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Triangular puzzle commonplace book on love and life

 Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899303]
Identifier: MSS 16019
Scope and Contents A 2 x 21/2 inch miniature triangular folded "book" with green coated stock cover with applied printed cut-out images of an imp, a frog, and a chick on front (1860's). On back are the word "Peep in this and you will find amusements for the inquiring mind." Within is miniature verse found in fold-out pages that open into circles. The first page is titled, "How to Make Love," and appears to be written by a woman from a woman's perspective. As you turn and fold the 24 center, side, and back...
Dates: [1860's]

Pierre and Amelie Troubetzkoy letters--addition

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2495
Content Description

Two letters to "Miss Wilcox," each is handwritten on a single sheet, folded (4 pages). The letters are dated 3, October, 1918, and August 27, with no year given. One letter is signed by Amélie Troubetzkoy, and the other by Pierre Troubetzkoy. The letter dated August 27th is written on Castle Hill Cobham, Albemarle Co., Virginia letterhead. The October 1918 letter has printed letterhead address "15 West 67th Street."

Dates: 1918

Harry W. Trudell journals

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16733

Polly Trumbull place book

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589499]
Identifier: MSS 16391
Scope and Contents Note

Polly Trumbull place book (1782; 0.04 cubic feet) contains extracts from Virgil, Thomson's Seasons, Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, The 5 Volume of the Spectator, Baxter's; Saints Everlasting Rest, and Principles of Politeness.

Dates: 1782 March 25

Beverley R. Tucker papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14791
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, other documents, and photographs pertaining to Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker, his son Beverley Randolph Tucker II, and their families, most prominently being Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann, wife of Beverley Randolph Tucker II. This collection also includes two 1886 business letters of Confederate veterans Robert Boyd and Andrew Easley. There is also a small group of World War II letters of Beverley Randolph Tucker II, including a fundraising...
Dates: 1886-1973

Susan W. Tudor album

 Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16698
Content Description

Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.

Dates: 1843 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1843

Mrs. Penny Tweedy photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589240]
Identifier: MSS 16079
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Mrs. Penny Tweedy, owner of race horse Secretariat, 0.03 cubic feet, 1974

Dates: 1974

Theodore G. Twitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16423
Scope and Contents Note

The Theodore G. Twitchell papers (1965-1994; 0.96 cubic feet) document Twitchell's activity as a composer. Musical materials include original orchestral scores, individual instrument parts, photocopies, and piano reductions of works such as Tidewater, The Gettysburg Address, and The Pride of Monticello. The collection also includes correspondence and print materials documenting the performance of The Gettysburg Address for Abraham Lincoln's birthday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1965 - 1994

Two African American women tintype

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16796
Content Description This collection features an undated tintype photograph of two unidentified African American women dressed in Victorian-style dresses and hats. One of the women holds a bouquet that drapes over a bridge made of branches that the two figures are posed on in a photography studio. It measures 2.5 X 3.5 ". The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans across the United States. The medium of the photograph and the women's dress...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900

Benjamin Owen Tyler calligraphic manuscript and Fenno family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16694
Content Description Memorial of Captain John Fenno Mansfield (1788-1812) in this Eulogium in calligraphy by Benjamin Owen Tyler. At Westpoint Tyler designed and accomplished this memorial dated November 20, 1816.Calligraphically and stylistically, the broadside bears all of the hallmarks of Tyler's penmanship and design such as floating cherubic heads. The Eulogium's most telling couplet states: "Science and Taste, united, would have shed/ A living luster round his honored head."Mansfield commanded...
Dates: 1770, 1816

Royall Tyler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8540
Content Description This addition to MSS 8540 Papers of Royall Tyler contains a autographed signed letter written in 1808 from Vermont Chief Justice Royall Tyler to New York publisher Isaac Riley discussing Tyler's preparation on the manuscript for publications of Tyler's "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Vermont." Riley would subsequently publish the work in two volumes, 1809-1810.The original collection contains four letters, 1810-1824, from...
Dates: 1808 - 1824

Rose Tynan album

 Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16658
Content Description Highly decorated autograph album with full color title page, "The Aldine Autograph Album with decorated spaces and lines for sentiment and name." A majority of the album is filled with inscriptions, verse, and autographs. The first inscription written at the front is from Rose's brother, "A birthday present from J. E. Tynan to his sister Rose, June 3rd, 1882." Recorded dates range from 1882-1901 with most of the inscriptions complete with locations, including Kittanning Penn., Fresno...
Dates: 1882 - 1901

Unidentified woman photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589175]
Identifier: MSS 15957
Scope and Contents

The unidentied woman photograph (circa 1824; 0.03 cubic feet) was taken by a photography studio named Davis on Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: circa 1860s

Union Printer's Home album

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16802
Content Description This collection contains a photo album documenting the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This album includes images of patients in bathrobes relaxing on sunny, fresh-air “sleeping porches”; reclining in chairs; in bed; on the grounds of the home’s 200-acre complex; and in the company of nurses, staff, and administrators. Pictured extensively is the Union Printer's Home itself (called “The Mountain” by the printers and also referred to as the "the Castle"), which housed a...
Dates: C.1931

Union Station in Richmond Virginia paint color research report (Margaret Stephenson)

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589382]
Identifier: MSS 16296
Scope and Contents

Union Station in Richmond Virginia paint color research report by Margaret Long sTephenson, 1981 January 16, 0.03 cubic feet contains a final report, paint swatches, color slides,research notes, and correspondence.

Dates: 1981 January 16

University of Virginia August 11 and 12, 2017: Recovery and Response web archive

 Collection
Identifier: RG-50/3
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the Univeristy of Virginia's response to the events of August 11 and 12, including documentation created by President Sullivan's working group, progress updates, FAQs, community messages, and more. It also includes relevant articles published by UVA Today.

Dates: 2017

University of Virginia Brooks Hall women's names banner project reproductions

 Collection — Digital_container: 1
Identifier: RG-6/5/1
Scope and Contents

The collection contains reproductions of banners made to celebrate Women's Day (March 8, 1990) and organized by the UVA Department of Anthropology.

Dates: 1990 March

University of Virginia Cemetery Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: RG-20-10
Content Description This addition to RG 20/10/3 Administrative Committees/ Cemetery includes slides of headstones of the University of Virginia Cemetery made between 1993 and 1996 and 9 DVDs containing files of the digitized slides and associated HTML files. This project was conducted by Alison K. Burke (MLA 1995) during the summer of 1993, the winter of 1994, and from the fall of 1995 to the spring of 1996 with additional work by Alison Kipp (MLA 1996) during the summer of 1995. Several other students also...
Dates: c.1996

University of Virginia, Charlottesville (and local counties) collection of correspondence, prints, and photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589354]
Identifier: MSS 16248
Scope and Contents

University of Virginia, and Charlottesville (and local counties) collection of correspondence, prints, and photographs, 1836-1891, 1985, 2011,0.04 cubic feet, of reproductions of pencil sketches of University Presidents Frank Hereford, Robert O'Neil by Eric Knowles, and a color photograph of the academic procession at the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan.

Dates: 1836-1891; 1985; 2011

University of Virginia collection of print materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16679
Content Description This collection contains various printed materials and ephemera such as programs, posters, flyers, mailers, pamphlets, reports, and other informational items for events and activities across the University of Virginia, including offerings throughout academic programs, student affairs and organizations, music/film/drama events, and University campaigns and initiatives. The materials in the four boxes are arranged by theme, alphabetically, first by printed materials that are...
Dates: Majority of material found within ca. 1920s-2010s

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letters (correspondence) 70
commonplace books 64
Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia) 53
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University of Virginia 33
Photographs 26
Ledgers (account books) 24
Student life 23
Poetry 21
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 21
clippings (information artifacts) 16
Photograph albums 15
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 15
diaries 15
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University of Virginia -- Alumni 14
Women students 14
African American families 13
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African American students 12
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 11
University of Virginia -- History 11
correspondence 11
manuscripts (documents) 11
newspapers 11
women--education -- Virginia 11
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African Americans 9
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African American women 8
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Women in higher education 8
authors 8
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African American soldiers 7
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University of Virginia -- Buildings -- Pictorial works 7
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Slavery--United States--History--19th Century 6
University of Virginia -- Co-education 6
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University of Virginia Rotunda (Charlottesville, Va.) 6
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African American children 4
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Charlottesville (Va.) -- History -- 20th century 4
Civil rights -- United States 4
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Jefferson, Thomas 4
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American 4
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University of Virginia -- School of Architecture 4
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Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991 4
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 4
Hampton Institute 3
Randolph family 3
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
Auger Down Books 2
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 2
Edgehill (Albemarle County, Va. : Estate) 2
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 2
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 2
Karon, Jan (Janice), 1937- 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
McClintock, Ernie 2
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 2
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 2
University of Virginia. Board of Visitors 2
University of Virginia. Library 2
University of Virginia. Office of the President 2
A.B. Dick Company 1
Abbit, John R. 1
Accomack County (Va.) 1
Ackerson, John Thaddeus, 1898-1975 1
Alaska 1
Albemarle Garden Club (Charlottesville, Va.) 1
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company 1
Aldridge, Cora M. 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Chi Omega Chapter (Morgantown, WV) 1
Alson, Roy L. 1
American Anti-Slavery Society 1
American Colonization Society 1
American Field Service 1
American Foundation for the Blind 1
American Rhododendron Society 1
Amherst (Va.) 1
Anbian, Robert 1
Armstrong, Philippa Alexander Bruce Shepperson, 1934- 1
Azher, Hira 1
Bailey, Rufus William, 1793-1863 1
Baker, E.P. 1
Barber , John, 1893-1965 1
Bardo Matrix (Firm) 1
Barrett, Janie Porter, 1865-1948 1
Bartlett, Ellen Strong, 1848-1940 1
Baugnet, Julie 1
Baumgartner, M. P. (Baumgartner, Mary Pat), 1953- 1
Beaumont, Charles, 1929-1967 1
Bednar, Michael J. 1
Bellamy, Wes 1
Benton, Joy Kime 1
Berkeley, William , Sir, 1605-1677 1
Black, Donald J., 1941- 1
Bligh, William, 1754-1817 1
Blote, Harold C. 1
Bluefield State College 1
Bluemango Books and Manuscripts 1
Bluestone Baptist Association 1
Bluestone Harmony Association 1
Bluestone-Harmony Academic and Industrial School 1
Boblett, Benjamin, M.D. 1
Bolling, Robert Buckner, 1805-1881 1
Brannon, Michael G. 1
Brooks , Jeida 1
Brooks, Elizabeth Albee, 1830- 1
Brown, James, 1933-2006 1
Bruce, Elizabeth Tunstall Taylor Newton, 1856-1940 1
Bruce, Lucy Bradbury, 1830-1902 1
Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933 1
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 1
Buck, John Newton, 1820-1875 1
Buck, Walker Davison, 1856-1910 1
Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute 1
Burke , John William, 1826-1898 1
Burke, Alison K. 1
Burley Varsity Club (2007-) (Charlottesville, Va.) 1
Burnett, Allison L. 1
Butler, Anna Land 1
Butler, Ernest 1
Butler, Jennie M. Bromley, 1860-1940 1
Cabell, Nicholas Jr., 1780-1809 1
Call family 1
Call, William Denison 1
Camp Travis (Tex.) 1
Cann, Elizabeth Sloan (Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann), 1917-2002 1
Caryll, John, 1667-1736 1
Chandler, Devin Keith, 2022-2022 1
Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991 1
Chivers, T.H. (Thomas Holley), 1809-1858 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
Clanton , Vera Lee , 1916-2013 1
Clanton, Berry 1
Clark, Robert S., 1845-1916 1
Clarke, McDonald, 1798-1842 1
Clemm, Maria Poe, 1790-1871 1
Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866 1
Cohen, Ira 1
Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016 1