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Collection
Identifier: MSS 15845
Scope and Contents
Joel Kovarsky papers (2011-2013; 0.25 cubic feet) consist of drafts from his book, "The True Geography of Our Country," the book proposal, e-mail correspondence with his editor, Mark Mones, and the Virginia Press.
Dates:
2011-2013
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16609
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 15991
Scope and Contents Note
Blue cloth scrapbook with initials KSF on the cover and a pink cloth scrapbook with the initials MEF (1906; 0.4 cubic feet) on the cover contain mages and cut-outs primarily consist of children and animals, the latter sometimes in anthropomorphized form.
Dates:
1906
File
Identifier: MSS 16277
Scope and Contents Note
The Laine family papers (1772-1961; 0.8 cubic feet) contains letters and documents about hiring enslaved people, other family correspondence, and financial and legal papers related to the Laine (sometimes Lane) family in Sussex County, Virginia. There is also a letter and information about the War of 1812. Also of interest is the correspondence and church programs for Amos Lloyd Laine who was a minister in Wakefield, Virginia.
Dates:
1772 - 1961
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589282]
Identifier: MSS 16147
Scope and Contents
Louise C. Lamb commonplace book, 1865 with a paste in of a carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth, around 1863 by Alexander Gardner totaling 0.03 cubic feet. Quarto album with gold-stamped leather binding and central inset panel on front cover.A mostly blank commonplace book with a title page indicating that it was published by J. C. Riker, 129 Fulton St., New York. Inscribed "A happy New Year, Lou. Frank." Appears to have been pre-filled with numerous engravings, including one of Little Red...
Dates:
1865
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16330
Scope and Contents
Dabney Stewart Lancaster guest book, newspaper clippings, and loose pages, 0.06 cubic feet, 1930-1944.
Dates:
1930-1944
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589234]
Identifier: MSS 16069
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899274]
Identifier: MSS 16376
Scope and Contents
Lunsford Lane letter, MSS 16376, 0.04 cubic feet, 1846 November 4, to Dr. James Batchelier in Marlboro, New Hampshire with regards to arranging a trip to New Hampshire to speak at an abolition meeting.
Dates:
1846 November 4
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7005
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4742
Scope and Contents
The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from...
Dates:
circa 1900-1952
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16430
Content Description
James H. Law, Jr. papers (1920-1921; 0.2 cubic feet) include correspondence, notebooks, blueprints, and exams of alumnus James H. Law, Jr. (Architecture, 1925).
Dates:
1920-1921
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 — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16912
Content Description
This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned...
Dates:
undated, circa 1840