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African American Hugh Carr family, Riverview Farm, and the Papers of the Ivy Creek Foundation
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10770
Scope and Contents
The papers contain correspondence, legal documents (copies), clippings, articles, research material, maps, and photographs concerning the Ivy Creek Natural Area and its history as the Riverview Farm owned by the Carr family (African Americans in late nineteenth century), including the original purchase by the Nature Conservancy, the formation of the Ivy Creek Foundation, and its administration of the property.Included among these is a notebook titled, Ivy Creek Natural Area...
Dates:
1916-1988
Hugh Carr family papers and Riverview Farm
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10176
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the history of Hugh Carr, an African American born in enslavement in 1843 and his family who lived on a tract of land (Riverview Farm) that Carr and his wife Texie Mae Hawkins bought in 1870 after emancipation. He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.The papers show that Carr highly valued...
Dates:
1843-1978
Jefferson Cable Corporation collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11458
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection is composed of videotape recordings of local-origination programming aired on the Jefferson Cable Corporation, including City Council Meetings and local news specials.
The collection includes approximately 300 color slides used in productions; color slides of a University of Virginia baseball game, 1970; photographic negatives of Lawrence Halpin's model of the Downtown Mall; Charlottesville City Council agenda, 1971 October 4, with an item...
Dates:
1885-1982
Michie Grocery Store Accounts Payable Ledger
Collection — Flat_Box: MSS16818_001
Identifier: MSS 16818
Dates:
1908
Route 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Road Project, Charlottesville, Virginia, Documentation Packets
File
Identifier: MSS 15464
Content Description
This collections consists of Historic American Landscapes Survey documentation packets for the Rock Hill Landscape and McIntire Park in preparation for the work on the Route 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Road Project. The reports were prepared by Dovetail Cultural Resourse Group and the black-and-white photographs were taken by Rob Tucher.The collection include two spiral bound volumes containing the Historic American Landscapes Survey written documentation; 40...
Dates:
2010-2012
The Homan W. Walsh Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-5
Abstract
Thirty four agenda notebooks (1930-1963).
Dates:
1930-1963
The Law Office Papers of William F. Long and R. Watson Sadler
Collection
Identifier: MSS-88-3
Abstract
Legal, civil case files (1913-1967), primarily trusts and estates, real estate, insurance, torts, and divorce that document the work of a small local law firm.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1913-1967
The Papers of Duke and Duke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-6
Abstract
Large collection of law practice records that document a small-town law office. There is correspondence, case files, legal, insurance and financial records, ledgers, 1854-1956.
Dates:
1854-1956