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Mollie Virginia Rinker album
Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16471
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album for Mollie Virginia Rinker of Leesburg, Louden County, Virginia. The album contains poems, drawings, sentiments and tokens of affection compiled mostly during the Civil War and just after. The final page in the album is damaged; an image or text was cut from the book leaving a large hole in the page.
Dates:
1864 - 1890
Monthly report of amnesty oaths administered at Scottsville, Virginia
Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031750311]
Identifier: MSS 16432
Scope and Content Note
The Monthly report of amnesty oaths administered at Scottsville, Virginia (1865; 0.04 cubic feet) documents President Andrew Johnson's national pardon of Confederates as implemented in one small Virginia town. The document contains the county of residence, occupation, and names of 42 mostly Albemarle County residents and one page with a transmittal message. The report was prepared by Captain Beers, who was with Company H, 11th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Dates:
1865
Thomas Moody journal
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16881
Content Description
This collection contains the journal of Thomas Moody (1772-1811), a farmer and cobbler in York, Maine. The diary is generally set up by month and year (for example, "Journal November Anno Domino 1796"), with line entries for the days below. The journal entries date from January 1, 1796, to August 1810. Not all months or dates are recorded.His journal entries touch on political matters of the day. For example, he notes George Washington's death, “December 31, 1799, Great...
Dates:
1796-1810
E. H. Moon ledger
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899264]
Identifier: MSS 16226
Scope and Contents
E. H. Moon ledger, 1830-1834, 0.04 cubic feet, belongs to a merchant in Scotsville, Va. and contains approximately 100 pages, including handwritten entries relating to store purchases, and slaves, and about 20 pages of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1830-1834
Alexander Wylie Moore miscellaneous papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16315
Scope and Contents
Alexander Wylie Moore miscellaneous papers, 1896-1950, 0.012 cubic feet, include correspondence, photographs, documents about Moore's service in World War I, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed material. Of note is a letter from Richard E. Byrd (June 30, 1926) and a letter from the Canadian Department of Militia and Defence that lists qualifications required for volunteer service and a list of acceptable medical schools. Topics include World War I, University of Virginia, and...
Dates:
1896-1950
Moore brothers Civil War letters and papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16441
Scope and Contents Note
The Moore brothers Civil War letters and papers (1861-1876; 0.2 cubic feet) consists of letters to family from two brothers serving on the Union side of the Civil War, one on the Eastern theatre, Albe Cady Barrett Moore in Company K, 5th Regiment Wisconsin volunteers, and John Wesley Moore, on the Western theater, in the Company B, 7th Regiment, Minnesota volunteers. Albe Moore fought with the Army of the Potomac and died from illness in 1862 at Harrison's Landing near Richmond,...
Dates:
1861 - 1876
Ervin W. Moore travel journal
Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16495
Content Description
This collection contains a photo-illustrated travelogue by Ervin W. Moore documenting a Maine family's trip to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 in Norfolk, Virginia. En route, they visit New York City, the Library of Congress, Mount Vernon, and numerous theater houses, museums, and other public institutions. The journal documents Moore's impressions and observations of the places visited along with allusions and quotes of literary figures both ancient and modern. Photographs are...
Dates:
October 8-19, 1907
Mrs. Samuel J. C. Moore letter
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589219]
Identifier: MSS 16024
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Samuel J. C. Moore letter. (Samuel's grandmother, E. C. Moore) to Samuel's wife Ellen about her concern for them during the John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. 1859, November 15, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1859 November 15
James Palmer Morgan photograph album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16841
Content Description
This collection contains a photograph album that documents the life and career of a noted African American horse racing jockey, trainer, and self-taught veterinarian, James Palmer Morgan (1916-2002).He was sought out across the country for his knowledge and was ranked as the 12th driver in the United States in 1955.The album has ten leaves, containing thirteen photographs, assorted newspaper excerpts, and ephemeral items. Tipped into the front of the album are roughly sixty loose...
Dates:
1964-1974
Morris Plan Bank of Virginia records
Item
Identifier: MSS 16412
Scope and Contents Note
Three ledger books, a bundle of cancelled checks, and one deposit pass book, all from the Morris Plan Bank of Virginia. The three ledgers contain stock certificates from 1923 (four in number), 1931 (100 in number), and 1933-1934 (25 in number). The bundle of checks are written to a variety of recipients and span the years 1937 to 1946. The undated deposit pass book contains payment slips and schedule for a loan of $100.Collection also contains a series of papers documenting the...
Dates:
1923 - 1946
Maria Morse commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589488]
Identifier: MSS 16319
Scope and Contents
Maria Morse commonplace book, 1828-1876, 0,.03 cubic feet is a cCommercially produced album with covers of hand-marbled paper with red leather corners and binding, and hand-marbled endpapers. Printed title page reads The Album. / E. Hunt & Co. Middletown Con." Owner has illustrated half-title with heart-shaped flower illustration and a stamp 'The Property of / Maria Morse." Hand-painted floral illustrations in a similar style appear throughout the volume. One page includes an example of...
Dates:
1828-1876
Morton-Halsey family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3995
Content Description
The Morton and Halsey family papers and addition (MSS 3995) contain family letters and some business letters, financial and legal papers, diaries, ledgers, printed items, and photographs belonging to the family of Jeremiah Morton (1899-1878), his wife Jane Smith Morton, and his son-in-law Joseph Jackson "J. J." Halsey (1820-1907) Halseys' wife, Mildred Halsey and their children and grandchildren with the family papers spanning from 1838 to 1951 in Culpeper, and Orange County, Virginia as...
Dates:
ca. 1833-1951
Mundy family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15895
Scope and Contents
The Mundy family papers, MSS 15895, 0.8 cubic feet, 1860-1970, consists of business, financial, and legal papers related to the Mundy Company, and Mundy family properties including Allen's Creek in Amherst Lynchburg, Virginia (Gladstone property), and Botelier Place. Also of interest are papers about William Stark Mundy, Jr. as a Rhodes Scholar and letters from his wife's ancestors, Christopher Valentine Winfree and Virginia Brown when they were courting as well as some Winfree family...
Dates:
1860-1970
Michael Murphy "Seance" screenplay
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589270]
Identifier: MSS 16119
Scope and Contents
Michael Murphy's original screenplay Seance (1966; 0.03 cubic feet) was written for a television episode. It was part of a series but this episode was never produced. Each show was a seance, given by four "distinquished guests," and the specter they attempt to "recall." This episode is about Ernest Hemingway. Throughout the episode the guests converse with Hemingway, asking him questions about his youth and his writing career. The episode ends with a hint at the following week's episode...
Dates:
1966
Music festival in Charlottesville press photograph
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589254]
Identifier: MSS 16094
Scope and Contents
Music fesival in Charlottesville press photograph, 1931, 0.03 cubic feet, 8x10 original with newspaper caption, "1,000 sing at music festival--the greatest music festival event in Viginia history, the Virginia music festival at Charlottesville recently came to a close. A feature was the chorus of 1,000 voices singing Schubert's Mass in E flat. The mass was directed by Dr. T. Tertius Noble, of New York. ACME-P&A press pPhoto 4/18/31.
Dates:
1931
Music Library director files
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12/30
Content Description
This addition contains the Music Library's director files. It includes correspondence, guides, donor files, bibliographies, notes, reports, and photographs that document the work and collections of the Music Library. Documented collections include those of Randall Thompson, Jefferson’s Music Library, Lenneberg report, John Powell collection, and the Constantine record collection, among others. In addition to these records, there are bibliographies, guides, and materials related to oral...
Dates:
1971-2006
Paul Barringer Myers papers
Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16878
Content Description
This collection contains four letters written by Paul Barringer Myers (1878-1918). Three of the letters are written on University of Virginia letterhead. The letters are addressed to Virginia Wilhoite and Julia Fay Hurt, who attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois. Most of Myers’s letters were addressed to Julia Fay Hurt. James C. Hurt, Julia’s brother, was a law student at the University of Virginia in 1900, and maybe how Myers knew Julia. The letters' primary topic is a romantic...
Dates:
April-September 1898
Bernard Narokobi"s History of Wautogik Village typescript
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16560
Dates:
1999