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May family papers

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16057
Scope and Contents Note The May family papers (1870-1945; 0.4 cubic feet) document the lives of a couple generations of the Richmond-based May family. Photograph subjects in the collection include J.A. May in his Confederate Army uniform post-Civil War, J. Howard May, Jr. as an infant, Virgil May, Sr., Phil May with relatives at Virginia Military Institute, and Virgil R. May, Jr. with his wife Ella and children Linda and Billy.Letters in the collection are primarily written by or to Virgil, Jr. and...
Dates: 1870 - 1945

Bernard Duncan Mayes tapes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13847

Jayma Mays photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589391]
Identifier: MSS 15989

John McAllister Jr. letter

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589242]
Identifier: MSS 16081
Scope and Contents

John McAllister Jr., letter to his mother, 0.03 cubic feet, 1837. McAllister, a Philadelphia manufacturer, wrote to his mother about his wife Eliza's trip to White Sulpher [sic] Springs and other Virginia resorts. With his wife traveling in the South, McAllister adds his own observations on a North/South split just then occurring among Presbyterians meeting in Philadelphia.

Dates: 1837

McCauley family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14953

Archibald McClean letter to Francis James supporting anti-slavery measures in Virginia

 Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16829
Content Description This collection contains a single letter from Colonel Archibald McClean to Pennsylvania Congressman Honorable Francis James, dated February 16, 1842. McClean, a well-connected Virginia lawyer, expresses his support for the anti-slavery efforts of John Quincy Adams. McClean notes his interest in "the debate which has been going on for some time in your House [of Representatives] upon the resolution for censuring Mr. [John Quincy] Adams for presenting a petition which was unpalatable to at...
Dates: 16 February 1842

Ernie McClintock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16810
Content Description This collection contains the papers of Ernie McClintock (1937-2003), an American director, producer, actor, writer, teacher, and theatre artist who was a major force in the Black Arts Movement. He taught acting to hundreds of students across the country and directed award-winning plays in Harlem, New York (1960-1989), and Richmond, Virginia (1989-2003). The McClintock papers are a living archive for future drama students and communities interested in Black theatre. They represent the works...
Dates: 1961-2006

Charles McCoy letter

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589278]
Identifier: MSS 16140
Scope and Contents

Charles McCoy letter (1839; 0.03 cubic feet) is a six page, hand-written letter from University of Virginia student Charles McCoy about family, friends, activities at the University of Viginia, including students and professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe and professor Mankin.

Dates: 1839

Hugh McCulloch poem

 Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16468
Content Description

This collection contains a draft of Hugh McCulloch's poem "Sonnet." It is a single letter-sized sheet of laid paper of watermarked Alex Firie & Sons, Stonewood and written on one side only. It contains one major change in the first line and a lesser change in the penultimate line.

The poem was originally published in The Chap-Book, Vol. 2, May 1, 1895 p.467.

Dates: 1895

McDaniel Printing Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13120

Travis McDonald papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16520
Content Description

This collection contains pamphlets, brochures, fliers, photographs, clippings, posters, event information, speeches, and prints documenting McDonald's work as a historical preservationist and involvement with the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

Dates: 1978 - 2019

Rebecca Fuller McGinness papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 12633
Scope and Contents

Rebecca Fuller McGinness papers (1933-2000; 1 cubic foot) containing personal papers (photographs, genealogy, obituaries, war ration notebooks, church programs, and papers from the American Legion), and professional papers (newspaper clippings, and teacher grade books from the Jefferson School from the 1930's and 1950's].

The collection is arranged into two series: Personal papers and Professional papers.

Dates: 1933-2000

Marcellus Mckennie letter

 Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16496
Content Description This is an autographed letter signed from M. McKennie at the University of Virginia to "Gen. T.W. Dillard" on 30 May 1859. This is likely Dr. Marcellus McKennie (1824-1890) to General Terisha Washington Dillard (1817-1863). In the letter, McKennie urges Dillard to not assemble his regiments at Charlottesville next year. McKennie fears that the young men will be greatly excited by the great number of places selling alcohol with and without licenses in Charlottesville, and that they will...
Dates: 1859-05-30

McKim, Mead, and White architectural drawings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier:  RG-31/1/2:2.872
Scope and Contents The architectural drawings document building projects at the University of Virginia designed by Stanford White following the fire of 1895, including: the rebuilding of the Rotunda, the construction of the Academical Building (Cabell Hall), the Mechanical Laboratory (Cocke Hall), the Physical Laboratory (Rouss Hall), a Boiler House, the Refectory (Garrett Hall), the President's House (Carr's Hill) and a proposed dormitory that was never built. With these are copies of letters pertinent to the...
Dates: 1895-1907

Robert B. McKim letter

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589193]
Identifier: MSS 15979
Scope and Contents

This collection of a Robert B. McKim letter to his sister Emilie L. McKim, December 5, 1800, is 0.03 cubic feet, and describes the Charlottesville social scene, and mentions Dr. McGuffey, Schele De Vere, and his wife

Dates: 1800 December 5

Meadow Farm photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 2, Folder: 1 [X031589214]
Identifier: MSS 16006
Scope and Contents

Meadow Farm photographs of the farm and horsetrack where Secretariat was raised and trained, MSS 16006, 0.03 cubic feet

Dates: Undated

Medieval manuscript leaf

 Collection — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1 [X031589475]
Identifier: MSS 16390
Scope and Contents Note

The medieval manuscript leaf (circa1300-1500; 0.03 cubic feet) the text is not identified. It may be from a martyrology. Contains a chapter concerning Pope Callixtus I. Later used in a bookbinding perhaps. The margins have been trimmed, dampstained. It is on vellum and is rubricated in red.

Dates: circa 1300-1500

Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Commemorative soil

 Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 38/5/1
Content Description

Commemorative vial of soil (2019; 0.15 cubic feet) from the groundbreaking of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers on Liberation and Freedom Day (3 March 2019).

Dates: 2019

Memory Marks podcast and transcripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16747
Content Description This collection contains audio files and transcripts created by students as part of ENWR 2520: Writing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA in the Fall of 2021. Students were broken into four groups and each created a podcast episode and supplied the transcriptions. Students researched and reflected upon the history of slavery at the University of Virginia—including its connections to present day racism and white supremacy in Charlottesville and beyond. In addition to the four episodes,...
Dates: 2021

Michie Grocery Store Accounts Payable Ledger

 Collection — Flat_Box: MSS16818_001
Identifier: MSS 16818
Content Description This collection contains a ledger book for Michie Grocery Company, Inc. of Charlottesville, Virginia. Michie Grocery was a wholesale grocer and "jobbers of foreign and domestic fruits." The ledger contains entries from June 21 to October 18, 1908. It includes receipts, statements, order memos, and handwritten calculations of expenses; many feature lithographed distributor and merchant titles on the stationary. Many of these distributors were headquartered in Richmond, Lynchburg,...
Dates: 1908

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