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Julia M. Nutter friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16664
Content Description
This collection is a friendship album of Julia Nutter. The album is approximately less then a quarter filled. Entries are mostly poems or short notes and date from 1855 to 1863. Locations are those around the Boston area. The album is inscribed as follows: "Presented to Mrs. Julia M. Nutter by her friend Fannie A. Bradbury, December 25th, 1855." Later in the book Fannie also provides a poem in the shape of a diamond. In addition to entries from friends and albums, there are tipped in...
Dates:
1855 - 1863
Nydrie and Algoma related papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -14956
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers relating to Nydrie and Algoma, consisting chiefly of photographs and articles pertaining to the family homes of the Logan and Forsyth families. Included is a scrapbook of articles by Lily Logan Morrill.This collection contains material from around 1880, when the homes were built, to about 1960, when the Forsyth family, which owned “Nydrie” at the time, started a discussion about what to do with the house due to its dilapidated conditions. This collection...
Dates:
circa 1862-2003
Susan Oberman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16349
Scope and Contents Note
Susan Oberman papers (1960's-2017, 7 cubic feet) documenting her negotiation practice (Common Ground Negotiation Services, her activism in women's issues in Nassau County, New York (1972-1989) and her support for women, social justice, and race relations in Charlottesville, Virginia (1990-2013). Of interest is information about the history of African American life in Charlottesville including questions about the racial background of Queen Charlotte. There are also three...
Dates:
1960's-2017
ODYSSEY records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15866
Scope and Contents
The ODYSSEY records (2000-2013; 2 cubic feet) consist of directories, meeting minutes, program planning, by-laws, member lists, news clippings, photographs, president's notebooks,folio scrapbooks, and miscellaneous printed materials.
Dates:
2000-2013
Office of the Architect/Photographs-addition 2 Mary Hughes
Collection
Identifier: RG-35/2
Content Description
This addition to RG 35/2, Office of the Architect/Photographs contains photographs, slides, and VHS tape of Mary Hughes, the University of Virginia Landscape Architect since 1986. The slides and photographs depict college campuses, principally the University of Virginia, documenting projects initiated by the Office of the Architect including new construction. The VHS tape is dated October 24, 1994, and titled "Thomas Jefferson Academical Village.” The slides and photographs were contained...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Office of the President records
Collection
Identifier: RG-2/1
Colonel Edward M. Offley comments on the book titled "In the Valley of the Little Big Horn"
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589287]
Identifier: MSS 16167
Scope and Contents
Colonel Edward M. Offley comments on the book titled "In the Valley of the Little Big Horn," by Robert C. Kain, and a documentary including a hand drawn map and three type written pages of commentary consisting of 0.03 cubic feet. 1899-1916; 1970. There are also original photographs captioned, Flying boat, San Diego, California, Miramar Ranch, Miramor Store, View from the U. S. Army Transport "Logan," leaving the harbor of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Troop G. 1st Cavalry Fort Meade, South...
Dates:
1915-1916; 1970
Ogden family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15524
Content Description
Ogden Family papers, 1801-1979, 3 cubic feet containing family correspondence about the Civil War, politics, Freedmen, race riots, and mostly describing a young family trying to make a living in farming, and merchant business with westward expansion after the Civil War.The family of Elias and Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden came from Newark, New Jersey and settled in several places including Abingdon, Virginia, Warrenton, Missouri, and Bossian Parish, Louisiana. One of the sons (Henry...
Dates:
1801-1979
Oscar Ogg papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11995
Content Description
Addition 4 to MSS 11995 contains newspaper & advertisement clippings, periodicals (The Christmas Reader and The Committee for italic Handwriting Newsletter, book reviews by Oscar Ogg, book cover mock-ups, ink & water color drawings, illustrations of calligraphy, and correspondence. Included are “typofile” and italic scripts handwriting. There is personal information including Squire Ogg’s grade school report on the...
Dates:
1936 - 1967
Patrick Oliphant artwork and papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16492
Content Description
Drawings of varying size, political cartoons, sculpture, books, framed items, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, slides, video tapes, and news clippings. Scope and Contents The Patrick Oliphant artwork and papers collection contains materials documenting the life and work of artist Patrick Oliphant. It covers his career as a political cartoonist from 1955 to 2015, including thousands of original cartoon drawings. It also includes examples of his other...
Dates:
1947 - 2016
Corporal Tipton B. Omohundro, Jr. papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16098
Scope and Contents
This collection (1943-1946; 1 cubic foot) consists of letters from Corporal Tipton B. Omohundro,Jr. to his parents in Howardsville, Virginia while serving in both the 454th and 176th Quartermaster Laundry Companies during World War II. Most topics refer to family news including his concern for his father's drinking, mention of letters about the rest of the family and girlfriends, and the daily activities of Corporal Omohundro. There is a brief mention of the D-Day invasion (1944 May-June...
Dates:
1943-1946
Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16399
Scope and Contents
Hand copied translation by unknown translator of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, second edition (Hamburg, 1891) by Hermann Goos. English translation is bound with printed German copy, as well as three newspaper issues on the topic of horseracing. Two of these newspapers are issues of the Berlin publication Sport-Welt, dating from 22 December 1893 and 6 February 1896.
Dates:
1891 - 1896
William Oxley letter
Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X032652611]
Identifier: MSS 16445
Scope and Contents Note
The William Oxley letter (1828; 0.03 cubic feet) was sent to William Thomas Shepherd, Petersburg, Virginia. The letter discusses issues with the tobacco industry.
Dates:
1828-07-01
Caroline Victoria Ozias letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16851
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from Caroline 'Carrie' Victoria Ozias of Iowa to Sarah "Sallie" Rachel McQuiston from Ohio. Ozias gives an account of the significant military activities happening around her. She describes Confederate prisoners, and details the United States Colored Troops who were guarding them. She also writes about Camp McClellan, where nearly three hundred Dakota or Lakota members were imprisoned. She reports on the riots who are resisting the draft as well as raids and...
Dates:
October 20, 1864
PAAS Dye Company WWI egg transfer sheet
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16860
Content Description
This collection contains a single uncut sheet of seventeen portraits of European royals, military, and political leaders to be used as transfer patterns for decorating Easter eggs by the Paas Dye company. These “Transfer-O-s” are printed in reverse on tissue paper measuring roughly 5 X 9 inches. Produced sometime before the United States entered the First World War, the packaging includes a quality disclaimer made by the company related to wartime supply chain issues saying “Any variation...
Dates:
c.1915
Page-Nelson Society of Virginia historic documents
Item
Identifier: MSS 16454
Scope and Contents Note
Page-Nelson Society of Virginia Historic documents (1790-1805, 0.21 cubic feet) contain an autograph letter signed from John Page (1744-1808) to "Dear Sir," noting that he will be absent from Congress during January 1791 (dated 6 December, 1790); a printed commission on parchment, completed in manuscript, appointing John Preston as Major in the Third Division of the Virginia Militia, signed by Governor John Page (1744-1808), dated 24 December 1802; a printed land grant on parchment...
Dates:
1790 - 1805
Palmyra and Fluvanna County, Virginia business ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-14914
Dennis Palumbo "The Grande Game" screenplay
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16649
Content Description
Script for an unproduced film, "The Grande Game" about Edgar Allan Poe.
Dates:
1985-01-20
Breece D'J Pancake papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10975
Content Description
Breece D' J Pancake papers, MSS 10975 a-e. Papers were formerly on long term deposit and have been purchased. The collection contains typescripts, setting copy, and galley proof of "The stories of Breece D'J Pancake," and other manuscripts of his short stories and class papers. There are translations into German, and Italian of "The Stories of Breece D' J Pancake." Also included is an afterword to a new edition by Andre Dubus II. There are also original letters from...
Dates:
1973-2013
Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1397
Scope and Content
The collection primarily contains correspondence of the Randolph family and Nicholas family. Several land title records are also present.
Dates:
1732 - 1860