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Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589232]
Identifier: MSS 16063
Scope and Contents
Richard Lewis, a wealthy and influential land owner in Northern Virginia, left instructions in his will about his land and that four "Negro girls" be purchased and divided by lot among his daughters, 0.03 cubic feet, 1777.
Dates:
1777
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16611
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 18/12/4
Content Description
This addition contains includes T-shirts, committee reports, proposals, surveys, petitions, clippings from various newspapers including The Cavalier Daily, brochures, a letter from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida regarding the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, and a floppy disk documenting the work of the LGBTQ student center.
Dates:
1990 - 2017
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-201
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily documents the history of the Libel Show at the University of Virginia School of Law. It includes the following materials dating from 1930 to the present: scripts, programs, video recordings, tickets, photographs, posters, and clippings.
In addition to these materials, collection RG-32-201 contains a membership book for the University of Virginia chapter of Phi Delta Phi (Minor Inn). The book dates from 1890 to 1957.
Dates:
1890 - 2023
Collection — Box: BW 42, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16716
Content Description
This collection is a handwritten fragment from Liber regalis dispositio (book of royal dispositions about the practices of health for the mind and body and islamic science) written by Al-Majusi (Hali Abbas) a Persion physician and psychologist from the Islamic Golden Age. His work consists of twenty treatises on the theory and practice of medicine. This fragment comes from the first book of the Practica (translated by Stephen of Antioch in 1127) and discusses the benefits of wine in...
Dates:
1523
Collection — Box: Currency, Stamps, and Miscellany Box, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16821
Content Description
This collection contains one Revolutionary War pay voucher to Cuff Liberty, an African American soldier from Middletown, Connecticut, who was one of approximately 300 enslaved or freemen from Connecticut who fought for the Continental Army. The government-issued vouchers promised full payment by a certain date and paid interest until the full amount was collected. The voucher, measuring 8" X 4", is printed on laid paper with a black decorative border, numbered in ink "3958" for £13,6,7 1/2."...
Dates:
1782 - 1789
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 12/43
Content Description
Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.
Dates:
circa 1996-2019
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-12/43
Content Description
This collection contains printed ephemera regarding events, dinners, lectures, and fundraising from 1988 to 2000 both at and for the library. Also included are received rsvps for a few of the events.
Dates:
1988-2000, undated
Collection
Identifier: RG-12
Content Description
This addition to RG 12 University Library includes clippings, university and student magazines about student life, faculty, alumni and UVA athletics, promotional cards and event ephemera about UVA and Special Collections exhibits and dinners, and a file on "Wednesdays in Mississippi" movement with a recording on CD of Dorothy Height at the University of Virginia, and a VHS tape of a Local PBS station's story on Lewis and Clark. The magazines include The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine,...
Dates:
c. 1946-2016
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-7
Abstract
General Court of Virginia license to practice law.
Dates:
1808
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16695
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589188]
Identifier: MSS 15970
Scope and Contents
This collection is a photograph of Lincoln's gun at Fort Monroe (undated) and is one folder (0.03 cubic feet).
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: 2022-006
Abstract
Research materials from two clinical trials concerning low-income women in the Ozarks region of Missouri, specifically: smoking cessation programs during pregnancy, and domestic violence reduction in homes with young children. Largely white respondents, but some African-American and some Native American. Vast majority of collection comprises anonymous client files with interviews, etc., which can form the basis of much additional research on the nature of poverty in early-21st-century...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1992-2009
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16401
Scope and Contents Note
The handwritten copy of extracts (1796; 0.15 cubic feet) from the "Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works" by Samuel Johnson, originally published in 1783. Copy was transcribed in 1796 and includes a table of contents and index.
Dates:
1796
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16558
Content Description
This collection consists of a print on demand facsimile of Livre des merveilles du monde (BNF FR2810)based on the Marco Polo - The Book of Wonders. This one-of-a-kind reproduction is the only numbered large size format Book of Wonders in genuine calf skin leather." (with certificate of authenticity).It is an illuminated manuscript made in France between 1410 to 1412 containing several texts regarding commercial, religious, and diplomatic contact between Europe and Asia. The authors of these...
Dates:
c. 1410-1412; Publication: 2021
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16817
Content Description
This collection contains an anonymous author's unpublished vernacular manuscript on equine health. This manuscript was likely used as a tool by veterinarians or educated farmers in western France in the middle of the eighteenth century. The manuscript is divided into two parts. The first and longer part occupies the first 178 pages and is in a single legible hand. The second part, likely in a different and somewhat later hand, comprises the last eight pages.The first part of the...
Dates:
c.1741-1760
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16813
Content Description
This collection features a single letter written by Charles H. Lloyd, addressed to his uncle, Samuel Breese of Oneida, New York. Lloyd writes from Harrisonburg, Virginia, asking his uncle for funds to return to New York as he cannot find other employment. He writes, " I am situated so that I cannot move at all. I have tried to get a situation here in place... but unsuccessfully and all because I am not a good writer & bookkeeper. I feel very anxious indeed to get back to New York but Mr....
Dates:
August 15, 1851
Item — Folder: ViU-2024-0147_001
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
Collection
Identifier: 2022-060
Abstract
(1913–2000) Materials from her career with the Washington, DC Department of Public Health. Issues concerning adolescent health and children with disabilities, both at the general program level and daily operations, including case reports [IRB required for a consultation]. Also two charting notebooks from 1937 and 1939 detail treatment regimes, medication, and remarks for identified patients [IRB also required].
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1948-1981
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-304
Scope and Contents
These files contain principally memoranda and reports of the committee.
Dates:
1979 - 1983