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Barrow and Davey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16125
Scope and Contents The Barrow and Davey collection contains over 500 family letters about early twentieth century life in Brunswick County, Virginia (1902-1977),(3 document boxes, 1.5 cubic feet) and family records including military records of Dr. Bernard Barrow (1874-1954), who served in World War I (1917-1918); business receipts, prohibition permits, scrapbooks and other personal ephemera. The Barrow family were plantation owners and had the social position and influence of the extended family...
Dates: 1898; 1902-1977; 1993

Ellen Strong Bartlett letters

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16854
Content Description This collection primarily contains the letters of Ellen "Nellie" Strong Bartlett, author and historian, when she was sixteen years old. Ten letters describe her trip to Washington, D.C., from January to early March 1864. She stayed with her aunt and uncle, Julia and David Bartlett. David Bartlett wrote an early and influential campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln and served as the Clerk of the Committee on Elections in the House of Representatives. The letters describe her travels to...
Dates: 1864-1897

D. G. Barton et al signed letter to Honorable Richard E. Parker

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589322]
Identifier: MSS 16223
Scope and Contents

D. G. Barton et al signed letter to Honorable Richard E. Parker, 1826, March 15, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a letter in reference to the creation of a new county (in Winchester, Virginia) and concern for the location of the courts.

Dates: 1826 March 15

Base Hospital No. 41 collection

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Identifier: MS-17
Scope and Contents Of unique relevance to the University of Virginia Health System is the Base Hospital 41 collection. It includes: photographs and negatives of Base Hospital 41; photocopies of photos held by the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine; Base Hospital 41 newsletters; news clippings; medals; excerpts from Glenn B. Updike's wartime diary; documents relating to Chief Nurse Margaret Cowling; a history of Base Hospital 41; "The University of Virginia Base Hospital Forty-One," by the...
Dates: 1905 - 2009

Base hospital No. 41 Saint Denis photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589226]
Identifier: MSS 16053
Scope and Contents

Base Hospital No. 41 Saint Denis, 1918, 0.03 cubic feet contains photographs of patients, nurses, doctors, facilities, and outside scenes depicting hospital life.

Dates: 1918

Archer B. Bass World War I papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16267
Scope and Contents Archer B. Bass World War I papers, 1918-1922, .07 cubic feet, consists of correspondence with his wife while he was assigned as a military chaplain to a machine gun company within the 27th Division. There is also correspondence with his mother, Sue G. Bass, and his mother-in-law, V. H. Legg.Included are official military communications to Chaplain Bass, newspapers (United States Bulletin, The Saturday Evening Post Christian Church), photographs and diaries, which describes his...
Dates: 1917-1922; undated

Battle Abbey, Richmond Virginia, photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589400]
Identifier: MSS 16033
Scope and Contents

Battle Abbey, Richmond, Virginia photograph, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, taken by A. Homeier Studio, at the intersection of Boulevard and Patterson Avenue.

Dates: undated

J. Battle letter to Samuel Battle

 Item — Box: BW 21, Folder: [X031750308]
Identifier: MSS 16434
Content Description

The J. Battle letter to Samuel Battle (circa 1797; 0.03 cubic feet) documents one piece of the titular relatives' correspondence. The letter is marked "Care of Thomas Maule"; Maule may have been the same Maule that owned a soap and candle factory in late-18th century Virginia. Little information circulates online about either of the Battles, but the contents of the letter should be legible to those accustomed to reading 18th-century cursive.

Dates: circa 1797

P.J. Beattie Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16728
Content Description This collection contains University of Virginia clippings, scrapbook pages and ephemera collected by P.J. Beattie Jr, a graduate from the class of 1937. The collection includes two directories spanning the academic years 1935 to 1937 with Beattie's name handwritten at the top of each directory, a program from the University of Virginia graduating exercises dated June 15, 1942, a blue felt pennant flag with the University of Virginia seal, and articles clipped from alumni publications on the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1935-1942

Mary Beck photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16003
Scope and Contents

Mary Beck photographs, dated 1948-1973 0.06 cubic feet. The photographs were ordered with some printed materials including race meeeting pamphlets, The Chronicle of the Horse periodical, issues of Americcan Turf Monthly periodical, and one book, "Riding" by Benjamn Lewis. Related collection MSS 16006

Dates: 1948-1973

Ray Becker imprisonment related letters

 Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031660930]
Identifier: MSS 16450
Scope and Contents Note The Ray Becker imprisonment related letters collection 1935; 0.03 cobic feet) consists of two autograph letters signed by John Dos Passos June 1 and 4, 1935, to Kate Crane-Gartz, accompanied by a four-page autograph letter to Dos Passos from Ray Becker dated January 22, 1935. Dos Passos writes to the Pasadena heiress and supporter of workers' causes, Kate Crane-Gantz, about the case of Ray Becker, the last of the I.W.W. "Wobblies," to be in prison in the aftermath of the 1919 Armistice Day...
Dates: 1935

Ben Belitt papers--addition

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 14756
Content Description

This collection contains two typed letters, one from Ben Belitt to William F. Claire, editor of Voyages and one letter to Ben Belitt from Lawrence Barnhart (1967 and 1969). Ben Belitt correspondence and manuscript. Christmas card contains a fair copy of "Song of the King's Huntsman" with the inscription "in the name of the "King" to a gentleman-huntsman" and a note "Copied 'fair' for Sydney, with my best penmanship and wishes." (1936) Poetry notebooks.

Dates: 1967 and 1969

Benjamin C. Howland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13748

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan Memorabilia Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-2019-05
Abstract

Collection of personal memorabilia (1861-1993) that contains correspondence, photographs, news clippings, certificates.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1861 - 1993

Ned Berkeley Jr. and Doug Bakken correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12/11/4
Content Description

This collection contains the correspondence between Edmund "Ned" Berkeley, Jr. and Doug Bakken, two archival colleagues and close professional friends, circa 1965-1983. The correspondence is a mix of personal and professional topics but primarily focuses on their respective work in archives. Also contained are four pages of Bakken's reflections on their personal and professional relationship that he sent along with the donation of this material.

Dates: 1966-2019; Majority of material found within 1966-1983

Mary Ella Parker Berkeley carte de visite and Confederate money

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 15911
Scope and Contents

Mary Ella Parker Berkeley carte de visite and Confederdate money (1888; 0.03 cubic feet) consists of an image of Berkeley and some Also included is Confederate money.

Dates: 1888

Norborne Berkeley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15526
Scope and Contents The Norborne Berkeley papers consist of 8 document boxes, 4 cubic feet, of mostly family correspondence during World War I. Letters between Norborne (Bunny) Berkeley and his wife Dorothy (Dot) Berkeley contain details about World War I and the hardships of the war especially being forced to be apart. Also included are correspondence and materials related to the American Expeditionary Forces, and the University of Virginia, such as the Alumni Association, the Overseas Alumni, the European...
Dates: 1918-1929

William Berkeley land deed to William and Thomas Wroughton

 Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 1, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16516
Content Description

This collection contains a land deed dated March 2, 1662, signed by William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, granting 440 acres of land to William and Thomas Wroughton. A clerk's endorsement notes that the document was deposited on July 22, 1665; countersigned on verso with red wax seals and dated January 16, 1677 by William Wroughton (1632-1707), Thomas Wroughton (1657-1726) and others.

Dates: March 2, 1662

Mrs. Dennis Berry Freedom certificate

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589320]
Identifier: MSS 16218
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Dennis Berry Freedom certificate, Shenandoah County, dated 1825, consists of 0.03 cubic feet and is a handwritten statement made before a justice of the peace, stating that Samuel Few has made an oath that he has been a long time acquaintance of the wife of Dennis Berry and that to his knowledge she is a free women, and is signed by Sam Woodstock.

Dates: 1825

Charles Beseler Lantern Slide Company salesman sample catalogs

 File
Identifier: MSS 16424
Scope and Contents Note

The Charles Beseler Lantern Slide Company salesman sample catalogs (1890s-1920; 1.2 cubic feet) document a portion of the titular company's product line at the turn of the 20th century. The collection consists of ten albums--about 950 lantern slide prints in total--on a variety of topics. Many photographs are of historical and Christian figures, while others range from architecture and engineering diagrams to landscapes and artwork.

Dates: 1890s-1920s

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