Showing Collections: 121 - 140 of 778
Warren Chappell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10204
Content Description
These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of Prints...
Dates:
1929-2000
H. G. Charles, Charles L. Pollock, and Slaughter W. Ficklin letters
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589272]
Identifier: MSS 16124
Scope and Contents
H. G. Charles, Charles L. Pollock, and Slaughter W. Ficklin letters, 1831, 1847, and [1861], .03 cubic feet consisting of University of Virginia students letters about student life, exams, and the [Alexander Galt] statue of Thomas Jefferson. H. G. Charles writes to his brother in Darlington Court House, South Carolina six years after the university began classes, and makes reference to a Peter Bacon, presumably another University of Virginia student.Charles L. Pollock...
Dates:
1831; 1847; [1861]
Charlottesville and Albemarle County photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5606
Dates:
circa 1918, 1954-1958
Charlottesville City Schools collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2486
Scope and Contents
The collection includes school census materials for the following years: 1910, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940. The census materials are separated into the categories of Black children, with the term "colored" used on the forms, and White children. Census materials may also include the child's name and birth date; the names, addresses and occupations of parents or guardians; the child's school attendance status and literacy level (e.g. "unable to read"); and a child's...
Dates:
1890-1945
Charlottesville Woolen Mills records
File
Identifier: MSS 16353
Scope and Contents
Charlottesville Woolen Mills, Charlottesville, VA.
Business records, 1868-1956. Incorporated 1868 by H.C. Marchant; operated until 1962.This collection is comprised of ledgers, papers, artifacts, a map, and a panoramic photograph. It is divided into two series: Business Records and Miscellaneous. The first series, Business Records contains ledgers and business related paperwork, such as correspondence and legal documetns. The second series, Miscellaneous, contains the remaining...
Dates:
1868-1956
Thomas Chatterton poems (under the persona of Thomas Rowley (Rowlie), priest of St. John's in the city of Bristol, and Father Confessor to Mr. William Canyng, founder of St. Mary Redcliffe Church).
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16373
Scope and Contents
Thomas Chatterton poems that he actually wrote in 1771 even though he signed them Thomas Rowley and was claiming to be a 15th century monk writing medieval poetry. The collection consists of two notebooks of poems possibly transcribed by Chatterton and including "Elinor and Juga".
Dates:
1771
Jean Cynthia Cheatham family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16387
Scope and Contents Note
Jean Cynthia Cheatham family papers (1852-2012; 1 cubic foot) contains genealogy information, military papers, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1852-2012
Chestnuts manuscript newspaper
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16743
Content Description
This collection consists of 26 handwritten amateur newspapers titled "Chestnuts,"by a group of ten girls calling themselves "WG's," the Woodfords Girls, who lived in the Woodfords neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It is likely they attended Deering High School, as the initials DHS appear several times. The newspapers contain original poetry, personals, advertisements, and editorials. Some include several small ink sketches. A few of the issues include riddles, local crime and fake...
Dates:
1888-1889
Child scroll of cartoons
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16740
Content Description
This collection contains a scroll of cartoon characters drawn by an unknown child, likely from sometime in the 1940s to the 1950s. The manila paper scroll is 3.25 inches in width and approximately 70 feet long. The outward-facing side of the scroll has about 250 individual illustrations depicting mid-century characters like Elmer Fudd, Dick Tracey, Archie, Popeye, and Donald Duck, as well as other characters from comic books, Sunday strips, television, and movies. The reverse is blank. The...
Dates:
undated, c. 1940-1950
Eugene Edward Chiles papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14439
Scope and Contents Note
Eugene Edward Chiles papers, (3 cubic feet, 1915-1922) contain love letters from his girlfriend, Eugenie O'Neill who is traveling in European circles with wealthy and or famous acquaintances, while he is working as a realtor in Pittsburgh, PA. and Stephens City, Virginia, after the war. Her letters mostly describe her feelings for him and mention (briefly) famous places, people, and events from the Twenties. Topics consist of post war conditions, unemployment, strikes, feminism, racism, and...
Dates:
1915-1922
Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner
File
Identifier: MSS 16333
Scope and Contents
Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner (1900-2001; 2 cubic feet) consists of letters, newspaper clippings,scrapbooks, and photographs from the life of Frank Gardiner Wisner including his intelligence career, track achievements and scholarship at the University of Virginia, 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, and his family.
Dates:
1909 - 1997
Hazel Dorothea Christopher Reminiscences
Collection — Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16753
Content Description
This collection contains one handmade and illustrated memoir of Hazel Dorothea Christopher, a child from Brooklyn, New York, from the late 1930s. The book is told in the third person and has four chapters: "A Look Backward", "Childhood", "School Days", and "The Future." "A Look backward" explores her parents and grandparents, particularly the youthful seafaring exploits of her Norwegian grandfather. "Childhood" starts with Hazel's birth and her very early life to the age of six. "School Days"...
Dates:
1936
Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor letter
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589350]
Identifier: MSS 16242
Scope and Contents
Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor letter, 1864, 0.03 cubic feet, written on a single sheet in pencil. The letter describes the gruesome aftermath of the battle on his regiment. Typed transcript is included.
Dates:
1864
Civil War letter
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589351]
Identifier: MSS 16243
Scope and Contents
Civil War letter written from the homefront, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1865, March 26, 0.03 cubic feet, "Jennie C" laments about the recent weather of snow and cold and talks aobut her studies and her love of school. She discusses daily activities and notes that her cousin is " having a gay time, going to parties and balls" in Salisbury, and that her own life is quite dreary lately with bad weather, bad food, and the cruel war.
Dates:
1864 March 26
Civil War patriotic envelopes scrapbook
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16455
Content Description
A scrapbook containing 670 unused Civil war patriotic envelopes with decorative designs, some printed in multiple colors, and eight Confederate engraved banknotes, all pasted down onto the scrapbook leaves.
Dates:
1861-1865
James Albert Clark letter
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589197]
Identifier: MSS 15983
Scope and Contents
This collection of a James Albert Clark letter to Dr. Babitt is 0.03 cubic feet, and is dated August, 1892 about the genealogy of the Carter family. Included is a transcript of the letter which was written on 'Free Quill' letterhead to Dr. Babbitt in Cooperstown, New York. Clark is editor and publisher of the 'Free Quill,' in Laurel, Maryland.
Dates:
1892 August
Josie C. Clark scrapbook
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899273]
Identifier: MSS 16375
Dates:
1886
Grover Cleveland letter to James Carleton Young
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16652
Content Description
Typed, signed letter by Grover Cleveland to James Carleton Young thanking Young for his interest in a collection of President Cleveland speeches.
Dates:
1903 October 28
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- commonplace books 61
- letters (correspondence) 59
- Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia) 37
- Black-and-white photographs 28
- Scrapbooks 27
- University of Virginia 18
- Ledgers (account books) 17
- Photographs 17
- Poetry 13
- clippings (information artifacts) 13
- Photograph albums 12
- Screenplays 11
- diaries 11
- manuscripts (documents) 10
- newspapers 10
- Friendship booklets 9
- Student life 9
- Slavery--United States -- Virginia 8
- United States History Civil War 1861-1865 8
- University of Virginia -- Alumni 8
- correspondence 8
- Women students 7
- notebooks 7
- women--education -- Virginia 7
- African Americans -- Virginia 6
- Authors and publishers 6
- Student activism 6
- Student organization 6
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- enslaved persons 6
- African American families 5
- Autograph albums. 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 5
- University of Virginia -- Faculty 5
- University of Virginia -- History 5
- World War, 1939-1945 5
- authors 5
- magazines (periodicals) 5
- minutes (administrative records) 5
- African American fraternal organizations 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights 4
- American Literature--20th Century--History and Criticism 4
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 4
- Civil rights -- Virginia 4
- Drawings (visual works) 4
- Enslaved laborers 4
- Love letters 4
- School notebooks 4
- Slavery--United States--History--19th Century 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 4
- United States. Navy 4
- University of Virginia -- Library 4
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 4
- human hair 4
- posters 4
- Abolitionists 3
- Aerial photographs 3
- African American business enterprises 3
- African American women teachers 3
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 3
- American Literature--19th Century--History and Criticism 3
- Art, Modern--20th Century 3
- Business records 3
- Buttons (information artifacts) 3
- Cabinet photographs 3
- Color photographs 3
- Enslavers 3
- Family papers 3
- Friendship 3
- Poets 3
- Political history 3
- Presidents -- United States 3
- Receipts 3
- Slides (photographs) 3
- Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence 3
- Tobacco industry -- Virginia 3
- University of Virginia -- Co-education 3
- University of Virginia -- Department of English 3
- University of Virginia -- Miller Center of Public Affairs 3
- University of Virginia -- School of Architecture 3
- University of Virginia--Students--Correspondence 3
- Virginia -- Amherst County 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence 3
- cartoons (humorous images) 3
- reports 3
- African American Freemasons 2
- African American Women Authors 2
- African American students 2
- African Americans 2
- African Americans -- Education 2
- African Americans -- Photographs 2
- African Americans -- Study and teaching 2
- Albemarle County (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 2
- Albemarle County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century 2
- Albemarle County (Va.) -- Photographs. 2
- Architecture -- Virginia 2
- Architecture -- Virginia -- Albemarle County. 2
- Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans. 2 ∧ less
- Language
- French 5
- Spanish; Castilian 4
- German 3
- Italian 2
- Armenian 1
- Czech 1
- Danish 1
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Hawaiian 1
- Hebrew 1
- Latin 1
- Nepali 1
- Portuguese 1
- Samoan 1
- Swedish 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991 3
- James Arsenault and Co. 3
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 2
- Edgehill (Albemarle County, Va. : Estate) 2
- Karon, Jan (Janice), 1937- 2
- Max Rambod 2
- Randolph family 2
- Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 2
- A.B. Dick Company 1
- Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company 1
- American Field Service 1
- Amherst (Va.) 1
- Azher, Hira 1
- Barber , John, 1893-1965 1
- Bardo Matrix (Firm) 1
- Baumgartner, M. P. (Baumgartner, Mary Pat), 1953- 1
- Bednar, Michael J. 1
- Berhanu, Hibah 1
- Berkeley, William , Sir, 1605-1677 1
- Black, Donald J., 1941- 1
- Bligh, William, 1754-1817 1
- Blote, Harold C. 1
- Brown, James, 1933-2006 1
- Bruce, Lucy Bradbury, 1830-1902 1
- Buck, John Newton, 1820-1875 1
- Buck, Walker Davison, 1856-1910 1
- Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute 1
- Burke , John William, 1826-1898 1
- Burnett, Allison L. 1
- Cabell, Nicholas Jr., 1780-1809 1
- Call family 1
- Call, William Denison 1
- Cann, Elizabeth Sloan (Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann), 1917-2002 1
- Caryll, John, 1667-1736 1
- Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991 1
- Chivers, T.H. (Thomas Holley), 1809-1858 1
- Clanton , Vera Lee , 1916-2013 1
- Clanton, Berry 1
- Clark, Robert S., 1845-1916 1
- Clemm, Maria Poe, 1790-1871 1
- Cohen, Ira 1
- Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016 1
- Cooke, John Esten , 1830-1886 1
- Crane, Nathalia, 1913-1998 1
- Cullen, Mary Butler 1
- Dabney, Crystal Ray (Ross), 1900-1995 1
- Dabney, Lewis M. 1
- Davis, Roy 1
- Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854 1
- Derringer Books 1
- Digby, Theresa Anna Maria (Fox-Strangways), 1814-1874 1
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
- Dufief, N. G. (Nicolas Gouin), 1776?-1834 1
- Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878 1
- Epes, Branch J. (Jones), 1832-1911 1
- Eveleth, George Washington, 1819-1908 1
- Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 1
- Farrow, Sue A., 1832-1874 1
- Faulkner, Estelle Oldham, 1896-1972 1
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 1
- Fife, Francis H., 1920-2015 1
- Flemming, James 1
- Flynn, Alicia Wertenbaker, 1897-1989 1
- Foss, Edward Granville, 1938-2020 1
- Frischkorn, Rebecca 1
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
- Gardner, Thomas N. 1
- Genoa Indian Industrial School (Genoa, Neb.) 1
- George C. Davis Studio 1
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945 1
- Glover, Mary Elizabeth , 1906-1987 1
- Granbery, Ella Fayette Winston, 1837-1906 1
- Gray, Harriet Dudley Brown, 1867-1947 1
- Great Britain. Royal Naval Reserve 1
- Great Britain. Royal Navy 1
- Greenia, George D. 1
- Gresham, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Fenner), 1904-1985 1
- Griffin, Caroline Lydia, 1820-1861 1
- Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857 1
- Gulledge, Laura Lee 1
- Gunnell family 1
- Gunnell, Francis Mackall, Dr., Surgeon General of the United States Navy, 1827-1922 1
- Hampton Institute 1
- Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957 1
- Harrison, Gessner, 1807-1862 1
- Hayes, Daniel, 1649-1732 1
- Hering, Edwin A., Dr. 1
- Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth, 1807-1894 1
- Hubbard family 1
- Hughes, William E., 1926-2020 1
- Huntington, Randolph, 1828-1916 1
- Hutter, Christian Sixtus, 1891-1957 1
- Ingram, John Henry, 1842-1916 1
- Isaac, Rhys 1
- Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 1
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
- Johnson, Nunnally 1
- Johnston, Eliza Ellen (Davidson), 1811-1837 1
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
∨ more