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Gustavus Richard "Brown" Horner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 379
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over 4,000 letters to Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown Horner (from family members and colleagues as well as a letterbook containing copies of letters from Dr. Horner in Warrenton, Virginia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1824 to 1892. (The collection totals 41 document boxes). The letters chronicle the historical and political events of the time including enslavery, violence against indigenous persons, the Civil War, post war conditions, westward...
Dates:
1820-1892 (1920)
Doug Hornig photograph
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589365]
Identifier: MSS 16262
Horses and women photograph album
Collection — Box: BW 2, Folder: 1 [X031589210]
Identifier: MSS 15990
Scope and Contents
Horses and women photograph album, [1949], 0.03 cubic feet with Shy Guy, a horse depicted in the photo album, who won the Alger Memorial in Detroit in 1949 and two separate pictures of a woman dressed up and sitting in or standing next to an automobile.
Dates:
1949
Hot Feet (IMP Society) records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-23/46
A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights '56" draft script
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589271]
Identifier: MSS 16120
Scope and Contents
A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights 56" draft script, (typescript)1956, for a television show based on a three-part scenario from short stories of Ernest Hemingway, and .03 cubic feet. This episode was unproduced but the series "Playwrights 56 produced by Fred Coe) ran on the National Broadcasting Company in 1955 for about a year.
Dates:
1956
Verona Houghton memory book
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16762
Content Description
This collection contains the memory book and autograph album of Verona A. Houghton of Weymouth, Massachusetts. A birthday gift from her mother, the book includes signatures and inscriptions with locks of hair and remembrances, predominately from 1854 to1857. There are fifty-four signatures, forty-one of which include a lock of hair. The signers of the book came from various locations in the United States including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa The inscription at...
Dates:
1854 - 1868
House and Residence Life-- addition
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: RG-18/13
Content Description
This collection contains booklets for new students, annual reports from Residence Life, clippings and photographs documenting a fire at Dunnington House, and a position description for the secretary of the Office of Housing.Included are newspaper articles about students living on the lawn and a memo about smoking in the dormitories.
Dates:
1949 - 1978
Elizabeth Howard papers on Meade, Valentine, and Walker family
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11777
Scope and Contents
These papers, 1873-1980, consist of ca. 290 items pertaining to the Meade, Valentine and Walker families of Charlottesville, Virginia. Included are correspondence, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. Among those represented are: Albert Edward Walker, Bessie Carroll Valentine Walker, Ida M. Payne Valentine, Robert Poore Valentine, Virginia W. Meade, and Everard W. Meade.Ida Payne and Robert Valentine correspond during their courtship in...
Dates:
1873-2005
Howard University student diary
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16847
Content Description
This collection contains a diary from an unknown female student attending Howard University in 1915. It measures 9 X 6 inches, and the pages are hole-punched and tied with a ribbon. The diary includes one tipped-in item and twenty-eight leaves with thirty-three of the pages written on. Most of the diary documents the last few days of May 1915, covering the writer's final days at Howard and reminiscing about her time at the university. She discusses attending the annual play by...
Dates:
1915
Philip Huckabee magic square
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16021
Scope and Contents
Philip Huckabee magic square, 2014, .03 cubic feet, contains a diagram and a list of keywords taken from the Declaration of Independence with a "tree of life" pattern embedded in it and claims that it reveals ciphers associated with the Thomas Jefferson Beale treasure buried near Goose Creek in Bedford County, Va. It may also shed light on a number of ciphers found in the Jefferson/Madison papers. Included is a letter from Philip Huckabee to the University of Virginia History Department.
Dates:
2014
Hugh Carr family papers and River View Farm
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10176
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the history of Hugh Carr, an African American born in enslavement in 1843 and his family who lived on a tract of land (River View Farm) that Carr and his wife Texie Mae Hawkins bought in 1870 after emancipation. He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.The papers show that Carr highly valued...
Dates:
1843-1978
Langston Hughes photograph
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16783
Content Description
This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of Langston Hughes, noted American poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In the picture, Hughes is surrounded by students after speaking at Harlem's Public School #113 graduation exercises which was also attended by students at James Madison High School and New York City grade school students. Mimeographed caption label with "Newspictures, Inc. ... please credit 'Acme Photo' ..." -- rubber-stamped on verso....
Dates:
June 25, 1945
Langston Hughes photograph with women journalists-addition 1
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8870
Content Description
This addition to MSS 8870, Langston Hughes Collection, contains an 8" x 10" gelatin silver press photograph of Langston Hughes and Anna Land Butler, who is signing a book, surrounded by several Black female journalists. The land is likely signing her first book, "Album of Love Letters Unsent," published in 1952. Included with the picture is a typed caption identifying all the sitters and handwritten annotations indicating those who were deceased. Those identified in the photograph are Janice...
Dates:
C. 1952
William E. Hughes papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16640
Content Description
This collection contains materials related to the work and patents of the electrical engineer William E. Hughes (1926-2020). The items include correspondence, scientific notes and works, schematics, publications, patent details, spiral notebooks, and photographs related to the work and patents of Hughes. The papers also include information on the Commonwealth Scientific Corporation, where Hughes worked, which was an industry leader in ion beam technologies and equipment, along with texts on...
Dates:
circa 1979-2000s
Frank Humphreys, "Magazine for Boys" and "The Nankeen Jacket"
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589184]
Identifier: MSS 15966
Scope and Contents
Frank Humphreys, "The Magazine for Boys" and "The Nankeen Jacket", 0.03 cubic feet and contains two issues of "The Magazine for Boys" January 1, 1897 and April 1st, 1897. "The Nankeen Jacket" is another story for children from the Gustave Gusviller. There are three periodicals altogether.
Dates:
1897
Randolph Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS15564
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees...
Dates:
1860, 1873-1908
Ladley Husted papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16792
Content Description
This collection contains two folders of Ladley Husted, a University of Virginia biology professor and the first chair of the President's Tree Committee later known as the Arboretum and Landscape Committee. The folders include correspondence, notes, and detailed maps of plantings on grounds from 1959-1962. The folders are titled "Tree Committee" and "Tree Locations." The Tree Committee folder contains correspondence and notes related to the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1959-1963
Christian S. Hutter miscellany
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15511
Scope and Contents
This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish,...
Dates:
circa 1602-1945
Ida Libby Dengrove courtroom sketches
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2014-8
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of 6224 sketches drawn by Ida Libby Dengrove. Most of the drawings are courtroom sketches from criminal and civil trials. Those trials include the David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz trial; U.S. v. Williams, 705 F.2d 603 (2d Cir. 1983) (ABSCAM); New Jersey v. Chesimard, 555 F. 2d 63 (3d Cir. 1977) (Assata Shakur); U.S. v. Dillinger, 657 F. 2d 140 (7th Cir...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1972 - 1987
The Illustrated Alphabet
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875