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File
Identifier: MSS 15848
Scope and Contents
Genealogical research files of Bernard Caperton on the Caperton family from the 1700's to 1980
Dates:
1938-1980
Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16769
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the...
Dates:
1855 - 1867
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2019-1
Scope and Contents
This collection of two volumes of printed documents from the Board of Inquiries [of Cardiff] was acquired by the Law Library in 1991. These documents seem to be of cases that relate to the Merchant Shipping Acts of 1854 and 1876, 1887, and 1894. They comprise the years 1878-1895. Each document represents a vessel inquiry and has a report to the court, and an annex to the report. Some documents contain handwritten annotations that explain what the case is about in a very concise way,...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1878-1895
Collection
Identifier: MS-15
Scope and Content
The Carl Caskey Speidel Collection includes journal reprints and hand-drawn plates and figures used in journal articles. It also includes Speidel's press clippings, and materials from the classes he taught at the UVA Medical School. Also included in the collection are 74 reels of 16-mm film ranging in length from 100-450 feet of film documenting his research, with still photographs from the films, title lists and summaries of his films. The total length of the films is over 23,000 feet.
Dates:
1923 - 1982
Collection
Identifier: 2022-008
Abstract
Personal papers of University of Virginia Hospital "front-line" nurse. Thirty-year career observations. Pediatric acute care and other services.
This collection is not processed.
Dates:
1984-2014
Collection
Identifier: 2022-049
Abstract
(b. ca. 1900) Director of Nursing at Rochester General Hospital, and at Alexandria Hospital (Virginia), among others: keepsakes and books, including a copy of her master's thesis from Yale, 1941, concerning nursing school curricula and administration.
This collection is partially processed.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1938-1984
Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS-16488
Content Description
This collection contains forty-one letters and manuscripts by American authors and publishers from the files of James R. Osgood & Co. and its successor Ticknor & Co assembled by Caroline Ticknor (1866-1937), daughter of Benjamin Holt Ticknor (1842-1914) and granddaughter of William Davis Ticknor (1810-1864). Many of the authors represented in this collection have related collections in the Small Library. Authors represented in this collection of letters and manuscripts...
Dates:
1862-1913
Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16721
Content Description
This collection contains the friendship album belonging to a woman named Caroline. It is assumed from the locations of the authors of the entries that she was from Massachusetts as towns listed include Plymouth, Boston, Berkley, etc. The earliest note from this album dates from 1837 and is a loose page that was inserted into the front covers. The page has two original poems written in 1837 and 1838, by Ester Holmes of Plymouth, entitled "The Thunder Storm," and "Parting of a mother with...
Dates:
1837 - 1880
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589366]
Identifier: MSS 16265
Scope and Contents
Conrad Carpenter estate inventory, 1829, 0.03 cubic feet, is a court ordered appraisal of the estate in Lincoln County, Kentucky and includes a Negro girl. Also of note are $5590 of itemized promissory notes, $8490 of silver, and $1190 of commonwealth paper.
Dates:
1829
Collection
Identifier: Traser2017-001
Abstract
University of Virginia SON graduate, 1936, scrapbook with photographs (unlabeled) including military nursing.
Dates:
1932-1945
Collection — Box: RG 31 - Additions Box 1, Folder: 1 of 1
Identifier: RG 31/1/4
Scope and Contents
February 28, 2006 report on the conditions of the President's House at Carr's Hill by John Milner Associates, Inc. The "Building Assessment & Schematic Design Final Report" included preservation issues regarding the house and how they may be alleviated.
Dates:
2006
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 10973
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 2/1/2
Content Description
Records include a mix of materials with different provenance, including correspondence, awards, and other files relating to John Casteen, former president of the University of Virginia.
Dates:
1984 - 2010
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16581
Content Description
This collection contains photographs, personal letters, coursework, notebook, forms and surveys for new students, directory and schedule, and other university specific items of Lu Ann Cates, a 1978 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Dates:
1972 - 1974
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2022-01
Collection
Identifier: MS-41
Scope and Contents
This collection includes certificates and diplomas for Catherine Russell as well as the dissertation written for her PhD.
Dates:
1949 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: MSS-15730
Scope and Contents
This collection of Cedar Hall papers and Vance/Allen architectural drawings of about 17 drawings, 100 items, one half-size legal document box, and .04 cubic feet contains information about the Darling family, and their historic home, Cedar Hall.
Dates:
1900-1940
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-350-85
Scope and Contents
These records were found in the accession folder in 2022. They were transferred to the archives in 1985. [Maybe by Prof. John Norton Moore?]
Dates:
1981 - 1991
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4966
Scope and Contents
The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen,...
Dates:
1821 - 1897
Collection
Identifier: MS-23
Scope and Contents
The Chalmers Laughlin Gemmill Papers include correspondence and materials related to his research in the history of medicine, including papers on the Charlottesville General Hospital during the Civil War, Robley Dunglison, and ancient pharmacology. The collection also contains scrapbooks from his post-graduate research overseas and his attendance at the International Physiological Congresses. A set of medals from the Congresses, along with other medals depicting the history of medicine are...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914 - 1997