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First District of Accomack County (VA) voting certificate including African Americans

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16832
Content Description This collection contains a certificate of a local Virginia election in the first district of Accomack County on October 22, 1867, preliminary voting for delegates for the upcoming Constitutional Convention, marking the first time African-Americans voted in the state. The October 22 election took place under Army supervision. Written entirely in manuscript ink on a sheet of lined paper folded to 4 unnumbered pages. Pages [2]-[4] are blank. The document certifies that:...
Dates: October 22, 1867

G. Firth mathematic notebook

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: Folder 001
Identifier: MSS 16893
Content Description This collection contains one paper vellum-bound, handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799 belonging to G. Firth, a student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The notebook contains eighty-five handwritten pages of calculations and notes. Girth divided the notebook into the following headings: the "Mensuration of Surfaces," "Mensuration of Solids," "Timber Measuring," and "Vaulted and Arched Roofs," written in large calligraphy....
Dates: 1796-1799

Marshall W. Fishwick manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10840
Content Description

Marshall Fishwick manuscripts, "Speaking of Virginia"; "Common Culture and The Great Tradition; "Searching for Cicero"; "Lady Eightball" (Four versions of Lady Eightball with varying paginations); and "Growing Up and Moving Out".

Dates: 1980s

Fitzhugh family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS13482

Flame & Frost poem

 Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16750
Content Description

This collection contains a handwritten poem written by Joan St. C. Crane based on her experiences of compiling the works of poet Robert Frost. It was written at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1971. Alongside the poem in the collection is a catalogue card outlining the work's title, author, and subject matter.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1971

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 — Box: BW 50, 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',...
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

A.W. Francis school notebook (University of Virginia)

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16741

Harold Frederic papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7588
Dates: undated, circa 1894-1898

Mary Neidhardt Frederick common place book

 Collection — Box: BW 31, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16580

Helene Freedman Victorian Hair work collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16456

Isaac French letter

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16849
Content Description This collection contains a letter from Isaac French to J. Huntsman, Esq. dated June 17, 1849. French was a guest at Robert Buckner Bolling's plantation in Charles City County, Virginia, called Sandy Point. The letter has no postal markings or stamps, indicating an individual carried it. French describes to his friend his trip to the plantation, the weather, the size of Bolling's fields, the condition of the crops, and the epidemic of cholera and smallpox in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Richmond....
Dates: June 17, 1849

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

Herbert Friedman Holocaust materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16906
Content Description This collection contains the personal papers of Herbert Friedman (1924-2006), documenting his survival of the Holocaust and his life afterward. Friedman’s archive primarily chronicles his life in pre-Nazi-occupied Vienna, his travel on the kindertransport to and life in England, and his immigration to the United States. Also included are materials documenting his service in the Army and his later family life in Norfolk, Virginia. Two binders of correspondence, family...
Dates: 1924-2006

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