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Identifier: MSS 16792
Content Description
This collection contains two folders of Ladley Husted, a University of Virginia biology professor and the first chair of the President's Tree Committee later known as the Arboretum and Landscape Committee. The folders include correspondence, notes, and detailed maps of plantings on grounds from 1959-1962. The folders are titled "Tree Committee" and "Tree Locations." The Tree Committee folder contains correspondence and notes related to the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1959-1963
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15511
Scope and Contents
This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish,...
Dates:
circa 1602-1945
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16850
Content Description
This collection features a single screenplay for an unproduced film based on John H.N. Hemingway's memories of his parents Ernest and Hadley Hemingway. The script was written in 1984 by Denne Petitclerc (1929-2006), a journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway. "In Our Time" is based on the primary source material and recollections of John H.N. Hemingway and Petitclerc described in the first three pages of the script titled " A Note on the Sources of this Screenplay." The...
Dates:
January 16, 1984
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16347
Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16692
Content Description
This collection consists of Rhys Isaac's 1987 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia. The lecture is titled "The Virginia Enlightenment: Construction in Time and Space" with annotation from Isaac to Gayle Cooper, Rare Book cataloger at the University of Virginia. Also included is a letter from Isaac to Gail [sic] and a list of Sabine Hall books requested for priority cataloging.
Dates:
1982 - 1987
Collection — Box: BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16617
Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: [X030869178]
Identifier: MSS 16395
Scope and Contents Note
Sussex County, Virginia plantation owner Hugh Ivey (1826; 0.04 cubic feet) names the twenty-seven enslaved persons in the body of the document to be freed; this is not Ivey's original signed copy, but rather a transcript by a county clerk made at the time.
Dates:
1826-02-02
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16504
Content Description
This collection contains an affidavit written by Albemarle County, VA Justice of the Peace, J.A. Pendelton summarizing a complaint against a James Flemming, a Black man, by F.E Johnson and asking that a surety be placed on Flemming. Sureties, noted by the historian Nancy O'Brien Wagner, were another way of perpetuating enslavement in the Jim Crow South after the end of the Civil War. She writes in "Slavery by Another Name History-Background," "In...
Dates:
December 7, 1866
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15241
Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16779
Content Description
This collection contains the friendship album of Rebecca Jackman. The book is roughly one-quarter of the album filled with twelve lengthy verse entries signed by friends across New England. Most of the verses appear to be original and/or tailored to Rebecca. The album itself is titled "Souvenir album," and published by J.C. Riker, New York," with several engraved illustrations throughout and some pages of pink and blue paper.
Dates:
1846-1847
Collection — Tube_box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16834
Content Description
This collection contains a commemorative flag of Jackson P. Burley High School colors retirement ceremony. The flag is 5' x 8' in size, made in 2023, of polyester in Kelly green and gold flag with the Jackson P. Burley High School Bears insignia. Below the school's name reads "1951-1967".Burley was the Black high school during segregation in Charlottesville. Located on Rose Hill Drive, it opened in 1951 to serve students from the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County....
Dates:
2023
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589316]
Identifier: MSS 16211
Scope and Contents
Sarah E. Jackson letters, MSS 16211, dated 1877, 1895, 0.03 cubic feet, from her son and his cousin who were students at the University of Virginia. They mention "the Lawn", Monticello, the Medical School, and the "Chemical laboratory which is just about completed." There is also a letter from a cousin of General Stonewall Jackson, P. Lafford, and a University of Virginia class photograph taken in front of what is now Alderman Library. (1877)
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1877, 1895
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12123
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589406]
Identifier: MSS 16051
Scope and Contents
Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commemorative pin, [1907], 0.03 cubic feet, depicts the United States flag on a gold background surrounded by the legend "Jamestown Exposition 1607-1907 Hampton Roads, Virginia", on a blue backgrounds, within an ornamental border of gold and white.
Dates:
[1907]
Collection — Box: BW 25
Identifier: MSS 16538
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15905
Scope and Contents
The Edmund W. Janss papers consist of one half-size document box, 11 items, and 1 cubic foot of promotional materials for his book "Yankee Si" a biography of J. Calvitt Clarke. There are newspaper clippings, typesettings for the title page, graphics for the cover, manuscript chapters, and galley proofs.
Dates:
1961
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11458
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection is composed of videotape recordings of local-origination programming aired on the Jefferson Cable Corporation, including City Council Meetings and local news specials.
The collection includes approximately 300 color slides used in productions; color slides of a University of Virginia baseball game, 1970; photographic negatives of Lawrence Halpin's model of the Downtown Mall; Charlottesville City Council agenda, 1971 October 4, with an item...
Dates:
1885-1982
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589395]
Identifier: MSS 16028
Scope and Contents
Jefferson Davis monument photographs,1930, 1957, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, of various events at the monument including workers installing a Confederate battle flag, and groups placing wreaths in honor of Jefferson Davis birthday.
Dates:
1930, 1957, undated
File
Identifier: RG 23/50/2