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John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16459
Scope and Contents
The John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection (1806-1988, bulk 1861-1865; 133 cubic feet) contains Civil War-era correspondence, service records, pension records, artifacts, photographs, military records (including orders, requisitions, and correspondence), currency, newspapers, and other print materials. The collection primarily contains the correspondence, records, and photographs of white soldiers and officers who fought in the Civil War, including white officers serving in...
Dates:
1806-1988; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865
Nydrie and Algoma related papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -14956
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers relating to Nydrie and Algoma, consisting chiefly of photographs and articles pertaining to the family homes of the Logan and Forsyth families. Included is a scrapbook of articles by Lily Logan Morrill.This collection contains material from around 1880, when the homes were built, to about 1960, when the Forsyth family, which owned “Nydrie” at the time, started a discussion about what to do with the house due to its dilapidated conditions. This collection...
Dates:
circa 1862-2003
Office of the Architect/Photographs-addition 2 Mary Hughes slides
Collection
Identifier: RG-35/2
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Route 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Road Project, Charlottesville, Virginia, Documentation Packets
File
Identifier: MSS 15464
Content Description
This collections consists of Historic American Landscapes Survey documentation packets for the Rock Hill Landscape and McIntire Park in preparation for the work on the Route 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Road Project. The reports were prepared by Dovetail Cultural Resourse Group and the black-and-white photographs were taken by Rob Tucher.The collection include two spiral bound volumes containing the Historic American Landscapes Survey written documentation; 40...
Dates:
2010-2012
Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Memin, portraits of St. George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899266]
Identifier: MSS 16366
Scope and Contents
MSS 16366, Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Memin portraits of St. George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker which are described as two circular portraits: egraved portrait of Thomas Tudor Tucker, and a salted paper print [photograph?] of an engraved portrait of St. George Tucker.
Dates:
1810
Secretariat photograph
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589267]
Identifier: MSS 16116
Scope and Contents
Secretariat photograph, Triple crown winning horse, with his groom, Eddie Sweat, at New York's Aqueduct race track in 1973 consists of 0.03 cubic feet. The horse was greeted by a crowed of 32,990 cheering fans as he paraded through the stretch between races.
Dates:
1973
Frank Shay photograph
Item — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589474]
Identifier: MSS 16389
Scope and Contents
Frank Shay photograph (1935; 0.03 cubic feet)contains one black and white promotional photograph.
Dates:
1935
John Shepherd West Main Street, Charlottesville, Va. images
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16152
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of 288 black and white slides and 142 scanned images from the slides as well as notes that accompany the slide show. Mr. Shepherd took these images in 1976 and states that he created the images "just as construction on the mall was beginning." The images were shot on 35mm Panatomic X. The scanned images appear to duplicate the physical slides, and there is some be duplication among the physical slides.
Dates:
1976
Addison H. Smith papers
File
Identifier: MSS 15056
Scope and Contents
The Addison H. Smith papers (1917-1970; 1.6 cubic feet) includes many letters between 1917 and 1919 to Addison Smith’s mother and his battlefield diary from 1918, which describes in vivid detail the voyage to Europe and his work as an ambulance driver in France. It also includes his certificates of discharge and service in the United States Army Ambulance Service, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection dates between the years of 1917 to 1922, and...
Dates:
1917-1922; 1970; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1922
Christine Smith Files Concerning Conservation of the Wills of George Washington and Martha Washington
File
Identifier: MSS 16289
Scope and Contents Note
The Christine Smith Conservation files (1945-2016; 2.69 cubic feet) concern the conservation of the wills of George Washington and Martha Washington. The files contain slide photographs of each page of each will, usually with additional detail photos. Each set of before-treatment slides represents the wills as they appeared in 1998, approximately nine decades after manuscript restorer William Berwick preserved them; the after-treatment slides document the appearance of each will in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-2016
E.W. Smith photograph album
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16020
Scope and Contents Note
The E.W. Smith photograph album (1917-1921; 0.2 cubic foot) documents Smith's service in Battery A of the United States Army's 148th Field Artillery at the end of World War I. The bulk of the photographs document Smith's travels in Germany in 1918 and 1919, with other subjects ranging from training at Camp Mills, New Jersey and Camp Merritt, New York to postwar family vacations.
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Somerville family papers
Box
Identifier: MSS 16201
Scope and Contents
The Somerville family papers (1821-2013) consists of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and extensive genealogical files. The papers and research detailing the history of the Somerville family, mainly in America, range from its colonial background to contemporary times. The extensive genealogical research is comprised of notes and charts, along with correspondence, photographs, military records, personal notes, clippings, and printed materials. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1821 - 2013
Thomas H. Brown Funeral Home ledger and photograph
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16474
Content Description
This collection contains the manuscript ledger book, "Record of Deaths" kept by Thomas H. Brown's Funeral Home, 301 Gill Street, Petersburg, Virginia. This book detailed the funerals of approximately 500 African Americans during the last years of the Great Depression. The volume opens with a twenty-four page alphabetical index, listing the names of the deceased persons with the number of the page for further information about their funerals. Entries for each funeral appear in chronological...
Dates:
1935 - 1941
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
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
University of Virginia Newcomb Hall Bookstore photographs
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 16801
Content Description
Two black and white photographs of the interior of the University of Virginia Newcomb Hall bookstore. One photograph may be of Eleanor (Joyner) Gibson who was a graduate of UVA and started the bookstore (1960's).
Dates:
circa 1963
University of Virginia Rotunda photograph
Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16634
Dates:
circa 1910s
U.S. soldier Vietnam War photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16269
Scope and Contents Note
The U.S. soldier Vietnam War photographs album (196-1968; 0.2 cubic feet) contains 288 black and white or color photographs with captions on the verso of some photographs. Creator is unidentified, but served as a mechanic in the 19th Maintenance Co. at Long Binh. Creator served approximately one year, departing for home on February 6, 1968. The majority of the photos were taken in Vietnam, but some photos document the soldier's home leave and trip to Hawaii. Photograph subjects include USO...
Dates:
1967-1968
Virginia Folklore Society records
Series
Identifier: MSS 9936
Scope and Contents
Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis. Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting. Some of this...
Dates:
1905 - 2007