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Alexander Gilliam diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16134
Scope and Contents
This collection of Alexander Gordon Gilliam diaries contains three journals, two folders, and 0.25 cubic feet chronicling personal accounts of his work and travels in the United States Commission of Typhus, including medical reports of conditions observed, and treatment of patients. There is also a biographical sketch by his son Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr. titled "The war diary (1943) of Alexander G. Gilliam, M. D."
Dates:
1943
Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 2/6/1
Content Description
This collection contains materials collected by Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam in his role as University of Virginia Historian. Included are professional and personal correspondence, lectures, notes, letters, clippings, and promotional material. This addition pertains to committee's he served on, lectures and papers he produced about the University of Virginia, correspondence with guests to the university, correspondence to Gilliam on a variety of topics including his retirement, recipients of the...
Dates:
1985 - 2016
Margaret Shelton Gillis papers
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16178
Scope and Contents Note
The Margaret Shelton Gillis papers (1936-1975; 0.9 cubic feet) document the education and personal life of Virginia teacher Margaret Gillis. The collection contains school ephemera and letters, the former including handwritten notes from high school, newspapers, programs from various events, tests, student photographs, a Westhampton College handbook, printed cards, invitations, and broadsides.Of particular note within the collection are letters from two soldiers during WWII. There...
Dates:
1936 - 1975
Ann Gilman album
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16310
Content Description
This collection contains the memory album of Ann Gilman. The octavo album, restored, with original light blue-green paper covered boards and new black leather spine. 71 pages, including 3 of the 5 engravings, were used for written verse and inscriptions dating from 1835-1839. Inscriptions are signed from Dover, New Hampshire and Bangor, Maine. Two inscriptiosn have small drawings. One page has a page of verse secured with pins. New front and rear end-papers. Album has 76 unnumbered pages and 5...
Dates:
1835-1839
Carter Glass Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2913
Scope and Contents
The Carter Glass papers, 1820-1946, 141 cubic feet, consist of correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper articles, photographs, speeches, and printed materials from his work in the Banking and Currency Committee, the Secretary of the Treasury (1918-1920), and the United States Senate (1920-1946). Subjects include: The Federal Reserve Banking Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve system, and the Banking Act of 1933 (1932 Glass-Steagall Act). Other topics include international, national and...
Dates:
1820-1946
Justus E. Glick letter
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589460]
Identifier: MSS 16318
Scope and Contents
Justus E. Glick letter, 0.03 cubic feet, dated May 14,1923, from a student to Justus E. Glick at the University of Virginia. The student describes having to take care of her mother, study for classes, clean the house and asks him about friends and examinations.
Dates:
1923 May 14
Globe Office subscription form for John Millson speech
Item — Box: BW 22, Folder: 1 [X032652610]
Identifier: MSS 16442
Scope and Contents Note
The Congressional Globe manuscript order form (circa 1850s; 0.03 cubic feet) is an order form for the speech of Hon. John Singleton Millson of Virginia which lists members and how many copies they want. Among those named are Joshua Hill, (GA), William Porcher Miles, (SC), Thomas Bocock, (VA), and others.
Dates:
circa 1850s
Naval Commander Louis Goldsborough letter
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589313]
Identifier: MSS 16206
Scope and Contents
Naval Commander Louis Goldsborough letter to Lieutenant Commander Alexander Murray of the USS Sebago on June 5, 1862, 0.03 cubic feet, is an autograph letter signed by Goldsborough, as the Commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and on U. S. Flagship "Minnesota" letterhead about munitions and supplies. Also included is a handwritten note from Alexander Murray on the verso.
Dates:
1862 June 5
Gooch family diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16336
Scope and Contents
Gooch family diaries, 1909-1963 (not consecutive), .07 cubic feet, consists of fifteen diaries, some from Ellen Brooks (Aunt of Uly Harrison Gooch) when she was a young girl. She describes her work as a nurse (treating a man with face cancer) at the Earl Hopkins Institute in Washington D. C. and missing her family, and friends. The later diaries are from Uly Harrison Gooch while he was a student at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, MD. It is not clear who the last diary is from but it seems to...
Dates:
1909, 1910, 1911, 1918, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1961, and 1963.
Goodman and Farrow family journal
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16482
Content Description
This collection consists of a family journal kept by the Goodman and Farrow families of Albemarle county. The journal includes five pages labeled “Black register of births” recording the first names and birth dates of more than 49 enslaved people. Also included are handwritten recipes, a few draft letters, and ancestral information.Warning: Content in the journal lists first names of enslaved persons, with their birthdates and notation of "Sold". The first name on the register is...
Dates:
1865 - 1889
Bob Goodman scrapbook
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589470]
Identifier: MSS 16329
Scope and Contents
Bob Goodman scrapbook,Charlottesville, Virginia, 1931-1934, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1930-1940
David R. Goodman letter
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589244]
Identifier: MSS 16087
Scope and Contents
David R. Goodman (Charlottesville) letter from "Minton" in Waynesboro, Virginia dated February 20, 1868, 0.03 cubic feet, about having trouble with his cook, hiring black women, a toothache, doctor visits, and foreigners in the area.
Dates:
1868
Goodpasture photo album
Collection — Box: BW 2, Folder: 1 [X031589215]
Identifier: MSS 16007
Dates:
Undated
Goodykoontz family papers
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589280]
Identifier: MSS 16143
Scope and Contents
Goodykoontz family papers (1895-1960,bulk 1912-1930) focus on Robert Goodykoontz (1884-1970), and his wife "Sara" Nelle Neal Goodykoontz (1926-1930; 0.03 cubic feet).There are 80 or more letters including 13 to Robert Goodykoontz from his sister-in-law Irene; 39 letters from his mother Lucinda Kathering Woolwine Goodykoontz; letters from family at Virginia College for Women, Harris Military Institute, Roanoke, Va., and a few letters from family members in Kansas City, Mo. Also included are...
Dates:
1895-1960
Armistead Churchill Gordon letter to William Gordon McCabe
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589380]
Identifier: MSS 16294
Scope and Contents
Armistead Churchill Gordon letter to William Gordon McCabe, 1917, April 12, 0.03 cubic feet in which Gordon writes about his "disappointment that Warner did not get the detail to Richmond" but that with the war he might not have been able to stay anyway. He describes a state of confusion and mentions his essay on the biography of Jefferson Davis, and comments about "General Carr's pamphlet."
Dates:
1917 April 12
Goss family papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16398
Scope and Contents Note
The Goss family papers (1820-2014; 4 cubic feet) contain Civil War letters and documents including a pardon for Ebenezer Walker Goss from President Andrew Johnson in 1865, manuscript receipts of goods sold to the Confederate Army, enslaved person receipts, and papers (mostly correspondence) related to their 19th and early 20th century family in Somerset, Virginia. Business records reflect their apple orchard, farming, and dairy business which was maintained by Charlotte “Lottie” Goss...
Dates:
1820-2014; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1930
Grace's friendship album
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16736
Content Description
A Victorian novelty album owned by a person named Grace from Massachusetts. The covers are pasted with colorful die cut-outs on a background of printed lace paper doilies. The album is in the shape of a triange with scalloped edges, in its original (cardboard) triangle-shaped box. The interior pages are folded over, with instructions from Grace telling the recipient when the messages can be opened. Many of the entries are from Stoneham, MA indicating Grace may have been from this...
Dates:
1889-1891
Harriet Dudley Brown Gray album
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669085]
Identifier: MSS 16515
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Harriet "Hattie" D. Brown Gray (1867-1947) a resident of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The majority of the individuals who wrote an entry were from South Lee, MA or the surrounding towns. After Hattie's marriage in 1894 to Frank S. Gray (1852-1918), and their subsequent move to Connecticut, the majority of writers are from that state. Hattie's husband, Frank, signed the album on their wedding day. On the same page is a note regarding...
Dates:
1890 - 1916
George D. Greenia research papers
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16672
Content Description
This collection contains the Dr. George D. Greenia research papers archive on a medieval Iberian manuscript, the Privilego de 1295 (no.138), in the Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript collection (MSS 9772-a) at the University of Virginia. The items in this collection include correspondence, twenty-five 35mm slides, wax sleeves with one negative and two photographs, photocopies of newspaper articles, two newspaper clippings, and a manuscript about the document in Spanish. Materials are in English and...
Dates:
1995-1997
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