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Herbert R. Davis photograph albums

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16840
Content Description This collection contains two photo albums of Herbert R. Davis of Richmond, Virginia that document Black pre-World War II life in Richmond; Davis's service in the South Pacific (Guam, Guadalco, and Peleliu) as a Black Marine; and Davis's family life upon his return from combat during the early 1930's to the late 1940's. Many of Davis's fellow soldiers in the 11th Marine Depot Company, 16th Field Depot are posed in photographs. The 11th Company, who fought at the Battle of Peleliu,...
Dates: c. 1930-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jefferson Davis comic carte de visite engravings

 Collection — Folder: MSS16816_001
Identifier: MSS 16816
Content Description This collection contains five comic carte de visite engravings illustrating Jefferson Davis's capture. Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865), was captured on May 10, 1865, by Union cavalry near Irwinville, Georgia. It was rumored that Davis disguised himself in a woman's dress when caught. The titles and printing information include: "How do you like it, Jefferson D.?," Kellogg Brothers, Hartford, CT, 1865; "The last ditch of the...
Dates: 1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louise Davis postcard

 Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16800
Content Description

This collection consists of one postcard sent to Louise Davis from a new student (Margaret?) living in McKim Hall at the University of Virginia, dated September 19, 1934. Margaret was possibly a student in the Nursing program as the address on the program notes " McKim Hall, University Hospt." Women were only able to attend the University of Virginia in one of the professional schools or graduate programs at that time. The postcard is a winter scene of the Rotunda.

Dates: September 19, 1934
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mattie Davis friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16789
Content Description This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Mattie Davis given to her by her father on Christmas Eve, 1861. The album entries date from 1861 to 1867 and the majority of entries are poetry or short verses with themes of morality and friendship. There is no identification of Davis location; however, most entries are from Taylorsville, Indiana, so it is likely she is from that area. In addition to Taylorsville, there are several entries from Dupont, Indiana and Wilmington, Ohio....
Dates: c.1861-1867
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Roy Davis collection of African American masonic programs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16493
Content Description This collection contains thirty-two programs of Masonic related events. Twenty-seven are souvenir programs from African American Masonic meetings and events belonging to Roy Davis, a resident of Norwalk, Connecticut who was active in the Prince Hall Grand Chapter of New England. In addition to these are five programs for miscellaneous African American society events in the Northeast. Most of the programs were for events taking place in Connecticut between the late 1960s and early 1980s....
Dates: 1960 - 1981
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lorey Clifford Day papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16680
Content Description This collection contains manuscripts of journal newspapers, titled "United States Journal" and "Once-In-a-While", written by Lorey Clifford Day from 1894 to 1910 when he was a young child and teenager. The series of 45 newspapers are written and hand printed by L.C. Day, including over 415 pages of content. At the end of 1906, he announced the Christmas number as his final printing of the U.S. News. Starting in 1907, he started the "Once-In-a-While" publication, which appeared on...
Dates: 1894-1970
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

J. D. Deacon store ledger

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899265]
Identifier: MSS 16367
Scope and Contents

J. D. Deacon store ledger, MSS 16367, 1902, 0.03 cubic feet, consists of his ledger from Oakdale, Gloucester County, Virginia.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John William DeForest papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7179
Content Description The papers in this Clifton Waller Barret Collection of John William Deforest papers contain a manuscript of a short poem beginning "You ask a thought . . . " There are letters, 1855-1856, from John William DeForest to publishers Dix and Edwards hich discuss the publication and format of "Oriental acquaintance" and send a receipt for "Experiences in Mount Lebanon." A letter, 1876, to Mrs. [Johnson T.?] Platt doubts that Frances Burney was only sixteen when she wrote "Evelina" and gives his...
Dates: 1901-03-25
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Delius, Gloystein, Nolting, and Brydon business letters

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589256]
Identifier: MSS 16100
Scope and Contents

Delius, Gloystein, Nolting, and Brydon business letters, 1826-1827, 0.03 cubic feet, in which Delius and Gloysein announce expiration of their business while Nolting and Brydon announce that they are the successors to this business. The letter is addressed to Enoch Silsbee of Boston, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1826-1827
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George E. Dennis Confederate letter

 Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589288]
Identifier: MSS 16169
Scope and Contents

George E. Dennis Confederate letter, 1862, in which he describes camp conditions and troop movements consisting of 0.03 cubic feet.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Julia A. Dennison memory album

 Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16700
Content Description Julia A. Dennison memory album, 1862-1866, Milan, Indiana, in red morocco "The Pet Album" binding, published by Leavitt and Allen with black and white printed illustrations of children and their mother in activities such as bathing or playing. The album, which is a gift from her brother, contains personal advice about keeping the young mind pure and other sentimental notes from her brothers. There are signatures of acquaintainces from Indiana and Ohio, including Civil War infantry in the...
Dates: 1862 - 1866
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Helen Detmer journal

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X030899230]
Identifier: MSS 16372
Scope and Contents

Mary Helen Detmer journal (0.04 cubic feet), 1996 May 23 - December 10, containing entries related to her garden and her life at the University of Virginia Pavilion I.

Dates: 1996
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alfred E. Dickinson letters

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589386]
Identifier: MSS 16311
Scope and Contents

Alfred E.Dickinson letters, April 2017, 0.03 cubic feet, are a collection of letters by a Richmond pastor and editor of the noted Baptist newspaper, "The Religious Herald." The letters are written to J. H. Cogshill, a New York based Richmond College graduate, soliciting donations and discussing the purposes to which those donatons are put to use (printing tracts for distribution, helping the rural poor and orphans, etc..)

Dates: 1880's
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lady Theresa Anna Marie (Fox-Strangways) Digby riddle book

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16510
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a handmade riddle book created and used for the children of Lady Digby.

This book contains 124 riddles and answers each within decorative borders and frames. Many are typical word play riddles; others include topical and racist riddles on the anti-slavery movement. There is Uncle Tom's Cabin and other enslavement-related content. There are questions such as "Who is Uncle Tom's Aunt?"

Dates: 1862
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Collection of documentaries on Anne Spencer's garden

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16709
Content Description

This collection contains two VHS tapes titled "Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden" and a segment from "Garden story with Rebecca Frischkorn" titled "Anne Spencer Garden." The documentaries focus on the impact and importance of Spencer's garden to herself, her community, and other artists and writers.

Tape 1 contains Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden Tape 2 contains Garden Story "Anne Spencer Garden"

Dates: undated, c.2008
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Phebe P. Dodd friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589353]
Identifier: MSS 16245
Scope and Contents

Phebe P. Dodd friendship album, [1830's], 0.03 cubic feet, has an engraving on the first page, captioned "Il biglietto d'amore, a contadina (or frascati) dictating to one of the scribes who play in the streets of Rome." On the remaining pages are many poems, and sentiments written in several hands and some are dated. Also includes drawings, and one signed "Bloomfield, NJ. March 1832."

Dates: [1830's]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Amelia Donges album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16764
Content Description

Forget Me Not friendship album Owned by Amelia Donges, "affectionately dedicated by her friend William F. Harman." 42 pages used for autographs, inscriptions, and verse. Locations signed include Campbelltown, Cornwall, Harrisburg, Attica, Stroudsburg, York, Mechanicsburg, and Princeton.

Dates: 1857 - 1860
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dorothy Twohig papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15296
Dates: 1969-2004
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

W.E.B. Du Bois Address at the Conference on the Encyclopaedia Africana

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16831
Content Description This collection contains a mimeographed typescript of W.E.B. Du Bois's opening address at the Conference of the Encyclopedia of Africa held at the University of Ghana in Accra in 1962. Du Bois dreamed of editing an 'Encyclopedia Africana'. He envisioned a comprehensive compendium of 'scientific' knowledge about the history, culture, and social institutions of people of African descent. He argues for his project of an Encyclopedia Africana based in Africa and compiled by Africans. He notes...
Dates: December 18, 1962
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Nicholas Gouin Dufief letter

 Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16676
Content Description

This collection contains a letter from Dufief about discounts for his 4th edition of "Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man" to the bookselling firm Beers & Howe in New Haven, Connecticut. This letter was written to find subscriptions for a new printing, and a fourth edition was published in 1820.It is folded for mailing with the address and return address on verso.

Dates: October 19, 1816
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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