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LGBTQ Student Center records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 18/12/4
Content Description

This addition contains includes T-shirts, committee reports, proposals, surveys, petitions, clippings from various newspapers including The Cavalier Daily, brochures, a letter from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida regarding the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, and a floppy disk documenting the work of the LGBTQ student center. Also included are two signs/posters and a flyer.

Dates: 1990 - 2017
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cuff Liberty pay voucher

 Collection — Box: Currency, Stamps, and Miscellany Box, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16821
Content Description This collection contains one Revolutionary War pay voucher to Cuff Liberty, an African American soldier from Middletown, Connecticut, who was one of approximately 300 enslaved or freemen from Connecticut who fought for the Continental Army. The government-issued vouchers promised full payment by a certain date and paid interest until the full amount was collected. The voucher, measuring 8" X 4", is printed on laid paper with a black decorative border, numbered in ink "3958" for £13,6,7 1/2."...
Dates: 1782 - 1789
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Advancement files

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 12/43
Content Description

Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.

Dates: circa 1996-2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Advancement records-addition 4

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-12/43
Content Description

This collection contains printed ephemera regarding events, dinners, lectures, and fundraising from 1988 to 2000 both at and for the library. Also included are received rsvps for a few of the events.

Dates: 1988-2000, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Development Office - addition

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12
Content Description This addition to RG 12 University Library includes clippings, university and student magazines about student life, faculty, alumni and UVA athletics, promotional cards and event ephemera about UVA and Special Collections exhibits and dinners, and a file on "Wednesdays in Mississippi" movement with a recording on CD of Dorothy Height at the University of Virginia, and a VHS tape of a Local PBS station's story on Lewis and Clark. The magazines include The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine,...
Dates: c. 1946-2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Therese Lieske scrapbook

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16695
Dates: 1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dr. Minor Carson Lile photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16867
Content Description This collection contains one leather-bound photo album compiled by Dr. Minor Carson Lile between 1909 and 1917. It includes thirty-nine black and white photographs, many with captions or initials that provide a snapshot of life at the University. Photographs include images of the Routunda, Pavilion X, Birdwood, a baseball game at Lambeth Field with Minor playing third base, family photographs of the...
Dates: c. 1908-1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lincoln's gun at Fort Monroe photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589188]
Identifier: MSS 15970
Scope and Contents

This collection is a photograph of Lincoln's gun at Fort Monroe (undated) and is one folder (0.03 cubic feet).

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

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets extracts

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16401
Scope and Contents Note

The handwritten copy of extracts (1796; 0.15 cubic feet) from the "Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works" by Samuel Johnson, originally published in 1783. Copy was transcribed in 1796 and includes a table of contents and index.

Dates: 1796
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles H. Lloyd to Samuel Breese Letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16813
Content Description This collection features a single letter written by Charles H. Lloyd, addressed to his uncle, Samuel Breese of Oneida, New York. Lloyd writes from Harrisonburg, Virginia, asking his uncle for funds to return to New York as he cannot find other employment. He writes, " I am situated so that I cannot move at all. I have tried to get a situation here in place... but unsuccessfully and all because I am not a good writer & bookkeeper. I feel very anxious indeed to get back to New York but Mr....
Dates: August 15, 1851
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club Constitution

 Item — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16859
Scope and Contents This collection contains the constitution of the Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club of Hampton, Virginia. The document, dated July 22, 1910, is handwritten in graphite on three pages of lined paper. The preamble to the club's constitution states that they operate "to form a more perfect union, insure order, justice and tranquility and promote the highest intellectual and physical development of ourselves and of our race." This constitution contains 8 Acts: Act I details the structure...
Dates: July 22, 1910
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letter

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589222]
Identifier: MSS 16039
Scope and Contents

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letter (1853; 0.03 cubic feet) to his English friend Miss Emma.

Dates: 1953 October 3
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William G. Loveridge World War I papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS16612
Dates: 1917 - 1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Betty White Loving diaries

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16055
Content Description

Betty White Loving chronicles her years as a teenager and student at Scottsville High School, and writes about events, names of people, and places she has visited.

Dates: 1941 - 1942
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Luke family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14066
Scope and Contents

Luke Family papers, MSS 14066, 1 cubic foot, contains family correspondence, financial, legal, and personal papers of a late Nineteenth century family from Berryville, Virginia. Topics include slavery, politics, farming, and the health of family and friends. There is also a brief mention of John Hopkins Hospital as well as World War I. There are a few items from other families including Frye, Zirkle, Geary, Rupp, and Harlow. They may have been friends or relatives of the Luke family.

Dates: 1853-1946
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lydia commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16761
Content Description This collection contains the commonplace book belonging to a woman, possibly named Lydia from the United States, circa 1844. A commonplace manuscript book with verse neatly recorded verso and recto throughout. The book consists of twelve unpaginated leaves, ruled in pencil and partially uncut in original pink and black marbled paper wrappers. The contents are largely short verse excepts and meditative or religious in nature. However, there are several more substantial selections, "The...
Dates: c.1844
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

"M. B. K." Civil War letter

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589319]
Identifier: MSS 16217
Scope and Contents

"M. B. K." Civil War letter, and other family letters, 0.03 cubic feet. A sister writes to her brother, "Reynold" in the Confederate Army, near Yorktown, 1861, May 21 and June 25 , with a note from his mother, and another letter from a "fond sister" with detail about the fight in Virginia, including the "Company of Howitzers now at Manassas Gap" and mention of Colonel Francis Hennery Smith, (1812-1890) First Superintendent at Virginia Military Institute and his treatment of the cadets.

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

Charles Macalester and Robert Gilliam letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16623
Content Description This collection includes letters between Robert Gilliam and Charles Macalester between the years of 1818 and 1872. Gilliam was either a lawyer or clerk at the Prince George County Courthouse in Virginia, and Macalester was a businessman in Philapelphia and the namesake of Macalester College in Minnesota. The letters include a variety of topics--both personal and professional, ranging from the price of beer to the Civil War and Cholera--which seem to indicate the two are related, perhaps as...
Dates: 1817-1872
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sir Fitzroy Maclean papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 11487
Scope and Contents Note This Fitzroy Maclean papers consist (1827-1996; 44 cubic feet) of the professional and personal papers of Scottish soldier, diplomat, politician, author, and traveler, Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean (1911-1996) of Dunconnel. It includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, typescripts, newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, lectures, speeches, photographs, memorabilia, and research material pertaining to his military, diplomatic, political and literary career as well as family and...
Dates: 1827-1996
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

H. Cabell Maddux, Jr. University of Virginia football scrapbook

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MSS 16655
Content Description

Scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and ephemera related to University of Virginia Cavaliers football program and the University of Virginia from 1935 to 1937.

Dates: 1935 - 1937
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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