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Paul T. Ruxin collection of James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and their Circle collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16519
Scope and Contents An autographed signed letter from James Boswell to Andrew Gibb December 5, 1792 about receiving boxes, rent, and giving his son James Boswell money.An autographed signed 4 page letter from James Boswell to Andrew Gibb, (the overseer at his Auchinleck estate) May 31, 1793 discussing road repairs, horse breeding, and lumber sales. London. An autograph signed letter from James Boswell to Thomas Percy April 16, 1773 inviting Percy to dine at his lodgings with Joshua...
Dates: 1769-1793
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frances S. S. and Lauren Virginia Pratt newsletter Ladies Wreath magazine

 Collection — Box: BW 36, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16610
Dates: 1887
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

S. Vernon McCasland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS12755
Dates: 1928-1954
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sadie commonplace book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16556
Content Description This collection consists of a commonplace book. It is not clear the provenance but inscribed in the front and back covers is the name Sadie. The album contains 170 pages of content and a few loose clippings. Each page is filled with clippings from magazines and newspapers that focus on women's work, loss, fairy tales, literature, and poetry. The owner hand colored all the illustrations from magazines. Many of the illustrations are of women; some in non-traditional roles. Many articles are...
Dates: c.1878
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Memin, portraits of St. George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899266]
Identifier: MSS 16366
Scope and Contents

MSS 16366, Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Memin portraits of St. George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker which are described as two circular portraits: egraved portrait of Thomas Tudor Tucker, and a salted paper print [photograph?] of an engraved portrait of St. George Tucker.

Dates: 1810
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sale of slaves and land announcement

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589411]
Identifier: MSS 16238
Scope and Contents

Sale of slaves and land announcement, 1821 September 17, 0.03 cubic feet, announcing the sale of "5 or 6 likely slaves" and "162 acres at the head waters of the Hardware River, North Garden" by Nthaniel Garland, executor of the estate of Edward Garland. "Land and Negroes for sale."

Dates: 1821 September 17
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sally C. Wegner poetry manuscripts

 Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16478
Content Description

The poetry manuscripts by Sally Calkins Wegner are for a class taught by Karl Shapiro at the University of California, while a visiting professor there, and most contain handwritten comments by Shapiro. Also present is a news clipping about Shapiro and his appearance for a reading at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1966.

Dates: 1956, 1966
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Maria Saporta photographs of the Southern Christian Leadership Civil Rights March

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16500
Content Description This collection contains six black and white photographs of members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) marching in Richmond, Virginia in 1963. Maria Saporta is identified as the photographer in the photographs.The SCLC's seventh annual convention occurred from September 24 to September 27 at Virginia Union University in Richmond. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the organization's founding members and acted as president until his 1968 assassination. He...
Dates: September 24-27, 1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sophia Sarchet commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16630
Dates: 1832 - 1837
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Wenonah Lydia Saum scrapbook

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16622
Content Description

This collection consists of a scrapbook of Wenonah Lydia Saum documenting her time as a student at the University of Virginia in 1923. The album contains photographs, postcards, cafeteria tickets, napkins, plant matter, and many musical, dance, and theater programs from productions held at the University. Many of the photographs are captioned and include photographs of acquaintances and views of buildings and landscapes at the university and also from the surrounding area.

Dates: 1923
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James Savage Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-16485
Content Description This collection contains the papers of James D. Savage, a Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. The papers consist chiefly of newspaper clippings, correspondences, notes, Congressional reports, chapter drafts, essays, and other research materials. Additionally, there are 7 CDs, 206 audio cassettes, 5 floppy disks, and 1 VHS tape in the collection: these audiovisual materials mostly document Savage’s interviews with key figures in gathering his research on...
Dates: Circa 1932 - 2016; Majority of material found within Circa 1978 - 2001
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Kittie R. Schatz friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589372]
Identifier: MSS 16283
Scope and Contents

Kittie R. Schatz friendship album, 1880's, 0.03 cubic feet, is in original green boards, with gilt rule and title, all edges gilt, and blue silk endsheets. There are many choromolithographs affixed to the pages and most entries signed with "Mass." as the location.

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

School of Architecture records-addition

 Collection
Identifier: RG-7/6
Dates: c. 1927-1993
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

School of Architecture student records from Professor Michael Bednar courses

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 7/7
Content Description This addition to RG 7 (School of Architecture/Student Papers) contains the teaching files and student materials of Michael Bednar, Professor Emeritus of Architecture for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. These teaching files contain information for ARCH 201, 301, 302, 401, 402, and PLAN 563, and are comprised of course rosters, syllabi, instructional materials, project descriptions and criteria, class activities, student work, correspondence, notes, photographs, and...
Dates: ca. 1972 - 2011
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jean Schroeder papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 16836
Content Description This collection contains letters and paper ephemera written to Jeanie Schroeder, a young, white woman who fell in love, got pregnant during her pre-med studies at Northwestern University, and secretly married a young Black musician identified as Keith "Tiny" Leighton in the letters. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1940s to the 1950s. The content centers Jeanie Schroeder's courage in facing the difficulties of being seen as an unwed mother in the 1940's; young men going off to World...
Dates: Majority of material found within ca. 1939-1951
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Morgan Schuldt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-16483
Content Description

This collection consists of the working files of the poet and publisher Morgan Schuldt. Included are drafts of his poetry that include Schuldt's annotations and edits and thirteen hard and soft bound journals that include Schuldt's writing as well as other poetry of interest to him. Also included are documents related to his time at University of Virginia and other institutions, chapbooks, and his work for CUE and CUE editions which Schuldt co-founded.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1980-1983, 1990-2013
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gayle Schulman research files

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16138
Scope and Contents This collection of Gayle Schulman research files is about one hundred items, one document box, .04 cubic feet, and relates to African-American physicians born in 1900 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Physicians included in the research are James Franklin Allen, George Geiger Anderson, Edward Albert Carter, Eugene Dickerson, William Peter Dickerson, Samuel Cornelius Donaldson, Thomas M. Ferguson, Henry Floyd Gamble, Thomas Southall Hawkins, Sarah Garland Boyd Jones, John Andrew Kenney, and Peter...
Dates: 2003, 2011-2014
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ella Schultz scrapbook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16696
Content Description High school memory scrapbook of Ella Schultz of Omaha, Nebraska and Los Angeles, California from 1920 to 1922. There are theater programs, football items, handwitten sentiments, napkins and other mementos and photogaphs assembled by Ella Schultz, in a suede binding titled, "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book." The album is from Commerce High School in Omaha and Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles. Her move from Omaha to Los Angeles is also documented in the album. ...
Dates: 1920 - 1922
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Schwartzhaupt friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589299]
Identifier: MSS 16188
Scope and Contents Margaret "Maggie" Schwartzhaupt friendship album, 1873-1876, totaling 0.03 cubic feet, is a blank book presented to Miss Schwartzhaupt of Baltimore by her father on Christmas Day, 1873. Every page is filled with holographic sentiments, each in a unique hnd, from her friends and family between 1873 and 1896. Some pages are embellished with illustrations and Victorian scrapbook material. Tipped to the last pages of the album are newspaper articles mentioning family marriages, births, and...
Dates: 1873-1876
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Scott and Gunnell family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 12202
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of bound volumes, journals, daybooks, and notebooks belonging to John Scott, Richard Marshall Scott,Sr., Richard Marshall Scott,Jr., James L. Gunnell, and Dr. Francis M. Gunnell, and a photograph album belonging to Sarah Louise Rittenhouse. Other materials include printed articles about the Bush Hill plantation,a copy of a book, "The Battles of Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville," and genealogical charts, tables and notes.

Dates: 1772-1990
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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Black, Donald J., 1941- 1
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Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute 1
Burke , John William, 1826-1898 1
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Chivers, T.H. (Thomas Holley), 1809-1858 1
Clanton , Vera Lee , 1916-2013 1
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