned "'Stupid!' she said. 'This is quite useless. Look!'" Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This week, we're heading to the 1960s for a refreshing look at two collections of Coca-Cola materials. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. for a taste of an iconic American brand's history. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode Coca-Cola from Coast to Coast, featuring a mid-century pop-art illustration in red and green, showing male blue-collar workers enjoying Coca-Cola from a vending machine. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week, we'll explore John D. Clark's work in science fiction, including the first sci-fi story to deal with antimatter and his connections to prominent authors in the genre. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "The Science Fiction of John D. Clark" featuring a line art illustration of a rocket launching from the moon as beams of energy project out the other side of the lunar body. The earth can be seen in the background. There is a caption that reads "There was the sudden, baffling sensation of weightlessness, as all acceleration left the ship, which was falling freely after the Moon-". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, we rejoin Fannie Murdoch in 1862 Mississippi via her teenage diary. Join us at 3:00 p.m. for more of Fannie Murdoch's thoughts, fears, and joys as a young teenage girl in the Confederacy. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Civil War Diary of a Confederate Teen, Part 7, featuring an illustration of various women in dresses, enhanced with color. The image is captioned "Godey's Fashions for September 1862". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's time for an adventure with space pirates from Pluto, as imagined in 1935 in Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The Red Peri." Join us on #Twitch 3:00 p.m. as we continue our look at Moskowitz' 1940 list of SciFi "classics". 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "The Red Peri by Stanley G. Weinbaum" – Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 16 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 28, featuring the cover of Astounding Stories from November 1935 with artwork depicting a pyramidal red-orange spaceship witha gleaming orb at its peak and a golden cigar-shaped spaceship both above icy peaks. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week on #ArchivalAdventures Archivist Kira joins as we explore Pi(e). We'll get a taste of historic recipies for pie 🥧 and explore the history of the number π (3.14159...) on our slightly early #PieDay episode. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 👉 twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode Pi(e), featuring a picture of a pie with the mathematical symbol for the number pi on its top crust. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week, we're learning more about the care and feeding of rockets! 🚀 Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. for more about the early days of liquid rocket fuels with the John D. Clark papers on this week's #ArchivalAdventures. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "More Care and Feeding of Rockets" featuring a black and white photograph of a woman placing golf tees to upside down, representing missiles, on a floor near a model battleship during a session of Fletcher Pratt's Naval Wargame, circa 1940. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Civil War Diary of a Confederate Teen, Part 6, featuring an illustration of various women in dresses, enhanced with color. The image is captioned "Godey's Fashions for August 1862". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This week we head to the turn of the 20th century and the iconic advertising illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith from magazines such as "Ladies' Home Journal" and "Good Housekeeping". Come explore with us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "Jessie Willcox Smith's Advertising Illustrations", featuring an 1899 advertisement for Ivory Soap showing a young girl using soap as building blocks while a young boy watches. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What do you know about the care and feeding of rockets? 🚀 Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. as we learn about the early days of liquid rocket fuels with the John D. Clark papers on this week's #ArchivalAdventures. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "The Care and Feeding of Rockets" featuring a black and white photograph of John D. Clark, a white man in a suit and glasses, posing next to chemistry equipment including various glass tubes and beakers. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hop in for a ride through time! This week's story from our 1940 list of sci-fi classics, "Night" by Don A. Stuart, is a sequel to "Twilight" and takes us billions of years further into the future. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 👉 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "Night by Don A. Stuart", featuring a black and white line drawing of a man holding a space suit while looking with astonishment at advanced machines. The image is captioned "The machines were far beyond anything ever conceived—machines of perfection." Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're flying into our 2026 #ArchivalAdventures faster than the speed of sound as we explore the development of supersonic commercial aircraft by NASA with the F. Edward McLean Papers. Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 👉 twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "Supersonic Aircraft Development", featuring a model of a supersonic aircraft fixed to a mounting arm in a wind tunnel. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's Winter Wonderland time! Today's archival materials will blanket us in fresh snowfall as we explore snow-related items from our collections.❄️ Join us at 3 p.m. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios 📺Catch up on past episodes: youtube.com/user/VaTechL... #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "A Universe of Sky and Snow!" Featuring the oil painting "Snow Scene" by American artist Walter Biggs. The painting features a person and a dog walking through snow toward a green barn. A church steeple is in the background, and a snow-covered birdbath is in the foreground. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This week we're peering into a future where intellect reigns & brains inside life support machines are common, in a story by Harry Bates. Join us Wed., at 3 p.m. as we continue our look at Moskowitz's 1940 list of SciFi classics.🧠 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "Alas, All Thinking! by Harry Bates" – Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 14 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 26, featuring a black and white line drawing of a modern human observing a biomechanical mechanism with a gigantic braincase while a woman with a slightly enlarged braincase looks on. The caption reads "Why should he move? she asked. That stopped me for a little." Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today, we rejoin Fannie Murdoch in 1861 Mississippi via her teenage diary. Join us at 3:00 p.m. for more of Fannie Murdoch's thoughts, fears, and joys as a young teenage girl in the Confederacy. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Civil War Diary of a Confederate Teen, Part 4, featuring an illustration of various women in dresses, enhanced with color. The image is captioned "Godey's Fashions for May 1862". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today, on #ArchivalAdventures we're heading to Venus to learn about intelligent plant life in a story by Stanley G. Weinbaum. Join us at 3 p.m. as we continue our look at Moskowitz's 1940 list of SciFi classics.🌱 🔗 twitch.tv/Rogan27

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode "The Lotus Eaters by Stanley G. Weinbaum" – Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 13 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 25, featuring a black and white line drawing of rocket spaceship among tall, jagged mountains. Two individuals in space suits are exiting a hatch on the side. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today we return to the James Dean Collection to explore the design and development of NASA's Skylab, the International Space Station, and the Space Shuttle. Join us for #ArchivalAdventures at 3 p.m.! 🧑‍🚀🚀🌕 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures James Dean Collection, Part IV: Skylab, ISS, and Space Shuttles, featuring a collage of various proposed concepts for the space shuttle submitted to NASA by aircraft manufacturers. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today, we rejoin Fannie Murdoch in 1861 Mississippi via her teenage diary. Join us at 3 p.m. for more of Fannie Murdoch's thoughts, fears, and joys as a young teenage girl in the Confederacy. 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Civil War Diary of a Confederate Teen, Part 3, featuring an illustration of various women in dresses, some enhanced with some color. The image is captioned "Godey's Fashions for August 1861". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today we indulge the spirit of the season 👻 with a theme that is creepy, disturbing, and unsettling. We're exploring items of unintentional horror 😱 with special guest Archivist Kira on #ArchivalAdventures Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 👉 twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode: Unintentional Horror with Special Guest Archivist Kira. Featured is a black and white picture of a round layer cake. On it, in bright red icing are the words "Parties for Children". The combination of the black and white cake and red icing is evocative of classic horror movie aesthetics. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📡Can you hear me now? Long before cell phones, there was the Walkie-Talkie! On today’s #ArchivalAdventures, we listen for messages from the past as we explore the invention of the Walkie-Talkie using the AI Gross Papers. Roger that? 🔴 Live at 3 p.m.: twitch.tv/VTULStudios

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode 2009, Invention of the Walkie Talkie, featuring a black and white photograph of an early walkie-talkie. It is a long rectangular metal box. On one side are various dials and switches. On another, there is an earpiece and a microphone similar to a telephone handset. It is captioned "Battery Operated Walkie Talkie, 1938, 300 MHZ". Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Unfortunately, this episode must be delayed til next week. There is very LOUD 🔊 construction noise in our regular studio space. We'll catch you all next Wednesday to explore walkie-talkie history.

VT Special Collections and University Archives@vt-scua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's time for an adventure! This week we listen for messages from the past as we explore the invention of the Walkie-Talkie using the Al Gross Papers! bit.ly/Ms2001-011 Join us on #Twitch at 3:00 p.m. 👉 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

VT Special Collections and University Archives @vt-scua.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This week "Dr. Conklin sets out to abolish a heated argument about peanut brittle" in Thomas Calvert McClary's "Shortwave Experiment", Join us on #Twitch 3:00 p.m. as we continue our look at Moskowitz' 1940 list of SciFi "classics". 🔗 twitch.tv/VTULStudios #ArchivalAdventures

Promo for Archival Adventures Episode Shortwave Experiment by Thomas Calvert McClary – Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 12 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 24, featuring a black and white line drawing of a standing human skeleton with a field of energy radiating from it. A sci-fi machine sits in front of it, also radiating energy. An older white man, with a receding hairline and wearing a suit, and his cat are looking at the skeleton with shocked expressions. Instructions on accessibility accommodations are included at the bottom of the promo: If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.