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A brief survey of printing: history and practice manuscript
Item — Box: BW 22, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16409
Scope and Contents NOte
The manuscript is likely a production copy of "A brief survey of printing: history and practice" (1923; 0.03 cubic feet) by Stanley Morison and Holbrook Jackson. Sixteen additional leaves with reproduction printing samples pasted on. Fourteen of these reproductions are not present in the published version of this work, and two leaves contain notes handwritten by Morison. Duplicated pages of typed text on letterhead of "Linotype & Machinery Limited, London."
Dates:
1923
Ellie Acker copy book
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589233]
Identifier: MSS 16068
Scope and Contents
Ellie Acker copybook, 0.03 cubic feet, 1860-1861 consists of handwritten essays titled "On Good Manners", On the Importance of a Good Character", "Precepts On Time", "On the Importance of a Well-Spent youth" "Indolent Habits Lay the Foundation of Misery", and "Pride"
The book is printed in gray wrapper depicting a scene showing the exterior of Leary & Getz Booksellers in Philadelphia on the front and include their advertisements
Dates:
1860-1861
John T. Ackerson (George Jarrboe) papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16775
Content Description
This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates:
1822 - 1961
Jeff Adams collection of Don Marquis
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16749
Content Description
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on Don Marquis. Photocopies of correspondence with Don Marquis.
Dates:
1980 - 2000
Advertising receipt issued by the Richmond Examiner to the State Department, C.S.A.
Collection — Box: BW 29, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16523
Scope and Contents
Advertising receipt acknowledging payment for inclusion of a printed version of President Jefferson Davis's December 23, 1862 proclamation ordering that "All commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honourable warfare, but as common robbers and criminals deserving death." Partly printed receipt headed "Richmond Examiner," completed in manuscript and signed by Examiner manager R.F. Walker, Dec. 23, 1862,...
Dates:
1862, December 23
Bessie Marie Africa scrapbook
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16697
Content Description
High school memory scrapbook and photo album of Bessie Marie Africa of Kanawha, Iowa from 1923 to 1927. The scrapbook is in a "School Friendship Book binding" assembled by Bessie Marie Africa documenting her high school years at Sanborn High School. It includes correspondence, programs, and mementos from theater, basketball, and football, and a declamatory contest. There are two large dolls created out of crepe paper.
Dates:
1923 - 1927; Majority of material found within 1925
African American Freemason lodge photographs
Collection — Box: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16711
Content Description
Collection of eight black and white photographs. All are group portraits of members of African American fraternal lodges in Virginia. The images bare the stamps of several different photographers -- from Richmond, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach. Several images show handwritten annotations on the back -- one lodge is identified as Progressive Lodge #80 in Norfolk, another as King David Lodge #28 in Richmond (this photo is signed by 13 members of the lodge on the back), another as Willow...
Dates:
circa 1950s
African American girl's birthday photograph album
Collection — Folder: ViU2023-0040_001
Identifier: MSS 16756
Content Description
This collection contains a photo album containing fifteen original black-and-white photographs from the 1960s of a birthday celebration of a young Black girl and her family.Exceptional depiction of an 11 year old's birthday party with all of it's innocence, happiness and absence of the racial world that lives outside the doors of their grandmother's nice home.The children are wearing cone hats and there is dancing, presents, game playing, a birthday cake, blowing out candles, and an...
Dates:
1960s
African-American owned Virginia businesses letters and ephemera
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589378]
Identifier: MSS 16290
Scope and Contents
African-American owned Virginia businesses letters and ephemera, 1919-1933, 0.03 cubic feet, includes A. W. Holmes, Grand Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Maggie L. Walker, W. J. Craig, C. M. Burt, Ellen B. Talor, Edward B. Taylor, James T. Carter and many others representing passenger traffic committees and banks.
Dates:
1919-1933
African-American World War II Unit photograph
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031580190]
Identifier: MSS 15975
Scope and Contents
This collection of an African American Unit in World War II photograph is 0.03 cubic feet, contains one photograph of the First Platoon Company D. 8th Medical Training Battalion, 3rd Medical Training Regiment, at Camp Pickett, Virginia on June 25, 1943.
Dates:
1943
African Americans in Richmond organizations photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15967
Scope and Contents
African Americans in Richmond organizations photographs (1940-1959; 0.06 cubic feet) includes the Leigh Street Young Men's Christian Asssociation, Hi-Y Club, Gray Club, B and P Council, Richmond Area Youth, Interracial Seminar, Richmond Basketball, Father-son Banquets, Annual Banquets, Leigh Street Y.M.C.A. camp, [Gradale] Girls, girls playing cricket, and Baskets for the Need(y). Included is a photograph of Dr. J. W. [Banco] and Roscoe Mitchell. Photographs are from the studios of Brodnax...
Dates:
1940-1959
Airplane delivery of the Richmond News Leader, photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589401]
Identifier: MSS 16034
Scope and Contents
Airplane delivery of the Richmond News Leader, photographs, 1923 July 10, 0.03 cubic feet, showing an airplane and crew in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and Richmond, Virginia. Photograph #1 was taken in White Sulphur Springs, flown to Richmond, published in the Richmond News Leader, and the printed newspapers returned to White Sulphur Springs with the same crew and airplane. Photograph # 10 show the pubished newsaper with photograph #1. Photographs #8 and #9 show buildings at Byrd...
Dates:
1923 July 10
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company annual report of the President and the Directors
Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16462
Content Description
This collection contains a mimeograph or lithograph copy of annual report of the president and directors of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company annual report. This report describes the condition and business of this company for the year from 1888 to 1889.The document is signed by Franklin Weld, President. The report contains a narrative description of the events of the year followed by lists of merchandise shipped through the year, comparative statements of materials shipped, and...
Dates:
1889-09-30
Albemarle County ledger book
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16407
Scope and Contents Note
The Albemarle County ledger book (1871-1880; 0.5 cubic feet) is approximately 60 pages of accounts recorded; many names have been lined through, indicating the ledger was repurposed. Page 50 is an account "An approximation of all debts by me Jan. 1, 1879 with a view of comparisons on Jan'y 1880," and includes monies owed "Geo. M. McIntire, Druggist," "Patterson & Cochrane, Dry goods," and "A.C. Brechin Books," etc. Pages 52-61 record cash expended for the year 1879 and contain hundreds...
Dates:
1871 - 1880
Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Sophia Bledsoe Herrick letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3461
Dates:
1858-1908
Alicia Wertenbaker Flynn letters
Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 16514
Content Description
This collection contains approximately forty-three letters to and from Alicia Middleton Wertenbaker Freeman Flynn. Correspondence include writings from her sons, Charles and John, in regards to Black Mountain College and their studies and artwork; writings from her second husband, John Rodney, the American actor; letters from Alicia to her mother, Alice DeLancy Girardeau. Also included are other family-related letters and Charlottesville receipts.
Dates:
1930 - 1944
John F. Allen letter
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899212]
Identifier: MSS 16358
Dates:
1855 August 25
Alpha Kappa Alpha scrapbook
Record Group — Ledger: 1
Identifier: RG 23/4/25
Content Description
Scrapbook of the Theta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1974-1975; 0.10 cubic feet). Album contains photographs, flyers, certificates, and other ephemera.
Dates:
1974-1975
Amanda's commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16549
Scope and Contents
Amanda's commonplace book album consists of 13 pages used for inscriptions and verse, a majority of them with the location "Germantown [PA]." Amanda's full name is not known.
Dates:
1873 - 1875
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