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The collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], VAMC Cadet Coatee, Textile1993-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1972.
The collection is unprocessed. Minimal description was completed prior to 2020, probably around 1993. Additional description completed in August 2021.
Greenwood Hopkins Nowlin, Jr. (1878-1975) of Campbell County, Virginia, attended Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) from 1896 through 1899. Nowlin also played the mandolin and violin with a group of other young men that would perform at school dances for free.
Nowlin was the son of Greenwood Hopkins Nowlin, Sr., and Lelia Pendleton, and he married Buelah Hall Terrell. He worked as a metallurgist at U.S. Steel.
Source: "Greenwood Hopkins Nowlin Jr", the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, https://search-ancestrylibrary-com.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=9278&h=2247883&tid=&pid=&queryId=f660fde90e662d52077072f2a8178a20&usePUB=true .
This collection contains an original cadet coatee from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC) dated 1886. The coat is woolen blue-gray with a cotton lining. It was manufactured by D. Klein and Bro. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A piece of tape inside the coat indicates the coat belonged to VAMC student Greenwood H. Nowlin, Jr.
See also the Greenwood H. Nowlin, Jr. Collection, Ms1962-008 at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives.
This collection was separated from the Greenwood H. Nowlin, Jr. Collection, Ms1962-008 .
The guide to the VAMC Cadet Coatee by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your- work/public-domain/cc0/ ).