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Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS15274
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16650
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589489]
Identifier: MSS 16356
Scope and Contents
Elk Creek furnace records, 1844-1849, 0.03 cubic feet containing business letters of Alex N. Montgomery, owner of the Elk Creek furnace located in Nelson County, near Lynchburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1844-1849
Collection
Identifier: MS-59
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 28 folders containing postcards, photographs, and publications pertaining to Ella Thomas Whitten's experiences in World War I and later service as a nurse in Virginia. The collection also includes 9 certificates and diplomas recieved by Ella Thomas Whitten throughout her nursing career. 14 nursing artifacts, mostly related to Ella Thomas Whitten's service during World War I, are cataloged with the medical artifacts collection and are also listed as part of this...
Dates:
circa 1914-1979
Collection
Identifier: 2022-023
Abstract
University of Virginia School of Nursing graduate, 1979: student notebooks, exercises, and papers; labs, related course materials.
Dates:
1970s
Collection
Identifier: 2022-067
Abstract
(b. 1924) University of Virginia School of Nursing graduate, Air Force nurse, 27–year career, Colonel, retired. Personal papers include correspondence, a wide range of publications, certificates, and alumni activities.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1950s-1980s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16168
Scope and Contents Note
The Joseph Elsleger papers (1944-1945; 0.4 cubic foot) document Elsleger's time spent as a prisoner of the German Army in World War II, after his plane was shot down over France on June 23, 1944. The collection includes two diaries distributed by the YMCA chapter in Geneva, Switzerland: one blank save an introductory letter and one used by Elsleger. The latter's contents include drawings of the prison camp, makeshift recipes, photographs of unidentified people (presumably from Elsleger's...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16393
Scope and Contents
These items document the early-career inspiration and late-career work of architect Alfred Oscar Elzner.The first album features approximately 75 sketches and floor plans made during Elzner’s time working with architect James W. McLaughlin. The majority of the plans within the book are not Elzner's designs, but his sketches of houses he found interesting. Of particular interest to Elzner was Henry Hobson Richardson's work, and there are numerous sketches of the houses he...
Dates:
1883 - 1923
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16823
Content Description
This collection contains a brown faux leather photo album (7.25" X 11.25") belonging to Bessie Emanuel. Bessie (1902-1984) was raised in White Plains, New York. She was the first Black woman in her town to attend college, entering the Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1922. The photographs are dated from 1922 to 1924 and capture daily life at the Institute, sports events, friends, and family. Captions are found throughout the album. A picture of Bessie with her family in the Hampton...
Dates:
1922-1924
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12840
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16710
Content Description
Document for the hire of an enslaved person named Ben, for $90.00 until December 25, 1852 possibly in Charlestown, West Virginia. Signed by John L. & W. N. Craighill. Docketed on the verso. The document specifies clothing to be furnished during the term of employment and requires the Craighills to return Ben with "a good wool hat, a blanket, a pair of winter shoes, two pair of home-made yarn stockings, one shirt, and a coat, waistcoat, and pants of good fulled-linsey, and pay his...
Dates:
1851-12-29
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16469
Content Description
This collection contains one notebook with handwritten notes on lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, with some earlier lectures during his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney College. These notes seem to be lectures on philosophy and ethics rather than law, perhaps taken at different stages of Epes's matriculation, with reference to Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, and Stewart. One early lecture may be attributed to "McGuffie" suggesting possibly William Holmes McGuffey (of McGuffey Reader...
Dates:
1850 - 1853
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-404
Scope and Contents
Special Collection has been collecting these miscellaneous files over a period of many decades. There is an excel.doc with all the information.
Dates:
1866 - 2005
Collection — Artifact: MSS2198_001_Portfolio
Identifier: MSS 2198
Content Description
This collection contains a 2977-acre estate map of Hawfield, Orange County, Virginia. The map measures 48"x50" and was commissioned by Captain William G. Crenshaw, owner of Hawfield. It denotes field use, service and public use roads, outbuildings, homes, barns, potential enslaved community ruins. Mentioned are Mt. Pisgah Church (now defunct but was prominently mentioned in Civil War accounts from the area), and adjacent property owners. Individual trees, springs, and other...
Dates:
April 1877
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16486
Content Description
This collection contains two similarly designed autograph albums belonging to Esther Lightner Matson and her husband Frank A. Matson. The albums contain inscriptions to Esther Lightner Matson from fellow students and teachers at the Santee Normal School and to Frank A. Matson from the Genoa Indian School, both Native American Residential schools in Nebraska and taught by Quakers in the 1880’s. The albums look like typical nineteenth century autograph albums except for the page(s) that are...
Dates:
1880 - 1899
Collection
Identifier: MSS11388
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16719
Content Description
Autographed signed letter from Dixon Evans to his brother James Evans in Fayetteville, North Carolina with his acccount of his shooting, and killing an unnamed enslaved person from Marion, South Carolina. The enslaved person was trying to obtain food from the dairy and smokehouse. Dixon Evans was being sued by Nathaniel Evans who was the owner of the enslaved person. Dixon Evans blames the enslaved person for Dixon's own murderous actions.
Dates:
1850-10-04
Collection
Identifier: 2022-004
Abstract
US Army Nurse Corps, UK; faculty member University of Virginia School of Nursing, Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, J. S. Reynolds Community College. Leader in Virginia nursing education: Virginia State Board of Nursing, Virginia Nurses Association, Virginia League for Nursing, Southern Regional Education Board.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1942-1985
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS15196
Collection — Container: MSS 2015-02, Box 1
Identifier: MSS-2015-02
Abstract
Small memorabilia collection with photographs of the 1936 graduation and of The Lawn.
Dates:
1892 - 1894; 1936; 1982-04-21