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Faculty Building Committee records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-301
Abstract
Committe files: notes, correspondence, plans, blueprints.
Dates:
1949 - 1989
Faculty Curriculum Committee records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-305
Scope and Contents
Files for committee matters. Also one file on the Student Curriculum Committee (chaired by Nusbaum in 1979)
Dates:
1973 - 1992
Faculty Dean Search Committee records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-303
Scope and Contents
Records for the 1976 selection of Emerson Spies to succeed Monrad Paulsen as dean.
Dates:
1976
Faculty Flexible Exam Committee Report
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-308
Scope and Contents
Committee's final report to the dean, 1 March 1982.
Dates:
1982-03-01
Faculty Long-Range Planning Committee records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-312
Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer fox hunting journal
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16526
Maud Falkner watercolor
Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16791
Content Description
This collection contains the watercolor of a ruby crowned kinglet by the artist Maud Falkner (the mother of famous William Faulkner). The inscription on the back of the frame says "Watercolor by "Grandma Falkner," Oxford, Mississippi, given to Elsie McDougal Harding, Oct. 19th Bd gift from Mary Kate Heard, Oxford, Miss."
Dates:
1948-10
Fallschirmjager [paratroopers] photograph album
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16579
Content Description
Comprises a photographic record of Wehrmacht Gebirgsjagerregiment (German Army Mountain Troops) and Luftwaffe Fallschirmjager training in and around the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzburg area in Bavaria prior to the second World War.
Dates:
1930s
Farm life photograph album
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16301
Scope and Contents
The Farm Life photograph album (1910s; 0.2 cubic feet) depicts many children and family members with farm animals, mostly horses, but cats, dogs, chickens, and one elephant also appear in the images.One image depicts a horse wearing a covering labeled "Tom Mix's Tony". This is presumably Tony the Wonder Horse, the famous film companion of silent-film western star Tom Mix. Another image contains a street sign suggesting that this farm may have been located on or near...
Dates:
1910s
Vice Admiral Farragut public reception invitation
Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16682
Content Description
This collection consists of one printed invitation to Lieut. M. L. Rouse for a public reception of Vice-Admiral Farragut given by the Citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia on March 31, 1865. The invitation reads "You are respectfully invited to attend a Public Reception of Vice-Admiral Farragut, to be given by the Citizens of Norfolk, and Portsmouth and vicinity, on the evening of Monday, the 3rd inst., at Mechanics' Hall, commencing at 7 1/2 o'clock" The invitee's name is printed in...
Dates:
March 31, 1865
Estelle Faulkner painting
Collection — Artifact: ViU2021.0169_001
Identifier: MSS 16643
Content Description
This collection contains a painting by Estelle Faulkner. It is an abstract painting of city buildings and a pedestrian. The painting was given to Leigh Middleditch, ca. 1958, while William Faulkner served as the University of Virginia's Writer-in-Residence.
Dates:
circa 1958
William Faulkner Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16807
Fay Franklin Thomas-Vaden Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2022-086
Scope and Contents
The Thomas-Vaden collection includes papers from Fay Franklin Thomas Vaden's years as a student at MCV (1934-1935), notes she used as surgical and obstetric nursing instructor and supervisor in various institutions, (1937-1944), notes from a summer course she took at the University of Virginia on “Curriculums in Schools of Nursing,” (1944) and notes from her course in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. The collection includes an autobiographical sketch that details various patient...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1934-1944
Sylvenus A. Fay Civil War diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16708
Content Description
Sylvenus A. Fay diary recounting the daily events of camp life and fighting, his capture by Confederates during the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina and waiting for an exchange for his freedom with hundreds of Union Officers. Lieutenant Fay was the commanding officer of Company F, 85th New York Infantry. In January 1864, the 85th Infantry was ordered to Plymouth NC, where in April, almost the entire regiment was captured. There is significant information in the diary about...
Dates:
1864
Federalist Society at the University of Virginia records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-214
Scope and Contents
The Federalist Society at the University of Virginia School of Law was constituted in April 18, 1988 as a “Contracted Independent Organization (CIO) at the University of Virginia and is associated with the national Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.” Their mission is “to promote awareness and debate of law and public policy issues, with particular emphasis on the principles of judicial restraint, individual liberty, and the separation of governmental...
Dates:
1979 - 2004
Francis H. Fife papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16075
Scope and Contents
The Francis H. Fife papers (1947-2015; 168.4 cubic feet) document the personal and professional life of Mr. Fife with an emphasis on his civic and community interests. Types of materials include reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, journals, and some family documents. The collection is organized into three series: Oak Lawn 1, Oak Lawn 2, and Westview.Please note, the file titles in this collection have been transcribed. The file titles were created by Mr. Fife...
Dates:
1785 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2015
First day of issue cover Edgar Allan Poe bicentennial
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589393]
Identifier: MSS 16017
Scope and Contents
First day of issue cover Edgar Allan Poe bicentennial, 2009, 0.03 cubic consists of two first day covers, postmarked at Richmond, Va. on decorative covers for the Library of Virginia exhibit "Poe: Man, Myth, and Monster."
Dates:
2009 January 16
First District of Accomack County (VA) voting certificate including African Americans
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16832
Content Description
This collection contains a certificate of a local Virginia election in the first district of Accomack County on October 22, 1867, preliminary voting for delegates for the upcoming Constitutional Convention, marking the first time African-Americans voted in the state. The October 22 election took place under Army supervision. Written entirely in manuscript ink on a sheet of lined paper folded to 4 unnumbered pages. Pages [2]-[4] are blank. The document certifies that:...
Dates:
October 22, 1867
G. Firth mathematic notebook
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: Folder 001
Identifier: MSS 16893
Content Description
This collection contains one paper vellum-bound, handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799 belonging to G. Firth, a student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The notebook contains eighty-five handwritten pages of calculations and notes. Girth divided the notebook into the following headings: the "Mensuration of Surfaces," "Mensuration of Solids," "Timber Measuring," and "Vaulted and Arched Roofs," written in large calligraphy....
Dates:
1796-1799
Marshall W. Fishwick manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10840
Content Description
Marshall Fishwick manuscripts, "Speaking of Virginia"; "Common Culture and The Great Tradition; "Searching for Cicero"; "Lady Eightball" (Four versions of Lady Eightball with varying paginations); and "Growing Up and Moving Out".
Dates:
1980s