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Booker T. Washington Night School Sewing Graduating Class of 1950 photograph
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16965
Content Description
This collection contains a class-composite photograph documenting the graduating class of 1950 from the Sewing Program of the Booker T. Washington Night School in Norfolk, Virginia. The composite features formal studio portrait vignettes of more than seventy graduates, nearly all African American women, arranged in rows around a central image of the Booker T. Washington High School building and photographs of faculty and administrators. Each student is identified by name under their image....
Dates:
1950
Mathew Brady Studio: Union Civil War Camp photograph of African Americans
Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16833
Content Description
This collection contains an albumen photograph of a Union wagon camp in Virginia during the Civil War from the Washington D.C. studio of Mathew Brady. Brady was one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history. He is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He often photographed Black soldiers and laborers during the war, mostly in Union or contraband camps. The present image documents for posterity a number of Black soldiers and laborers working towards a Union...
Dates:
c.1864
George Buckston Browne collection on Down House
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16562
Bruce Kennett photographs of Bremo; Enslaved Housing at Carters Grove, and other projects
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16826
Content Description
This collection contains photographs and negatives of subjects and properties for projects of photographer Bruce Kennett. Most of the images are of Bremo, John Hartwell Cocke's nineteenth-century home. Kennett was invited to photograph the property, and much of Kennett's work was included in a monograph titled "Birth of a Virginia Plantation House: The Design and Building of Bremo." Also included are images of Carter's Grove Housing (quarters) for Enslaved People in Colonial...
Dates:
1989 - 2012
Call family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 13421
Carl McFarland papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-85-3
Scope and Contents
These papers, which are almost entirely professional, have been arranged in groups corresponding to the stages of Carl McFarland's career. The earliest records originated during his tenure at the Department of Justice in the 1930's, and contain valuable information concerning the Wagner Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and other New Deal legislation. McFarland's work as chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on administrative law, which resulted in the 1946 passage of the...
Dates:
circa 1920 - 1980
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...
Dates:
1929-2000
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
Clarence B. Pearce papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-2
Scope and Contents
The papers of Clarence B. Pearce consist primarily of letters written by Pearce to his mother as well as photographs of Pearce and the University of Virginia grounds while Pearce was a law student (1917 - 1921). His college activities included participation in the debating society and service on the editorial board of Virgina Law Review.
Dates:
1916 - 1920
Clay family memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-94-5
Coleman, Bromm, Kirschmann family papers
Collection — Box: 19
Identifier: MSS 16418
Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. papers
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 of photographs of African American Men and Boys from New Orleans
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 of Battle of Rio Hill papers
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
Colleton estate photographs
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
Joyce Crary show horse photo album
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16300
Content Description
The Joyce Crary show horse photo album (1940s; 0.2 cubic feet) contains photographs labeled by hand in white ink. 10 x 13 with 35 leaves containing around 120 black and white photographs, and a few pieces of ephemera, inserted into corner mounts. Photographs feature Joyce Crary, her family, and her friends and horses at the family ranch near Chico, California. Horses and riders are shown jumping, racing, and performing trick riding of various types. One image is of Joyce, her father, and a...
Dates:
1940s
Cumming Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6922
Scope and Contents
This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the Cumming family, with most pertaining to United States Surgeon General, Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and his son, Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. (1900-1986). Items...
Dates:
circa 1818 - 1992
Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16404
Content Description
The Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums (1880s; 0.5 cubic feet) contain 76 photographs (albumen prints, most mounted, some hand-colored, probably commercially produced and sold) of views and people in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Burma, collected by U.S. Navy officer Clinton K. Curtis.
Dates:
1880s
George C. Davis studio photograph
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16642
Content Description
This collection contains a single black and white photograph of a street with a Liberty Loan mural in Roanoke, Virginia from the George C. Davis studio.
Dates:
ca. 1941-1945