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Boars Head Inn Dedication Ceremony records
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589420]
Identifier: MSS 16348
Scope and Contents
Boars Head Inn Dedication Ceremony records, 1980, 0.03 cubic feet, Blue portfolio printed with the cover title "More room at the inn," and Boar's Head Inn logo contains 9 typed Charlottesville related press releases, all dated December 1980, 4 press releases with black and white 8x10 inch photos attached, including Monticello and Boar's Head Inn, six pamphlets related to Charlottesville and the surrounding area, including Monticello, Ash Lawn, Boar's Head Inn, and Albemarle County, and 13...
Dates:
1980
Boltonville Free Press
Collection — Box: BW 22, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16466
Content Description
This collection contains a handwritten amateur newspaper containing 9 pages of text, by Emma Tucker and Jennie LeRoux of Boltonville, Vermont. Bound with a screw plus two red ribbons and penned on lined paper. An original photograph of the town is pasted to the first page, along with several newspaper clippings. Much of the paper consists of verses and blurbs relating to people at the girls' school. There is also an article on the meeting of the Vermont legislature, and an...
Dates:
1913
Julian Bond papers--addition 1
Collection — Box: 112 Folder 5a
Identifier: MSS 13347
Content Description
This addition to MSS 13347 Julian Bond papers contains lecture materials, outlines, and a chapter by Julian Bond. This includes the following documents: Civil Rights Tour-origins, Montgomery Bus Boycott lecture and outline, and a chapter titled: The Civil Rights Movement Grassroots Leadership- Living "in struggle."
Dates:
ca. 2014-2016
Book Baskets records
Series
Identifier: MSS 15920
Scope and Contents
Records of the Book Baskets (1995-2018; 1.5 cubic feet) consists of meeting agendas, minutes, reports, news clippings, photographs, thank you letters, information on grants, contributors, and general correspondence. The collection is organized into three series.
Dates:
1995 - 2018
Jorge Luis Borges papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10155
Content Description
New collection of eleven manuscripts by writer Jorge Luis Borges which have been combined with the Borges collection. The new acquisitions include Herrera y Reissig; Soneta Para un Tango en la Nochecita; La Cabala (1943), Los Espejos Velados; Prologo a Mester de Juderia, de Carlos Grunberg;El Milagro Secreto; Nota Sobre la Paz; De Alguien a Nadie; La Biblioteca Total; El Dios y el Rey; and Prose Poems for I. J.Other Borges manuscripts include : Juderia, Ciudad, Calle Desconocida,...
Dates:
1919-1978
John McKnight Brayton diary
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589385]
Identifier: MSS 16309
Scope and Contents
John McKnight Brayton diary, 1865 April-May, 0.03 cubic feet, while he was serving with the United States Christian Commission in devastated Richmond. Brayton's job included supplying wounded soldiers with bibles, crutches, paper, food, and other necessities, which is detailed in his diary. He also wrote letters for the soldiers to their family members and they are included at the end of the diary. There are descriptions of Brayton's trip to Richmond and the scenery as his boat neared the...
Dates:
1865
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative ephemera and zine collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16546
Content Description
This collection contains a collection of ephemera and zines that were available in repurposed newspaper boxes outside The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. These items were gathered in intervals throughout the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021. These include personal and political zines by Laura Lee Gulledge, Mala Leche, and the rasquache collective; informational fliers about defunding the police and policing, Black Lives Matter, and actions against white...
Dates:
2020 - 2021
Brig Milford of Baltimore ship passport
Item — Box: BW 19, Folder: ViU-2020-0051-001
Identifier: MSS 16477
Content Description
This collection contains a ship passport issued to the brig "Milford" of Baltimore, authorizing the ship to load its cargo at Port Republican, Santo Domingo. It was issued under the authority of Toussaint Louverture as the Général en chef de l' Armeé de San-Domingue, a position in which he had recently been confirmed by the newly-installed First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte. This document gives permission for the six-gun brig Milford of Baltimore, under Captain Littleton Waters, to load her...
Dates:
1800 January 23
Christopher Bright notebooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16614
Content Description
This collection contains six notebooks of course materials and notes from Christopher J. Bright's, class of 1991, study in the MA Foreign Affairs program at the University of Virginia. Subjects include Latin America, Military in Latin America, Democracy in Latin America, and the Cold War.
Dates:
c. 1990
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.
Dates:
1851-1855
Stonewall J. Brown composition
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589326]
Identifier: MSS 16230
Scope and Contents
Stonewall J. Brown compositon on obedience for Literary Society, dated 1885, February 15 but postmarked 1904 Feburary 24, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a compositon handwritten on a single sheet of paper about obedience for boys and addressed to Mrs. Columbia Elizabeth Brown at Miller School, Mount Fair, Virginia
Dates:
1885, 1904
George Buckston Browne collection on Down House
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16562
Dates:
1929 - 1939
Lottie E. Browne memory album
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16563
Dates:
1857 - 1859
S. E. Brownell letter to Albert Gallatin Remington
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589328]
Identifier: MSS 16233
Scope and Contents
S. E. Brownell letter to Albert Gallatin Remington regarding gathering material for the first and only number of the New York Quarterly Review, December 29, 1851, and an itemized bill of John P. Prall, book and job printer in New York for the first 500 copies printed, February 11, 1852, 0.03 cubic feet. The literary journal was short lived and folded after the first number. The letter from Brownell to the editor Remington, shows that the author is agitated over the article, mentions his work...
Dates:
1851 December 29
Lucy Bruce friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16547
Content Description
A ladies album belonging to Lucy Bradbury Bruce of Worcester County, Massachusetts which contains five engraved plates, sentiments from friends and family, three calligraphy drawings, and a watercolor theorem of a rose. Most of the well wishes are signed and dated, and many include locations. Predominately the locations and many of the signers are women including two of her sisters.
Dates:
1853 - 1868
William Cullen Bryant letter
Collection — Folder: MSS6244_001
Identifier: MSS 6244
Dates:
May 29, 1872
John Newton Buck papers
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16545
Content Description
This collection consists of forty-two letters primarily from John Newton Buck to his son, Walker Davison Buck, starting in December 1866 and ending in April 1873. There is one letter to John signed by "sister Catherine" and maybe the same women referred throughout the letters as “Aunt Cathie” throughout the letters. The letters are written from towns in Virginia and Maryland.
Walker Davison Buck was a young boy when he received these letters; the letters cover his youth from the age of...
Dates:
December 14, 1866 - April 17, 1873
Annie C. Buckley album
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16715
Content Description
Annie C. Buckley Album of Memory with gift inscription from her father dated Christmas 1857. The album includes multiple entries from Annie's friends and relations, many of which are dated 1858, Easton. Most of the entries are in verse form about friendship, memory, and in some cases death. Most appear to be original, not copied from printed works. There are 11 entries.
Dates:
1857 - 1858
James Buford estate sale list
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589421]
Identifier: MSS 15962
Scope and Contents
James Buford estate sale list (1797; 0.03 cubic feet) contains a list of Buford's assests in Lunenburg, Virginia. The list mention the sale of six enslaved people, along with cattle and furniture.
Dates:
1797
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands orders
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: ViU-2020-0064-001
Identifier: MSS 16726
Content Description
This collection contains four items from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in Virginia. It consists of three written and signed orders and one printed circular detailing the rudimentary justice system to be established (September 27, 1865). Two of the orders are addressed to Lieutenant Thomas W. Goring (1840-1926) of New Hamburg, New York who was serving as the assistant superintendent in the Freedman Bureau (both dated October 10, 1865). One order, sent from...
Dates:
1865 September-October
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