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Dolores Ann Smith autograph album
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16900
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Dolores Ann Smith, an African American student from Roanoke, Virginia. The album’s cover is embossed with “My School-Day Autobiography” in gilt letters. Two black and white photographs of young African American children are at the front of the album, one pasted and the other tipped in. The names of Dolores’s teachers up to the eighth grade are identified on the “My Teachers” listing and a list of classmates. Seven autographs with associated...
Dates:
1944-1948
Elizabeth Oakes Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 38-707
Content Description
The papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, and journals of Mrs. Smith, her husband, Seba Smith, and of their sons, Appleton Oaksmith, Sidney Oaksmith, Alvin Oaksmith and Edward Oaksmith.
The literary papers include Seba Smith's column on Major Jack Downing and Solomon Swope, and reviews of his "New elements of geometry"; drafts and copies of numerous poems, short stories, essays and lectures by Mrs. Smith as well as manuscripts of her plays "Destiny, "...
Dates:
1823 - 1919
E.W. Smith photograph album
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16020
Scope and Contents Note
The E.W. Smith photograph album (1917-1921; 0.2 cubic foot) documents Smith's service in Battery A of the United States Army's 148th Field Artillery at the end of World War I. The bulk of the photographs document Smith's travels in Germany in 1918 and 1919, with other subjects ranging from training at Camp Mills, New Jersey and Camp Merritt, New York to postwar family vacations.
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Howard W. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8731
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc...
Dates:
1933 - 1966
Summerfield Smith autograph album
Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16879
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Summerfield Smith (1836-1864), compiled while he was a student at the University of Virginia. Smith collected fifty-eight autographs of peers and professors at the University between 1856 and 1858. The red leather-bound autograph book contains entries that list a student’s name, the date of entry, their location, where they lived away from the University, the “session” (i.e. 1857-58), and a personal note to Summerfield (referred to as...
Dates:
1856 - 1858
SOCA records for the outreach program to Garrett Square 1996-1999
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15919
Scope and Contents
The collection of SOCA records for the outreach program to Garrett Square from 1996 to 1999, 0.15 cubic feet containing details for the program to help children living at Garrett Square, which is a public housing complex located in downtown Charlottesville. Included are a grant proposal to Charlottesville City Council, soccer teams, player rosters, certificates, soccer tips, invitations to events, photographs, newspaper clippings (copies), negatives, and slides of the children playing...
Dates:
1996-1999
Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Virginia records
Collection
Identifier: MSS13700
Somerville family papers
Box
Identifier: MSS 16201
Scope and Contents
The Somerville family papers (1821-2013) consists of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and extensive genealogical files. The papers and research detailing the history of the Somerville family, mainly in America, range from its colonial background to contemporary times. The extensive genealogical research is comprised of notes and charts, along with correspondence, photographs, military records, personal notes, clippings, and printed materials. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1821 - 2013
Sons of Staunton African American Fraternal Lodge minutes book
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16522
Content Description
Manuscript minutes book of the Sons of Staunton African American Fraternal Lodge in Staunton, Virginia. Containing 154 pages of manuscript in pencil, dated 1914-1919. The Sons of Staunton Lodge no.1833 Grand United Order of Odd Fellow, an African American masonic lodge based in Staunton, Virginia. Each entry lists the officers present, the amount of dues paid, and any other business attended to during the meetings. Also included is a 1927 letter on letterhead of the King Harem Lodge, a...
Dates:
1914-1919; 1927; 1948; 1948; 1927
Maria Louisa Southerland letters
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS-16924
Content Description
This collection consists of five personal letters written by University of Virginia student Alex W. Weddell to Maria Louisa Southerland between 1860 and 1861. The letters, hand-sewn with a single red thread, are dated February 24, 1860, October 30, 1860, November 16, 1860, December 10, 1860, and January 22, 1861. They are intimate in nature, discussing the friendship and relationships between Alex and Maria, as well as referencing shared acquaintances. The envelope is addressed to Maria L....
Dates:
February 1860 - January 1861
Southern District Grand Tent No.1 (membership certificate for Eliza Braxton)
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16739
Content Description
Once named for abolitionists J. R. Giddings and Jolifee Union, the Southern District Grand Tent No. 1 is a secret organization to help African American Christian women. It was created by former enslaved women, Annette Lane and Harriet Taylor. The collection contains a membership certificate for Eliza Braxton. It certifies that Braxton was part of the Iola Tent No.74 of Richmond, Virginia. The United Order of Tents was formed in 1867 in Richmond. The society provided aid to the African...
Dates:
1911
Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589472]
Identifier: MSS 16344
Scope and Contents
Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu, 0.03 cubic feet, 1899, Richmond, Virginia.
Dates:
1899
Southern pre-Civil War poetry album
Collection — Box: BW 51, Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16738
Content Description
This collection consists of thirty-four leaves of a poetry album from Richmond, Virginia. Four poems are those of John Esten Cook (1830-1886), an American poet, novelist, and Confederate soldier, lawyer, and biographer of Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. The other thirty pages consist of poems written by a variety of other authors noted by initials or their names. Many of the poems are to a woman named Edmonia or "Monie." These pages appear to be extracted from an album...
Dates:
C. 1850-1860
Southern Student Organizing Committee records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11192
Scope and Contents
The Southern Student Organizing Committee records include correspondence regarding the founding of the organization and its constitution and bylaws, correspondence, and memos and reports pertaining to the organization’s 1969 dissolution. The records also include publications from the SSOC and its members (such as Thomas Gardner and Steve Wise), including newsletters, brochures, project reports, and journal publications regarding a variety of topics, but particularly around civil rights...
Dates:
1948-1994
Special Collections Shelf Lists and Reference Card Files
Record Group
Identifier: RG 12/11/22
Content Description
This collection includes vault shelflist cards, cards for archives and manuscript books, an audiovisual card file, the manuscript shelflist, National Union Catalog for Manuscript Collection cards, the archives shelflist, a microfilm card file, and a donor and dealer card file.
Dates:
circa 1936-2000
Spectators at a University of Virginia football game, photograph
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589417]
Identifier: MSS 16060
Anne Spencer exhibit archival museum prints
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16228
James Madison Spiller letter
Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589369]
Identifier: MSS 16275
Scope and Contents
James Madison Spiller letter to Dr. I. L. Twyman, 1853, 0.03 cubic feet,consists of a signed letter on a single sheet of blue paper, hand written in ink in regard to the negotiation of a sale of two Negro "family girls." The girls were being sold by Dr. Twyman and S[piller was helping to facilitate the sale to Seth Woodruff. Current market price for a girl are mentioned, as well as the effects of war in Europe on other market prices.
Dates:
1853
Cleo Sprouse photograph
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589224]
Identifier: MSS 16050
Ephraim George Squier letters to Charles Eliot Norton
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669069]
Identifier: MSS 16503
Content Description
This collection contains two letters from Ephraim George Squier to Charles Eliot Norton discussing his book "Waikna; or, "Adventures on the Mosquito Shore" as well as other works in progress. These two letters were removed from the printed book, which has been cataloged separately.The first letter, dated Apirl 26, 1855, Squier describes how many pages that he has written of "foolscap" and how many pages of proof that he has to read before his passage to Europe. He mentions his...
Dates:
April 26 and May 16,1855