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Peer Advisor Program records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG 18/9/2
Content Description

Correspondence, programs, brochures, speeches and essays, photographs, publications, and reports documenting the Peer Advisor Program of the Office of African American Affairs (1989-2019; 1 cubic feet). Materials relate to the founding and activities of the Peer Advisor Program, including the program's leadership under Associate Dean of the Office of African-American Affairs Sylvia Terry.

Dates: 1989-2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lewis Pence blacksmith ledger

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16402
Scope and Contents Note

The Pence ledger (1856-1859; 0.25 cubic feet) records work done by and payments made to Lewis Pence, a blacksmith in Edinburg, Virginia, from 1856-1859. Pence's clients include George Grandstaff, a local gunmaker and the owner of the Edinburg Mill. The Edinburg Mill was almost burned by Union troops during the Civil War in October of 1864, but locals extinguished the fire and the mill survives to this day as a museum and designated Virginia Historic Landmark.

Dates: 1856-1859
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Randy Pendleton papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 16420
Scope and Contents Note The Randy Pendleton papers (1967-2000; 0.04 cubic feet) documents Pendleton's work as a journalist. The collection contains three pieces of ephemera: a Klan business card handed to Pendleton, who was in Birmingham at a Klan convention as a representative of UPI, 1967 or 1968; a press releases handed out at the announcement of Norman Mailer's candidacy for Mayor of New York City dated May 1, 1969 with hand-edits by Pendleton based on Mailer’s speech; a “Sore Loserman” sign handed out outside...
Dates: 1967 - 2000
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Garland Pendleton land warrants (Virginia)

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589269]
Identifier: MSS 16118
Scope and Contents

William Garland Pendleton land warrants (Virginia), dated 1819 and 1823, consists of .03 cubic feet and includes four warrants issued to Benjamin Blackford, John Arthur, Joseph Arthur, Robert Miller, James Sterrett, John Bealer, John W. Grove, and Nimrod Johnson. The warrants were signed by Pendleton who was the Clerk of the Chancery Court in Richmond, and former Register of the Land Office.

Dates: 1819, 1823
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Perkins & Perkins Law Firm Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 4407
Scope and Contents

The records chiefly contain legal correspondence, financial and legal documents and bound folio volumes from the law firm of Perkins and Perkins, consisting of George Perkins and his son, W. Allan Perkins, 1903-1916.

In addition, some legal correspondence and documents represent the service of George Perkins as attorney for the City of Charlottesville, 1904-1916. There is very little personal correspondence or documents in these records.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1751, 1835-1920
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Peterson freedom certificate

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589324]
Identifier: MSS 16227
Scope and Contents

John Peterson freedom certificate, 1817, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a single handwritten registration of John Peterson, "a free man of color," from the Goochland County court, and signed by W. Miller.

Dates: 1817
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Denne Bart Petitclerc A Farewell to Arms screenplay

 File — Box: BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16603
Dates: circa 1970s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Denne Bart Petitclerc, "A Farewell to Arms" dialogue continuity and Ben Hecht screenplays

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16571
Scope and Contents This collection contains a dialogue and three screenplays of Denne Bart Petitclerc's film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms" starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones adapted by Ben Hecht from the Selznick Studio in Hollywood, California. The first screenplay is called Script 82,Quarto, mimeographed typescript printed on rectos bradbound in yellow production company wrappers, dated October 22, 1956, and begins with two ambulance drivers playing cards when the main character...
Dates: 1956 - 1958
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John William "John Billy" Peyton diaries and account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 4944
Content Description Peyton's diaries cover the Civil War and Reconstruction periods and frequently mention conflicts, specifically the Yankees and how many people were killed on both sides of battlefields. His diary entries describe the Yankees being at his home and near his neighbors in Rapidan, Virginia. Many southern generals are mentioned including General (Stonewall Thomas) Jackson, General (J.E.B.) Stuart, and General (Richard S.) Ewell. There are also references to President (Andrew) Johnson. ...
Dates: 1862 - 1911
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William and Eula Phelps's papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15787
Scope and Contents The William and Eula Richardson Phelps letters (1895-1940; 2 cubic feet) relates the courtship and early marriage of William and Eula Richardson and their life with family members. William was a tobacco salesman for R. H. Fishburne and Company in Roanoke, Virginia and because he travelled across the mid-west for his living, there are frequent letters between the couple, that describe their life at the turn of the century. There are also letters from Eula's family about her mother being...
Dates: 1895-1940
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Montalto Corporation records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/4/8
Content Description

Records of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Montalto Corporation, 1855-2003, 0.6 cubic feet, includes two books of the Montalto Corporation containing notes and meeting minutes, correspondence and financial materials of both the corporation and the fraternity, and materials regarding fraternities and sororities from the University of Virginia. Also includes photographs, a constitution, and minute book.

Dates: 1855-2003
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Philadelphia lithograph

 Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16631
Dates: 1870
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Wendell Phillips papers

 Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1 (addition)
Identifier: MSS 7206
Content Description

This addition to MSS 7206 Wendell Phillips papers is a single undated letter from Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), an attorney and abolitionist, concerning a speaking engagement on "Tousssaint L'Ouverture, the hero of Hayti" in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Photograph of Edmund Parker Standing Guard at George Washington's Tomb

 Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16755
Content Description This collection contains one photograph of Edmund Parker (1827-1898), formerly enslaved at Mount Vernon, standing guard at George Washington's Tomb circa 1890. In 1841, Parker was brought to Mount Vernon, at the age of fourteen, as one of the enslaved people owned by John Augustine Washington III. He married Susan, an enslaved woman Augustine had purchased in 1852, and the couple went on to have nineteen children, including two sets of twins. Parker fled from Mount Vernon during the Civil...
Dates: 1890
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Photographs Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Monticello, and the University of Virginia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15986
Scope and Contents Box 1: Photographs: President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Monticello; wreath laying at Lafayette's Tomb and Thomas Jefferson grave; Monticello renovations (Milton Grigg); historical pageant on the Lawn at the University of Virginia 1918; an unidentified group including University of Virginia President Edwin A. Alderman and Virginia Senator, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. in the Rotunda library, before 1938; the University of Virginia Grounds in snow, 1948 February; football at Scott Stadium,...
Dates: 1918-1962
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Photographs of women writers from the Belles Lettres editorial files

 Collection
Identifier: MSS14891
Dates: 1981-1997
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frederick Pilcher Jr. scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16824
Content Description Content Warning: This material contains graphic imagery and content involving human remains. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials or, at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains a scrapbook of black and white photogaphs and ephemera documenting Frederick Pilcher, Jr.'s life from the 1920s to the 1930s as a student at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI),...
Dates: C.1923-1932
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Piney Pond School photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16508
Content Description

This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."

Dates: 3 April 1914
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elizabeth Poarch collection on Albemarle estates

 Collection
Identifier: 16639
Dates: 1986 - 2011; Majority of material found in 2015
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Papers relating to Edgar Allan Poe and John Henry Ingram's Poe collection

 Collection — Box: 1-7, Box: 8-14, Box: 15-16
Identifier: MSS 16207
Scope and Contents The copies and transcriptions of Poe related material in the first series, usually correspondence or manuscripts, includes the names of correspondents, location of the originals if known, the accession number of any material acquired by the University of Virginia and accessioned as a collection before being interfiled in this collection, which was formerly known as the “Poe transcripts.” Also included on each folder is the reference to the page citing each item in "The Collected Letters of...
Dates: 1809-1970
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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