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Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16404
Content Description
The Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums (1880s; 0.5 cubic feet) contain 76 photographs (albumen prints, most mounted, some hand-colored, probably commercially produced and sold) of views and people in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Burma, collected by U.S. Navy officer Clinton K. Curtis.
Dates:
1880s
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15719
Scope and Contents
Marvin Kent Curtis papers (1910-1959; 6 cubic feet) consist of materials relating to his service in World War I, his work as a counselor and co-owner of Camp Mishawaka, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as an author of boy's adventure stories, and plays, and his competitive sailing in the Florida Keys. Included are his novels including extracts from them in periodicals such as the American Boy, Outers Recreation, and correspondence from F. Scott Fitzgerald. There are four series Correspondence,...
Dates:
1910-1959
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16566
Content Description
The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates:
1895 - 2005
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16744
Content Description
This collection contains nine issues of an amateur newspaper created by two brothers, Harold and Arthur Rowley, ages fifteen and eleven, from Springfield, Massachusetts. They were the children of H.C. Rowley, head of the G & C Merriam Company, a well-known publishing and bookselling business.
The newspapers are one page printed broadsides using a late 19th century mimeograph process. The brothers hand wrote these newspapers and likely printed them using their father's...
Dates:
1894
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9829
Content Description
ALS from Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., to Murat Williams about Davis' review of "Man from the Valley," written by Francis Pickens Miller but edited by Williams.
Dates:
1971-07-16
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16642
Content Description
This collection contains a single black and white photograph of a street with a Liberty Loan mural in Roanoke, Virginia from the George C. Davis studio.
Dates:
ca. 1941-1945
Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16800
Content Description
This collection consists of one postcard sent to Louise Davis from a new student (Margaret?) living in McKim Hall at the University of Virginia, dated September 19, 1934. Margaret was possibly a student in the Nursing program as the address on the program notes " McKim Hall, University Hospt." Women were only able to attend the University of Virginia in one of the professional schools or graduate programs at that time. The postcard is a winter scene of the Rotunda.
Dates:
September 19, 1934
Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16789
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Mattie Davis given to her by her father on Christmas Eve, 1861. The album entries date from 1861 to 1867 and the majority of entries are poetry or short verses with themes of morality and friendship. There is no identification of Davis location; however, most entries are from Taylorsville, Indiana, so it is likely she is from that area. In addition to Taylorsville, there are several entries from Dupont, Indiana and Wilmington, Ohio....
Dates:
c.1861-1867
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16493
Content Description
This collection contains thirty-two programs of Masonic related events. Twenty-seven are souvenir programs from African American Masonic meetings and events belonging to Roy Davis, a resident of Norwalk, Connecticut who was active in the Prince Hall Grand Chapter of New England. In addition to these are five programs for miscellaneous African American society events in the Northeast. Most of the programs were for events taking place in Connecticut between the late 1960s and early 1980s....
Dates:
1960 - 1981
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16680
Content Description
This collection contains manuscripts of journal newspapers, titled "United States Journal" and "Once-In-a-While", written by Lorey Clifford Day from 1894 to 1910 when he was a young child and teenager. The series of 45 newspapers are written and hand printed by L.C. Day, including over 415 pages of content. At the end of 1906, he announced the Christmas number as his final printing of the U.S. News. Starting in 1907, he started the "Once-In-a-While" publication, which appeared on...
Dates:
1894-1970
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899265]
Identifier: MSS 16367
Scope and Contents
J. D. Deacon store ledger, MSS 16367, 1902, 0.03 cubic feet, consists of his ledger from Oakdale, Gloucester County, Virginia.
Dates:
1902
Collection
Identifier: MSS 7179
Content Description
The papers in this Clifton Waller Barret Collection of John William Deforest papers contain a manuscript of a short poem beginning "You ask a thought . . . " There are letters, 1855-1856, from John William DeForest to publishers Dix and Edwards hich discuss the publication and format of "Oriental acquaintance" and send a receipt for "Experiences in Mount Lebanon." A letter, 1876, to Mrs. [Johnson T.?] Platt doubts that Frances Burney was only sixteen when she wrote "Evelina" and gives his...
Dates:
1901-03-25
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589256]
Identifier: MSS 16100
Scope and Contents
Delius, Gloystein, Nolting, and Brydon business letters, 1826-1827, 0.03 cubic feet, in which Delius and Gloysein announce expiration of their business while Nolting and Brydon announce that they are the successors to this business. The letter is addressed to Enoch Silsbee of Boston, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1826-1827
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589288]
Identifier: MSS 16169
Scope and Contents
George E. Dennis Confederate letter, 1862, in which he describes camp conditions and troop movements consisting of 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1862
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16700
Content Description
Julia A. Dennison memory album, 1862-1866, Milan, Indiana, in red morocco "The Pet Album" binding, published by Leavitt and Allen with black and white printed illustrations of children and their mother in activities such as bathing or playing. The album, which is a gift from her brother, contains personal advice about keeping the young mind pure and other sentimental notes from her brothers. There are signatures of acquaintainces from Indiana and Ohio, including Civil War infantry in the...
Dates:
1862 - 1866
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X030899230]
Identifier: MSS 16372
Scope and Contents
Mary Helen Detmer journal (0.04 cubic feet), 1996 May 23 - December 10, containing entries related to her garden and her life at the University of Virginia Pavilion I.
Dates:
1996
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589386]
Identifier: MSS 16311
Scope and Contents
Alfred E.Dickinson letters, April 2017, 0.03 cubic feet, are a collection of letters by a Richmond pastor and editor of the noted Baptist newspaper, "The Religious Herald." The letters are written to J. H. Cogshill, a New York based Richmond College graduate, soliciting donations and discussing the purposes to which those donatons are put to use (printing tracts for distribution, helping the rural poor and orphans, etc..)
Dates:
1880's
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16510
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a handmade riddle book created and used for the children of Lady Digby.
This book contains 124 riddles and answers each within decorative borders and frames. Many are typical word play riddles; others include topical and racist riddles on the anti-slavery movement. There is Uncle Tom's Cabin and other enslavement-related content. There are questions such as "Who is Uncle Tom's Aunt?"
Dates:
1862
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16709
Content Description
This collection contains two VHS tapes titled "Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden" and a segment from "Garden story with Rebecca Frischkorn" titled "Anne Spencer Garden." The documentaries focus on the impact and importance of Spencer's garden to herself, her community, and other artists and writers.
Tape 1 contains Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden
Tape 2 contains Garden Story "Anne Spencer Garden"
Dates:
undated, c.2008
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589353]
Identifier: MSS 16245
Scope and Contents
Phebe P. Dodd friendship album, [1830's], 0.03 cubic feet, has an engraving on the first page, captioned "Il biglietto d'amore, a contadina (or frascati) dictating to one of the scribes who play in the streets of Rome." On the remaining pages are many poems, and sentiments written in several hands and some are dated. Also includes drawings, and one signed "Bloomfield, NJ. March 1832."
Dates:
[1830's]