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Nathan A. Scott Jr. papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16731
Content Description This collection contains the papers of Nathan A. Scott Jr. (1925-2006), a religious scholar, founding figure in the field of Religion and Literature, and professor at the University of Virginia from 1976 to 1990. He was the first Black faculty member in the Religious Studies department and one of the first tenured Black professors at the University of Virginia. The bulk of the materials are articles on religious and literature topics from colleagues in the field, often signed or sent with...
Dates: c.1956-2001
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Anonymous illustrated manuscript of Walter Scott's Marmion

 Collection — Box: BW 42, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16130
Content Description

Bound illustrated manuscript of Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, mid- to -late nineteenth century.

Dates: Probably mid- to late-19th century.
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Scotts Ferry, Albemarle County, Virginia indenture

 Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16453
Scope and Contents Note

The Scotts Ferry, Albemarle County, Virginia indenture (1815; 0.03 cubic feet) is a single sheet which details the agreement of land sale between the Coles family and Samuel Dyer, both of Albemarle County. Named on the document are Walter Coles, John Coles, J. A. Coles, Tucker Coles, Edward Coles, and Samual Dyer.

Dates: 1815-10-7
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Scrapbook album with cut out illustrations of girls and ladies

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589238]
Identifier: MSS 16074
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook filled with cut out illustrations of girls and ladies, each one with a handwritten page detailing the personalities and character traits of individuals, 0.03 cubic feet, [1915-1916?].

Dates: [1915-1916]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Secretariat photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589267]
Identifier: MSS 16116
Scope and Contents

Secretariat photograph, Triple crown winning horse, with his groom, Eddie Sweat, at New York's Aqueduct race track in 1973 consists of 0.03 cubic feet. The horse was greeted by a crowed of 32,990 cheering fans as he paraded through the stretch between races.

Dates: 1973
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Werner K. Sensbach Graphic Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -15884
Scope and Contents

The collection includes both colored and black-and-white prints of etchings, woodcuts, and linocuts by Werner K. Sensbach, depicting various University of Virginia buildings and a couple of landscapes. Also includes twelve preliminary sketches done by Sensbach of scenes from the University of Virginia and one for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.



Dates: Majority of material found in 1976, 1992-2018
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Shacklett handwritten cookbook

 Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589283]
Identifier: MSS 16151
Scope and Contents

Margaret Shacklett handwritten cookbook, 1876, full of detailed recipes for dishes and meals of all types and totals 0.03 cubic feet. The books was once bound but the back board is wanting, the text block has sewn binding and the front board has hand marbled paper.

Dates: 1876
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Edgar Shannon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 12706-k
Scope and Contents This addition to the papers of Edgar Finley Shannon Jr. (1918-1997) contains materials from 1956-1997. Topics of interest include University of Virginia English Department Business, correspondence and documents related to Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation work, research and work on Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and correspondence and documents related to work with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Collection also includes a letter from President Jimmy Carter to Edgar Shannon, dated February...
Dates: 1959-1997
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sharp family history papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16822
Content Description

Sharp family papers that include correspondence, documents, diagrams, architecture and photographs of the Limestone farm which was built by his ancestor in the eighteenth century. William McQuiddy family letters and images, cased photographs, a photo album, carte-de-visites, and family bible records. Sharp family genealogy and court records in Virginia.

Dates: 1980s-2010s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Madeline Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16794
Content Description This collection contains six class notebooks and a folder of material on the One Less Resource booklet detailing the classes and work of Madeline Shaw a student at the University of Virginia. The notebooks and essays that document her class work related to a variety of topics including the Civil Rights movement, modern political thought, immunology, arts and pop culture, 18th century philosophy, microeconomics, history of the British empire and early American law. Also included is a manual...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2015 - 2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frank Shay photograph

 Item — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589474]
Identifier: MSS 16389
Scope and Contents

Frank Shay photograph (1935; 0.03 cubic feet)contains one black and white promotional photograph.

Dates: 1935
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sheeran Architects records

 File
Identifier: MSS 15462
Scope and Contents The Sheeran Architects records (1980-2008; 9.4 cubic feet plus 250 gigabytes) include drawings and office files relating to projects by Peter L. Sheeran and members of his firm, financial records, correspondence, notes and sketches. Materials are organized by project name, and then by date. Other records included are projects dating from Sheeran’s time as principal of Cleveland Sheeran Architects, AIA (1980-1989) and as project architect for Jack L. Rinehart Architect (1977-1980)....
Dates: 1980s-2010
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Shepherd West Main Street, Charlottesville, Va. images

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16152
Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of 288 black and white slides and 142 scanned images from the slides as well as notes that accompany the slide show. Mr. Shepherd took these images in 1976 and states that he created the images "just as construction on the mall was beginning." The images were shot on 35mm Panatomic X. The scanned images appear to duplicate the physical slides, and there is some be duplication among the physical slides.

Dates: 1976
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sheppard family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14256
Scope and Contents The papers consist chiefly of personal letters and correspondence of James H. Sheppard during his service in France in World War I. There is some information about his role in the development of the 155 mm Filloux gun. There is also material relating to Thomas Jefferson Sheppard, including a reminiscence of his life that mentions his Civil War service and detention in Andersonville prison; a piece of a stockade log from Andersonville; a manuscript of a speech given by Sheppard at the...
Dates: 1883-1919, 1981-1999, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Shoffner slides

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15676
Dates: 1977-2004
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James Shop papers

 Collection — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16473
Content Description This collection consists of two documents related to John Shop, a freedman from Connecticut who served in the Continental Army. One item is a Connecticut pay-table committee document authorizing payment to Shop for his army service. This was signed by James Hart on December 15, 1870 in Hartford, Connecticut. The other is a one page letter certifying Shop's service in the 2nd Regiment of the Connecticut line of the Continental Army. In the letter he is identified as a freedman from the town...
Dates: 1780
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Susan Richards Shreve papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16887
Content Description This collection contains the papers of Susan Richard Shreve (b. 1939), a prominent American author, a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University and a co-founder of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation (1985) for which she served as a board member and chairman. The collection documents her literary and teaching career with manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, journals, correspondence, contracts, clippings, digital files, and other materials related to her authorship and...
Dates: 1969-2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sophia M. Sias album

 Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899240]
Identifier: MSS 16371
Scope and Contents Sophia M. Sias album, MSS 16371 (1854; 0.03 cubic feet) is a commercially made album with stamp of William H. Fisk's Bookstore & Bindery, No. 4 Methodist Church, Manchester, N.H. Brown leather binding with blind- and gold-stamped cover with floral illustration and words "Boquet Album." One hundred pages of various colors, only about twenty sides used for inscriptions, verse, etc. Includes title page "Boquet Album," with no publication information. Five printed floral plates, which...
Dates: 1854
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Silverthorne Films super 16 reels

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16621
Content Description

This collection contains seven reels of footage that were used to create the "Declaration of Independence" film that is played at the University of Virginia's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The reels also contain footage of spaces throughout Small Special Collections Library.

Dates: 2004 June-September
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles F. Simms photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589183]
Identifier: MSS 15965
Scope and Contents

Charles F. Simms photograph, [1920] 0.03 cubic feet. Simms was a guard for the George Washington tombstone.

Dates: [1920]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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