Folder BW 45
Container
Contains 10 Results:
Margaret M. Tillotson album
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16706
Content Description
This collection contains the commonplace book of Margaret Tillotson. A full commonplace book, with many of the items religious in nature, such as psalms of personal importance, the ten commandments, Jewish translations for the months of the year, poems yearning to travel to Rome or other pilgrimage sites, besides the usual miscellaneous collection of poetry. Tillotson's father was John C. Tillotson (1791-1867) who was the son of Dr. Thomas Tillotson (1750-1832), Congressman and Secretary of...
Dates:
1837 - 1841
African American Freemason lodge photographs
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16711
Content Description
Collection of eight black and white photographs. All are group portraits of members of African American fraternal lodges in Virginia. The images bare the stamps of several different photographers -- from Richmond, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach. Several images show handwritten annotations on the back -- one lodge is identified as Progressive Lodge #80 in Norfolk, another as King David Lodge #28 in Richmond (this photo is signed by 13 members of the lodge on the back), another as Willow...
Dates:
circa 1950s
Margaret Ann N. Russell commonplace book
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16712
Content Description
Women's commonplace album with about 20 pages of inscriptions, sentiments, and verse, hand-written with signatures or initials and date.
Dates:
1860 - 1866
Office of the Architect - addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1
Identifier: ViU-2022-0051
Lieutenant Sylvenus Fay Civil War diary, 1864
File — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/3
Content Description
From the Collection:
Sylvenus A. Fay diary recounting the daily events of camp life and fighting, his capture by Confederates during the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina and waiting for an exchange for his freedom with hundreds of Union Officers. Lieutenant Fay was the commanding officer of Company F, 85th New York Infantry. In January 1864, the 85th Infantry was ordered to Plymouth NC, where in April, almost the entire regiment was captured. There is significant information in the diary about...
Dates:
1864
Photocopies of Fay Civil War diary, 1864
File — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 2/3
Content Description
From the Collection:
Sylvenus A. Fay diary recounting the daily events of camp life and fighting, his capture by Confederates during the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina and waiting for an exchange for his freedom with hundreds of Union Officers. Lieutenant Fay was the commanding officer of Company F, 85th New York Infantry. In January 1864, the 85th Infantry was ordered to Plymouth NC, where in April, almost the entire regiment was captured. There is significant information in the diary about...
Dates:
1864
Z Society letter about events of armed robber on 28 February 2022 (Addition 1), 2022 March 1
File — Folder: BW 45
Content Description
From the Collection:
This addition to RG 23/109, Student Organizations/ Z Society, includes a letter circulated and posted all over Grounds by the Z Society after an incident on February 28, 2022. The incident required a shelter-in-place notification to the community after officers initially responded to a report of a possible robbery with a weapon. Once on the scene, investigators learned the suspect had fled on foot but was located soon after in a construction zone behind the Main Library. The Z Society letter...
Dates:
2022 March 1
Enslaved person named Ben hiring document
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16710
Content Description
Document for the hire of an enslaved person named Ben, for $90.00 until December 25, 1852 possibly in Charlestown, West Virginia. Signed by John L. & W. N. Craighill. Docketed on the verso. The document specifies clothing to be furnished during the term of employment and requires the Craighills to return Ben with "a good wool hat, a blanket, a pair of winter shoes, two pair of home-made yarn stockings, one shirt, and a coat, waistcoat, and pants of good fulled-linsey, and pay his...
Dates:
1851-12-29