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Cuff Liberty pay voucher
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
Library Advancement files
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 12/43
Content Description
Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.
Dates:
circa 1996-2019
Library Advancement records-addition 4
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
Library Development Office - addition
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
License to Practice Law in Virginia issued to John Douglas Simms in 1808
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-7
Abstract
General Court of Virginia license to practice law.
Dates:
1808
Dr. Minor Carson Lile photo album
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16867
Content Description
This collection contains one leather-bound photo album compiled by Dr. Minor Carson Lile between 1909 and 1917. It includes thirty-nine black and white photographs, many with captions or initials that provide a snapshot of life at the University. Photographs include images of the Routunda, Pavilion X, Birdwood, a baseball game at Lambeth Field with Minor playing third base, family photographs of the...
Dates:
c. 1908-1917
Lincoln's gun at Fort Monroe photograph
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
Linda F. C. Bullock Collection
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
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets extracts
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
Livre des merveilles du monde facsimile
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
Livre pour la remede pour les chevaux [Book of the remedy for horses]
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
Charles H. Lloyd to Samuel Breese Letter
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
Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club Constitution
Item — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
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
Lois Miller Pilch Papers
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
Long Range Curriculum Committee records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-304
Scope and Contents
These files contain principally memoranda and reports of the committee.
Dates:
1979 - 1983
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letter
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589222]
Identifier: MSS 16039
Scope and Contents
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letter (1853; 0.03 cubic feet) to his English friend Miss Emma.
Dates:
1953 October 3
Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2021-01
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into two series. The first series, "abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists", consists of subject files compiled by Dr. Loren Roth, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. They are evidence of Dr. Roth's efforts to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. The subject files contain correspondence, articles, reports, evaluations, meeting minutes, agendas, planning materials,...
Dates:
1950 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1974 - 2022
Lorraine Bowers Albrecht Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2022-092
Abstract
(b. ca. 1930) University of Virginia School of Nursing graduate, 1951. Medical illustrations and other materials used by Albrecht as an instructor at Lansing Community College. Scrapbook items concerning the UVA School of Nursing.
Dates:
1950-2006
Louise Paris Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2022-081
Abstract
(b. 1931) Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Specialist and licensed counselor. Papers document her education, and her professional roles as clinician, counselor, instructor, administrator, and consultant.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1946-1998