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Harriet Cooke scrapbook

Item — Ledger: 1

Identifier: MSS 16400

Scope and Contents Note Folio scrapbook with marble-paper cover, and gold-stamped green leather corners and binding, containing pages of many different colors. Inside the front cover is a red leather gold-stamped plate reading "Harriet Cooke / 1842." Title page has a memorial plate reading "To Miss Cook May 2nd 1842 / In Remembrance of the late / Miss Sarah P. M. Kreth / Obit 26 Apr Atat 33yr / Jas Thomas, Undertaker, Bristol." Contains a wide range of visual materials pasted into the volume, including original...

Dates: 1842

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cork and Curls records-Addition

Collection — Box: RG 23 - Additions Box 1, Folder: 1 of 1

Identifier: RG-23/48

Content Description

This addition contains a news release and a partial index to the Cork and Curls, the yearbook of the University. More materials on these collections can be found in RG 23/48 (Corks and Curls)

There is a related collection of records of the Cavalier Daily containing the staff structure and the constitution of the Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper.RG-23/10 (Cavalier Daily).

Dates: 1966

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Country Museum magazine for Monday December 3, 1787

Collection — Box: BW 31, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16567

Content Description The collection contains one issue of an amateur newspaper or manuscript magazine from December 3rd, 1787, 18 pages, including several poems, on laid paper with crown watermark and a 6 page handwritten essay by Reverend Martin Sherlock, "Comparison between the Sexes". The newspaper is a collection of pastoral essays and rhyming poetry, apparently unpublished in any form. Poems include, "To the Museumite," "The Wonderful Age," (signed Apricot), "The Ramble," and "Female Politeness." Both the...

Dates: 1787-12-03

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Linda Louisa Cousins diary

Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589355]

Identifier: MSS 16250

Scope and Contents

Linda Louisa Cousins diary, 1912-1914, 0.03 cubic feet, with daily notations about the weather, her work cleaning houses and her hobbies crocheting, and writing letters. One entry notes that she attended " a colored commencement."

Dates: 1912-1914

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

C. Cowen manuscript The Three Sentimentalities, Love, Revenge, and Rivalry

Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X032652609]

Identifier: MSS 16439

Scope and Contents Note

The three sentimentalities, love, revenge, and rivalry by C. Cowen manuscript (1867; 0.03 cubic feet) is in 3 parts in one vol., fashioned to look like a published work, complete with frontispiece and title page. A home-made book that reads like a gothic novel, full of adventure, romance, and drama.

Dates: 1867

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Malcolm Cowley letter

Collection — Box: BW 14, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16154

Scope and Contents

Malcolm Cowley letter about the jacket copy for the Portable Faulkner revise, 1966, October 22, 0.03 cubic feet. Includes copy for the front cover, and some criticism for the graphic design of the original cover. Also includes an attached yellow sheet with typewritten copy for the back cover, which includes a quote from Faulkner.

Dates: 1966 October 22

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Joan Alice Coyne scrapbook

Item — Ledger: 1

Identifier: MSS 16403

Scope and Contents Note

The Joan Alice Coyne scrapbook (1935-1938; 0.4 cubic feet) was owned by Joan Alice Coyne: a young girl living in Elizabeth, NJ. Contents include a few photos of Coyne, various clippings of school materials and event programs, holiday cards, and obituaries for her father.

Note: Scrapbook contains items with racist imagery typical for the time period that some patrons may find offensive.

Dates: 1935 - 1938

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Joyce Crary show horse photo album

Item — Ledger: 1

Identifier: MSS 16300

Content Description The Joyce Crary show horse photo album (1940s; 0.2 cubic feet) contains photographs labeled by hand in white ink. 10 x 13 with 35 leaves containing around 120 black and white photographs, and a few pieces of ephemera, inserted into corner mounts. Photographs feature Joyce Crary, her family, and her friends and horses at the family ranch near Chico, California. Horses and riders are shown jumping, racing, and performing trick riding of various types. One image is of Joyce, her father, and a...

Dates: 1940s

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Crockett album

Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899238]

Identifier: MSS 16320

Scope and Contents Margaret Crockett album, MSS 16320, 1905-1933, 0.03 cubic feet is described as a commercial album with gold-stamped leather batting-stuffed covers and multi-colored gilt-edged pages, covered with a dull green hand-made fabric cover embroidered "M.C." in red thread. Front free endpaper reads "Margaret Crockett / July 1911," though one pasted entry is dated 1905 and the latest entry is from 1933. The initials RNS (Royal Naval School), is found scattered throughout the volume, as are the...

Dates: 1905-1933

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Crocus manuscript magazine

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16745

Content Description

This collection contains a twenty-page manuscript periodical produced by a Ladies Benevolent Society, at a Methodist Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts. It contains numerous contributions, noted by their initials, of prose, poetry, humor, education, lost items, religious topics, riddles, marriages, and death. The editor is noted as a Mary Lizzie Alden.

Dates: 4 November 1874

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Culpeper County, Virginia hunting album containing photographs of African American families

Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16742

Content Description This collection contains a photograph album depicting a wide range of hunting experiences in the environs of rural Culpepper County, Virginia at the turn of the century. The album contains ninety uncaptioned, mounted photos of hunting scenes including bagged game such as quail, foxes, turkeys, and deer, usually depicted with hunters and hunting dogs. There are photographs of hunters in groups from one to a half dozen, posed in the woods, with shotguns, or posed with guns and dogs. Several...

Dates: c.1905

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums

Item — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 16404

Content Description

The Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums (1880s; 0.5 cubic feet) contain 76 photographs (albumen prints, most mounted, some hand-colored, probably commercially produced and sold) of views and people in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Burma, collected by U.S. Navy officer Clinton K. Curtis.

Dates: 1880s

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Marvin Kent Curtis papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 15719

Scope and Contents Marvin Kent Curtis papers (1910-1959; 6 cubic feet) consist of materials relating to his service in World War I, his work as a counselor and co-owner of Camp Mishawaka, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as an author of boy's adventure stories, and plays, and his competitive sailing in the Florida Keys. Included are his novels including extracts from them in periodicals such as the American Boy, Outers Recreation, and correspondence from F. Scott Fitzgerald. There are four series Correspondence,...

Dates: 1910-1959

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lewis M. Dabney III papers on Edmund Wilson; William Faulkner and the Yoknapatawpha; and Crystal Ross and John Dos Passos.

Collection

Identifier: MSS 16566

Content Description The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...

Dates: 1895 - 2005

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dakota Language Roman Catholic Catechism

Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16778

Content Description This collection contains a small (14 x 22 cm) typescript book titled Dakota Language Roman Catholic Catechism circa 1920. The book is constructed in two parts: part one titled Woonspekiye Wakan gusina, The Small Catechism, consisting of about seventy-three pages, and part two, Waceghiya-Prayers, consisting of about forty-three pages. The book is primarily written in the Dakota language with occasional titles in English. This catechism or summary of doctrine, of the Roman Catholic...

Dates: c.1920

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. letter to Murat Williams

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 9829

Content Description

ALS from Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., to Murat Williams about Davis' review of "Man from the Valley," written by Francis Pickens Miller but edited by Williams.

Dates: 1971-07-16

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George C. Davis studio photograph

Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1

Identifier: MSS 16642

Content Description

This collection contains a single black and white photograph of a street with a Liberty Loan mural in Roanoke, Virginia from the George C. Davis studio.

Dates: ca. 1941-1945

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Herbert R. Davis photograph albums

Collection — Flat_Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 16840

Content Description This collection contains two photo albums of Herbert R. Davis of Richmond, Virginia that document Black pre-World War II life in Richmond; Davis's service in the South Pacific (Guam, Guadalco, and Peleliu) as a Black Marine; and Davis's family life upon his return from combat during the early 1930's to the late 1940's. Many of Davis's fellow soldiers in the 11th Marine Depot Company, 16th Field Depot are posed in photographs. The 11th Company, who fought at the Battle of Peleliu,...

Dates: c. 1930-1950

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jefferson Davis comic carte de visite engravings

Collection — Folder: MSS16816_001

Identifier: MSS 16816

Dates: 1865

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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Harriet Cooke scrapbook

Cork and Curls records-Addition

Country Museum magazine for Monday December 3, 1787

Linda Louisa Cousins diary

C. Cowen manuscript The Three Sentimentalities, Love, Revenge, and Rivalry

Malcolm Cowley letter

Joan Alice Coyne scrapbook

Joyce Crary show horse photo album

Margaret Crockett album

Crocus manuscript magazine

Culpeper County, Virginia hunting album containing photographs of African American families

Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums

Marvin Kent Curtis papers

Lewis M. Dabney III papers on Edmund Wilson; William Faulkner and the Yoknapatawpha; and Crystal Ross and John Dos Passos.

Daily Courier mimeograph newspaper

Dakota Language Roman Catholic Catechism

Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. letter to Murat Williams

George C. Davis studio photograph

Herbert R. Davis photograph albums

Jefferson Davis comic carte de visite engravings

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