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Point Pleasant General Store ledger

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frances Eleanor Poole commonplace book

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alexander Pope receipt

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Porters Community Map

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Poster critiquing UVA's purchase of furniture made by prison labor

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert L. "Pete" Potter photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589253]
Identifier: MSS 16093
Dates: 1953
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Practical Nursing Program Records (University of Virginia School of Nursing)

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-063
Abstract

Administrative files consisting mostly of student records.

Dates: 1967-1996
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Practice Record Book of Thomas D. Ranson, 1884-1912

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-9
Abstract

Attorney record book with list of names, and case entries.

Dates: 1884-1912
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

George Julian Pratt papers--addition 3 Civil War military order

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 11283
Content Description Original offensive military order given on April 9, 1865 from Brigadier General William L. "Mudwall" Jackson ordering 18th Virginia Cavalry Lieutenant George Julian Pratt to burn the railroad bridges near Lynchburg.There is a photocopy of this military order in the existing collection but this is the original order which is a note scrawled on a scrap of paper by General Jackson. It is accompanied by a letter from L. L. Lomax in the War department thanking Pratt for a copy of the order for...
Dates: 1865, 1894
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Ann Pratt friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16763
Content Description This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813-c.1880), of Livonia, New York. The bulk of the entries are from 1830 to 1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville. The entries mostly consist of poems, with some original works, as well as short notes, whose general themes touch on memory, friendship, morality, heaven, and time. Some poems are attributed to a Charles Spraque. There are a few entries from...
Dates: 1829-1835
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stella Pratt scrapbook

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16417
Scope and Contents Note

The Stella Pratt scrapbook (1883-1894; 0.4 cubic feet) contains correspondence, clippings, printed material, invitations, sketches, flowers, ribbons, photos, and a sketch of Stella herself. Pratt is from Longwood, Massachusetts, a neighborhood within Brookline.

Dates: 1867 - 1947
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gregory A. Prince Mormon Studies Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16540
Content Description The Gregory A. Prince Mormon Studies Collection (MSS 16540), 1813-2020, contains about 10,000 items (107 cubic feet) and reflects a lifetime of dedicated scholarship and careful acquisition of materials by Gregory A. Prince that would be very difficult to replicate in modern times. It contains pamphlets, charts, books, manuscripts, diaries, journals, audiovisual materials, newspapers, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera related to the organization and evolution of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Dates: circa 1813-2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Martha T. Pritchard commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16647
Content Description

Handwritten poems and sentiments written to Martha, 1839-1842. Blank "Album" published by J. C. Riker, New York, includes several pages of illustrations, mostly black and white, many signed by artists and engravers. Printed engravings are preceded by colored papers for protection. Some illustrations have been pasted in.

Dates: 1839 - 1842
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Private stock label

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589473]
Identifier: MSS 16345
Scope and Contents

Private stock label printed broadside captioned "Private stock" humorously describing labeling a bottle of alcohol., undated, 0.03 cubic feet.

Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bernard Proctor Black History Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16835
Content Description This collection contains a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, (a Tuskegee Airman). The notebook is a green cloth 3-ring binder, with "Negro History" written on the spine, containing newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Courier, illustrations from a syndicated cartoon Your History, by J.A. Rogers, and illustrations from Negroes...
Dates: c.1949-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Propaganda sign criticizing Virginia Board of Education Member Wes Bellamy

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16918
Content Description This collection contains one printed sign with a photograph of Wes Bellamy next to a Confederate Flag. The text reads, "One of these is Racist. The Other is a Confederate Flag" with "#AdministrativeLeave" underneath. Unknown persons printed the fan, most likely by local neo-Confederates, who, in late 2016 and early 2017, campaigned to remove Bellamy, who was then Charlottesville City Council and Virginia Board of Education member, from office. Bellamy had championed the 2016 petition by...
Dates: December 2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Queer Student Union records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/111/1
Content Description

Constitutions, meeting agendas, newsletters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and press releases relating to the activities of the Queer Student Union (1979-2015; 0.6 cubic feet). Includes a wide variety of advertisements for QSU events, such as drag bingo, as well as publications originating from both the union itself and its various members. Finally, contained in the records are many documents from the LGBTQ Resource Center, the Women’s Center, and the Serpentine Society.

Dates: 1979-2015
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2338
Scope and Contents The larger collection consists of the original materials and 7 additions including the most recent one represented in this finding aid. In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six Elizabeth Upshur Teackle letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her...
Dates: 1713-1977
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

R. Randolph Hicks Collection of Records of Appellate Court Cases in Virginia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2016-04
Abstract

Collection of ten volumes of printed briefs of Appellate Court cases in Virginia, 1895-1915.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1895 - 1915
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Stephen Railton collection of Uncle Tom's Cabin ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16759
Content Description This material contains racist imagery of Black people. This note aims to give users the opportunity 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 materials related to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" predominately created between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century and collected and curated by Stephen Railton. Railton is a University...
Dates: 1884-2015
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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Keenan, Joseph B., 1888-1954 2
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Kennedy, John F., 1917-1963 2
Kido, Koichi, 1889-1977 2
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
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