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Randolph Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS15564
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees...
Dates:
1860, 1873-1908
Ladley Husted papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16792
Content Description
This collection contains two folders of Ladley Husted, a University of Virginia biology professor and the first chair of the President's Tree Committee later known as the Arboretum and Landscape Committee. The folders include correspondence, notes, and detailed maps of plantings on grounds from 1959-1962. The folders are titled "Tree Committee" and "Tree Locations." The Tree Committee folder contains correspondence and notes related to the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1959-1963
Christian S. Hutter miscellany
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15511
Scope and Contents
This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish,...
Dates:
circa 1602-1945
The Illustrated Alphabet
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875
Illustrated Manuscript Confessory for Deaf People
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16803
Content Description
This collection contains a single leather-bound illustrated manuscript for Deaf persons to confess their sins. They could identify their sins by the illustrations and ask to be absolved. Called a Confessory, it was made in Flanders or the Netherlands roughly between 1770 and 1790.No title or author is present on the binding or internal board pages. The book is composed of ninety-two leaves, with ten leaves left blank. It appears to be a model book, with two sets of drawings made...
Dates:
c.1770-1790
Imogene M. King Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2022-051
Abstract
(1923-2007) Significant author and advocate for nursing theory and its practical application, attaining wide recognition for her scholarly accomplishments. Professor at the University of South Florida, Loyola, and Ohio State. The core of the collection consists of a wide-ranging interview with King conducted by Patricia Messmer on June 17–19, 1994, and a series of biographical essays on King published by Messmer from the interviews. Publications by and about King are included.
Dates:
1948-2016
IMTFE Allied Judges Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2014-06
Abstract
Historical photograph of IMTFE.
Dates:
undated
In Our Time screenplay
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16850
Content Description
This collection features a single screenplay for an unproduced film based on John H.N. Hemingway's memories of his parents Ernest and Hadley Hemingway. The script was written in 1984 by Denne Petitclerc (1929-2006), a journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway. "In Our Time" is based on the primary source material and recollections of John H.N. Hemingway and Petitclerc described in the first three pages of the script titled " A Note on the Sources of this Screenplay." The...
Dates:
January 16, 1984
International Photo Engravers' Union of North America metal plate engravings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16347
Dates:
1900's
Inventory of the Legal Papers of Roger B. Taney
Collection
Identifier: MSS-87-3
Abstract
This collection of legal documents concerns Roger B. Taney’s law practice in Frederick, Maryland between 1805 and 1818. Of special note are the cases concerning enslaved people.
Dates:
1792, 1805-1818
Inventory of the Papers of Armistead Mason Dobie
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-2
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1902 (1939-1956) 1965
Inventory of the Papers of Edwin S. Cohen
Collection
Identifier: MSS-87-4
Scope and Contents
The vast majority of the documents (72 linear feet, or 160 boxes and 2 cartons) document his position as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy and as Under Secretary of the Treasury for the Nixon administration. In addition there is considerable documentation of his work in private practice and teaching. The organization of the collection reflects its original folder headings and arrangement, as well as the sequence in which it was transferred to the library. The...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1946-1989
Inventory of the Papers of Elizabeth N. Tompkins
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-4
Abstract
Collection of letters, diplomas, certificates, and awards (1921-1971) of Elizabeth Tompkins, first woman to graduate from UVA Law School in 1921.
Dates:
1921-1971
Inventory of the Papers of Neill H. Alford, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-90-3
Abstract
This collection of professional papers reflects Professor Alford's private legal practice and professorship at the UVA School of Law. There is correspondence, records and briefs, speeches and articles, and teaching materials on international law, legal history, trusts and estates, contracts, administrative law, economic warfare, insurance.
Dates:
1942-1989
Inventory of the Papers of Park Elliott Dietz for the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-1
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1973-1986