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Betty Joe Coyner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-039
Abstract

Director, University of Virginia Heart Center Nursing; items concerning her "Model Hospital Project" study, 1992. This collection is partially processed.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Betty Norris Professorship Fund Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-056
Abstract

These documents concern the establishment (and perhaps awarding) of the endowed professorship chair named for Betty Norris. University of Virginia School of Nursing. This collection is not processed.

Dates: 1990s
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Beulah R. Beach Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-030
Abstract

(b. 1904) Student notebook pages from Worcester State Hospital School of Nursing, Worcester, Massachusetts. Monograph on dosage, 1949, used by Beach's daughter at St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, New Bedford, Massachusetts. This collection is not processed.

Dates: 1923-1926, 1949
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Beverly C. Mosby papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16171
Scope and Contents This collection of Beverly C. Mosby papers of about 60 items, one half size legal document box, .04 cubic feet, contains business letters of Beverley C. Mosby and letters of the Mosby family, including John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916)Confederate Colonel in the American Civil War. There is also a letter about President Mckinley helping John Singleton Mosby to obtain a job in the Justice Department and letters from John Singleton Mosby to his son, Beverley C. Mosby about family news and...
Dates: 1899-1910
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16481
Content Description

This collection contains the 1798 bill of sale for an eight year old Creole boy named Jean Baptiste from Port-au-Prince on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). It was written by the Bordeaux-born merchant Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) to a " Monsieur Grandidier". It is a single sheet of paper consisting of eleven lines of french detailing the transaction of enslavement including the name and age of the boy and the price of sale of a hundred livre.

Dates: 1798-03-03
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Billye Jean Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-034
Abstract

Dean of the School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin, retired 1989. Sigma Theta Tau items; miscellaneous nursing education materials. This collection is partially processed.

Dates: 1967-1989
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

James A. Binford journal

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589358]
Identifier: MSS 16254
Scope and Contents

James, A. Binford journal, 1872-1873, 0.03 cubic feet, includes notes for Mr. Binford's meetings in relation to his work as school superintendent of the Richmond schools.

Dates: 1872-1873
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jonathan A. Bishop papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16392
Scope and Contents The Jonathan A. Bishop papers (1897-1924; 0.25 cubic feet) consist of his letters to his wife, Florence Collier Bishop, during his service as a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Spanish-American War (1898-1899) and government documents regarding a pension for his wife (1897-1924), totaling over 80 items. There is also one letter from his wife describing a lynching of an African American man named John Henry James on July 12, 1898 at Wood's Crossing, Charlottesville, Va. Also included is a...
Dates: 1897 - 1924
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Black and Brown Trading Stamp Albums

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-16479
Content Description

This collection contains three empty Black and Brown trading stamp albums, and two filled Black and Brown trading stamp albums. Also included are approximately 75-100 unattached twenty-five cent Black and Brown stamps featuring James Brown.

Dates: circa 1969
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Donald Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15031
Scope and Contents This collection contains items from Donald Black’s life and career, spanning from the 1930s up until the 2010s, ranging from personal memorabilia from his high school years, to his research in graduate school, to drafts of his major published works, to his professional involvement in sociology and universities, all the way up to correspondence concerning his retirement from the University of Virginia in 2016. Some folders contain groupings of files that remain as-is from their arrangement...
Dates: 1935-2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Virginia Law Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-217
Scope and Contents

The administrative records, scrapbooks, websites, newsletters, and artifacts in this collection document the history of the Virginia Law Chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA).

Dates: circa 1990 - 2024
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Blair family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 11694
Scope and Contents The Blair family papers (1821-1949) contains the personal correspondence of Lewis Harvie Blair, Martha Ruffin Feild Blair, and Jean Feild Blair Helion; drafts of various works by Lewis H. Blair; a copy of Lewis H. Blair’s "On the Prosperity of the South;" unpublished writings from Mr. Blair’s family members; interior decorating books by Brown Landone; personal finances; a sampling of checks; letters and financial documents from the Hideaway Motor Court; insurance documents; photographs of...
Dates: 1821-1949 (bulk 1920-1940)
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Blanks, Dabbs and Co. ledger

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16443
Dates: 1857-1859
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lieutenant William Bligh diary leaf recounting his uncomfortable journey to London (for surveying the Coast near Dungeness in preparation of the Napoleonic Wars)

 Collection — Box: Vault Accessions, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16499
Content Description Lieutenant William Bligh diary handwritten leaf recounting his uncomfortable journey to London (for surveying the Coast near Dungeness in preparation of the Napoleonic Wars)in 1803. He writes, Friday 16, 1803 "[Dear Wm?] At 4 this morning I got into the [Balloon] Coach [ ] Passengers [two] ladies, sisters called Miss Wear's. Very much [destroyed?] by the frequent stopping of the coachmen.Saturday 17, 1803 "D. [Wm] After a tedious & unpleasant nights traveling and...
Dates: 16-17 [December?] 1803
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John H. Bloce account book

 Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16722
Content Description

This collection contains the account book believed to be of John H. Bloce, a farmer and book peddler. Genealogical records show that some of the uncommon names listed in the account book are from Rockingham County, Virginia, bordering Shenandoah County. The account book details schoolbooks such as readers, geography and spelling along with other transactions such as selling apple, corn, oats, horse collars, etc.

Dates: 1856 - 1857
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Blockade Civil War letter from wife Isabella and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa to her husband in Cuba

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16853
Content Description

This collection contains a rare letter written by a woman named Isabella, and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa, to her unnamed husband describing their attempts to sail from Galveston, Texas, to join him in Havana, Cuba. Their passage was on a blockade runner that failed as they could not pass through the Union ships. The back of the letter contains short notes from each of the children addressed to their father.

Dates: March 7, 1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Harold Blote World War I letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16557
Content Description This collection contains eighty-five letters and associated documents of Harold "Hal" Blote, a volunteer of the American Ambulance Field Service in World War I. The letters are primarily those of Blote but also included are letters from a J.H. “Joe” Eastman to Blote and letters of Edward B. Gordon who sent letters to friends and family which included the Blote family. Blote's letters record his experiences as an active member of the Field Service in 1917 and subsequent...
Dates: 1917 - 1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589285]
Identifier: MSS 16161
Scope and Contents

Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph, 1934, a Western Albermarle County estate, inscribed "Much love from Blanche Ortman Merry Xmas 1934" totaling 0.03 cubic feet. Sepia toned photograph inscribed in black ink on the front and captioned in pencil on the verso.

Dates: 1934
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Blue Ridge Sanatorium records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-12
Scope and Contents The Blue Ridge Sanatorium Records includes Annual Reports from 1921 to 1970, correspondence with the State Health Director, State Board of Health minutes from 1922 to 1972, staff conference minutes, nurse and intern records, and procedural manuals for the sanatorium. Project plans about the transfer of the facility to the University of Virginia in 1978, agendas and minutes from 1978 to 1981, budget plans from 1955 to 1984, and reports of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy...
Dates: 1920 - 1984
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Bluestone Baptist Association and Harmony Baptist Association pamphlet collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16868
Content Description This collection contains one catalog for the Bluestone-Harmony Academic and Industrial School from 1935-1936, two Minutes of the annual session of the Harmony Baptist Sunday School Convention: 45th (1941), 46th (1942), and fourteen minutes of the annual session of the Bluestone Baptist Association: 39th (1910), 43rd (1914), 50th (1921), 51st (1922), 52nd (1923), 53rd (1924), 55th (1926), 58th (1929), 59th (1930), 67th (1938), 69th (1940), 73rd (1944), 75th (1946), 91st (1963). ...
Dates: 1910-1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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McCue, Edward O., III, 1923-2011 3
Randolph family 3
Togo, Shigenori, 1882-1950 3
United States. Department of Treasury. Internal Revenue Service 3
Virginia. Committee on Sexual Assault Reform 3
Alford, Neill, H., Jr., 1919-2007 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
American Bar Association 2
American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia 2
American Psychiatric Association 2
Araki, Sadao, 1877-1966 2
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 2
Bush, George, H. W., 1924-2018 2
Carter, James Earl, Jr. 2
Clark, Tom C., 1899-1977 2
Clinton, William Jefferson 2
Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 2
Dobie, Armistead Mason, 1881-1962 2
Eager, George B., Jr., 1888-1942 2
Edgehill (Albemarle County, Va. : Estate) 2
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 2
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 2
Gregory, Charles O., 1902-1987 2
Grew, Joseph C., 1880-1965 2
Hampton Institute 2
Hashimoto, Kingoro, 1890-1957 2
Hata, Shunroku, 1879-1962 2
Hiranuma, Kiichiro, 1867-1952 2
Hirota, Koki, 1878-1948 2
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 2
International Court of Justice 2
Itagaki, Seishiro, 1885-1948 2
Karon, Jan (Janice), 1937- 2
Kaya, Okinori, 1889-1977 2
Keenan, Joseph B., 1888-1954 2
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Kido, Koichi, 1889-1977 2
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
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Kurt A Sanftleben, LLC 2
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Minami, Jiro, 1874-1955 2
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Muto, Akira, 1892-1948 2
Oka, Takazumi, 1890-1973 2
Oshima, Hiroshi, 1886-1975 2
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Ribble, Frederick D. G., 1898-1970 2
Ritchie, John, III, 1904-1988 2
Sato, Kenryo, 1895-1975 2
Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 1887-1957 2
Shimada, Shigetaro, 1883-1976 2
Shiratori, Toshio, 1887-1949 2
Sutton, David Nelson, 1895-1974 2
Suzuki, Teiichi, 1888-1989 2
Tavenner, Frank S., Jr., 1895-1964 2
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 2
Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848 2
Umezu, Yoshijiro, 1882-1949 2
United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit) 2
United States. Department of Justice 2
University of Virginia. Board of Visitors 2
University of Virginia. Center for Oceans Law and Policy 2
University of Virginia. Office of the President 2
Virginia. Commission on Mental Health Law 2
Virginia. Supreme Court 2
W.S. Cotter Rare Books 2
White, William Henry, 1881-1963 2
Williams, G. Carrington (George Carrington), 1921-2015 2
Wisner, Frank, 1909-1965 2
Woolsey, John M., 1877-1945 2
Young Men's Christian Association (Alexandria,VA) 2
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