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Drawings are not available for publication without explicit permission obtained from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Organization. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.
Collection is open for research. Drawings are not available for reproduction.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Edwin Talley Agricultural Quadrangle Drawings, Ms2006-021, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Edwin Talley Agricultural Quadrange Drawings were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 2005.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Edwin Talley Agricultural Quadrangle Drawings was completed in November 2006.
The Alumni Association Board of the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences commissioned Virginia artist B. Edwin Talley, Jr. to create pen and ink drawings of the six buildings that form the historic Agriculture Quad. The drawings were commissioned as a fund-raising project. Prints of these drawings were available for purchase through the Alumni Association with proceeds benefitting the Ag Alumni Scholarship Fund.
B. Edwin Talley, Jr. has been creating pen and ink drawings for more than thirty years. He started out executing local scenes with which he had a personal connection. Later he began doing more notable landmarks, such as the University of Virginia's Rotunda, University of Maryland's Memorial Chapel, and other commissions.
B. Edwin Talley, Jr.'s six original pen and ink drawings depict the buildings of Virginia Tech's Agriculture Quadrangle: Hutcheson, Price, Sandy, Seitz, Smyth, and Saunders. Each drawing is 10 inches x 13 inches.
The drawings are arranged alphabetically by building title.
The guide to the Edwin Talley Agricultural Quadrangle Drawings by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).