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Enslaved person named Ben hiring document
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16710
Content Description
Document for the hire of an enslaved person named Ben, for $90.00 until December 25, 1852 possibly in Charlestown, West Virginia. Signed by John L. & W. N. Craighill. Docketed on the verso. The document specifies clothing to be furnished during the term of employment and requires the Craighills to return Ben with "a good wool hat, a blanket, a pair of winter shoes, two pair of home-made yarn stockings, one shirt, and a coat, waistcoat, and pants of good fulled-linsey, and pay his...
Dates:
1851-12-29
Branch J. Epes lecture notebook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16469
Content Description
This collection contains one notebook with handwritten notes on lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, with some earlier lectures during his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney College. These notes seem to be lectures on philosophy and ethics rather than law, perhaps taken at different stages of Epes's matriculation, with reference to Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, and Stewart. One early lecture may be attributed to "McGuffie" suggesting possibly William Holmes McGuffey (of McGuffey Reader...
Dates:
1850 - 1853
Estate map of Hawfield, Orange County, Virginia
Collection — Artifact: MSS2198_001_Portfolio
Identifier: MSS 2198
Content Description
This collection contains a 2977-acre estate map of Hawfield, Orange County, Virginia. The map measures 48"x50" and was commissioned by Captain William G. Crenshaw, owner of Hawfield. It denotes field use, service and public use roads, outbuildings, homes, barns, potential enslaved community ruins. Mentioned are Mt. Pisgah Church (now defunct but was prominently mentioned in Civil War accounts from the area), and adjacent property owners. Individual trees, springs, and other...
Dates:
April 1877
Esther Lightner Matson and Frank A. Matson autograph albums
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16486
Content Description
This collection contains two similarly designed autograph albums belonging to Esther Lightner Matson and her husband Frank A. Matson. The albums contain inscriptions to Esther Lightner Matson from fellow students and teachers at the Santee Normal School and to Frank A. Matson from the Genoa Indian School, both Native American Residential schools in Nebraska and taught by Quakers in the 1880’s. The albums look like typical nineteenth century autograph albums except for the page(s) that are...
Dates:
1880 - 1899
Dixon Evans letter to James Evans about Dixon's murder of an enslaved person
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16719
Content Description
Autographed signed letter from Dixon Evans to his brother James Evans in Fayetteville, North Carolina with his acccount of his shooting, and killing an unnamed enslaved person from Marion, South Carolina. The enslaved person was trying to obtain food from the dairy and smokehouse. Dixon Evans was being sued by Nathaniel Evans who was the owner of the enslaved person. Dixon Evans blames the enslaved person for Dixon's own murderous actions.
Dates:
1850-10-04
Explorations in Black Leadership project papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16674
Content Description
This collection contains briefings with preparatory materials, questions and notes for oral histories conducted as part of the Explorations in Black Leadership project. The briefings were often compiled by interns with the Institute for Public History and included interview questions, possible answers prepared for Julian Bond (the primary interviewer), biographical information, handwritten notes, and correspondence. The collection also includes audio and video cassettes, CDs, and DVDs of...
Dates:
1998 - 2015
Captain John Exton letter
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589257]
Identifier: MSS 16314
Scope and Contents
Captain John Exton letter, 1864, 0.03 cubic feet, written to "Bob," describing his march to Richmond and the conditions he faced as well as the various battles he endured along the way.
Dates:
1864
Extracts of letters about Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson, and Washington D. C.
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589268]
Identifier: MSS 16117
Scope and Contents
Extracts of letters about Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson, and Washington D. C. from a gentleman on a visit to the University of Virginia in 1830 and consists of 0.03 cubic feet. He mentions that he was a childhood friend of Thomas Jefferson and knew Daniel Boone, John Adams, and Justice John Marshall. He also writes about touring Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D. C.. There are comments about paintings in the Capitol rotunda, especially the paintings by John Trumbull on the The...
Dates:
1830
F. A. T. Magazine
Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589239]
Identifier: MSS 16078
Scope and Contents
F. A. T. magazine, 0.03 cubic feet, 1884, presumably by Charles F. Leland, a handwritten manuscript of weekly humor periodical with color drawings,stories, rhymes, riddles, and more, with at times bawdy illustration and also natural history drawings.
Dates:
1884
Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer fox hunting journal
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16526
Dates:
1820 - 1823
Maud Falkner watercolor
Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16791
Content Description
This collection contains the watercolor of a ruby crowned kinglet by the artist Maud Falkner (the mother of famous William Faulkner). The inscription on the back of the frame says "Watercolor by "Grandma Falkner," Oxford, Mississippi, given to Elsie McDougal Harding, Oct. 19th Bd gift from Mary Kate Heard, Oxford, Miss."
Dates:
1948-10
Fallschirmjager [paratroopers] photograph album
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16579
Content Description
Comprises a photographic record of Wehrmacht Gebirgsjagerregiment (German Army Mountain Troops) and Luftwaffe Fallschirmjager training in and around the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzburg area in Bavaria prior to the second World War.
Dates:
1930s
Farm life photograph album
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16301
Scope and Contents
The Farm Life photograph album (1910s; 0.2 cubic feet) depicts many children and family members with farm animals, mostly horses, but cats, dogs, chickens, and one elephant also appear in the images.One image depicts a horse wearing a covering labeled "Tom Mix's Tony". This is presumably Tony the Wonder Horse, the famous film companion of silent-film western star Tom Mix. Another image contains a street sign suggesting that this farm may have been located on or near...
Dates:
1910s
Vice Admiral Farragut public reception invitation
Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16682
Content Description
This collection consists of one printed invitation to Lieut. M. L. Rouse for a public reception of Vice-Admiral Farragut given by the Citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia on March 31, 1865. The invitation reads "You are respectfully invited to attend a Public Reception of Vice-Admiral Farragut, to be given by the Citizens of Norfolk, and Portsmouth and vicinity, on the evening of Monday, the 3rd inst., at Mechanics' Hall, commencing at 7 1/2 o'clock" The invitee's name is printed in...
Dates:
March 31, 1865
Estelle Faulkner painting
Collection — Artifact: ViU2021.0169_001
Identifier: MSS 16643
Content Description
This collection contains a painting by Estelle Faulkner. It is an abstract painting of city buildings and a pedestrian. The painting was given to Leigh Middleditch, ca. 1958, while William Faulkner served as the University of Virginia's Writer-in-Residence.
Dates:
circa 1958
Sylvenus A. Fay Civil War diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16708
Content Description
Sylvenus A. Fay diary recounting the daily events of camp life and fighting, his capture by Confederates during the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina and waiting for an exchange for his freedom with hundreds of Union Officers. Lieutenant Fay was the commanding officer of Company F, 85th New York Infantry. In January 1864, the 85th Infantry was ordered to Plymouth NC, where in April, almost the entire regiment was captured. There is significant information in the diary about...
Dates:
1864
Szauer S. Ferencz World War I cartoon collection
Collection — Box: BW 35, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16553
Content Description
This collection contains a private collection of approximately one hundred cartoons and caricatures of World War I propaganda that were cut out of magazines and pasted in a blank book. Most of the cartoons are written in German, but some are in Hungarian. Many are printed in color, but there are privately printed carbon copies too. Included in the front few pages is a folded poster titled "Humorist. Darstellung der Wappen unserer Feinde 1914" [Humorist. Depiction of the coats of...
Dates:
c. 1914-1918