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Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16799
Content Description
This collection contains a receipt log (18"X22") of provisions given to the African American infantry during the Civil War. The top of the document states that 'WE, the undersigned Non-commissioned Officers, Artificers, Musicians, and Privates, of [Co "F" 117th U.S. C.S.], do hereby acknowledge to have received of [Capt Riley I. Griffith] the several articles of clothing set opposite our respective names." There are about sixty-five names listed. The receipt includes the date of issue (Dec....
Dates:
December 31, 1864
Collection
Identifier: MSS-93-7
Abstract
Legal volumes containing estate records and court actions.
Dates:
1818-1850
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91-7
Abstract
Records of a fire and marine insurance company in Maine.
Dates:
1853-1858
Collection
Identifier: MS-63
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 1 folder containing the notebook kept by Dr. Warwick detailing his obstetrics practice in Augusta County, Virginia (1838-1856) and Scioto County, Ohio (1857-1877). Warwick’s notebook begins with a short preface in which the author describes his intentions of documenting his obstetrical cases for his own curiosity and the educational benefit of himself and others. The work contains records of approximately 290 deliveries that he performed over his career. His...
Dates:
1838-1877
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2024-04
Scope and Contents
This is an incomplete collection of records that were originally filed with the Court of Appeals of Virginia for review and study before an appeal was heard in the Court. These records include, but are not limited to, briefs, opinions, and appendices.
Dates:
1979 - 2000
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 11331
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook of pertinent clippings from newspapers and magazines about the Civil War.
Dates:
1951-1954
Collection
Identifier: MSS-85-2
Abstract
This collection of 254 archival boxes, contains administrative and topical files that relate to civil liberties issues as academic freedom, due process, the rights of children, members of the military, and students; racial and sexual discrimination; the draft; religion in public schools; and state reapportionment. There is case material for the ACLU of Virginia; project files for long-term concerns such as the rights of women, the mentally handicapped; prisoners and migrant farmworkers.
Dates:
1954-1979
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16671
Content Description
This collection contains one outsider artwork that appears to honor the Red Cross following the end of World War I. The item has the red cross symbol along with the date, 1919, rendered as a large cross made from red cross stickers. On the back is an additional Red Cross stickers. The artwork is torn on the top left corner.
Dates:
circa 1919
Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899262]
Identifier: MSS 16368
Scope and Contents
Augustus Julian Requier letter, MSS 16368, November 23, 1867, 0.04 cubic feet, sending his contribution to the Southern Society periodical and asking to be sent copies of the issues in which it will be printed.
Dates:
November 23 1867
Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16790
Collection — Box: MSS 16776
Identifier: MSS 16776
Content Description
This collection contains six handwritten notebooks and a workbook outlining botanic observations of Bessie M. Rhoades, an orphan at the Bethany Orphanage in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. The collection highlights the study of science by a female student at the turn of the twentieth century.It is a personal archive detailing life inside an American orphanage during a pivotal moment in the history of child advocacy.The education provided by an orphanage could give students academic opportunities...
Dates:
1903-1904
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-3
Abstract
18th century student notes of Millar's lectures in Glasgow.
Dates:
1779 - 1780
Collection
Identifier: MSS-81-9
Abstract
This collection of professional, legal and research papers (1981 – 2018) captures Professor Bonnie’s public service. Drug related issues, decriminalization of marijuana and insanity defense; extra teaching activities at the University of Virginia; case files on death row inmates; professional files related to issues of mental competency; visit to the Soviet Union as member of US delegation invited to investigated the political abuse of psychiatry; files from the State [Virginia] Human Rights...
Dates:
1913-2016
Collection
Identifier: MSS12838
Collection
Identifier: MSS-09-1
Abstract
Prints of Native American portraits.
Dates:
Majority of material found in n.d., 1989, 1993
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589179]
Identifier: MSS 15961
Scope and Contents
Richmond Printer's Association broadside dated 1924, is 0.03 cubic feet, and opposes any legislation that would allow the penitentiary to compete with them in printing. The broadside is titled, "Immediate Action Needed" and also includes a letter of opposition from Franklin Printing.
Dates:
1924
Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589370]
Identifier: MSS 16281
Scope and Contents
Florence T. Rickert Leaves of friendship book, 1860's, 0.03 cubic feet,in original red boards with blind tooling, all edges gilt. Title in ornate gilt round design on front cover and elaborate design on the spine. The first entry is written by her father, the second by her grandfather and there are several illustrations throughout. Signed by family and friends.
Dates:
1860's
Item
Identifier: MSS14723
Collection
Identifier: 2022-076
Abstract
(b. 1926) 27–year career with U.S. Public Health Service, with specialties in nursing administration and gerontological nursing. Four major assignments represented: 1) Deputy Director to Faye G. Abdellah, Chief Professional Nurse, Office of Long-Term Care; 2) quality assurance coordination at Sioux Reservation Hospital, Rosebud, South Dakota; 3) Assistant Director of Nursing and Director of Patient Education at the National Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana; 4) Director of Nursing...
Dates:
1946-2016
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16899
Content Description
This collection contains a printed circular letter and a handwritten letter sent by Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854), the editor of the Richmond Enquirer, to Joseph R. Williams, Esquire. The printed circular letter, dated July 29, 1835, was sent by Ritchie and John L. Cook, publishers of the Richmond Enquirer newspaper, and was a printed questionnaire that discussed the “movements of certain Fanatics [abolitionists] in the North.” Founded in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society...
Dates:
July 20, 1835