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Estelle Faulkner painting
Collection — Artifact: ViU2021.0169_001
Identifier: MSS 16643
Content Description
This collection contains a painting by Estelle Faulkner. It is an abstract painting of city buildings and a pedestrian. The painting was given to Leigh Middleditch, ca. 1958, while William Faulkner served as the University of Virginia's Writer-in-Residence.
Dates:
circa 1958
Sylvenus A. Fay Civil War diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16708
Content Description
Sylvenus A. Fay diary recounting the daily events of camp life and fighting, his capture by Confederates during the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina and waiting for an exchange for his freedom with hundreds of Union Officers. Lieutenant Fay was the commanding officer of Company F, 85th New York Infantry. In January 1864, the 85th Infantry was ordered to Plymouth NC, where in April, almost the entire regiment was captured. There is significant information in the diary about how...
Dates:
1864
Francis H. Fife papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16075
Scope and Contents
The Francis H. Fife papers (1947-2015; 168.4 cubic feet) document the personal and professional life of Mr. Fife with an emphasis on his civic and community interests. Types of materials include reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, journals, and some family documents. The collection is organized into three series: Oak Lawn 1, Oak Lawn 2, and Westview.Please note, the file titles in this collection have been transcribed. The file titles were created by Mr. Fife or...
Dates:
1785 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2015
First day of issue cover Edgar Allan Poe bicentennial
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589393]
Identifier: MSS 16017
Scope and Contents
First day of issue cover Edgar Allan Poe bicentennial, 2009, 0.03 cubic consists of two first day covers, postmarked at Richmond, Va. on decorative covers for the Library of Virginia exhibit "Poe: Man, Myth, and Monster."
Dates:
2009 January 16
Flood damage Staunton Virginia photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589399]
Identifier: MSS 16032
Scope and Contents
Flood damage, Staunton, Virginia photographs, 1896 September 29, 0.03 cubic feet, titled "Murray Staunton", white buildings and gas works, a view of bridge near bark mill, view around gas house, B & O freight house, and ruins of Lushbaugh's factory.
Dates:
1896 September 29
Henry D. Flood family papers
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589359]
Identifier: MSS 16255
Scope and Contents
Henry D. Flood family papers, 1832-1960, 0.03 cubic feet, consists of approximately 25 letters and contracts, mostly related to tobacco. There is also one black and white photograph of Claude W. Smith, Appomattox County clerk, at the 1945 Centennial celebration, and a program for the event.
Dates:
1832-1960
Folk art herbarium album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16573
Content Description
Folk art herbarium album filled with many pages of paintings and drawings from edge to edge; other pages are filled with flower, leaf, and shrub cuttings with hand written captions.
Dates:
1907-1913
Bettie A. Ford friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16578
Content Description
This collection contains a "The Forget Me Not Album" belonging to Bettie A. Ford, of Lynchburg, Virginia. The album contains a mix of hand-written sentiments, poems, and remembrances written to Ford. The entries are mostly signed by initial or first name and many are dated. A few of the entries have annotations with additional information about the creator. In addition to these entries, there appear to be journal type jottings, possibly written by Ford. Also included are printed poems,...
Dates:
c.1857-1898
Roxana Foreman scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16702
Content Description
Roxana Foreman high school scrapbook in "My Memory Book" binding from Harriman, and Lenoir City, Tennessee in 1927. It contains pasted-in colorful handmade and printed ephemera and letters, related to football, theater and school. There are also candy wrappers, ribbons, hats, Camel cigarettes, and many pages of hand-written text and sentimental authographs that provide a "diary" of Roxana's high school experiences.
Dates:
1927
Forget Me Not album
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16724
Content Description
This collection consists of a commonplace book featuring quotes and sayings from newspaper and magazine clippings from a variety of authors like Shakespeare, Goethe, Longfellow, Elliot, and Byron. Most are organized so the quotes from the same author are grouped on the same page. Also included are excerpts of poems handwritten into the album. There are six black and white engravings and have the following titles 'Moonlight', 'Sketching from Nature', The Dukes Daughter', 'Mariana',...
Dates:
c.1852
Edward Granville Foss papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16528
Content Description
This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, sketchbooks, exhibition booklets, book mockups, and news clippings of Edward "Ned" Granville Foss, the first graphic designer at the University of Virginia Press and a lectuer in Art History at the University of Virginia.
Dates:
Circa 1962-1980
Lucretia Foster friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589308]
Identifier: MSS 16195
Scope and Contents
Lucretia Foster friendship album, 1843-1846, 0.03 cubic feet, contains personal heartfelt messages written by the friends and family of Lucretia Foster, of Brewster, Massachusetts in a red leather binding with blind and gold stamped designs. Commercial album, "Floral Album" published by J. Riker, New York, ca 1841. Verse and prose including an acrostic poem.
Dates:
1843-1846
Mary Neidhardt Frederick common place book
Collection — Box: BW 31, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16580
Dates:
1865 - 1866
Helene Freedman Victorian Hair work collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16456
Dates:
circa 1870s
Mary Blake French collection of George Lincoln Rockwell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8851
Scope and Contents
Mary Blake French collection of George Lincoln Rockwell papers, 0.03 cubic feet, 1963-1964, includes her interview with George Rockwell, and copies of the resulting news stories printed in the William and Mary "Flat Hat" and the Williamsburg "Virginia Gazette," and related correspondence, including a letter from George Rockwell, (1963) thanking French for sendinghim a clipping of the article, and a letter from Mary French to Jeff Warren, at "The Daily Press" about publishing the interview....
Dates:
1963-1964
Lynne Fromme drawings
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589419]
Identifier: MSS 16331
Scope and Contents
Lynne Fromme drawings, 1973, 0.03 cubic feet, purchased by Robert Milton Hawkins, Jr. of Greenbriar County West Virginia, made by inmate Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia. Two of the drawings are women; one signed "LF" was thought to be Lynette's self-portrait. The second drawing of a woman is signed "Q" as is the drawing of a man with a number on his forehead and thought to be a drawing of Charles Manson.
Dates:
1973
Henry Blake Fuller manuscript "The song of a Roman Singer"
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589182]
Identifier: MSS 15964
Scope and Contents
Henry Blake Fuller manuscript "The Song of a Roman Singer" (undated) with handwritten extra stanzas, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
Undated
Funeral remembrance book
Collection — Box: BW 35, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16586
Content Description
Memorial album with blank pages for writing remembrances; hand-written entries of poetry and farewell sentiments, most signed and many dated.
Dates:
1842 - 1846
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