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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
Charles Dudley Warner manuscript
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16543
Content Description
This collection contains twenty-six leaves of Charles Dudley Warmer’s manuscript of "The Study" for "The Editor's Study" in Harper's Bazaar. The manuscript contains the first two parts of Warner's essay published in Volume 95, October 1897 [pp. 798-800]. The text appears identical to the published version. It is likely that this was the manuscript submitted to Harper’s – though there are...
Dates:
October 1897
E. Warren letters from Virginia springs
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899216]
Identifier: MSS 16362
Dates:
1837
Booker T. Washington photograph
Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031677118]
Identifier: MSS 16446
Scope and Contents Note
The Booker T. Washington photograph (1902; 0.03 cubic foot) documents Washington wearing a cap and gown.
Dates:
1902-04-12
John Augustine Washington collection
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589315]
Identifier: MSS 16210
Scope and Contents
John Augustine Washington collection of 7 letters were purchased separately and the Small Special Collections Library combined them into one collection, 0.04 cubic feet, 1837-1845. There are letters from Jacob Thompson to John Augustine Washington about the purchase of slaves, a letter from Judith B. Alexander to John Augustine Washington about his health, two letters from John Augustine Washington to his mother, Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington about Mount Vernon and slaves at "Blakeley"...
Dates:
1837-1845, 1858
Washington Literary Society resolution memorializing President McKinley
Collection — Box: RG 23 - Additions Box 2, Folder: 1 of 1
Identifier: RG-23/7
Dates:
1901
George W. Watt trotting bred stock registration
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589178]
Identifier: MSS 15960
Scope and Contents
George W. Watt trotting bred stock registration (1932; 0.03 cubic feet) is to the Virginia Horse Breeders Association, Inc., and a subscription to The Horse, Journal of the American Remount Association.
Dates:
1932
L.B. Watts diary
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16624
Content Description
A small hand-written and illustrated manuscript diary compiled by Commander LB Watts, RNR (Royal Navy Reserve) on his World War I and later service that holds details and information on the merchant ship, HMS City of London. The diary contains detailed lists of officers and men, armaments and technical diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, and annotated cartoons.
Dates:
ca. 1916-1944
John Walter Wayland collection on Henry Martin
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16677
Content Description
John Walter Wayland collection of correspondence,notes,photographs, and newspaper clippings about Henry Martin who was the bell ringer for the University of Virginia from 1868-1909. “Henry Martin rang the bell at dawn to awaken the students, and rang it during the day to mark the hours and the beginning and ending of class periods. He was beloved by generations of faculty, students, and alumni, and he remembered them all when they returned for visits.” Dr. Wayland, a former University of...
Dates:
1909-1965
Waynesboro Community Hospital scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16748
Content Description
This collection contains one National Hospital Day Scrapbook from the Waynesboro Community Hospital. This scrapbook was compiled by the staff of the Waynesboro Community Hospital documenting its community outreach as part of National Hospital Day. It consists of fifty leaves with a blend of ephemeral clippings, correspondence, and original photography. Included are eight original photographs as well as illustrated seals, brochures, buttons, a menu, and clippings among other material. The...
Dates:
1938
W.B. Glimer account book
Collection — Box: BW 25, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16465
Content Description
This collection contains an account ledger of W.B. Gilmer from the farm Woodbourne in Louisa County, Virginia. The farm was noted as being near the Louisa courthouse.The account details poultry activities as well as some general farm inventory. There some sixty pages of entries.
Dates:
1927
Guy Elwood Webb papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15588
Scope and Contents Note
The Guy Elwood Webb papers (1941-1952; 1 cubic foot) consists of letters to Guy Elwood Webb from his devoted girlfriend and later wife, Linnie Ethel Davis, her mother, Mrs. D. V. Davis, and his own mother, Lulu Green, as well as family members and friends (1944-1945). Guy Webb is in boot camp in the Great Lakes, Illinois, and continues his service in Shoemaker, California, and Hawaii. There are also some telegrams and greeting cards from Guy Elwood Webb in a scrapbook that was made by his...
Dates:
1941-1945; 1952
Lieutenant Robert M. H. Webb letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16104
Dates:
1945 November-1946 March
Mary Webster album
Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16723
Content Description
This collection consists of the album from Mary Webster, a young woman from Madison, Ohio. Entries include a variety of poems and notes from friends of Mary. Some of the poetry may be original works. Inside are five finished engravings: these tend to have small black and white biblical scenes with large, colored floral borders that extend up the page. The flowers are identified, and meanings attributed to the flower are identified below the illustrations.The locations most often...
Dates:
1843 - 1846
Wednesday Music Club records
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6875
Content Description
Yearbook, Board meeting minutes, newsletters, Winners recital program, Young musicians recital programs
Dates:
2015 - 2017
E.W. Weisiger (Old Shy) poems
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16574
Content Description
This collection contains a flip-style ruled notepad titled “Poems by Old Shy” from Manchester, Virginia circa 1905. The book contains 115 pages of poetry; almost entirely typescript, except a few handwritten notes in pencil. The poems contain small stories and morals as well as larger reflections on age and the meaning of life. The signature of E.W. Weisiger (possibly Emmett Washington) appears on the front cover back and backboard. Three poems are pinned into the book which identify...
Dates:
1905