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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

Laura Sumner friendship album

Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16628

Dates: 1845 - 1852

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Susan's Friendship album

Collection — Box: BW 24

Identifier: MSS 16535

Content Description

This collection contains one album with 47 pages of inscriptions, prose, and autographs with named locations including Norwich, Canterbury, Bell Plane Minnesota, Providence R.I., Colchester, Attleboro, East Greenwich, Mystic River, Boston, and Hartford.

Dates: 1855-1860

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah Sutton friendship album

Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589414]

Identifier: MSS 16326

Scope and Contents Sarah Sutton friendship album, 1842-1845, New York, 0.03 cubic feet, including nine lithographic engravings by Archibald L. Dick and titled Mary of Mantua, Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Now Westlin Wins, The Young Mother, Washington's house Mount Vernon, Bess and her spinning wheel, East Point and Passamaquoddy Bay, Light House near Caldwe;s landing (Hudson River), and Harper's Ferry (from the Potomac side).Miss Sarah Sutton's Album, select for religious precepts and literary...

Dates: 1842-1845

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Jane Sweisey] album

Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589352]

Identifier: MSS 16244

Scope and Contents

[Jane Sweisey] album, 1827-1829, 0.03 cubic feet, with a frontispiece titled "A Winter Scene" pasted in, contains many poems, most are dated and each written in the same exquisite hand.

Dates: 1827-1829

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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

John G. Staysa Civil War Diary

Margaret Stephenson collection on Nansemond County Training School

Elizabeth Stoddard letters to Ella Farman

Gladys Stone album from Randolph Macon Women's College

Louis P. Stone Letter

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book

Stowe grocery store ledgers

Myra A. Straw essays and homemade newspaper

Francis T. Stribling lettters

Aubrey E. Strode papers

Shirley Copenhaver Farrier Strother interviews

Desk Microscopes

Sturt family genealogy collection

Stuttgart photographs

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

Laura Sumner friendship album

Susan's Friendship album

Sarah Sutton friendship album

[Jane Sweisey] album

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