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Hira Azher posters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16576
Content Description
This collection contains four posters displayed on the Lawn by Hira Azher, an undergraduate at the University of Virginia over the fall and winter of 2020 and 2021.The posters include critiques of the University of Virginia and the police, for white supremacy upheld in these institutions informed by Azher's experiences as a Muslim woman of color. Another poster provided protest and action steps to re-examine the case of Xavier Hill, an unarmed Black teenager, who was killed by the Viriginia...
Dates:
2020
Isabella Bain memory album
Collection — Folder: MSS 16754
Identifier: MSS 16754
Content Description
This collection features a memory book belonging to Miss Isabella Bain (1855-1934) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Various personal letters from friends and New Orleans community members addressed to Miss Bain are included. The cover of the memory book is composed of engraved Morrocan leather adorned with "Miss Isabella Bain" in gilt. Several chromolithographs of a variety of subjects, notably botany and female gender roles, are pasted throughout the book. Letter entries are not...
Dates:
c.1870-1913
Timothy H. Bakken collection of historic letters
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589187]
Identifier: MSS 15969
Scope and Contents
This collection of Timothy Bakken historical letters, 1836-1881, is 0.03 cubic feet and contains twelve letters from Henry A. Wise, Thomas Masters, Alpheus Baker, Austin Willey (to Joseph Palmer Fessenden), J. Allred, William Brown, Edward Downing Barber about slavery, politics, business, church, and family.
Dates:
1836-1881
John Barber papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16530
Content Description
This collection contains the personal art library and papers of the artist and educator John Barber (1893-1965). The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, slides, exhibition catalogues and brochures, biographical information, books, and engraving plates for Christmas cards. These materials document primarily the professional life of John Barber but also includes some of his personal life. There are letters from Hollywood actors Vincent Price who was an art collector and...
Dates:
Circa 1910-1999
M. L. Barker's Art album of Pin Pricking
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16718
Content Description
This collection consists of an Art album containing (pin) pricking designs used for stationary, embroidery patterns, home-made cards, and paper decoration. There are different sizes of tiny pinholes punched into geometric and picturesque designs. Many pages are decorated with foil border and die-cut ornament illustrations pasted on at the corners. No date and no text. There is a signature in the front cover that says M. L. Barker.
Dates:
undated
Barrett Minor Authors Literary Collection Index cards
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16730
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of index cards, in alphabetical order, listing the hundreds of individual authors and manuscripts that form the Clifton Waller Barrett Minor Authors Literary Collection.
Dates:
1968 December 12
D. G. Barton et al signed letter to Honorable Richard E. Parker
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589322]
Identifier: MSS 16223
Scope and Contents
D. G. Barton et al signed letter to Honorable Richard E. Parker, 1826, March 15, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a letter in reference to the creation of a new county (in Winchester, Virginia) and concern for the location of the courts.
Dates:
1826 March 15
Base hospital No. 41 Saint Denis photographs
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589226]
Identifier: MSS 16053
Scope and Contents
Base Hospital No. 41 Saint Denis, 1918, 0.03 cubic feet contains photographs of patients, nurses, doctors, facilities, and outside scenes depicting hospital life.
Dates:
1918
Archer B. Bass World War I papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16267
Scope and Contents
Archer B. Bass World War I papers, 1918-1922, .07 cubic feet, consists of correspondence with his wife while he was assigned as a military chaplain to a machine gun company within the 27th Division. There is also correspondence with his mother, Sue G. Bass, and his mother-in-law, V. H. Legg.Included are official military communications to Chaplain Bass, newspapers (United States Bulletin, The Saturday Evening Post Christian Church), photographs and diaries, which describes his...
Dates:
1917-1922; undated
Battle Abbey, Richmond Virginia, photograph
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589400]
Identifier: MSS 16033
Scope and Contents
Battle Abbey, Richmond, Virginia photograph, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, taken by A. Homeier Studio, at the intersection of Boulevard and Patterson Avenue.
Dates:
undated
J. Battle letter to Samuel Battle
Item — Box: BW 21, Folder: [X031750308]
Identifier: MSS 16434
Content Description
The J. Battle letter to Samuel Battle (circa 1797; 0.03 cubic feet) documents one piece of the titular relatives' correspondence. The letter is marked "Care of Thomas Maule"; Maule may have been the same Maule that owned a soap and candle factory in late-18th century Virginia. Little information circulates online about either of the Battles, but the contents of the letter should be legible to those accustomed to reading 18th-century cursive.
Dates:
circa 1797
P.J. Beattie Jr. papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16728
Content Description
This collection contains University of Virginia clippings, scrapbook pages and ephemera collected by P.J. Beattie Jr, a graduate from the class of 1937. The collection includes two directories spanning the academic years 1935 to 1937 with Beattie's name handwritten at the top of each directory, a program from the University of Virginia graduating exercises dated June 15, 1942, a blue felt pennant flag with the University of Virginia seal, and articles clipped from alumni publications on the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1935-1942
Mary Beck photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16003
Scope and Contents
Mary Beck photographs, dated 1948-1973 0.06 cubic feet. The photographs were ordered with some printed materials including race meeeting pamphlets, The Chronicle of the Horse periodical, issues of Americcan Turf Monthly periodical, and one book, "Riding" by Benjamn Lewis. Related collection MSS 16006
Dates:
1948-1973
Ray Becker imprisonment related letters
Collection — Box: BW 22, Folder: 1 [X031660930]
Identifier: MSS 16450
Scope and Contents Note
The Ray Becker imprisonment related letters collection 1935; 0.03 cobic feet) consists of two autograph letters signed by John Dos Passos June 1 and 4, 1935, to Kate Crane-Gartz, accompanied by a four-page autograph letter to Dos Passos from Ray Becker dated January 22, 1935. Dos Passos writes to the Pasadena heiress and supporter of workers' causes, Kate Crane-Gantz, about the case of Ray Becker, the last of the I.W.W. "Wobblies," to be in prison in the aftermath of the 1919 Armistice Day...
Dates:
1935
Michael Bednar papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: R/G 7/7
Content Description
This addition to RG 7/7 (School of Architecture/Student Papers) contains the teaching files of Michael Bednar, Professor Emeritus of Architecture for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. These teaching files contain information for ARCH 201, 301, 302, 401, 402, and PLAN 563, and are comprised of course rosters, syllabi, instructional materials, project descriptions and criteria, class activities, student work, correspondence, notes, photographs, and 35mm slides. ...
Dates:
ca. 1972 - 2011
Ben Belitt papers--addition
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 14756
Content Description
This collection contains two typed letters, one from Ben Belitt to William F. Claire, editor of Voyages and one letter to Ben Belitt from Lawrence Barnhart (1967 and 1969). Ben Belitt correspondence and manuscript. Christmas card contains a fair copy of "Song of the King's Huntsman" with the inscription "in the name of the "King" to a gentleman-huntsman" and a note "Copied 'fair' for Sydney, with my best penmanship and wishes." (1936) Poetry notebooks.
Dates:
1967 and 1969
Hibah Berhanu poster
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16575
Content Description
This collection contains one poster displayed by Hibah Berhanu, an undergraduate student living on the Lawn, during the fall of 2020. The poster is a critique of the University of Virginia's purchase of furniture made by prison labor. The sign was damaged and was taped back together.
Dates:
2020
Ned Berkeley Jr. and Doug Bakken correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12/11/4
Content Description
This collection contains the correspondence between Edmund "Ned" Berkeley, Jr. and Doug Bakken, two archival colleagues and close professional friends, circa 1965-1983. The correspondence is a mix of personal and professional topics but primarily focuses on their respective work in archives. Also contained are four pages of Bakken's reflections on their personal and professional relationship that he sent along with the donation of this material.
Dates:
1966-2019; Majority of material found within 1966-1983
Mary Ella Parker Berkeley carte de visite and Confederate money
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 15911
Scope and Contents
Mary Ella Parker Berkeley carte de visite and Confederdate money (1888; 0.03 cubic feet) consists of an image of Berkeley and some Also included is Confederate money.
Dates:
1888
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