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James Madison Spiller letter

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589369]
Identifier: MSS 16275
Scope and Contents

James Madison Spiller letter to Dr. I. L. Twyman, 1853, 0.03 cubic feet,consists of a signed letter on a single sheet of blue paper, hand written in ink in regard to the negotiation of a sale of two Negro "family girls." The girls were being sold by Dr. Twyman and S[piller was helping to facilitate the sale to Seth Woodruff. Current market price for a girl are mentioned, as well as the effects of war in Europe on other market prices.

Dates: 1853
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cleo Sprouse photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589224]
Identifier: MSS 16050
Dates: 1937
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ephraim George Squier letters to Charles Eliot Norton

 Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669069]
Identifier: MSS 16503
Content Description This collection contains two letters from Ephraim George Squier to Charles Eliot Norton discussing his book "Waikna; or, "Adventures on the Mosquito Shore" as well as other works in progress. These two letters were removed from the printed book, which has been cataloged separately.The first letter, dated Apirl 26, 1855, Squier describes how many pages that he has written of "foolscap" and how many pages of proof that he has to read before his passage to Europe. He mentions his...
Dates: April 26 and May 16,1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stanley Methodist Church subscription

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589323]
Identifier: MSS 16224
Scope and Contents

Stanley Methodist Church subscription, dated 1915, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a sheet with ruled lines and columns containing signatures and correlating dollar amounts to to pay the treasurer, D. M. Hodesett for the purpose of erecting a brick church building in the town of Stanley, Virginia.

Dates: 1915
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Staunton Virginia Farm and Boarding House account book (during Civil War)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16846
Content Description This collection contains an account book written during the Civil War by an unidentified person or persons. It consists of the day-to-day transactions and the numerous individuals that either boarded on, used the owner's land, or purchased various products and services from the unnamed proprietor, including $600 for a land bond in 1862. The account book is disorderly in many ways, as the dates vary and are not in order. The subject matter accounts for all aspects of living within...
Dates: c. 1862-1873
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John G. Staysa Civil War Diary

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16812
Dates: January 25 - June 2, 1862
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Stephenson collection on Nansemond County Training School

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16683
Content Description This collection contains Margaret Stephenson's research materials on the Nansemond County Training School (NCTS), a historic Rosenwald School for African-American students first constructed in 1924 in Suffolk, Virginia. The materials include historical files and pictures of the school and students, NCTS reunion day event materials and registration forms, newspaper clippings about the history and preservation of the school; and information on "Strength Through Our Roots", a...
Dates: 2000 - 2014; Majority of material found within 2013 - 2014
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elizabeth Stoddard letters to Ella Farman

 Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 8266
Content Description

Three autograph letters of Elizabeth Stoddard signed, to Ella Farman, author and editor of Wide Awake discussing the literary periodical press, payments to authors, and other matters. Written legibly in ink on three folded sheets of "E.D.B.S." (Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard) embossed stationary. This collection is an addition to Elizabeth Stoddard letters in the Barrett Collection (MSS 8266, 8266-a).

Dates: circa 1875
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gladys Stone album from Randolph Macon Women's College

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16452
Content Description Photo album and scrapbook of Gladys Stone (ownership inscription on front leaf) of her time at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, founded in 1891 in Lynchburg, Va. 71 leaves, 56 filled, with photos and ephemera affixed on both rectos and versos. 82 photos include an African American worker, "Uncle Harry," a student in blackface, evocative images from 1914 Field Day and May Day, Commencement, the inauguration of President William Alexander Webb, individual images of nine sorority houses and...
Dates: 1913-1914
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louis P. Stone Letter

 Item — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16858
Content Description This collection contains a letter from Louis P. Stone (1843-1903) to Colonel Tracy describing his exploits as a U.S. Secret Service operative and requesting payment for his services. Stone was a U.S. Secret Service operative during the first two years of the Civil War. The "Secret Service," before officially inaugurated as the investigative branch of the Treasury Department in 1865, was the unofficial name for the intelligence services in the Union Army. The letter contains Stone's account...
Dates: 1863 May 3
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16714
Content Description Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..."...
Dates: 1826 - 1838
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stowe grocery store ledgers

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16433
Scope and Contents Note

The Stowe grocery store ledgers (1870-1934; 0.4 cubic feet) document the operation of the titular family's grocery store in Petersburg, Virginia. Ledgers document monthly expenses for items ranging from rent to flour to labor. The collection also contains a small file of personal letters and bills for appliances.

Dates: 1870 - 1934
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Myra A. Straw essays and homemade newspaper

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16645
Content Description Amateur newspaper and handwritten essays by a young woman from Hopkinton, New Hampshire in the 19th century. Four handwritten essays, totaling eleven pages, plus a manuscript amateur newspaper, all signed by the author. The essays include a four page spoof titled "Autobiography of an old stove," describing the life of a stove from its existence as a lump of ore in an iron mine, to the manufactory, to being used in a schoolhouse. The other essays are titled "Summer," "Our talents," and "A...
Dates: 1888
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Francis T. Stribling lettters

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589227]
Identifier: MSS 16056
Scope and Contents

Francis T. Stribing, (the superintendent of the Western Lunatic Hospital in Staunton, Virginia) signed handwritten letters, 0.03 cubic feet, 1836-1854. One letter is to Peter Hoshorn of Woodstock, Virginia about a patient. Other letters are from Evelyn Boyd Walker of Brandon Plantation about the condition of her mother, and E. Watts of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dates: 1836-1854
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Aubrey E. Strode papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3014
Scope and Contents Aubrey E. Strode (1861-1969,88 cubic feet) was a Virginia lawyer, state senator and eugenics advocate who drafted the Virginia sterilization law and brought Buck vs. Bell to the Supreme Court. This collection consists of his personal and professional papers concerning his family, law practice, army service, political and legislative activities as a member of the Virginia Senate, the Virginia Democratic Party and the Progressive movement, and as a co-owner of the newspaper, The Amherst...
Dates: 1861-1969
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Shirley Copenhaver Farrier Strother interviews

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589429]
Identifier: MSS 16111
Scope and Contents

Shirley Copenhaver Farrier Strother interviews, 2015 February 12, 2015 March 10, 2015 April 10, 0.03 cubic feet, and transcribed by William M. Finley, III.

Dates: 2015 February 12, 2015 March 10, 2015 April 10
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Desk Microscopes

 Collection — Artifact: 1
Identifier: MSS 8276
Scope and Contents

Desk microscopes fitted in wooden case into the top of which the brass instrument is screwed for use. [brass instrument in box 14 x 8 x 5 cm.]--Desk microscope in wooden carrying case. [box 26 x 14 x 11 cm.].

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

Sturt family genealogy collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS13205
Dates: 1863-1983
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stuttgart photographs

 Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16727
Content Description This collection contains two hard-shell portfolios containing sets of 32 before and after photographs of the impacts of the bombing raids on Stuttgart, Germany during the Second World War. The portfolios are embossed with a seal of the City of Stuttgart; the photographer and the creator of the portfolios are unidentified. The photographs taken prior to the bombing raids are undated but were likely captured prior to 1940. The comparison photographs, depicting the damage to the infrastructure...
Dates: c.1939-2004; Majority of material found within c.1939-1946
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Russell Sullivan's "The Madonna that is childless" signed holograph manuscript

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589266]
Identifier: MSS 16108
Scope and Contents

Thomas Russell Sullivan "The Madonna that is childless" signed holograph manuscript short story and inscribed in the front written to "Joe" Joseph Lindon Smith on February 14, 1898 and consists of 0.03 cubic feet.

Dates: 1894
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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