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African Americans in rural Virginia photographs
Collection — Folder: MSS 16923
Identifier: MSS 16923
Content Description
This collection contains twenty black and white photographs, approximately 9 x 7 inches, depicting African American life, presumably in a segregated area in rural Virginia. The pictures have no annotations on the back, and the photographer is unknown. The location is also unclear; however, it may be somewhere near or in Fauquier County, Virginia. This location possibility is based on a photograph that depicts several storefronts, including a beauty salon which has two names painted on the...
Dates:
C. 1940s
African Heroes and Heroines printing plate by Lois Mailou Jones
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16828
Content Description
This collection contains a steel printing plate mounted on a block for the dust jacket of Dr. Carter G. Woodson's "African Heroes and Heroines," published by Woodson's publishing imprint Associated Publishers, Inc. in 1939. The cover illustration was created by Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), who illustrated many projects of Woodson, and the block has her name, "Lois M. Jones," in the plate's lower right corner.
Dates:
1939
Airplane delivery of the Richmond News Leader, photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589401]
Identifier: MSS 16034
Scope and Contents
Airplane delivery of the Richmond News Leader, photographs, 1923 July 10, 0.03 cubic feet, showing an airplane and crew in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and Richmond, Virginia. Photograph #1 was taken in White Sulphur Springs, flown to Richmond, published in the Richmond News Leader, and the printed newspapers returned to White Sulphur Springs with the same crew and airplane. Photograph # 10 show the pubished newsaper with photograph #1. Photographs #8 and #9 show buildings at Byrd...
Dates:
1923 July 10
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company annual report of the President and the Directors
Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16462
Content Description
This collection contains a mimeograph or lithograph copy of annual report of the president and directors of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company annual report. This report describes the condition and business of this company for the year from 1888 to 1889.The document is signed by Franklin Weld, President. The report contains a narrative description of the events of the year followed by lists of merchandise shipped through the year, comparative statements of materials shipped, and...
Dates:
1889-09-30
Albemarle County ledger book
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16407
Scope and Contents Note
The Albemarle County ledger book (1871-1880; 0.5 cubic feet) is approximately 60 pages of accounts recorded; many names have been lined through, indicating the ledger was repurposed. Page 50 is an account "An approximation of all debts by me Jan. 1, 1879 with a view of comparisons on Jan'y 1880," and includes monies owed "Geo. M. McIntire, Druggist," "Patterson & Cochrane, Dry goods," and "A.C. Brechin Books," etc. Pages 52-61 record cash expended for the year 1879 and contain hundreds...
Dates:
1871 - 1880
Albemarle Garden Club Records-Periwinkle Garden (addition 12)
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 5520
Content Description
This addition to MSS 5520, Albemarle Garden Club records (Periwinkle Cottage), contains one thumb drive with text description of the Garden Club of America's Garden History & Design Committee, 2016 (incl. planting lists, licenses, copies of articles, and possibly photos) and one folder labeled AGC Periwinkle Cottage 2017, Albemarle Garden Club Zone VII, Periwinkle garden Submission 2017. The folder contains miscellaneous papers and one disc labeled "Smithsonian Archives of American...
Dates:
2010 - 2017
Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Sophia Bledsoe Herrick letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3461
Alderman family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS14818
Cora M. Aldridge scrapbook
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16932
Content Description
This collection contains the college scrapbook of Cora M. Aldridge, an African American student at Hartshorn Memorial College in Richmond, Virginia. Hartshorn Memorial College was a private college for African American women in Richmond, Virginia, active from 1883 until 1932, when it merged with Virginia Union University. The cover is titled “My Memories of School Days” in gilt. Alridge’s name and her Vauxhall, New Jersey, address are written on the first endpage, as is the date of June 14,...
Dates:
1926, 1956
Alicia Wertenbaker Flynn letters
Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 16514
Content Description
This collection contains approximately forty-three letters to and from Alicia Middleton Wertenbaker Freeman Flynn. Correspondence include writings from her sons, Charles and John, in regards to Black Mountain College and their studies and artwork; writings from her second husband, John Rodney, the American actor; letters from Alicia to her mother, Alice DeLancy Girardeau. Also included are other family-related letters and Charlottesville receipts.
Dates:
1930 - 1944
John F. Allen letter
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899212]
Identifier: MSS 16358
[Rheuben Allen] photograph album, 1st Balloon Squadron, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16220
Scope and Contents
Photograph album of [Rheuben Allen] who could be from the Comanche tribe or African American], consists of approximately 120 black and white photographs taken in and around Fort Sill, Oklahoma where [Allan] was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Balloon Squadron.The album is covered in patterned black cloth and stamped "1st Balloon Squadron, Fort Sill, Oklahoma" in gold on the front cover.There are also some photographs at the end of the album of bases in New Mexico,...
Dates:
1935-1943
O. Allery calligraphic Lord's Prayer
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: 16864
Content Description
This collection contains the Lord's Prayer written in calligraphic script in concentric circles with some letters highlighted in gilt. At the end of the prayer, the name O. Allery is identified as the "scribe." It is mounted in a brown matte with a circular cutout at its center, displaying the prayer. The verso has O. Allery and the date '1990' inscribed and a gold address label placing O. Allery in Wells, Somerset, England.
Dates:
1990
Alpha Kappa Alpha scrapbook
Record Group — Ledger: 1
Identifier: RG 23/4/25
Content Description
Scrapbook of the Theta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1974-1975; 0.10 cubic feet). Album contains photographs, flyers, certificates, and other ephemera.
Dates:
1974-1975
Alpha Tau Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi minute books (Bluefield State University, West Virginia)
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16897
Content Description
This collection contains two minute books of the Alpha Tau Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Bluefield State College, an H.B.C.U. in Bluefield, West Virginia. Each grey cloth-bound book has “Records” printed on its cover, with “Kappa Alpha Psi” handwritten on one and “KAΨ” handwritten on the other. The minute books document meetings of the fraternity held over a decade, between 1951 and 1964. The first book dates from 1951 to 1956, and the second book is dated from 1956 to 1964....
Dates:
1951-1964
Roy Alson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16861
Content Description
This collection contains black-and-white negatives, color slides, and photographic prints, taken and collected by Roy Alson, as well as a few photographs by other photographers, and some printed materials. Alson, who graduated from the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences in 1974, the same year as the first cohort of women to be admitted to the University, was a photographer for The...
Dates:
1970 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1975
Amanda's commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16549
Scope and Contents
Amanda's commonplace book album consists of 13 pages used for inscriptions and verse, a majority of them with the location "Germantown [PA]." Amanda's full name is not known.
Dates:
1873 - 1875
Amate bark paper manuscript Historia de la curacion de Antigua de San Pablito
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16551
Amate bark paper manuscript Tratamiento de una ofrenda pura pedir la lluvia
File — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16552
Scope and Contents
Handmade codex titled "Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia."
Dates:
1978-08-10
Ambrose Henkel letters to Carrie V. Flinn
Collection
Identifier: MSS13914