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Joseph F. Welsh papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16654
Content Description

3 World War I diaries, each bound in leather or cloth with gilt decorative stamps and titles on front; 1 Army Song Book; 1 address book; 1 Aviation Pocket-Book by R. Boriase Matthews (1917); 9 other manuscript documents including pages of notes and drawings by Joseph F. Welsh, military form for R&R release, and receipts for paychecks (1920-21).

Dates: 1917 - 1921
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Edgar Wentworth cartoons and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16703
Content Description Edgar Wentwork archive of primary material documenting the career of a little-known American cartoon illustrator from 1886 to 1912. There are original cartoons and related correspondence containing approximately 295 pen and ink drawings and sketches, 125 illustrations,170 loose drawings, including his personal album, "Original Pen & Pencil Sketches, A Book of the Etiquette of the Day, by Ed. Wentworth, 1886." General warning: Twenty three of his cartoons portray...
Dates: 1886 - 1912
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thurman Wenzl papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16615
Content Description This collection contains papers, correspondence, newspapers and clippings, publications, leaflets, and records on events, activities, and professional connections related to Thurman Wenzl's study as a graduate student at the University of Virginia (1963-1969). These materials document his efforts in the Civil Rights Movement and for worker's rights. The items include 1994 reunion materials of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), information on the Radical Student Union of UVA,...
Dates: ca. 1960s-2000
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George M. West handmade account book

 Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16757
Content Description

This collection contains the account book of George M. West, a book seller from Richmond, Virginia. The account book is handmade and is titled "Account Book Express 1853." Inside the book are ten loose signatures. Each page has an individual's name listed on the top line. Most of the book is blank. Also included is a printed advertisement for West's bookshop.

Dates: 1853
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Westover Charles City County Virginia, photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589402]
Identifier: MSS 16035
Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Arthur L. Wharton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16874
Content Description This collection contains photographs, photo albums, letters, certificates, and a program belonging to Arthur L. Wharton and his wife, Betty Lou Golden Wharton, relating to Arthur's career as a mapmaker for the Central Intelligence Agency and documenting their family life.   Arthur's career in the Central Intelligence Agency is represented here by five documents and two photographs. The documents include a printed certificate of commendation from the CIA's National Intelligence...
Dates: c.1930-1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gabriel C. Wharton survey notebooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16644
Content Description

Fifteen leatherbound manuscript survey notebooks for lands in southwestern Virginia belonging to Confederate General Gabriel Colvin Wharton.There is also a Time Book of General Wharton's House kept by J. P. Thorn, dated October 1873 and five printed volumes relating to southwestern Virginia.

Dates: circa 1881
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

"What are you Like?" Victorian parlor game

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16880
Content Description This collection contains a Victorian parlor game titled "What are you Like?" The game, published by D. Sarney of Leamington, United Kingdom, in the 1870s, includes nineteen questionnaire sheets. The sheets are character sketches created by a group of Victorian men and women, presumably as part of a house party. Each sheet has a photograph or sketch of the player. Each sheet poses eight questions to be answered with an illustration: "Proverb or Motto," "Favourite occupation,"...
Dates: c. 1870s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

What is a Shadow? manuscript and published book

 Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16458
Dates: 1973
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ralph H. Whitacre World War II correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16263
Scope and Contents

Ralph H. Whitacre World War II correspondence, 1944-1945, .08 cubic feet, to his family and includes letters from his friends and some military and insurance papers. Included is one issue of the Trailblazer Magazine Volume III, No. 4, April 5, 1945. PFC Whitaker mentions that he was right behind the front line at the capture of Saarbrucken.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

White family papers

 Collection — Box: BW 29, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 16507
Content Description This collection contains correspondence, documents, and ephemera belonging to the White family of Beaver Dam, Hanover County, Virginia. The bulk of the materials date from 1867 to 1898, and includes a document from 1854 and a few early 20th century documents. 110 letters sent to Malmon White, a farmer in Beaver Creek, as well as Harriet White, his mother, Elvira Terrell White, his wife, and Alice White, his daughter. Subject matter includes correspondence about family inheritances, some...
Dates: 1854 - 1935; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1898
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

White Flint Farm records

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16271
Scope and Contents Note

The White Flint Farm records (1861-1969; 1.5 cubic feet) document the titular farm's business purchases and tobacco sales. Materials primarily consist of account ledgers and various receipts of purchase and sale, all primarily from the Danville area.

Dates: 1861 - 1969
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

W. Dexter Whitehead prints

 Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16431
Content Description This collection contains fifteen prints of drawings created by Dr. W. Dexter Whitehead, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia from 1956-1992. The drawings depict the following views and locations around Grounds, and are titled accordingly: Lawn Room, Steps at Pavilion IX, Pavilion IX Entrance Detail, Dome Room - The Rotunda, Levering Hall, Steps Behind Pavilion VIII, West Rotunda Arch, Pavilion III, Arcade Fan Windows, East Rotunda Arch, Pavilion VI, Pavilion IX - Entrance,...
Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Wickham family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 15753
Scope and Contents The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1704-circa 1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louise Collier Willcox papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 11390
Scope and Contents The papers of author, editor, and anthologist, Louise Price Collier Willcox (1865-1929), 1877-1933, chiefly consist of literary correspondence, personal correspondence, and family correspondence, mostly with her immediate family. The first series consists of correspondence from literary figures and publishers, including Henry M. Alden, James Lane Allen, Henry Charles Beeching, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, A. C. Benson, Abbie Farwell Brown, Alice Brown, Trigant Burrow, H. Price...
Dates: 1877-1933
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gilderoy Williams slave complaint

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589181]
Identifier: MSS 15963
Scope and Contents

Gilderoy Williams slave complaint against a slave named Daniel for using provokeying [sic] and insulting language, 1856, 0.03 cubic feet.

Dates: 1856
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Joan Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9394
Scope and Contents The Joan Williams Papers (1950-1988; 7 cft) primarily contains materials (e.g., manuscripts, typescripts, setting copy, and galley proofs) relating to Williams’s publications County Woman, The Morning and Evening, Pariah, Pay the Piper, Old Powder Man, and The Wintering. This collection also...
Dates: 1950-1988
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Williamsburg, Virginia buildings photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589397]
Identifier: MSS 16030
Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Nancy D. Willson friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16648
Content Description

Includes 15 sentiments of good thoughts and wishes, each one or two pages in length. Locations of signers include Bellevernon, Loudonville, OH, Union City, Ashland, OH, Uniontown and West Alexander, PA.

Dates: 1848 - 1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert Frederick Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -16340
Content Description The papers chiefly consist of letters Albert Frederick Wilson (1883-1940) sent to his mother in New Jersey while a student at the University of Virginia. There is also some correspondence from Wilson's father and grandfather; family photographs; and unpublished manuscripts by Wilson. Most of the letters are handwritten. But starting in 1906, typewritten letters become more frequent. The roles of African Americans at the University of Virginia are mentioned several times in his...
Dates: circa 1840-1934
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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