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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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leigh B. Middleditch Scrapbook on William Faulkner Foundation

 Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16616
Content Description

A binder: Mr. Middleditch's copy of the William Faulkner Foundation including articles, clippings, meeting notes, various forms.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr. papers regarding the Citizens Committee for City County Cooperation (5 C's)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16805
Content Description This collection features correspondence, newspaper clippings mainly from the Daily Progress, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Observer, notes, articles, pamphlets, memoranda and minutes, and land analyses compiled by Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr., a UVA alumnus,tenured professor, and civic leader, in his role as Chairman of the Citizens Committee for City County Cooperation, often referred to as the "5C's. This committee encouraged constructive discourse between Charlottesville and...
Dates: 1975-2010
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah M. Middleton scrapbook

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16018
Scope and Contents Note

The Sarah M. Middleton scrapbook (1914-1916; 0.25 cubic feet) documents Middleton's attendance at Martha Washington Seminary in Washington, DC. Scrapbook items include concert programs, playbills, personal letters, postcards, photographs of classmates, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1914 - 1916
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Miller Center Committee on Public Affairs Research records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 33/1/4
Content Description

Catalogs, charts, pamphlets and proposals relating to various institutes and centers of study in Virginia (1957-1988; 1.3 cubic feet).

Dates: 1957-1988
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Miller Center Historical file

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 33/1/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, proposals, initial governing documents, and other information from the Miller Center’s founding and first decades of existence (1966-2001; 0.8 cubic feet).

Dates: 1966-2001
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Miller Center Quarterly reports

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 33/1/3
Scope and Contents

Miller Center Quarterly reports (1976-2003; 2 cubic feet) includes correspondence, memos, budgets, and reports relating to yearly expenditures, the Center’s goals as an institution, Governing Council meetings, and political events.

Dates: 1976-2003
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dick Miller copy of "The Premature Burial" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16771
Content Description This collection contains Dick Miller's working copy of the original screenplay for the 1962 film "The Premature Burial." Miller's only annotation to the script is blood dripping from the title in red holograph ink. Miller played the part of "Mole" in the film. This film was the director Roger Corman's third of seven Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, known collectively as the "Poe Cycle." Based on the 1844 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and adapted to the screen by Charles Beaumont, noted horror...
Dates: c. 1962
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Reverend J. O. Miller letter to the Honorable Adam M. Glossbenner

 Collection — Box: BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589300]
Identifier: MSS 16189
Scope and Contents Reverend J. O. Miller (living in York, Pennsylvania) letter to his congressman, the Honorable Adam M. Glossbrenner, 1866, 0.03 cubic feet, concerning damage done by the Union troops to the Winchester German Reformed church. Also included are four affidavits documenting the damage with testimony signed by George F. Miller, Isaac Kline (Frederick County), Thomas Hewel (Winchester), John W. Gain, Brison Luther, George Diffendorfer, and J. B. T. Reid (Mayor of Winchester). The letter and...
Dates: 1866
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Miscellaneous nude photograph of women

 Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899321]
Identifier: MSS 16378
Dates: circa 1960s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Missale Romanum frisket fragment

 Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16225
Scope and Contents A portion of a manuscript on vellum. It was originally a leaf from a liturgical manuscript, likely written in France in the 15th century. The leaf was re-used in an edition of the Missale Romanum, liklely in France after 1582, which used red and black ink. The sheet (of which this is not the entire part) was used to mask the part of the former, which had been inked red, but which were not intended to be...
Dates: approximately 1582
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Carrol T. Mitchell handmade magazines

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16302
Scope and Contents Carrol T. Mitchell handmade magazines, 1916-1921, 0.06 cubic feet, produced by her private "publishing company," which advertises itself in one issue as "publishers of the very highest grade of novels, pennydreadfuls, textbooks, poems, sketches, historical and scientific works, and songs. The magazines are heavily focused on contemporary female starlets, appearing in movies by Cecil B. Demille and other early Hollywood directors. Aside from comments on the actresses, Mitchell also includes...
Dates: 1916-1921
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Antoinette Mitchell memory album

 Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16382
Content Description

Handwritten friendship sentiments, most signed and dated; Steubenville, Ohio.

Dates: 1876 - 1937
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mollie Virginia Rinker album

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16471
Content Description

This collection contains a friendship album for Mollie Virginia Rinker of Leesburg, Louden County, Virginia. The album contains poems, drawings, sentiments and tokens of affection compiled mostly during the Civil War and just after. The final page in the album is damaged; an image or text was cut from the book leaving a large hole in the page.

Dates: 1864 - 1890
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Monthly report of amnesty oaths administered at Scottsville, Virginia

 Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031750311]
Identifier: MSS 16432
Scope and Content Note

The Monthly report of amnesty oaths administered at Scottsville, Virginia (1865; 0.04 cubic feet) documents President Andrew Johnson's national pardon of Confederates as implemented in one small Virginia town. The document contains the county of residence, occupation, and names of 42 mostly Albemarle County residents and one page with a transmittal message. The report was prepared by Captain Beers, who was with Company H, 11th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Dates: 1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

E. H. Moon ledger

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899264]
Identifier: MSS 16226
Scope and Contents

E. H. Moon ledger, 1830-1834, 0.04 cubic feet, belongs to a merchant in Scotsville, Va. and contains approximately 100 pages, including handwritten entries relating to store purchases, and slaves, and about 20 pages of newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1830-1834
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alexander Wylie Moore miscellaneous papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16315
Scope and Contents Alexander Wylie Moore miscellaneous papers, 1896-1950, 0.012 cubic feet, include correspondence, photographs, documents about Moore's service in World War I, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed material. Of note is a letter from Richard E. Byrd (June 30, 1926) and a letter from the Canadian Department of Militia and Defence that lists qualifications required for volunteer service and a list of acceptable medical schools. Topics include World War I, University of Virginia, and...
Dates: 1896-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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