Box BW 58
Container
Contains 11 Results:
The Mobile Blabber manuscript newspaper
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16751
Content Description
This collection consists of one, four-page, volume of a handwritten paper from Mobile, Alabama. The paper reports on a variety of events including a tanker explosion, a mayoral election, and bank robberies. Also included society pages, want ads, sports, and ads.
Dates:
c.1931
Brief History of the 80th Division
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16871
Content Description
This collection contains one typed manuscript titled “Brief History of the 80th Division.” The folder that originally contained this document notes that “this mimeographed copy was apparently used as primary copy for one of the Richmond papers.” The manuscript documents the actions of Adelbert Cronkhite (1861-1937), who served as a Major General with the 80th Division during the First World War. It describes the formation of the...
Dates:
c.1936
Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club Constitution
Item — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16859
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the constitution of the Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club of Hampton, Virginia. The document, dated July 22, 1910, is handwritten in graphite on three pages of lined paper. The preamble to the club's constitution states that they operate "to form a more perfect union, insure order, justice and tranquility and promote the highest intellectual and physical development of ourselves and of our race." This constitution contains 8 Acts:
Act I details the structure...
Dates:
July 22, 1910
Thomas Moody journal
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16881
Content Description
This collection contains the journal of Thomas Moody (1772-1811), a farmer and cobbler in York, Maine. The diary is generally set up by month and year (for example, "Journal November Anno Domino 1796"), with line entries for the days below. The journal entries date from January 1, 1796, to August 1810. Not all months or dates are recorded.His journal entries touch on political matters of the day. For example, he notes George Washington's death, “December 31, 1799, Great...
Dates:
1796-1810
165th Depot Brigade Band photograph
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16896
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a black and white photograph of Black army musicians of the 165 Depot Brigade, Camp Travis, Texas. A typed caption pasted on the back of the photo reads, "#263 Negro Band, Frist [sic] Group, 165 Depot Brigade, Camp Travis, Texas. Taken just outside Army Y.M.C.A. Building No. 1, devoted exclusively to negro troops. (Negro Secretaries in charge.)" Publicity Bureau National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. Northeastern Dept. 352 Little Bldg. Boston, Mass is stamped in ink on...
Dates:
Undated, circa 1914-1918
Gee's hunting diary
Item — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16903
Content Description
This collection contains an anonymous hunting diary with entries dating from 1932 to 1938. The book, "Gee's Hunting Diary, to Record the Sport of the Season Arranged for the Followers of Foxhounds and Harriers" was printed by Ernest R. Gee at his book and print shop. The book has detailed fields to record elements of the users' hunts including ruled diary for recording details of hunts such as date, hounds, huntsman, the meet, horses, fox, hare, covers drawn, found, wind, weather, scent,...
Dates:
1932 - 1938
John Leech watercolor sketches
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16912
Content Description
This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned...
Dates:
undated, circa 1840
John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16913
Content Description
This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and...
Dates:
1748 - 1772
Gabriele Schmidt-Heins untitled bookwork
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16914
Content Description
This collection contains one bookwork by Gabriele Schmidt-Hein. This bookwork contains seventy-three pages painted or otherwise stained by Gabriele. Some pages are intentionally torn or cut out. One page is intentionally torn and mended with tape.Much of the book contains bold shapes and compositions that gradually become subtler manipulation of the pages. Gabriele Schmidt-Heins's signature appears on the back cover, and “Nov 75” is handwritten in the bottom corner.
Dates:
November 1975
Archibald McClean letter to Francis James supporting anti-slavery measures in Virginia
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16829
Content Description
This collection contains a single letter from Colonel Archibald McClean to Pennsylvania Congressman Honorable Francis James, dated February 16, 1842. McClean, a well-connected Virginia lawyer, expresses his support for the anti-slavery efforts of John Quincy Adams. McClean notes his interest in "the debate which has been going on for some time in your House [of Representatives] upon the resolution for censuring Mr. [John Quincy] Adams for presenting a petition which was unpalatable to at...
Dates:
16 February 1842
Collection of photographs of African American Women in Chicago
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16797
Content Description
This collection contains thirty-one photographs of young Black women in Chicago in 1940s-1950s.The photographs document the youth of a young woman named Bea and several of her friends Nedra, Vera, and others. Included are class photographs from Forestville Elementary School and Lucy Flower Technical High School. Flower Tech was an integrated school for girls. There are photographs of their prom, jazz clubs, and the girls out on dates, celebrating, and having fun. The jazz club...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1942-1954