Box BW 51
Container
Contains 8 Results:
Hayes, Rutherford, B. letter to Major Davis
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16651
Content Description
One autographed signed letter by Rutherford B. Hayes to Major Davis regarding reports about the American Civil War and Morgan's Raid in Buffington, Ohio, in July 1863.
Dates:
1891 January
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
Clara D. Nelson commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16746
Content Description
This collection contains one notebook filled with poems and some loose newspaper clippings of printed verse. The inside front cover is signed, "Mrs. Clara D. Nelson's book." The book is full of poems copied down by Clara. Some of the poems included are "The golden side," by Mary Ann Kidder, "The old, old home," [Reverend Henry Brown], "Peace," by J.G. Whittier, and "Watching and waiting," by Marianne Farningham. Additionally, there are thirteen poems on newspaper, eight of which...
Dates:
c.1873
A.W. Francis school notebook (University of Virginia)
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16741
Dates:
1927
Chestnuts manuscript newspaper
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16743
Content Description
This collection consists of 26 handwritten amateur newspapers titled "Chestnuts,"by a group of ten girls calling themselves "WG's," the Woodfords Girls, who lived in the Woodfords neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It is likely they attended Deering High School, as the initials DHS appear several times. The newspapers contain original poetry, personals, advertisements, and editorials. Some include several small ink sketches. A few of the issues include riddles, local crime and fake...
Dates:
1888-1889
Daily Courier mimeograph newspaper
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16744
Content Description
This collection contains nine issues of an amateur newspaper created by two brothers, Harold and Arthur Rowley, ages fifteen and eleven, from Springfield, Massachusetts. They were the children of H.C. Rowley, head of the G & C Merriam Company, a well-known publishing and bookselling business.
The newspapers are one page printed broadsides using a late 19th century mimeograph process. The brothers hand wrote these newspapers and likely printed them using their father's...
Dates:
1894
Langston Hughes photograph
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16783
Content Description
This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of Langston Hughes, noted American poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In the picture, Hughes is surrounded by students after speaking at Harlem's Public School #113 graduation exercises which was also attended by students at James Madison High School and New York City grade school students. Mimeographed caption label with "Newspictures, Inc. ... please credit 'Acme Photo' ..." -- rubber-stamped on verso....
Dates:
June 25, 1945