Max Rambod
Organization
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
815th Pioneer Infantry Regiment, Company H photograph
Unprocessed Material — Oversize_flat_file_folder ViU-2025-0117_001: [Barcode: X032762814]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0117
Collection of African American Children photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16798
Content Description
This collection contains ninety-eight photographs of African American children and families at home and play from about the 1950s to the 1990s. Measurements range from 6" X 4" to 2" X 2" inches and are in color and black and white. Several subjects recur throughout the archive. All are unidentified; only three have any annotations on the back. The photographed figures, primarily children but some family shots included, are captured within their homes or playing outside. Activities include...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1950s-1990s
African American man tintype portrait
File — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16795
Content Description
This collection features one 2.25 X4" tintype photograph of an unidentified African American man dressed in a three-piece suit with a bowtie, pocket square, and derby hat with a sash perched at a stylish angle on his head. The man leans against a marble column against a plain background in a studio. The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of enslaved African Americans across the United States. His suit, medium, and background suggest a date roughly...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Collection of photographs of African American Women in Chicago
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16797
Content Description
This collection contains thirty-one photographs of young Black women in Chicago in 1940s-1950s.The photographs document the youth of a young woman named Bea and several of her friends Nedra, Vera, and others. Included are class photographs from Forestville Elementary School and Lucy Flower Technical High School. Flower Tech was an integrated school for girls. There are photographs of their prom, jazz clubs, and the girls out on dates, celebrating, and having fun. The jazz club...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1942-1954
African Americans in rural Virginia photographs
Collection — Folder MSS 16923: [Barcode: X032784970]
Identifier: MSS 16923
Content Description
This collection contains twenty black and white photographs, approximately 9 x 7 inches, depicting African American life, presumably in a segregated area in rural Virginia. The pictures have no annotations on the back, and the photographer is unknown. The location is also unclear; however, it may be somewhere near or in Fauquier County, Virginia. This location possibility is based on a photograph that depicts several storefronts, including a beauty salon which has two names painted on the...
Dates:
C. 1940s
African Americans in rural Virginia photographs
Unprocessed Material — Folder MSS 16923: [Barcode: X032784970]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0072
Army Nurses, Camp Lee, Virginia photograph
Collection — Flat_file_folder 1: [Barcode: X032762936]
Identifier: MSS-16952
Content Description
This collection contains a panoramic photograph depicting the graduating class of Army Nurses Basic Course, No. 2, Third Platoon, photographed at the Quarter Master School, Camp Lee, Virginia, on April 10, 1945. The photograph shows 52 white female students and six male students arranged in three rows, flanked by five male officers. The women wear uniforms with ties, caps, and badges. Captioned text appears at the bottom center of the image, stating "Army Nurses Basic Course No 2 The QM...
Dates:
1945
Harold Blote World War I letters
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16557
Content Description
This collection contains eighty-five letters and associated documents of Harold "Hal" Blote, a volunteer of the American Ambulance Field Service in World War I. The letters are primarily those of Blote but also included are letters from a J.H. “Joe” Eastman to Blote and letters of Edward B. Gordon who sent letters to friends and family which included the Blote family. Blote's letters record his experiences as an active member of the Field Service in 1917 and subsequent...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Booker T. Washington Night School Sewing Graduating Class of 1950 photograph
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762932]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0039
Booker T. Washington Night School Sewing Graduating Class of 1950 photograph
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762932]
Identifier: MSS 16965
Content Description
This collection contains a class-composite photograph documenting the graduating class of 1950 from the Sewing Program of the Booker T. Washington Night School in Norfolk, Virginia. The composite features formal studio portrait vignettes of more than seventy graduates, nearly all African American women, arranged in rows around a central image of the Booker T. Washington High School building and photographs of faculty and administrators. Each student is identified by name under their image....
Dates:
1950
Ernest Butler photograph album
Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032669528]
Identifier: MSS 16875
Content Description
This collection contains the photograph album of Ernest Butler, a United States Army soldier who served in Germany during the Second World War. Butler was among the one million African American men and women who served during the war. The album documents his time in Germany, his return to the United States, and his post-war life. The album contains over 250 black and white silver gelatin photographs over its thirty pages. The images depict Butler’s service in Germany, where he...
Dates:
c. 1942-1945
Collection of press photographs of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762353]
Identifier: MSS 16917
Content Description
This collection contains nine press photographs from Hiroshima and a signed type script from Thomas W. Ferebee, a bombardier of the first atomic bomb. Six of the press photos of Hiroshima are aerial views before and after the nuclear bomb, two are on-the-ground shots of buildings and buses destroyed, and one photograph of United States General MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender in September 1945. Press captions are taped or glued to the back for all but one image. The typescript,...
Dates:
1945
Collection of press photographs of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762353]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0147
Elizabeth (Gladys) McCarthy scrapbook
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU2023-0173_001: [Barcode: X006178638]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0173
Dates:
1920 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1924
Ernest Butler photograph album
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032669528]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0151
G. Firth mathematic notebook
Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: Folder 001
Identifier: MSS 16893
Content Description
This collection contains one paper vellum-bound, handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799 belonging to G. Firth, a student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The notebook contains eighty-five handwritten pages of calculations and notes. Girth divided the notebook into the following headings: the "Mensuration of Surfaces," "Mensuration of Solids," "Timber Measuring," and "Vaulted and Arched Roofs," written in large calligraphy....
Dates:
1796-1799
Girls' reward of merit ephemera
Collection — Box BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16785
Content Description
This collection features seventeen merit reward cards given to girls and women in the late nineteenth century. These cards are printed on one side and have "Reward of Merit" printed at the top, accompanied by a decorative illustration, the handwritten student's name, and the teacher's signature. Six cards are addressed to Martha Warren, three to Nelly Whitenack, two to Florence Pomery, and other cards are addressed to presented to Cynthia Williams, Elizabeth Brookholder, Ida Meckly, Beatie...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1872-1876
Hampton Institute student photograph album
Collection — Box BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16525
Content Description
This collection contains a photograph album of a student from Hampton Institute. The original photo album, measuring 7' x 10' with 24 pages, contains 44 black and white photographs of an unidentified young Black woman, approximately 20 years old, as well as cut newspaper images and a photo postcard. She is seen at Hampton Institute, a historically Black University, in Hampton, Virginia, posing in front of school buildings, clowning around with friends, and preparing for graduation. Also...
Dates:
undated
James Conway Farley photograph of William Custalo
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762931]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0038
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- Photographs 5
- African American families 4
- African Americans -- Virginia 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography 4
- African American children 3
- African Americans 3
- African Americans -- Education 3
- United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Women students 3
- African American schools 2
- African American soldiers 2
- African American women 2
- Atomic bomb 2
- Botany 2
- Panoramas 2
- School notebooks 2
- Tintypes (prints) 2
- Virginia -- History -- 20th century 2
- Women -- Education 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American 2
- African American business enterprises 1
- African American young men 1
- Awards 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Cabinet photographs 1
- Education 1
- Girls 1
- History of Childhood, Parenting and Family Building (UVA) 1
- Interracial marriage 1
- Interracial marriage -- United States 1
- Mathematics 1
- Nurses 1
- Orphanages -- Pennsylvania 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Photographs 1
- Printing 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- African Americans 1
- Young adults 1
- Zoology 1
- notebooks 1