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Box BW 57

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Contains 11 Results:

African American man tintype portrait

 File — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16795
Content Description This collection features one 2.25 X4" tintype photograph of an unidentified African American man dressed in a three-piece suit with a bowtie, pocket square, and derby hat with a sash perched at a stylish angle on his head. The man leans against a marble column against a plain background in a studio. The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of enslaved African Americans across the United States. His suit, medium, and background suggest a date roughly...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Two African American women tintype

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16796
Content Description This collection features an undated tintype photograph of two unidentified African American women dressed in Victorian-style dresses and hats. One of the women holds a bouquet that drapes over a bridge made of branches that the two figures are posed on in a photography studio. It measures 2.5 X 3.5 ". The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans across the United States. The medium of the photograph and the women's dress...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Union Printer's Home album

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16802
Content Description This collection contains a photo album documenting the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This album includes images of patients in bathrobes relaxing on sunny, fresh-air “sleeping porches”; reclining in chairs; in bed; on the grounds of the home’s 200-acre complex; and in the company of nurses, staff, and administrators. Pictured extensively is the Union Printer's Home itself (called “The Mountain” by the printers and also referred to as the "the Castle"), which housed a...
Dates: C.1931
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Wendy Martin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16866
Content Description This collection documents the first-year experience of Wendy Martin, a student-athlete at the University of Virginia, class of 1991. The collection contains brochures, schedules, and correspondence collected by Martin, including materials sent to incoming first-year students, student activities brochures, materials from housing, honor code documents, and materials related to Track and Field, including correspondence, schedules, and brochures. It also includes her application for admission to...
Dates: 1985 - 1987
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leaves from the War Diary of a Cootie

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16863
Content Description This collection contains an illustrated manuscript by John R. Abbit that tells the comic story of a mother louse and her children traveling across the bodies of American soldiers in the First World War. The manuscript measures 6 X 5 inches and contains thirty-one pages in its original blue wrappers. The spine is punched with grommets and bound with red ribbon. The dedication page is typed in red ink, and the volume contains fifteen pen-and-ink drawings initialed...
Dates: undated, c.1918
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

PAAS Dye Company WWI egg transfer sheet

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16860
Content Description This collection contains a single uncut sheet of seventeen portraits of European royals, military, and political leaders to be used as transfer patterns for decorating Easter eggs by the Paas Dye company. These “Transfer-O-s” are printed in reverse on tissue paper measuring roughly 5 X 9 inches. Produced sometime before the United States entered the First World War, the packaging includes a quality disclaimer made by the company related to wartime supply chain issues saying “Any variation...
Dates: c.1915
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dr. Minor Carson Lile photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16867
Content Description This collection contains one leather-bound photo album compiled by Dr. Minor Carson Lile between 1909 and 1917. It includes thirty-nine black and white photographs, many with captions or initials that provide a snapshot of life at the University. Photographs include images of the Routunda, Pavilion X, Birdwood, a baseball game at Lambeth Field with Minor playing third base, family photographs of the...
Dates: c. 1908-1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

O. Allery calligraphic Lord's Prayer

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: 16864
Content Description

This collection contains the Lord's Prayer written in calligraphic script in concentric circles with some letters highlighted in gilt. At the end of the prayer, the name O. Allery is identified as the "scribe." It is mounted in a brown matte with a circular cutout at its center, displaying the prayer. The verso has O. Allery and the date '1990' inscribed and a gold address label placing O. Allery in Wells, Somerset, England.

Dates: 1990
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louis P. Stone Letter

 Collection — 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

H.C. Marchant letter to R.W. Creasy

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16888
Content Description

This collection contains one holograph letter dated August 23, 1900 from H.C. Marchant of Charlottesville to R. W. Creasy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letter is written on Charlottesville Woolen Mills stationery. The letter addresses Creasy's interest in employment which Marchant seems hesitant to give. Marchant requests references that can speak to Creasy's conduct and to his to his habits since leaving Charlottesville.

Dates: August 23, 1900
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ruth A. Curtis art notebook

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16889
Content Description This collection contains a single notebook of Ruth A. Curtis of Windsor, Connecticut. The notebook documents her studies in art, spanning two different groups of lessons from 1906-1909. There are encouraging notes from her instructor, Marshall T. Fry, and several examples of her art, including woodblock prints and two colorful drawings of flowers. Her notes include motive, arrangement, color, shape, value, intensity, design principles, and lecture notes. Curtis also copied a "Schedule of 10...
Dates: 1906-1909
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library