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Howard University student diary
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16847
Content Description
This collection contains a diary from an unknown female student attending Howard University in 1915. It measures 9 X 6 inches, and the pages are hole-punched and tied with a ribbon. The diary includes one tipped-in item and twenty-eight leaves with thirty-three of the pages written on. Most of the diary documents the last few days of May 1915, covering the writer's final days at Howard and reminiscing about her time at the university. She discusses attending the annual play by...
Dates:
1915
Philip Huckabee magic square
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16021
Scope and Contents
Philip Huckabee magic square, 2014, .03 cubic feet, contains a diagram and a list of keywords taken from the Declaration of Independence with a "tree of life" pattern embedded in it and claims that it reveals ciphers associated with the Thomas Jefferson Beale treasure buried near Goose Creek in Bedford County, Va. It may also shed light on a number of ciphers found in the Jefferson/Madison papers. Included is a letter from Philip Huckabee to the University of Virginia History Department.
Dates:
2014
Hugh Carr family papers and Riverview Farm
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10176
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the history of Hugh Carr, an African American born in enslavement in 1843 and his family who lived on a tract of land (Riverview Farm) that Carr and his wife Texie Mae Hawkins bought in 1870 after emancipation. He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.The papers show that Carr highly valued...
Dates:
1843-1978
Langston Hughes photograph
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16783
Content Description
This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of Langston Hughes, noted American poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In the picture, Hughes is surrounded by students after speaking at Harlem's Public School #113 graduation exercises which was also attended by students at James Madison High School and New York City grade school students. Mimeographed caption label with "Newspictures, Inc. ... please credit 'Acme Photo' ..." -- rubber-stamped on verso....
Dates:
June 25, 1945
Langston Hughes photograph with women journalists-addition 1
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8870
Content Description
This addition to MSS 8870, Langston Hughes Collection, contains an 8" x 10" gelatin silver press photograph of Langston Hughes and Anna Land Butler, who is signing a book, surrounded by several Black female journalists. The land is likely signing her first book, "Album of Love Letters Unsent," published in 1952. Included with the picture is a typed caption identifying all the sitters and handwritten annotations indicating those who were deceased. Those identified in the photograph are Janice...
Dates:
C. 1952
William E. Hughes papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16640
Content Description
This collection contains materials related to the work and patents of the electrical engineer William E. Hughes (1926-2020). The items include correspondence, scientific notes and works, schematics, publications, patent details, spiral notebooks, and photographs related to the work and patents of Hughes. The papers also include information on the Commonwealth Scientific Corporation, where Hughes worked, which was an industry leader in ion beam technologies and equipment, along with texts on...
Dates:
circa 1979-2000s
Frank Humphreys, "Magazine for Boys" and "The Nankeen Jacket"
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589184]
Identifier: MSS 15966
Scope and Contents
Frank Humphreys, "The Magazine for Boys" and "The Nankeen Jacket", 0.03 cubic feet and contains two issues of "The Magazine for Boys" January 1, 1897 and April 1st, 1897. "The Nankeen Jacket" is another story for children from the Gustave Gusviller. There are three periodicals altogether.
Dates:
1897
Randolph Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS15564
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees...
Dates:
1860, 1873-1908
Ladley Husted papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16792
Content Description
This collection contains two folders of Ladley Husted, a University of Virginia biology professor and the first chair of the President's Tree Committee later known as the Arboretum and Landscape Committee. The folders include correspondence, notes, and detailed maps of plantings on grounds from 1959-1962. The folders are titled "Tree Committee" and "Tree Locations." The Tree Committee folder contains correspondence and notes related to the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1959-1963
Christian S. Hutter miscellany
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15511
Scope and Contents
This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish,...
Dates:
circa 1602-1945
The Illustrated Alphabet
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875
Illustrated Manuscript Confessory for Deaf People
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16803
Content Description
This collection contains a single leather-bound illustrated manuscript for Deaf persons to confess their sins. They could identify their sins by the illustrations and ask to be absolved. Called a Confessory, it was made in Flanders or the Netherlands roughly between 1770 and 1790.No title or author is present on the binding or internal board pages. The book is composed of ninety-two leaves, with ten leaves left blank. It appears to be a model book, with two sets of drawings made...
Dates:
c.1770-1790
In Our Time screenplay
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16850
Content Description
This collection features a single screenplay for an unproduced film based on John H.N. Hemingway's memories of his parents Ernest and Hadley Hemingway. The script was written in 1984 by Denne Petitclerc (1929-2006), a journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway. "In Our Time" is based on the primary source material and recollections of John H.N. Hemingway and Petitclerc described in the first three pages of the script titled " A Note on the Sources of this Screenplay." The...
Dates:
January 16, 1984
International Photo Engravers' Union of North America metal plate engravings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16347
Dates:
1900's
Rhys Isaac lecture and letter
Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16692
Content Description
This collection consists of Rhys Isaac's 1987 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia. The lecture is titled "The Virginia Enlightenment: Construction in Time and Space" with annotation from Isaac to Gayle Cooper, Rare Book cataloger at the University of Virginia. Also included is a letter from Isaac to Gail [sic] and a list of Sabine Hall books requested for priority cataloging.
Dates:
1982 - 1987
Isabelle Delano Money with African American caregiver photograph
Collection — Box: BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16617
Dates:
1893-07
Hugh Ivey emancipation deed
Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: [X030869178]
Identifier: MSS 16395
Scope and Contents Note
Sussex County, Virginia plantation owner Hugh Ivey (1826; 0.04 cubic feet) names the twenty-seven enslaved persons in the body of the document to be freed; this is not Ivey's original signed copy, but rather a transcript by a county clerk made at the time.
Dates:
1826-02-02
J.A. Pendleton affidavit regarding surety on James Flemming
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16504
Content Description
This collection contains an affidavit written by Albemarle County, VA Justice of the Peace, J.A. Pendelton summarizing a complaint against a James Flemming, a Black man, by F.E Johnson and asking that a surety be placed on Flemming. Sureties, noted by the historian Nancy O'Brien Wagner, were another way of perpetuating enslavement in the Jim Crow South after the end of the Civil War. She writes in "Slavery by Another Name History-Background," "In...
Dates:
December 7, 1866
Rebecca Jackman friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16779
Content Description
This collection contains the friendship album of Rebecca Jackman. The book is roughly one-quarter of the album filled with twelve lengthy verse entries signed by friends across New England. Most of the verses appear to be original and/or tailored to Rebecca. The album itself is titled "Souvenir album," and published by J.C. Riker, New York," with several engraved illustrations throughout and some pages of pink and blue paper.
Dates:
1846-1847