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Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16779
Content Description
This collection contains the friendship album of Rebecca Jackman. The book is roughly one-quarter of the album filled with twelve lengthy verse entries signed by friends across New England. Most of the verses appear to be original and/or tailored to Rebecca. The album itself is titled "Souvenir album," and published by J.C. Riker, New York," with several engraved illustrations throughout and some pages of pink and blue paper.
Dates:
1846-1847
Collection — Box: BW 25
Identifier: MSS 16538
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11458
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection is composed of videotape recordings of local-origination programming aired on the Jefferson Cable Corporation, including City Council Meetings and local news specials.
The collection includes approximately 300 color slides used in productions; color slides of a University of Virginia baseball game, 1970; photographic negatives of Lawrence Halpin's model of the Downtown Mall; Charlottesville City Council agenda, 1971 October 4, with an item...
Dates:
1885-1982
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16555
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Pamelia Jenne of Charlton, Massachusetts. The album, a copybook, "Sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, New York," is here used as a friendship album. It contains thirty-eight pages of manuscript and one watercolor of flowers. Included are original and copied verse by a series of friends, many with several entries.
Dates:
1826
Collection
Identifier: MS-86
Content Description
This collection consists of the personal papers of Jethro Meriwether Hurt, a former UVA School of Medicine student, related to his medical practice in Blacktone, Virginia in the 1800s. There are two items in this collection: a handwritten medical casebook dating from the 1840s in Jethro Meriwether Hurt's medical practice in Blackstone, Virginia; and a handwritten diary from the 1860s documenting patient visits, medical charges, and other expenses related to Jethro Meriwether Hurt's medical...
Dates:
circa 1840-1860
Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16537
Content Description
This collection consists of one volume. An elaborate sketched title "Mary C. Jones Album," is the first page used; 79 pages used for hand-written inscriptions, verse, and literature, including some calligraphy. Signatures from Providence, "Washington Ball," and New York. The inscriptions are mostly addressed to "Caroline." Marbled paper over boards with red leather spine and red leather board edges; red leather label with gilt stamped name "Mary C. Jones" on the front cover.
Dates:
1825-1829
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16701
Content Description
Mary Kean high school scrapbook from Lomita, California, 1925-1934; 1956. Album with ephemera and photographs in a "Memories of my school days" binding compiled by Mary Kean, at Narbonne High School in Lomita in Los Angeles County. Includes programs, a few photographs, certificates, and much more. Of special interest are a series of programs and ephemera for Girl's Athletic Association field days in Southern California. There is a license for a "back seat driver" which seems to be making a...
Dates:
1925-1934, 1956
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16554
Content Description
This collection contains a large, stamped friendship album dedicated to Ellie F. Keen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from her father. The album contains a color title page, twelve romantic themed color plates throughout the album, over fifty poems and personal notes, and a full-page watercolor of lovers embracing in the moonlit night. Most inscriptions are signed with a first name only or initials; although, there are some exceptions with the writer’s full name. Predominately written between...
Dates:
1848 - 1856
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2016-2
Abstract
Collection of digital photographs of the Law Class of 1986
Dates:
1986
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16428
Content Description
Ravindra S. Khare papers (1938-2017; 13.40 cubic feet) include correspondence, course notes and syllabi, meeting minutes and agendas, reprints, and drafts of articles related to Ravindra S. Khare, Professor of Anthropology, and Khare's teaching, research, and service. In particular, the materials document international commission work, UVA committees, and Khare's teaching and research on social inequalities, globalization, the anthropology of food, and social and political topics and...
Dates:
1936-2017
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16843
Content Description
This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Joy Rebekah Kime Benton (1886-1957) of Burlington, North Carolina, an author, poet, painter, and weaver. The contents of scrapbook items are principally documents from 1905 to 1908, although some paste-ins are from the 1930s. There are 128 pages with photographs, clippings, drawings, and ephemera pasted and laid in. The album primarily documents her college days at the Salem Female Academy (later Salem College). It includes her...
Dates:
c. 1905-1933
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16430
Content Description
James H. Law, Jr. papers (1920-1921; 0.2 cubic feet) include correspondence, notebooks, blueprints, and exams of alumnus James H. Law, Jr. (Architecture, 1925).
Dates:
1920-1921
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 2, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16673
Content Description
This collection includes University of Virginia memorabilia from alumni Malcom Lester, who was a historian at Davidson College where he was a Chair of the History Department and Director of the Davidson College program at Cambridge University.The collection contains Lester's certificate of membership in Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, dated June 12, 1954; a scroll dedicated to the University of Virginia and its faculty, one of twelve institutions selected nationwide...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 18/12/4
Content Description
This addition contains includes T-shirts, committee reports, proposals, surveys, petitions, clippings from various newspapers including The Cavalier Daily, brochures, a letter from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida regarding the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, and a floppy disk documenting the work of the LGBTQ student center. Also included are two signs/posters and a flyer.
Dates:
1990 - 2017
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 12/43
Content Description
Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.
Dates:
circa 1996-2019
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-12/43
Content Description
This collection contains printed ephemera regarding events, dinners, lectures, and fundraising from 1988 to 2000 both at and for the library. Also included are received rsvps for a few of the events.
Dates:
1988-2000, undated
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16695
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16867
Content Description
This collection contains one leather-bound photo album compiled by Dr. Minor Carson Lile between 1909 and 1917. It includes thirty-nine black and white photographs, many with captions or initials that provide a snapshot of life at the University. Photographs include images of the Routunda, Pavilion X, Birdwood, a baseball game at Lambeth Field with Minor playing third base, family photographs of the...
Dates:
c. 1908-1917
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-2017-03
Abstract
Collection of photographs of North Grounds taken before the 1995 renovation.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1995 - 1996
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16761
Content Description
This collection contains the commonplace book belonging to a woman, possibly named Lydia from the United States, circa 1844. A commonplace manuscript book with verse neatly recorded verso and recto throughout. The book consists of twelve unpaginated leaves, ruled in pencil and partially uncut in original pink and black marbled paper wrappers. The contents are largely short verse excepts and meditative or religious in nature. However, there are several more substantial selections, "The...
Dates:
c.1844