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Harriet S. Rowley commonplace books

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16472
Content Description This collection consists of three commonplace books belonging to Harriet "Hatty" S. Rowley, of Utica, New York. The books are nicknamed the Books of Wisdom and ignorance in part because one notebook was titled "Ignorance Book," by Rowley, while the other two books were labeled with the following note, “Aunt Harriet’s books of wisdom.” These books hold recordings of quotes from famous authors and orators of the late 19th century, and as such they are full of "wisdom" and advice on life. ...
Dates: 1872 - 1888
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dr. Agnes Maude Royden letter to Mrs. Bird

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16845
Content Description This collection contains one typed letter from Dr. Agnes Maude Royden (1876-1956) to Mrs.Bird. In the letter, she asks after a newborn, discusses the cold weather, her move from Sevenoaks to London, her loss of hearing, and updates on mutual acquaintances. Royden was a British suffragist, preacher, and lecturer who founded the Church League for Women's Suffrage in 1909 and founded the ecumenical Guildhouse in 1921, which became a cultural hub in London for fifteen years.Royden...
Dates: July 6, 1953
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

S. B. Rubbell autograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 14, Folder: 1 [X031589423]
Identifier: MSS 16297
Scope and Contents S. B. Rubbell autograph album, 1909, 0.03 cubic feet, with signatures and sentiments embellished with flourishes of colore dink on many of the pages. Given the uniform style and character of the colored ink and watercolor embellishments, it appears they were executed by the same person, perhaps the owner. Some entries include postage stamp photographs of the students. Autographs from individuals throughout New England and New York, Chicago,Illinois, Lima, Peru, Tokyo, Japan, Pittsburgh, PA....
Dates: 1909
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Ruggles album

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16637
Dates: 1843 - 1886
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dan Rupp letter to John J. Rupp

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1 [X032669088]
Identifier: MSS 16524
Content Description

Dan Rupp autograph letter on Hotel Vonderbank stationery signed December 11,1889 from New Orleans, Louisiana to his parents (John J. Rupp) in New York City, describing the funeral of Jefferson Davis. He mentions an African American band leading Confederate veterans. He describes Jefferson Davis as a rebel and a man without a country. He also describes the funeral as lacking in comparison to General Grant's funeral.

Dates: 1889 December 11
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Francis Russell tobacco ledgers

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15971
Scope and Contents The Charles Francis Russell tobacco ledgers (1887-1888; 0.2 cubic feet) document Russell's operation of a tobacco company. The collection contains copies of over six-hundred letters written by Russell, both to A. A. Spitzer of R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 and to other customers and dealers nationwide. Russell's "Lee Camp" tobacco was created via contract with the homonymous organization, who received a portion of tobacco sales. Some of the letters to Spitzer note great difficulty selling a...
Dates: 1887 - 1888
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Ann N. Russell commonplace book

 Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16712
Content Description

Women's commonplace album with about 20 pages of inscriptions, sentiments, and verse, hand-written with signatures or initials and date.

Dates: 1860 - 1866
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary M. Russell album

 Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669071]
Identifier: MSS 16509
Content Description

This collection contains a commonplace book of Mary M. Russell. The first entry, signed "Mortimer," and dated Rose Mont, August 7, 1844," is a kind of paean to "The Album" itself. Book includes engraved images, verses, drawings, and handwritten entries with place names, including Virginia, Washington, and Maryland. Laid in hand-lettered piece of music, "We no more," addressed to Miss Mary Russell.

Dates: 1844 - 1860
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary M. Russell Ladies friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589374]
Identifier: MSS 16285
Scope and Contents

Mary M. Russell Ladies friendship album, [1850], Rockville, Maryland,0.03 cubic feet, in original red boards, gilt fauna design on front, and all edges gilt. Included are several engravings.

Dates: [1850]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles A. Rutledge letters

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589225]
Identifier: MSS 16052
Scope and Contents

Charles A. Rutledge letters (1856-1865), 0.03 cubic feet, written while he was a student at Bel Air Academy in Maryland, the University of Virginia, and while he was serving in the Confederate Army.

Dates: 1856-1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Paul T. Ruxin collection of James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and their Circle collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16519
Scope and Contents An autographed signed letter from James Boswell to Andrew Gibb December 5, 1792 about receiving boxes, rent, and giving his son James Boswell money.An autographed signed 4 page letter from James Boswell to Andrew Gibb, (the overseer at his Auchinleck estate) May 31, 1793 discussing road repairs, horse breeding, and lumber sales. London. An autograph signed letter from James Boswell to Thomas Percy April 16, 1773 inviting Percy to dine at his lodgings with Joshua...
Dates: 1769-1793
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frances S. S. and Lauren Virginia Pratt newsletter Ladies Wreath magazine

 Collection — Box: BW 36, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16610
Dates: 1887
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

S. Vernon McCasland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS12755
Dates: 1928-1954
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sadie commonplace book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16556
Content Description This collection consists of a commonplace book. It is not clear the provenance but inscribed in the front and back covers is the name Sadie. The album contains 170 pages of content and a few loose clippings. Each page is filled with clippings from magazines and newspapers that focus on women's work, loss, fairy tales, literature, and poetry. The owner hand colored all the illustrations from magazines. Many of the illustrations are of women; some in non-traditional roles. Many articles are...
Dates: c.1878
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Memin, portraits of St. George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899266]
Identifier: MSS 16366
Scope and Contents

MSS 16366, Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Memin portraits of St. George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker which are described as two circular portraits: egraved portrait of Thomas Tudor Tucker, and a salted paper print [photograph?] of an engraved portrait of St. George Tucker.

Dates: 1810
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sale of slaves and land announcement

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589411]
Identifier: MSS 16238
Scope and Contents

Sale of slaves and land announcement, 1821 September 17, 0.03 cubic feet, announcing the sale of "5 or 6 likely slaves" and "162 acres at the head waters of the Hardware River, North Garden" by Nthaniel Garland, executor of the estate of Edward Garland. "Land and Negroes for sale."

Dates: 1821 September 17
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sally C. Wegner poetry manuscripts

 Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16478
Content Description

The poetry manuscripts by Sally Calkins Wegner are for a class taught by Karl Shapiro at the University of California, while a visiting professor there, and most contain handwritten comments by Shapiro. Also present is a news clipping about Shapiro and his appearance for a reading at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1966.

Dates: 1956, 1966
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sanjay Suchak photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16926
Content Description The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017. Some groups chanted racist and antisemitic slogans and carried weapons. The organizers' stated goals included the unification of the American white nationalist movement and opposing the proposed removal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville's former Lee Park. The rally sparked a national debate over Confederate iconography, racial violence,...
Dates: 2017 - 2021
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Maria Saporta photographs of the Southern Christian Leadership Civil Rights March

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16500
Content Description This collection contains six black and white photographs of members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) marching in Richmond, Virginia in 1963. Maria Saporta is identified as the photographer in the photographs.The SCLC's seventh annual convention occurred from September 24 to September 27 at Virginia Union University in Richmond. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the organization's founding members and acted as president until his 1968 assassination. He...
Dates: September 24-27, 1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sophia Sarchet commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16630
Dates: 1832 - 1837
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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