Showing Collections: 481 - 500 of 966
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16638
Content Description
This collection contains a carte de visite of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a formerly enslaved child. The caption states "A Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of Age. Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher in May 1963. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York." Photographed by the...
Dates:
May 1863
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16142
Scope and Contents Note
The Frederick Lawrence papers and copy of The Life of Henry Fielding (1855-1863; cubic feet) consists of a contemporary half calf, rebacked volume. Cloth case with leather and gilt label. Author Frederick Lawrence's copy of The Life of Henry Fielding, interleaved with his annotations throughout on some 120 pages. Annotations include both handwritten notes and corrections as well as the occasional newspaper clipping.Collection also contains four loose pages of notes by Lawrence,...
Dates:
1855 - 1863
Collection
Identifier: MSS11546
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16811
Content Description
This collection comprises records of the League of Women Voters of Fluvanna County, Virginia, and documents the organization's work to protect and expand voting rights. The records include meeting minutes, dues and expense ledgers, newsletters, guidebooks for voting rights, meeting minutes and reports, photographs, buttons, and nametags. A list of members and an official request for League recognition that includes bylaws is also present. The League of Women Voters Fluvanna Chapter (VA-128)...
Dates:
1981-2012
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899211]
Identifier: MSS 16357
Scope and Contents
David H. Leake address, The Romance of Goochland" before the Parent-Teacher Association of Sandy Hook School on November 20, 1952, 0.04 cubic feet, typescript.
Dates:
1952 November 20
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589289]
Identifier: MSS 16172
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16863
Content Description
This collection contains an illustrated manuscript by John R. Abbit that tells the comic story of a mother louse and her children traveling across the bodies of American soldiers in the First World War. The manuscript measures 6 X 5 inches and contains thirty-one pages in its original blue wrappers. The spine is punched with grommets and bound with red ribbon. The dedication page is typed in red ink, and the volume contains fifteen pen-and-ink drawings initialed...
Dates:
undated, c.1918
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10702
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15015
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589361]
Identifier: MSS 16258
Scope and Contents
T. R. Leigh letter to Brevet Brigadier General B. C. Ludlow, 1865 June 13, 0.03 cubic feet, requesting the retention of two Negro boys so that he can raise them. An answer from Ludlow appears on the verso, stating that he should be able to keep them but he will need written authority from "Mr. Thompson."
Dates:
1865 June 13
File — Box: 2
Identifier: MSS 16531
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16346
Scope and Contents
Auguste Leroux original watercolors,.03 cubic feet, illustrating the Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, executed by Leroux for his 1933 edition of Poe's Histoires Extraordinaires, published in Paris by Javal et Bordeaux.
Dates:
1933
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 2, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16673
Content Description
This collection includes University of Virginia memorabilia from alumni Malcom Lester, who was a historian at Davidson College where he was a Chair of the History Department and Director of the Davidson College program at Cambridge University.The collection contains Lester's certificate of membership in Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, dated June 12, 1954; a scroll dedicated to the University of Virginia and its faculty, one of twelve institutions selected nationwide...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
Collection — Box: BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589307]
Identifier: MSS 16194
Scope and Contents
Jacques Letellier script for film, "The Lottery in Babylon" 1960's, .03 cubic feet, a typed draft for an unproduced film based on the 1941 short story by Jorge Louis Borges.
Dates:
1960's
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2836
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16413
Content Description
The George Washington Lewis papers consists chiefly of correspondence to and from George Washington Lewis and between other family members, but also includes a few photographs of the Lewis family and the homes of "Claymont", "Shellfield" and "Marmion"; a plat of "Claymont"; newsclippings; notes on Lewis family history and genealogy; and a few financial and legal documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1805-1906, 1966
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2988
Scope and Contents
This collection is an addition to the Lawrence Lewis papers and contains one letter from Lawrence Lewis to Edward George Washington Butler dated 1837, June, 18, about family news and the whereabouts of George Strickler and the payment for Butler land.
Dates:
1837-06-18
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589220]
Identifier: MSS 16025
Scope and Contents
Private Nathaniel Lewis letters to his brother-in-law Petter [sic?] Bailey and sister Jane Bailey, 0.03 cubic feet, about a skirmish at Hurricane Bridge, West Virginia in 1863 April 1. Mention of John Moore and General Albert G. Jenkins. Also included is a letter from Hannah Lewis to Jane Bailey.
Dates:
1863 April
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589232]
Identifier: MSS 16063
Scope and Contents
Richard Lewis, a wealthy and influential land owner in Northern Virginia, left instructions in his will about his land and that four "Negro girls" be purchased and divided by lot among his daughters, 0.03 cubic feet, 1777.
Dates:
1777
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16611