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How WW1 Changed Us

Title

How WW1 Changed Us

Description

Collection of exhibit images for the How WW1 Changed Us: Virginia Tech project. Image descriptions and citations can be found within the exhibit:https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/exhibits/show/ww1changedus/

Contributor

Daniel Newcomb and Joshua Buckingham

Files

How WW1 Changed Us Thumbnail.jpg

Line Break.jpg

0. Introduction Cover.jpg

View of the Preston and Olin Building on the campus of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Institute (VAMC)

VPI Cadet Band.jpg

1918 Upper Quad.jpg

1. ROTC Cover.jpg

1.1 Sheet music cover for the popular 1916 war preparedness song America Prepare.jpg

1.2 VPI campus newspaper announcing the establishment of an ROTC unit at VPI, 7 December 1916.jpg

1.3 Virginia Polytechnic Institute Infantry ROTC Company A on the Drillfield, 1918.jpg

2. SATC Cover.jpg

2.1 Authorization for establishment of the Students’ Army Training Corps, 1918..jpg

2.2 SATC students learning mechanics, 1918.jpg

2.3 SATC students on VPI Drillfield learning wireless communication, 1918.jpg

2.3 SATC students behind Old McBryde Hall learning bridge construction, 1918.jpg

2.4 SATC students during bayonet practice on VPI Drillfield, 1918.jpg

3. Service Cover.jpg

3.1 Patriotic drawing from the 1918 VPI yearbook showing soldiers saluting the American flag.jpg

3.2 Photograph of Lt. John Castleman taken during his service with the 99th Aero Squadron.jpg

3.3 Photograph of the officers of the 99th Aero Squadron taken in 1918.jpg

3.4 Photograph of Clifford W. Hubbard who served in the 355th Infantry Regiment, 89th Division.jpg

3.5 American doughboys walking through cleared German trenches near Bantheville Wood.jpg

4. The Rock Cover.jpg

4.1 Photograph showing the front of the Rock on Virginia Tech’s Upper Quad, taken on December 19, 2021.jpg

4.2 Photograph of the back of the Rock on Virginia Tech’s Upper Quad showing the names of 11 alumni who died in France, taken on December 19, 2021.jpg

4.3 Captain Lloyd Williams the first VPI servicemember killed in action during the First World War on June 12, 1918.jpg

4.4 Lieutenant Harry Clay Williams the last VPI servicemember killed in action during the First World War on November 6, 1918.jpg

4.5 Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets morning formation in front of the Rock, taken on January 25, 2021.jpg

5. Race Cover.jpg

5.1 Two black soldiers work alongside a white operator as they saw logs in Bains les Bains, Vosges, France. Photograph taken on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1918.jpg

5.2 301st Labor Battalion unloading wheat from lighters at the port of Brest, France. Photograph taken 7 May 1918..jpg

5.3 Photograph of Private George E. Morrison from Dublin, Virginia taken in May 1918..jpg

5.4 Company C, 367th Regiment, 92nd Division unit photograph taken in May 1918 prior to arriving in France.png

5.5 Irving Linwood Peddrew, III during his first year at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, c. 1953.jpg

6. Anti-War Cover.jpg

6.1 Professor J. R. Parrott standing outside his machine shop on campus, c. 1916.JPG

6.2 First paragraph of Professor J. R. Parrott’s four-6.2 First page in Parrott essay explaining his opposition to American intervention in the First World War titled.jpg

6.3 William H. Brown Jr. senior portrait, 1920.jpg

6.4 Letter from William H. Brown Jr. mother to Joseph Eggleston, October 1918.JPG

6.5 Students protesting the Vietnam War as they march behind the Rock - World War I memorial - in front of Lane Hall, c. 1967.jpg

6.6 VPI students protest the Vietnam War on the Drillfield, c. 1970.jpg

7. Women at VPI Cover.jpg

7.1 The Woman's Land Army of America training school at the University of Virginia poster, 1918.jpg

7.2 Photograph of VPI’s first female instructor Anna Campbell, c. 1920-1930.jpg

7.3 VPI's first female students at their graduation in 1925.jpeg

8. Enrollment Cover.jpg

8.1 VPI student enrollment chart, 1914-1924.jpg

8.2 Earle D. Gregory portrait, c. 1921-1923.jpg

8.3 Overseas Club standing in front of the Rock c. 1921-1923.jpg

9. Curriculum Cover.jpg

9.1 Julian Burruss.jpg

9.2 SATC students on VPI Drillfield learning wireless communication, 1918.jpg

9.3 Degree programs, 1916-1917.jpg

9.4 Degree programs, 1922-1923.jpg

10. Military Tradition Cover.jpg

Rat Parade 2.jpg

10.1 Life of a Rat from the 1913 VPI Bugle Yearbook.jpg

11. Conclusion Cover.jpg

11.1 VPI student practicing going over the top, c. 1918.jpg

11.3 Virginia Tech Drillfield, c. 2019.png

Citation

“How WW1 Changed Us,” VPI in World War I, accessed May 1, 2024, http://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/items/show/671.

Output Formats

Comments (if you have information about a veteran or would like to talk about a veteran, also email the project director Daniel Newcomb at danieln1@vt.edu with your information or question)