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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...
Dates: 1890 - 1916
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Karen Green's Nu Kopelle Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16838
Content Description This collection contains a scrapbook documenting one year of service of the Nu Kopelles, a youth group based in Queens, New York, sponsored by the African American professional and business women's sorority Lambda Kappa Mu. The scrapbook is dedicated to their youth coordinator, Elizabeth Lockett, and the opening title page, written in ink, identifies the club officers: President Karyn Greene, Vice President Jackie Chamacoon, Secretary Yvonne Stallworth, and Treasurer Sheila Blake. This...
Dates: 1974-1975
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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...
Dates: 1995-1997
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elizabeth F. Gresham papers

 Item
Identifier: MSS 16352
Scope and Contents

The collection contains typescripts of three comedy-dramas by Gresham: "The whetstone," rewritten as "Woman, with a difference," and "That lesser Aphrodite." In addition there is a typescript copy of "Death takes a holiday" by Walter Ferris, with Gresham's acting "sides" containing stage directions; and portions of the script for Edgar Allan Poe's "Politian."

Dates: 1936-1939
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George Griffin papers

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16470
Content Description This collection consists of personal and literary letters to George Griffin, as well as his daughter, Caroline Lydia Griffin. Of note, is correspondence with Lydia Sigourney, a significant poet at that time, from Hartford, Connecticut. It includes her poem, "On the death of Zerlina Thorne," and a letter devoted to her efforts to meet Charles Dickens, a poem, "Welcome to Charles Dickens, Esq." which was read to him at a banquet in Hartford two days learlier; a signed holograph poem,...
Dates: 1829 - 1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jemima Buell Griffing album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16735
Content Description

An autograph album of Jemima Buell Griffing from Clinton, Connecticut.The album is filled with phrases, poems (some original), and short entries, including stories of Griffing with her family and friends.

Additionally there is a pencil drawing of what appears to be a grave with "Sacred to Memory" written on it surrounded by foliage drawn by J.R. Carns. It includes four engravings, some of which are hand-colored.

Dates: 1832-1856
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

R. E. Griffith letter

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589313]
Identifier: MSS 16209
Scope and Contents

University of Virginia Medical school student R. E. Griffith letter to Dr. J. Hays in Philadelphia, PA., February 20, 1838, 0.03 cubic feet, and a handwritten address and postmarks about his studies, lectures, professors, and colleagues in the fields of psychology, pathology, and obstetrics. He mentions several people by name, including a Dr. Couch, and a Mr. Hyde, whose death had recently been "in the papers".

Dates: 1838 February 20
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gritty Women Podcast Series Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16806
Content Description This collection contains the four documetnary style episodes of the Gritty Women podcast series, by Giovana Benatto de Oliveira, and one audio file of an interview used to create the episodes. Each episode includes segments of interviews conducted by the podcast’s creator. The podcast explores the history, and legal, political, and social context of UVA's coeducation, and balances both scholarly and personal perspectives through interviews with both scholars and...
Dates: 2020-08-25 - 2021-05-23
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Eliza Grout letter to Levi Holbrook

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589413]
Identifier: MSS 16321
Scope and Contents

Eliza Grout letter to Levi Holbrook, 1825 September 24, 0.03 cubic feet is a romantic letter handwritten to her boyfriend who is studying in Providence, Rhode Island. The letter is written during their courtship and reveals two well educated people.

Dates: 1825 September 24
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Grover family papers

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899286]
Identifier: MSS 16394
Scope and Contents

The Grover family papers (1825-1917; 0.04 cubic feet) also includes papers from the Watts and Harris families. This collection contains receipts, a deed of gift for enslaved people (Dolly, and children Nancy, Elvira, and James from Mary Harris to Rosa M. N. Harris, circa 1845-47), a newspaper clipping of Preston Watt, and ration books of Bettie and William Grover. The papers came in a fabric packet stamped, “The Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Richmond, VA” which is included.

Dates: 1825-1906, 1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hair jewelry instructions

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16529
Dates: 1844
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elias W. Hale to Jane Hale letter

 Collection — Folder: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16814
Dates: 8 February 1842
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Earl Hamner signed program

 Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899322]
Identifier: MSS 16379
Dates: Undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hampton Institute student photograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16525
Content Description This collection contains a photograph album of a student from Hampton Institute. The original photo album, measuring 7' x 10' with 24 pages, contains 44 black and white photographs of an unidentified young Black woman, approximately 20 years old, as well as cut newspaper images and a photo postcard. She is seen at Hampton Institute, a historically Black University, in Hampton, Virginia, posing in front of school buildings, clowning around with friends, and preparing for graduation. Also...
Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hampton, Virginia aerial photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589177]
Identifier: MSS 15958
Scope and Contents

Hampton, Virginia aerial photographs (1921; 0.03 cubic feet)were taken by the United States Army in 1921.

Dates: 1921
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Samuel Hannah letter

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589471]
Identifier: MSS 16343
Dates: Undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leroy L. Harcum promissory note for the purchase of a slave

 Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589286]
Identifier: MSS 16165
Scope and Contents

Leroy L. Harcum promissory note for the purchase of a slave from M . W. Jones and William Rogers, who agree to lease the slave boy Lucius for $27.25" and consists of 0.03 cubic feet, 1861. They also agreed to give the boy a hat and blanket in addition to the usual summer and winter clothing.

Dates: 1861
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hardaway family of Virginia birth and death certificates

 Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16092
Dates: 1803-1890
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Harriet Van Ness Maury drawings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS15219
Dates: 1827-1846, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Harris family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16175
Scope and Contents Harris Family papers, 1869-1957, includes deeds, receipts for Scottsville Merchandise Store, letters, newspaper clippings, architectural drawings, mason appointment as Grand Master, and photographs totaling 0.012 cubic feet. Included are a carte de Viste of Charles B. Harris Sr., (December 1869) a tin type (1865), albumen silver print of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Harris, Sr., 1 newspaper clipping about Helen Crafton Harris's ninetieth birthday (1947), renovation drawings of...
Dates: 1883-1957
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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