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Item — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16405
Content Description
Folding manuscript of the Buddhist text of the Phrai Malai (circa 1890s; 0.4 cubic feet) written in Thai using the Khom script. Item also contains twenty colored images that depict events in the text. Phrai Malai was a popular subject for illustrated manuscripts in 19th-century Thailand, though the spread of printing technology overtook the practice by the start of the 20th century.
Dates:
circa 1890s
Collection
Identifier: 2022-017
Abstract
(1922–1977) Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 23–year career; University of Virginia School of Nursing faculty, acting Dean 1972–1974. Advocate of nursing research. Memorial collection with biographical sketches, academic papers, meeting and research note diary (1971–1974), memorial conferences/courses at the University of Virginia and the U.S. Army Nursing Research Corps.
Dates:
1968-1995
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16824
Content Description
Content Warning: This material contains graphic imagery and content involving human remains. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials or, at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains a scrapbook of black and white photogaphs and ephemera documenting Frederick Pilcher, Jr.'s life from the 1920s to the 1930s as a student at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI),...
Dates:
C.1923-1932
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16508
Content Description
This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."
Dates:
3 April 1914
Collection
Identifier: 16639
Dates:
1986 - 2011; Majority of material found in 2015
Collection — Box: 1-7, Box: 8-14, Box: 15-16
Identifier: MSS 16207
Scope and Contents
The copies and transcriptions of Poe related material in the first series, usually correspondence or manuscripts, includes the names of correspondents, location of the originals if known, the accession number of any material acquired by the University of Virginia and accessioned as a collection before being interfiled in this collection, which was formerly known as the “Poe transcripts.” Also included on each folder is the reference to the page citing each item in "The Collected Letters of...
Dates:
1809-1970
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589175]
Identifier: MSS 15956
Scope and Contents
This collection of a Point Pleasure General Store ledger, dated 1824 July-November is 0.03 cubic feet and lists customers, what they bought, and prices. The collection may be related to MSS collection 15957 (a photograph of an unidentified woman) because both collections came in together from the same dealer.
Dates:
1824 July-Novemeber
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669072]
Identifier: MSS 16511
Content Description
This collection contains a commonplace book written in by Frances Eleanor "Fannie" Poole and her classmates at the Frederick Female Seminary in Maryland. The book includes a frontispiece, engraved title page, and additional plates. Poole wrote "this side up," beneath her inscription, but the binding is upside down. Poole died at the age of nineteen in 1860, four years after the last dated entry in the book. The book has heavy foxing on the plates and pages were torn from the book.
Dates:
1854 - 1856
Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16660
Content Description
This collection contains a manuscript autograph draft signed by John Caryll for payment to Alexander Pope with Pope's signed receipt and is addressed to Richard Wright, goldsmith, at Convent [sic] Garden. The ink manuscript is on a small sheet of paper (66mm X 154mm) with writing on both sides and is housed in a cloth-backed archival folder. The document says "Pray pay unto Mr. Alex: Pope (or order) the Sum of Eleven pounds and place it to the ye acct. of yr. freind J. Caryll." ...
Dates:
February 28, 1720
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16575
Content Description
This collection contains one poster displayed by an undergraduate student living on the Lawn, during the fall of 2020. The poster is a critique of the University of Virginia's purchase of furniture made by prison labor. The sign was damaged and was taped back together.
Dates:
2020
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589253]
Identifier: MSS 16093
Collection
Identifier: 2022-063
Abstract
Administrative files consisting mostly of student records.
Dates:
1967-1996
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-9
Abstract
Attorney record book with list of names, and case entries.
Dates:
1884-1912
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 11283
Content Description
Original offensive military order given on April 9, 1865 from Brigadier General William L. "Mudwall" Jackson ordering 18th Virginia Cavalry Lieutenant George Julian Pratt to burn the railroad bridges near Lynchburg.There is a photocopy of this military order in the existing collection but this is the original order which is a note scrawled on a scrap of paper by General Jackson. It is accompanied by a letter from L. L. Lomax in the War department thanking Pratt for a copy of the order for...
Dates:
1865, 1894
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16763
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813-c.1880), of Livonia, New York. The bulk of the entries are from 1830 to 1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville. The entries mostly consist of poems, with some original works, as well as short notes, whose general themes touch on memory, friendship, morality, heaven, and time. Some poems are attributed to a Charles Spraque. There are a few entries from...
Dates:
1829-1835
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16417
Scope and Contents Note
The Stella Pratt scrapbook (1883-1894; 0.4 cubic feet) contains correspondence, clippings, printed material, invitations, sketches, flowers, ribbons, photos, and a sketch of Stella herself. Pratt is from Longwood, Massachusetts, a neighborhood within Brookline.
Dates:
1867 - 1947
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16540
Content Description
The Gregory A. Prince Mormon Studies Collection (MSS 16540), 1813-2020, contains about 10,000 items (107 cubic feet) and reflects a lifetime of dedicated scholarship and careful acquisition of materials by Gregory A. Prince that would be very difficult to replicate in modern times. It contains pamphlets, charts, books, manuscripts, diaries, journals, audiovisual materials, newspapers, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera related to the organization and evolution of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Dates:
circa 1813-2020
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16647
Content Description
Handwritten poems and sentiments written to Martha, 1839-1842. Blank "Album" published by J. C. Riker, New York, includes several pages of illustrations, mostly black and white, many signed by artists and engravers. Printed engravings are preceded by colored papers for protection. Some illustrations have been pasted in.
Dates:
1839 - 1842
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589473]
Identifier: MSS 16345
Scope and Contents
Private stock label printed broadside captioned "Private stock" humorously describing labeling a bottle of alcohol., undated, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
undated
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16835
Content Description
This collection contains a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, (a Tuskegee Airman). The notebook is a green cloth 3-ring binder, with "Negro History" written on the spine, containing newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Courier, illustrations from a syndicated cartoon Your History, by J.A. Rogers, and illustrations from Negroes...
Dates:
c.1949-1950