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Emma R. Dunlap landscape album

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589375]
Identifier: MSS 16286
Scope and Contents

Emma R. Dunlap landscape album, [1860], 0.03 cubic feet, Pennsylvania, in original brown boards, highly embossed, with gilt title within round decorative border, and signed by several friends and relatives.

Dates: [1860]

Dunn Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16099
Scope and Contents This collection of letters written mostly during the Civil War consists of about 60 letters, one half-size legal document box, 0.25 cubic feet and contains correspondence (with transcriptions) between Elizabeth ("Betsy") Bruce Dunn with her sons, Leroy E. Dunn, and Henry "Marshall" Dunn, as well as cousins and friends from 1851; 1860 to 1862. The correspondence describes the horrors of the war, camp conditions, food, illness, including, the Battle of Bull Run and Civil War period envelopes....
Dates: 1851; 1860-1862

Dunsmore Business College students photograph

 Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16270

E. Randolph invitation

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16542
Content Description

This collection contains an invitation to E. Randolph asking him to join Bramham and Wolfe at their rooms "tomorrow evening at 1/2 past 6 o'clock P.M."

Dates: undated

Charles I. Eaton papers--addition 1

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 12204
Content Description

One carte de visite photograph of Union soldier Charles I. Eaton in uniform. This collection is an addition to MSS 12204 Journals of Charles I. Eaton. See external documentations below for a link to that collection.

Dates: circa 1864

Edison mimeograph machine

 Collection — Flat_Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16539
Content Description

This collection contains one Edison Mimeograph machine made by A.B. Dick Company, Chicago. The machine is in its original wooden box and includes directions for use. It is an early issue that includes the printing frame, writing plate slate, tube of ink, linen rag and roller.

Dates: c.1890

William Edmond letter about Congressional balloting in 1800 campaign

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589465]
Identifier: MSS 16251

Edward F. Batchelor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS14797

Tommy Edwards photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589191]
Identifier: MSS 15976
Scope and Contents

This collection of a Tommy Edwards MGM photograph is 0.03 cubic feet and is a promotional photograph from Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: Undated

Elizabeth Glover school annual

 Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16464
Content Description

This collection contains "The Star" 1924 yearbook for ‘Grade 7B,’ handwritten by Buckingham County teacher, Mary Elizabeth Glover. Each page has a student's name and quotes and comments about them. Many pages include a small photograph of the child named.

Dates: 1924

Elizabeth Marshall Colston letters to Mary Isham Thomas

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS15274

Eliza's memory book

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16650

Elk Creek furnace records

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589489]
Identifier: MSS 16356
Scope and Contents

Elk Creek furnace records, 1844-1849, 0.03 cubic feet containing business letters of Alex N. Montgomery, owner of the Elk Creek furnace located in Nelson County, near Lynchburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1844-1849

Bill Ellis papers

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16883
Content Description This collection contains the papers of Bill Ellis related to the the May Day protests of 1970 at the University of Virginia. Ellis participated in these events as a student, and the collection contains material created and collected during this time. The papers comprise of four computer-generated banners, a bulletin, posters, and a summary report by the Virginia Strike Committee. The report details the events when State and Local Police confronted protesters on the U.Va. campus and Rugby...
Dates: 1970

Joseph Elsleger papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16168
Scope and Contents Note The Joseph Elsleger papers (1944-1945; 0.4 cubic foot) document Elsleger's time spent as a prisoner of the German Army in World War II, after his plane was shot down over France on June 23, 1944. The collection includes two diaries distributed by the YMCA chapter in Geneva, Switzerland: one blank save an introductory letter and one used by Elsleger. The latter's contents include drawings of the prison camp, makeshift recipes, photographs of unidentified people (presumably from Elsleger's...
Dates: 1944 - 1945

Alfred Oscar Elzner sketch book and album

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16393
Scope and Contents These items document the early-career inspiration and late-career work of architect Alfred Oscar Elzner.The first album features approximately 75 sketches and floor plans made during Elzner’s time working with architect James W. McLaughlin. The majority of the plans within the book are not Elzner's designs, but his sketches of houses he found interesting. Of particular interest to Elzner was Henry Hobson Richardson's work, and there are numerous sketches of the houses he...
Dates: 1883 - 1923

Bessie Emanuel photo album at Hampton Institute

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16823
Content Description This collection contains a brown faux leather photo album (7.25" X 11.25") belonging to Bessie Emanuel. Bessie (1902-1984) was raised in White Plains, New York. She was the first Black woman in her town to attend college, entering the Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1922. The photographs are dated from 1922 to 1924 and capture daily life at the Institute, sports events, friends, and family. Captions are found throughout the album. A picture of Bessie with her family in the Hampton...
Dates: 1922-1924

Enno E. Kraehe papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 12840

Enslaved person named Ben hiring document

 Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16710
Content Description Document for the hire of an enslaved person named Ben, for $90.00 until December 25, 1852 possibly in Charlestown, West Virginia. Signed by John L. & W. N. Craighill. Docketed on the verso. The document specifies clothing to be furnished during the term of employment and requires the Craighills to return Ben with "a good wool hat, a blanket, a pair of winter shoes, two pair of home-made yarn stockings, one shirt, and a coat, waistcoat, and pants of good fulled-linsey, and pay his...
Dates: 1851-12-29

Branch J. Epes lecture notebook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16469
Content Description This collection contains one notebook with handwritten notes on lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, with some earlier lectures during his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney College. These notes seem to be lectures on philosophy and ethics rather than law, perhaps taken at different stages of Epes's matriculation, with reference to Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, and Stewart. One early lecture may be attributed to "McGuffie" suggesting possibly William Holmes McGuffey (of McGuffey Reader...
Dates: 1850 - 1853

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