Charlottesville City Council Public Hearing: City & School Budgets, 1975-03-31
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection is composed of videotape recordings of local-origination programming aired on the Jefferson Cable Corporation, including City Council Meetings and local news specials.
The collection includes approximately 300 color slides used in productions; color slides of a University of Virginia baseball game, 1970; photographic negatives of Lawrence Halpin's model of the Downtown Mall; Charlottesville City Council agenda, 1971 October 4, with an item concerning Jefferson Cable's franchise renewal; news clippings and miscellaneous printed materials concerning Robert Allan Monroe and the Monroe Institute; and several pieces of advertising ephemera, circa 1907.
Of interest are two letters from James Lawrence Cabell to William Beverley Towles, 1885 August 1 and 3, concerning Towles' daughter's health.There is also a letter from Dumas Malone to Fredson Bowers, concerning printing Bowers' book "The fairy knight" on 18 April 1940.
Dates
- Creation: 1975-03-31
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Original media formats such as LPs, audiotapes, reel-to-reels, videotapes, films, CDs, and DVDs cannot be handled directly by patrons. Please contact Special Collections via our online Reference Request form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request, to request access to these materials. Please be aware that additional actions may be required to make these items available. Items will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis before access can be made. Depending on the size of the request, it may take some time to make them available for use.
Extent
From the Collection: 23.5 Cubic Feet : letters, ads, programs, agenda, newspaper clippings, articles, and production slides
From the Collection: 239 open reel videotapes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States