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Virginia governors listings
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589410]
Identifier: MSS 16205
Scope and Contents
Virginia governors listings, 1966, 0.03 cubic feet, consisting of an alphabetical and chronological list of Virginia governors and Virginia colonial governos with extensive notes in Marjorie Carver's hand.
Dates:
1966
Virginia Immigration Society deeds
Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16788
Content Description
This collection contains five contracts deeding land to the Virginia Immigration Society in return for shares in the Society, together with a receipted copy of an invoice signed by the Society's agent in London, England. The contracts are dated from 1866 to 1867, and deed over 1400 acres, mostly in Amherst County in Central Virginia, to the Society in return for shares by A.F. and John B. Robertson, S.M. Garland, and James Powell, all but one signed by Leo. Daniel Jr., attorney, together...
Dates:
1866-1867
Virginia Music Teachers Association records
File
Identifier: MSS 15772
Scope and Contents Note
Virginia Music Teachers Association records (1940-2018; 11 cubic feet) contain financial papers, agendas, contests, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, chapter reports and officer's reports totaling 11 cubic feet. There are also music performances and software programs on compact discs, floppy disk and audiocassette. Some areas of the collection are missing years from 1980 to 1990. The records are created by musicians and teachers in Virginia whose shared vision is furthering the art of...
Dates:
1940-2018
Virginia-North Carolina Baseball League score book
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589327]
Identifier: MSS 16232
Scope and Contents
Virginia-North Carolina Baseball League score book, dated 1905, 1909, 0.03 cubic foot, Spalding's official base ball score book used to score games between August 12th and 16th, 1905. Games were played in Charlotte, N.C. including a double header between Charlotte and Greensboro, Charlotte and Danville, games at Edenton between Edenton and Colerain, and games at Edenton between Edenton and Colerain. There are also games from an unidentified North Carolina league in 1909.
Dates:
1905, 1909
Virginia photography studios photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14250
Scope and Content Note:
The collection contains tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite and photographs chiefly from studios in Staunton, Va. Studios in Bridgewater, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, and Richmond are also represented. Among the few identified subjects are Friends at Olivet Church, Staunton, Va.; D[avid] V. Ruckman Home, Long Glade, Va.; William Bedford Campbell, David Van Meter Ruckman, II, children of Uncle Glen Ruckman, Pauline Ruckman, James Buxton Perry, Sam Ruckman, Glen Huston Byrd,...
Dates:
1860s-1930s
Virginia Reelers Square Dance Club records
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15710
Scope and Contents Note
The Virginia Reelers Square Dance Club records (1953-2008; 3 cubic feet) document the history and operation of the Reelers. Club records include correspondence, meeting minutes, event advertisements, and membership lists. Other collection materials include two financial ledgers tracking member dues and pages from six photograph albums documenting various dances and spring festivals.
Dates:
1953 - 2008
Virginia Spectator papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-23/9
Scope and Contents
Chiefly financial papers including a ledger, 1939-1940, loose bills and receipts, a certificate of incorporation, 1938, and a copy of the Constitution and By laws of the Jefferson Society indicating that the Spectator was a publication of the Society.
Dates:
1937-1942
Virginia State Fair photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589394]
Identifier: MSS 16027
Dates:
1883
Virginia Union University Class of 1950 photograph
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589312]
Identifier: MSS 16203
Scope and Contents
Virginia Union University Class of 1950 photograph, 1950, 5 x7 inch black and white outdoor photo taken on the steps of a prominent building, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1950
Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and New York photographs
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 15684
Scope and Contents Note
The photo album (circa 1880s-1910s; 0.15 cubic feet) contains scenes of ships in Hampton Roads including the U.S.S. San Francisco, U.S.S. Brooklyn, the Cape Charles light ship, the Princess Anne, and the St. Louis. There are scenes of the seashore at Virginia Beach and Richmond. Beyond Virginia, scenes include monuments in Baltimore, Maryland, various streets and historical sites in New York City, and the United States Capitol. The album consists of a total of 50 pages, 8 of...
Dates:
circa 1900
Petra Vogt papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -16480
Content Description
This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...
Dates:
1966 - 1978
Votes for Women printing block
Collection — Box: BW 54, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16793
Content Description
The collection contains a printing block measuring 6" x 7.5" x 1" made of wood and metal. The printing block is headlined "Roll of Honor" with a suffrage pennant emblazoned "Votes for Women" below. Underneath the pennant, an inscription reads, "Distinguished people who have declared themselves for woman suffrage." Beneath are columns titled "Statesman," "Preachers," "Men of Letters," and "Educators." These columns list names such as Mark Twain, Plato, and Jack London. Though uncredited, this...
Dates:
circa 1909
Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs Tea at the White House
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589217]
Identifier: MSS 16014
Scope and Contents
Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs tea at the White House, 0.03 cubic feet, of members on the grounds of the White House and Arlington Cemetery. Photographs of Dorothy Waleski, Pat Person, Lucille Bland, and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace (wife of the Vice-President).
Dates:
1941 May
Mrs. G. J. Walker collection
File — Box: BW 38-115
Identifier: MSS 38-115
Scope and Content
An autograph album of a Miss Glasgow, of Virginia, contains autographs, 1842-1847, of American statesmen including John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Henry A. Wise.
The collection also includes a note from Henry Clay, 1847 July 30, responding to a request for an autograph; "In memoriam," a poem "written for Harrie [?] W. Kuhl after his death by Davis"; a letter from George [McCorkle], Newport News, Va., 1901 Dec. 26, to his sister Juliette McCorkle,...
Dates:
1842-1901
Nikuyah Walker Charlottesville City Council Campaign Ephemera
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16561
Dates:
2017
I.T. Walton dental account book
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16830
Content Description
This collection contains an account book of a Virginia dentist, Dr. I.T. Walton, who worked in Appomattox, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, and Albemarle Counties. The book recorded services for white, enslaved, and free Black patients between 1857 and 1861. The account book documents procedures, tooth conditions, and overall health assessment of patients and includes prices for cleanings, toothache drops, "gold plugs," and various "temporary" and "amalgam" fillings, as well as for...
Dates:
1857-1861
Ward Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-16097
Scope and Contents
The Ward Family letters containing less than one document box, approximately 100 letters, and .02 cubic feet consist of letters from Robert P. Ward (“Bobby" or "Bob"), Lawrence ("Larry") Ward, and David (“Duke”) Ward and his wife, Aldine, to their mother, Dona E. Ward in Richford, New York. Robert is in the Navy on the U. S. S. Missouri during the Korean War, Lawrence is entering naval training at the United States Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois, and David ("Duke") Ward and...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1949-1964; 1950-1953
Virgil Maxwell Ward letters
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: VIU-2022-0038-001
Identifier: MSS 16678
Content Description
This collection contains four letters from a formerly enslaved person, Virgil M. Ward to his former Philadelphia employer, Edward Morris Davis, referred to as "Dear Friend " in the letters. Ward was born in Virginia in 1827, and it is unknown how he escaped enslavement. He worked in Philadelphia for Davis at $15.00 per month from April 1st, 1855 to April 13th, 1857. He moved to Ypsilanti, then Canada, and finally to Michigan. The letters are from the year 1860. The first letter...
Dates:
October 25, 1860 - December 16, 1860.
Warm Springs Virginia, photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589404]
Identifier: MSS 16038
Scope and Contents
Warm Springs Virginia, photographs, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, 7 photographs showing women playing golf with two young African-American caddies, a casino, children playing in a creek, and men harvesting hay.
Dates:
undated
John W. Warner papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 10191
Scope and Content note
This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner’s life and career.A note regarding consituent correspondence: only in rare instances did the Senator's office keep outgoing corespondence. The vast majority of what makes up the constituent correspondence are the incoming letters from his constituents. Original letters sent to the Senator were microfilmed...
Dates:
1956-2009; Majority of material found in 1967-2008