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Dabney Stewart Lancaster guestbook
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
Judith Lane friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589234]
Identifier: MSS 16069
Lunsford Lane letter
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
Lucy Larcom letter to Miss Dyer
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7005
W. Jett Lauck papers
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
James H. Law, Jr. papers
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
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence carte de visite
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
Frederick Lawrence papers and copy of The Life of Henry Fielding
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
Lawrenceville, Virginia photographic images
Collection
Identifier: MSS11546
League of Women Voters of Fluvanna County records or LWV of Charlottesville, Virginia
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
David H. Leake address "The Romance of Goochland"
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
Reverend W. T. Leavell letters
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589289]
Identifier: MSS 16172
Leaves from the War Diary of a Cootie
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
Ledger Bethel Amateur Literary and Dramatic Club and Westview Farm
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10702
John Leech watercolor sketches
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
Leigh Hanes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15015
T. R. Leigh letter to Brevet Brigadier General Benjamin Chambers Ludlow
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
Charles Godfrey Leland poetry scrapbook
File — Box: 2
Identifier: MSS 16531
Auguste Leroux original watercolors
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
Malcom Lester papers
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