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Platform party members, Dean Wilson, Judge Jerry Bray, and Bishop Goodson (left to right), at the 1974 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Bishop Goodson at the podium during the 1974 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

The Honorable Mills E. Godwin speaking at the 1975 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Reverend C. P. Minnick delivers the 1976 vesper service sermon in the chapel, the evening before the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduating students holding their hoods as they walk in procession to the Hofheimer Library plaza at the 1974 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

The 1976 graduating class sitting in the Hofheimer Library plaza at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton speaking at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduate William Denton receives his diploma from his father and commencement speaker, Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton speaking at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduating students, Linda Lawrence and Carol Ann Mertens, have their caps adjusted by their fathers, Mr. M. H. Lawrence and Mr. WM. R. Mertens, at the 1973 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony,

Members of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church gathered around a bus for a church school outing in the World War I era. The bus was equipped with roll-down curtains in case of inclement weather.

Arnold E. Ewell, who was elected to his first term in the House of Delegates in 1899, is photographed with his sisters Mary (left), Nora, and Alexina. Ewell operated a large farm on the western shore of the Lynnhaven River and maintained an active…

Three unidentified African American men who appear to be working on a farm as evidenced by the plow behind them.

Five men and several dead, hanging hogs on the John E. Smith farm in rural Princess Anne County, Virginia in the early twentieth century.

Two unidentified men operating an Irish potato planter at Whitehurst on March 20, 1917.

Two buildings on the Virginia Tech ornamental/truck research extension center land on Diamond Springs Road in Princess Anne County, Virginia when acquired in 1907.

Photographs of the last building from the Walke family estate, "Fairfield." While it long was thought to have been a kitchen, now there is a feeling that it might have served as residence for an overseer, tenant, etc. It was demolished several…

Waiting to load potatoes onto trains at Diamond Springs, Princess Anne County in 1912

Children, likely club members, standing around a welcome sign for the Princess Anne County 4-H clubs.

Dick Cockrell, Princess Anne County Agent, kneeling on a lawn looking down at a box of Princess Anne sweet potatoes, Porto Rico variety, that he is holding. Cockrell was helping to publicize the Princess Anne sweet potato.