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Daniel Rutledge Vining correspondence

 Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16774
Content Description

This collection consists of several letters to Daniel Rutledge Vining, an economics professor at the University of Virginia. The letters are primarily personal correspondences to colleagues and friends. Included is correspondence with Hardy Dillard regarding Dillard's farewell dinner. There is also a letter to Mrs Margaret Vining and a letter to Rutledge Vining from Fred Vining (about items for purchase-watch, candelabra, binoculars).

Dates: 1960-1970

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company receipts

 Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16487
Content Description

This collection contains thirty-two freight receipts for agricultural goods shipped by John Dickinson from Liberty Depot, Virginia.

Dates: 1859 - 1863

Virginia Department of Education film strips and slides: of John White drawings of Algonquins in Roanoke, Virginia and the Jamestown Colony

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16820
Content Description

Film strips and slides of John White's drawings of "Algonquins in Roanoke, Virginia and the Jamestown Colony.

Dates: circa 1953

Virginia enslaver documents

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589196]
Identifier: MSS 15982
Scope and Contents

This collection of Elisha Roberts and other enslavers holders documents (1822-1860; 0.03 cubic feet) consists of inventories, bill of sales, and appraisal lists of household items including enslaved people of Elisha Roberts, Gotlif Schmidt, James Broddus, Robert Allen Givens, John Cornelison, Jr., Francis Carter, Archibal Brooks, Henry Carpenter, Lewis Campbell, John Bentley, and Talton Taylor.

Dates: 1822-1860

Virginia Folklore Society records

 Series
Identifier: MSS 9936
Scope and Contents Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis. Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting. Some of this...
Dates: 1905 - 2007

Virginia freedwomen cased photograph (three sisters)

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16690
Content Description

Encased photograph (sixth plate tintype in original case) of three emancipated sisters, Tucker family, Lynchburg, Virginia, James River plantation area.

Dates: circa 1860s-1870s

Virginia governors listings

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589410]
Identifier: MSS 16205
Scope and Contents

Virginia governors listings, 1966, 0.03 cubic feet, consisting of an alphabetical and chronological list of Virginia governors and Virginia colonial governos with extensive notes in Marjorie Carver's hand.

Dates: 1966

Virginia Immigration Society deeds

 Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16788
Content Description This collection contains five contracts deeding land to the Virginia Immigration Society in return for shares in the Society, together with a receipted copy of an invoice signed by the Society's agent in London, England. The contracts are dated from 1866 to 1867, and deed over 1400 acres, mostly in Amherst County in Central Virginia, to the Society in return for shares by A.F. and John B. Robertson, S.M. Garland, and James Powell, all but one signed by Leo. Daniel Jr., attorney, together...
Dates: 1866-1867

Virginia Music Teachers Association records

 File
Identifier: MSS 15772
Scope and Contents Note Virginia Music Teachers Association records (1940-2018; 11 cubic feet) contain financial papers, agendas, contests, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, chapter reports and officer's reports totaling 11 cubic feet. There are also music performances and software programs on compact discs, floppy disk and audiocassette. Some areas of the collection are missing years from 1980 to 1990. The records are created by musicians and teachers in Virginia whose shared vision is furthering the art of...
Dates: 1940-2018

Virginia-North Carolina Baseball League score book

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589327]
Identifier: MSS 16232
Scope and Contents

Virginia-North Carolina Baseball League score book, dated 1905, 1909, 0.03 cubic foot, Spalding's official base ball score book used to score games between August 12th and 16th, 1905. Games were played in Charlotte, N.C. including a double header between Charlotte and Greensboro, Charlotte and Danville, games at Edenton between Edenton and Colerain, and games at Edenton between Edenton and Colerain. There are also games from an unidentified North Carolina league in 1909.

Dates: 1905, 1909

Virginia photography studios photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14250
Scope and Content Note: The collection contains tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite and photographs chiefly from studios in Staunton, Va. Studios in Bridgewater, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, and Richmond are also represented. Among the few identified subjects are Friends at Olivet Church, Staunton, Va.; D[avid] V. Ruckman Home, Long Glade, Va.; William Bedford Campbell, David Van Meter Ruckman, II, children of Uncle Glen Ruckman, Pauline Ruckman, James Buxton Perry, Sam Ruckman, Glen Huston Byrd,...
Dates: 1860s-1930s

Virginia Reelers Square Dance Club records

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15710
Scope and Contents Note

The Virginia Reelers Square Dance Club records (1953-2008; 3 cubic feet) document the history and operation of the Reelers. Club records include correspondence, meeting minutes, event advertisements, and membership lists. Other collection materials include two financial ledgers tracking member dues and pages from six photograph albums documenting various dances and spring festivals.

Dates: 1953 - 2008

Virginia Spectator papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-23/9
Scope and Contents

Chiefly financial papers including a ledger, 1939-1940, loose bills and receipts, a certificate of incorporation, 1938, and a copy of the Constitution and By laws of the Jefferson Society indicating that the Spectator was a publication of the Society.

Dates: 1937-1942

Virginia State Fair photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589394]
Identifier: MSS 16027

Virginia Union University Class of 1950 photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589312]
Identifier: MSS 16203
Scope and Contents

Virginia Union University Class of 1950 photograph, 1950, 5 x7 inch black and white outdoor photo taken on the steps of a prominent building, 0.03 cubic feet.

Dates: 1950

Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and New York photographs

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 15684
Scope and Contents Note The photo album (circa 1880s-1910s; 0.15 cubic feet) contains scenes of ships in Hampton Roads including the U.S.S. San Francisco, U.S.S. Brooklyn, the Cape Charles light ship, the Princess Anne, and the St. Louis. There are scenes of the seashore at Virginia Beach and Richmond. Beyond Virginia, scenes include monuments in Baltimore, Maryland, various streets and historical sites in New York City, and the United States Capitol. The album consists of a total of 50 pages, 8 of...
Dates: circa 1900

Petra Vogt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -16480
Content Description This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...
Dates: 1966 - 1978

Carl von Lang-Puchhof thoroughbred racehorse portrait album

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16136
Scope and Contents Note

The von Lang-Puchhof album (1891-1911; 0.25 cubic feet) consists of 165 racehorse photographs from a golden age of European racing before breeding was disrupted by the Great War. Most of the photographs are of mares, often with foals, in each case fully named with the identity of the sire provided. Two additional photographs are mounted on boards and laid in. The album was apparently compiled by or for owner and breeder, Carl von Lang-Puchhof.

Dates: 1891-1911

Votes for Women printing block

 Collection — Box: BW 54, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16793
Content Description The collection contains a printing block measuring 6" x 7.5" x 1" made of wood and metal. The printing block is headlined "Roll of Honor" with a suffrage pennant emblazoned "Votes for Women" below. Underneath the pennant, an inscription reads, "Distinguished people who have declared themselves for woman suffrage." Beneath are columns titled "Statesman," "Preachers," "Men of Letters," and "Educators." These columns list names such as Mark Twain, Plato, and Jack London. Though uncredited, this...
Dates: circa 1909

Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs Tea at the White House

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589217]
Identifier: MSS 16014
Scope and Contents

Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs tea at the White House, 0.03 cubic feet, of members on the grounds of the White House and Arlington Cemetery. Photographs of Dorothy Waleski, Pat Person, Lucille Bland, and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace (wife of the Vice-President).

Dates: 1941 May

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