Box BW 61
Container
Contains 19 Results:
Catherine "Kate" Weller commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 61, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS-16946
Content Description
This collection contains a commonplace book created by Catherine "Kate" Weller of Surrey, England. The book, dated between 1833 and 1835, includes 154 pages with sixty-four handwritten entries, ten watercolors, six other drawings, and a few ephemera items. It also has what may be a self-portrait of the author. Weller's title page is dated March 10, 1833 and the first entry is dated September 20, 1835 under the heading "My Album". The book has typical entries of commonplace books of the time,...
Dates:
1833-1835
Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen
Collection — Box: BW 61, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS-16947
Content Description
This collection contains a leather-bound handwritten manuscript copy of the 1789 Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, comprising the preamble and all seventeen articles, produced by Jenny Ricard, a fourteen-year-old girl from Nîmes, France. Stamped on the front and back binding is "LA LOI" and "LE ROI" in gilt. The text is written in brown ink throughout, with decorative titles and section headings rendered in red ink and red capitals. The manuscript is signed at the end: "Nîmes...
Dates:
1792
Photographs and ephemera, 1890-1914
File — Box: BW 61, Folder: 1
Content Description
From the File:
This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled “Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;” a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of...
Dates:
1890-1914
Correspondence of Julia Ellen duVal, 1916-1918
File — Box: BW 61, Folder: 2
Content Description
From the File:
This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled “Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;” a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of...
Dates:
1916-1918
Julia Ellen duVal papers, 1912-1930
File — Box: BW 61, Folder: 3
Content Description
From the File:
This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled “Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;” a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of...
Dates:
1912-1930
Master of Arts thesis, 1924
File — Box: BW 61, Folder: 4
Content Description
From the File:
This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled “Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;” a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of...
Dates:
1924
Embroidery sample book, c. 1900-1913
Item — Box: BW 61, Folder: 1
Content Description
From the Collection:
This collection contains the manuscript embroidery book and embroidered linen bag of M.E. Lovell of North Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lovell’s signature and address are written on the front endpage of the book. The stamp of the stationer that sold the book – F.W. Barry, Beale and Co., Boston – is pasted at the bottom of the rear endpage. The embroidery book contains notes on patterns, two pages of pasted-in articles on Mexican crochet styles, measurements for patterns, illustrations of...
Dates:
c. 1900-1913
Deliveries of American Tobacco lettersheet from James Dunlop to J. and D.K. Stewart
Collection — Box: BW 61, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16938
Content Description
This collection contains a single-leaf document, printed on the front and back, titled "Deliveries of American Tobacco from 1st January to 31st January 1837.” The printed document recorded the prices and quantities of many different tobaccos imported into England in 1837, as well as outlining tobacco deliveries for 1836, stocks remaining in the “King’s Warehouse,” specifics on market fluctuations of tobacco varieties, a “Recapitulation of Exports in 1836” to various markets, measured in...
Dates:
1837
Langston Hughes photograph with women journalists-addition 1
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 8870
Content Description
This addition to MSS 8870, Langston Hughes Collection, contains an 8" x 10" gelatin silver press photograph of Langston Hughes and Anna Land Butler, who is signing a book, surrounded by several Black female journalists. The land is likely signing her first book, "Album of Love Letters Unsent," published in 1952. Included with the picture is a typed caption identifying all the sitters and handwritten annotations indicating those who were deceased. Those identified in the photograph are Janice...
Dates:
C. 1952
John C. Granberry stock certificate
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 4942
Content Description
Certificate for one share for the Female Collegiate Institute in Buckingham County, Virginia.
Dates:
1850-07-11
Jefferson Davis comic carte de visite engravings
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16816
Content Description
This collection contains five comic carte de visite engravings illustrating Jefferson Davis's capture. Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865), was captured on May 10, 1865, by Union cavalry near Irwinville, Georgia. It was rumored that Davis disguised himself in a woman's dress when caught. The titles and printing information include: "How do you like it, Jefferson D.?," Kellogg Brothers, Hartford, CT, 1865; "The last ditch of the...
Dates:
1865
W.E.B. Du Bois Address at the Conference on the Encyclopaedia Africana
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16831
Content Description
This collection contains a mimeographed typescript of W.E.B. Du Bois's opening address at the Conference of the Encyclopedia of Africa held at the University of Ghana in Accra in 1962. Du Bois dreamed of editing an 'Encyclopedia Africana'. He envisioned a comprehensive compendium of 'scientific' knowledge about the history, culture, and social institutions of people of African descent. He argues for his project of an Encyclopedia Africana based in Africa and compiled by Africans. He notes...
Dates:
December 18, 1962
Helen Keller letter to Margie Bourne
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16844
Content Description
This collection contains a single letter, typed to Miss Margie Bourne from Helen Keller. Dated November 25, 1944, the content of the letter is soliciting funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. The leader's header is printed and reads "Helen Keller, 15 West 16th Street, New York 11, N.Y." The letter is signed by Keller in pencil at the bottom right.The letter is intriguing–particularly when you consider that Keller had to develop the skills to type without the ability to see the...
Dates:
November 25, 1944
Mathew Brady Studio: Union Civil War Camp photograph of African Americans
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16833
Content Description
This collection contains an albumen photograph of a Union wagon camp in Virginia during the Civil War from the Washington D.C. studio of Mathew Brady. Brady was one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history. He is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He often photographed Black soldiers and laborers during the war, mostly in Union or contraband camps. The present image documents for posterity a number of Black soldiers and laborers working towards a Union...
Dates:
c.1864
Dr. Agnes Maude Royden letter to Mrs. Bird
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16845
Content Description
This collection contains one typed letter from Dr. Agnes Maude Royden (1876-1956) to Mrs.Bird. In the letter, she asks after a newborn, discusses the cold weather, her move from Sevenoaks to London, her loss of hearing, and updates on mutual acquaintances. Royden was a British suffragist, preacher, and lecturer who founded the Church League for Women's Suffrage in 1909 and founded the ecumenical Guildhouse in 1921, which became a cultural hub in London for fifteen years.Royden...
Dates:
July 6, 1953
Howard University student diary
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16847
Content Description
This collection contains a diary from an unknown female student attending Howard University in 1915. It measures 9 X 6 inches, and the pages are hole-punched and tied with a ribbon. The diary includes one tipped-in item and twenty-eight leaves with thirty-three of the pages written on. Most of the diary documents the last few days of May 1915, covering the writer's final days at Howard and reminiscing about her time at the university. She discusses attending the annual play by...
Dates:
1915