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Thomas Reynolds Citizenship Certificates

 Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16790
Dates: 1892-09-16
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bessie M. Rhoades botany workbook and notebooks

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Identifier: MSS 16776
Content Description This collection contains six handwritten notebooks and a workbook outlining botanic observations of Bessie M. Rhoades, an orphan at the Bethany Orphanage in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. The collection highlights the study of science by a female student at the turn of the twentieth century.It is a personal archive detailing life inside an American orphanage during a pivotal moment in the history of child advocacy.The education provided by an orphanage could give students academic opportunities...
Dates: 1903-1904
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Richard M. Brandt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS12838
Dates: 1966-1985
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Richmond Printer's Association broadside

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589179]
Identifier: MSS 15961
Scope and Contents

Richmond Printer's Association broadside dated 1924, is 0.03 cubic feet, and opposes any legislation that would allow the penitentiary to compete with them in printing. The broadside is titled, "Immediate Action Needed" and also includes a letter of opposition from Franklin Printing.

Dates: 1924
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Florence T. Rickert leaves of friendship book

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589370]
Identifier: MSS 16281
Scope and Contents

Florence T. Rickert Leaves of friendship book, 1860's, 0.03 cubic feet,in original red boards with blind tooling, all edges gilt. Title in ornate gilt round design on front cover and elaborate design on the spine. The first entry is written by her father, the second by her grandfather and there are several illustrations throughout. Signed by family and friends.

Dates: 1860's
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ripley Hitchcock letter to Mrs. H. C. Bunner

 Item
Identifier: MSS14723
Dates: circa 1896-05-19
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Ritchie letter to Joseph R. Williams

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16899
Content Description This collection contains a printed circular letter and a handwritten letter sent by Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854), the editor of the Richmond Enquirer, to Joseph R. Williams, Esquire. The printed circular letter, dated July 29, 1835, was sent by Ritchie and John L. Cook, publishers of the Richmond Enquirer newspaper, and was a printed questionnaire that discussed the “movements of certain Fanatics [abolitionists] in the North.” Founded in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society...
Dates: July 20, 1835
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Cabell Rives letter

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589330]
Identifier: MSS 16235
Scope and Contents

William Cabell Rives letter to Congressman Benjamin C. Howard, 1838 October 15, autograph signed letter from Castle Hill, Virginia totaling 0.03 cubic feet, and discussing the election of Hugh Swinton Legare of South Carolina to the House of Representatives and other political matters. Legare, who was a friend of both of them, is losing the election to their disappointment. Also mentioned are charges made by Daniel O'Connell against the United States minister to England, Andrew Stevenson.

Dates: 1838 October 15
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Madeleine Coleman Roach papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16869
Content Description This material contains references to offensive and harmful language and crimes involving racism. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity 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 photographs, diaries, a memory book, a prayer book, witness reports, scrapbook pages, photographs, certificates, newsletters, telegrams, menus, and ephemera...
Dates: 1942-1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Roanoke Virginia Baseball teams, photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589403]
Identifier: MSS 16036
Scope and Contents

Roanoke Virginia Baseball teams, photographs, [1890-1900], 0.03 cubic feet, contains three photographs mady by Davis Photo Co. made circa 1890-1900. Teams shown are the Roanoke [Magicians?] of the Virginia League circa 1896, Edward Christopher "Pop" Tate manager; the Old Dominion team; and the Roanoke Machine Works team, circa 1887-1888. All players ictured in the Roanoke Machine Works photograph are identified.

Dates: [1890-1900]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Chambliss Light article, "Rotunda Renovated, Controversy Resolved"

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589379]
Identifier: MSS 16292
Scope and Contents

Robert Chambliss Light article, "Rotunda Renovated, Controversy Resolved", 2002, 0.03 cubic feet, about the controversy surrounding planned ses of the Rotunda folloiwng its renovation, 1973-1976. There is also a letter dated 2002 April 8 from Larry J. Sabato to Robert Light thanking him for sending a copy of his article.

Dates: 2002
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Clark papers

 Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16497
Content Description This collection contains 14 fourteen letters written during the Civil War to Robert Clark (48th Infantry Illinois) by three Union soldiers: William B. Oliphant (6 letters) (a Sergeant in Company E, 51st Infantry Regiment Illinois), John R. Oliphant (4 letters) (Illinois E Company), Henry Willett (2 letters), and 2 unidentified letters/writings, including a leather pouch in which the letters were discovered. The letters were written primarily from Tennessee and Mississippi.The...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1863 - 1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Roberts "The Slave Stealer" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16632
Dates: 1968-10-28
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mattie Robertson commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16629
Dates: 1859 - 1863
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah Jane Robertson album

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589373]
Identifier: MSS 16284
Scope and Contents

Sarah Jane Robertson album, 1830's, Augusta County, Virginia 0.03 cubic feet,in original black boards with floral decorative rule, green endsheets, and lithographs. Several newspaper clippings and cut dried flowers are laid in.

Dates: 1830's
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Armstead L. Robinson papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 12836
Scope and Contents The Armstead L. Robinson papers(1848-2001; 43 cubic feet) consist of audiotapes; book reviews; census material; computer printouts; conference papers; correspondence; biographical information; instructional material; lectures and speeches; manuscripts and original writings by Robinson, his colleagues and students; maps; memorabilia; microfilm; organizational and professional files; photographs; printed items, and research and topical files. Most of the nineteenth century material is in...
Dates: 1848-2001; Majority of material found in 1967-1992
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles M. Robinson and Principals Architectural Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16518
Scope and Contents The Charles M. Robinson and Principals Architectural Records consist of materials about Charles M. Robinson, and the office records, architectural and design plans, and project photograph files of the Charles M. Robinson, Architect firm and successor firms. The materials document the business operations of the firms, as well as their role in developing the city of Richmond, VA, and in developing various institutions and organizations across the state of Virginia. The works in this collection...
Dates: Circa 1855-2012
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leonard H. Robinson memories photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16772
Content Description This collection contains one photo album documenting the late adolescence and early adult years of Leonard H. Robinson from 1913 to 1919. Robinson, a Black man, was born and raised in Ohio. Robinson was light-skinned, which allowed him to be a part of the black and white communities of Marietta, Ohio, where he was raised, and his life in Akron, Ohio, where he lived for a short time. The album documents himself and his life, including pictures of his family and friends of both races, him as a...
Dates: 1913-1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Maria K. Robinson Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: MSS 16842
Identifier: MSS 16842
Content Description Scrapbook assembled by African-American woman, Maria Kathleen Robinson while she was attending historically-Black college Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Maria graduated high school in 1970 and briefly attended junior college in Temple, Texas. She majored in Business Education (accounting) at Prairie View A&M in the early 1970's, pledged to the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, whose Greek letters decorate the cover of the scrapbook. Maria participated in the Blue Dynamics dance line,...
Dates: 1973-1974
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James Roebuck diplomas and memorabilia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16937
Content Description This collection contains the University of Virginia diplomas and memorabilia of James Randolph Roebuck, Jr. (1945-2024), politician and UVA alumnus. The collection contains Roebuck’s two University of Virginia diplomas, a printed copy of a 2019 article commemorating fifty years since his History in 1969 and a Doctor of Philosophy in History in 1977. In 1969, while a student at the University of Virginia, Roebuck became the first Black member of the Student Council. Following his...
Dates: 1969-2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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