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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/4/8
Content Description
Records of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Montalto Corporation, 1855-2003, 0.6 cubic feet, includes two books of the Montalto Corporation containing notes and meeting minutes, correspondence and financial materials of both the corporation and the fraternity, and materials regarding fraternities and sororities from the University of Virginia. Also includes photographs, a constitution, and minute book.
Dates:
1855-2003
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16631
Collection
Identifier: MS-1
Abstract
The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection documents the work of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, the legacy of the commission’s discoveries, the lives of individuals who were connected to the commission, and twentieth century campaigns to shape public memory of the commission. Items in the collection date from 1800 to 1998, with the bulk of the items dating from 1864 to 1974. A wide range of formats are represented in the collection including, but not limited to the...
Dates:
circa 1800-circa 1998; Majority of material found within 1863-1974
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1 (addition)
Identifier: MSS 7206
Content Description
This addition to MSS 7206 Wendell Phillips papers is a single undated letter from Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), an attorney and abolitionist, concerning a speaking engagement on "Tousssaint L'Ouverture, the hero of Hayti" in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Dates:
undated
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16755
Content Description
This collection contains one photograph of Edmund Parker (1827-1898), formerly enslaved at Mount Vernon, standing guard at George Washington's Tomb circa 1890. In 1841, Parker was brought to Mount Vernon, at the age of fourteen, as one of the enslaved people owned by John Augustine Washington III. He married Susan, an enslaved woman Augustine had purchased in 1852, and the couple went on to have nineteen children, including two sets of twins. Parker fled from Mount Vernon during the Civil...
Dates:
1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-8
Abstract
Collection of fifty black-and-white photographs capturing scenes of Paris and New York.
Dates:
1925-1969
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15986
Scope and Contents
Box 1: Photographs: President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Monticello; wreath laying at Lafayette's Tomb and Thomas Jefferson grave; Monticello renovations (Milton Grigg); historical pageant on the Lawn at the University of Virginia 1918; an unidentified group including University of Virginia President Edwin A. Alderman and Virginia Senator, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. in the Rotunda library, before 1938; the University of Virginia Grounds in snow, 1948 February; football at Scott Stadium,...
Dates:
1918-1962
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-02
Abstract
Three photographs of Frank S. Tavenner at HUAC.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1952, 1954
Collection
Identifier: MSS14891
Collection
Identifier: 2022-017
Abstract
(1922–1977) Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 23–year career; University of Virginia School of Nursing faculty, acting Dean 1972–1974. Advocate of nursing research. Memorial collection with biographical sketches, academic papers, meeting and research note diary (1971–1974), memorial conferences/courses at the University of Virginia and the U.S. Army Nursing Research Corps.
Dates:
1968-1995
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16824
Content Description
Content Warning: This material contains graphic imagery and content involving human remains. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials or, at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains a scrapbook of black and white photogaphs and ephemera documenting Frederick Pilcher, Jr.'s life from the 1920s to the 1930s as a student at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI),...
Dates:
C.1923-1932
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16508
Content Description
This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."
Dates:
3 April 1914
Collection
Identifier: 16639
Dates:
1986 - 2011; Majority of material found in 2015
Collection — Box: 1-7, Box: 8-14, Box: 15-16
Identifier: MSS 16207
Scope and Contents
The copies and transcriptions of Poe related material in the first series, usually correspondence or manuscripts, includes the names of correspondents, location of the originals if known, the accession number of any material acquired by the University of Virginia and accessioned as a collection before being interfiled in this collection, which was formerly known as the “Poe transcripts.” Also included on each folder is the reference to the page citing each item in "The Collected Letters of...
Dates:
1809-1970
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589175]
Identifier: MSS 15956
Scope and Contents
This collection of a Point Pleasure General Store ledger, dated 1824 July-November is 0.03 cubic feet and lists customers, what they bought, and prices. The collection may be related to MSS collection 15957 (a photograph of an unidentified woman) because both collections came in together from the same dealer.
Dates:
1824 July-Novemeber
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669072]
Identifier: MSS 16511
Content Description
This collection contains a commonplace book written in by Frances Eleanor "Fannie" Poole and her classmates at the Frederick Female Seminary in Maryland. The book includes a frontispiece, engraved title page, and additional plates. Poole wrote "this side up," beneath her inscription, but the binding is upside down. Poole died at the age of nineteen in 1860, four years after the last dated entry in the book. The book has heavy foxing on the plates and pages were torn from the book.
Dates:
1854 - 1856
Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16660
Content Description
This collection contains a manuscript autograph draft signed by John Caryll for payment to Alexander Pope with Pope's signed receipt and is addressed to Richard Wright, goldsmith, at Convent [sic] Garden. The ink manuscript is on a small sheet of paper (66mm X 154mm) with writing on both sides and is housed in a cloth-backed archival folder. The document says "Pray pay unto Mr. Alex: Pope (or order) the Sum of Eleven pounds and place it to the ye acct. of yr. freind J. Caryll." ...
Dates:
February 28, 1720
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16910
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one printed map of Porters, an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, that was founded circa 1875. The map was created by University of Virginia student Jeida Brooks in Spring 2024 for “Mapping Black Landscapes,” AMST 3710, a course taught by Dr. Lisa...
Dates:
2024
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16575
Content Description
This collection contains one poster displayed by an undergraduate student living on the Lawn, during the fall of 2020. The poster is a critique of the University of Virginia's purchase of furniture made by prison labor. The sign was damaged and was taped back together.
Dates:
2020
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589253]
Identifier: MSS 16093