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Collection
Identifier: MSS 16460
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 6/14/7
Content Description
Twenty-seven "climate capsule" journals created as part of the 2019 Spring semester English course “Climate Fiction” taught by Professor Mary Kuhn (2019; 0.6 cubic feet). The journals consist of weekly observations and reflections from either specific routes or locations at the University of Virginia and Charlottesville, along with comments on cultural pieces regarding climate issues. The climate capsule journals are sealed until 2030.
Dates:
2019
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899287]
Identifier: MSS 14424
Scope and Contents
This collection, Howard E. Cobb history of the Blue Ridge railroad, 0.04 cubic feet, 2009-2016, consists of a speech presented to the Nelson County Historical Society regarding the Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad by Howard E. Cobb, biographical notes of Howard E. Cobb, and a magazine aritcle clipping from BlueRidgeCountry.com
Dates:
2009-2016
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589195]
Identifier: MSS 15981
Scope and Contents
This collection of a John Lewis Cochran legal document is 0.03 cubic feet, and is dated March 7, 1864, calling for witnesses to appear in Military Court in Greenville, Tennessee.
Dates:
1864 March 7
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589310]
Identifier: MSS 16199
Scope and Contents
William Gwynn Coe diary transcript [1935?]; 1864-1865, and other papers, 0.03 cubic feet, about the activities of a pastor and his family in 1864 in Onancock, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Also included is a document titled "From An Authentic History of Onancock Methodist Episcopal Church, South" by J. Shenton Lodge, a map of Onancock County, and Coe's pastoral report to the convention conference on February 27, 1865.
Dates:
[1935]; 1864-1865
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589487]
Identifier: MSS 15657
Scope and Contents
Alexander Stuart Coffman Civil War diary, May 7- September 1864 describing the Battle of Spotsylvania, General Longstreet's corps, General Grant's Overland Campaign and skirmishes in Virginia.
Dates:
1864 May-September
Collection
Identifier: RG-24/54/1.151
Content Description
This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the "New Literary History", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs,...
Dates:
1948-2016
Collection — Box: 19
Identifier: MSS 16418
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16419
Scope and Contents Note
The Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. papers (circa 1870-1926; 0.05 cubic feet) document Coleman's studies and travels to Richmond, VA and Charleston, SC. Collection materials include eleven letters Coleman wrote from Hanover Academy, VA to his mother Mary. Among other topics, Coleman discusses his friend Richard Henry Jesse (1853-1921), who briefly attended the University of Virginia. Collection materials also include two photographs, one of which depicts Coleman's son Lewis III among other University...
Dates:
circa 1870-1926
Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899241]
Identifier: MSS 16365
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16760
Content Description
This collection contains three photographs with captions on the verso, "Black children and men taken in or near New Orleans." These images were taken "en route" to New Orleans, possibly from a train, in the 1930s. One photograph shows a group of young boys on a street with an inscription on the reverse that says "New Orleans." Another depicts three boys and one older man singing on train tracks with an inscription that reads "En Route to New Orleans/ Kids singing." The last is a photograph...
Dates:
c.1930
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 2 [X031589428]
Identifier: MSS 15898
Scope and Contents
The collection of Battle of Rio Hill papers ( 1992, 0.03 cubic feet) consists chiefly of photographs and negatives and includes an image of the site of Rio Hill Shopping Center being searched for Civil War artifacts, the marker commemorating the skirmish, and the honor guard at the dedication of the marker. The collection also includes press releases, a letter from Charlottesville mayor Elizabeth "Bitsy" Waters, and an audiocassette recording of the dedication ceremony.
Dates:
1992
Collection
Identifier: MSS15242
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16825
Content Description
This collection contains nineteen documents and letters that provide detailed documentation of the ownership of a breeding stallion named Wicked William. The documents include three pedigrees, four stud service tickets, five sales records, and seven stampless letters, which provide a first-hand account of thoroughbred breeding and horse racing in Virginia during the early 19th century. The collection traces the breeding of Wicked William and his pedigree.The collection also...
Dates:
1832 - 1845
Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031688129]
Identifier: MSS 16440
Scope and Contents Note
The Colleton estate photographs (circa 1890s-1910; 0.04 cubic foot) document the appearance of Colleton, a Cabell family estate in Nelson County. Materials include ten mounted photographs of the Colleton house and one photograph of the nearby James River. Colleton photograph subjects include rooms like the ballroom and library, along with a childhood portrait of Evelyn Byrd Robinson on the building's porch.The collection also contains a copy of Robinson's will, where she divides...
Dates:
circa 1890s-1910
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589396]
Identifier: MSS 16029
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2/9/1
Content Description
Committee on Admission of Women records, 1921-1968, 1.2 cubic feet, include correspondence, statistics, surveys, minutes, and reports from students, alumni, various UVA committees, and other universities. Materials relate to the shift of a UVA into a fully coeducation institution.
Dates:
1921-1968
Collection — Box: BW 2, Folder: 1 [X031589213]
Identifier: MSS 16004
Scope and Contents
Confederate prison camps narratives, 1864 September-1865, February 27, totaling 0.03 cubic feet, in which prisoners of war describe their experience in captivity because "no doubt some of our citizens would like to hear how prisoners of war are treated.” There is a sixteen-page account that describes the prisoner’s transportation in overcrowded freight cars without food or drink from Belle Isle, Richmond, Virginia to Salisbury, North Carolina, their time in captivity, escape plans, sleeping...
Dates:
1865
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589431]
Identifier: MSS 16204
File — Box: BW 17 , Folder: 1 [X030270146]
Identifier: MSS 14772
Scope and Contents
Maggie G. Conway photograph album, 1890's, 0.03 cubic feet, contains 1 tintype and 18 photographs of formally posed family and friends. The majority are unidentified. Identified portraits include Madge Lovett, Mary Foushee, Mary Fitzhugh Booton as an infant and a young woman, Marion Thornton, F. C. Fitzhugh, and Loulie C. Fitzhugh. Two poems are copied on the back endpaper.
Dates:
1890's