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Small Collections, Series 6: Military Nursing
Series
Identifier: 2022-073-06
Scope and Contents
The Small Collections consist of varied small manuscript donations to the Bjoring Center, each one too limited in quantity to warrant cataloguing individually. These donations have been ordered in eight discrete series, by subject, as follows: 1) Professional Organizations, Standards, and Licensing, 2) Nursing Procedures and Manuals, 3) Nursing Education, Schools, and Hospitals, 4) Nursing Student Notes, Essays, and Examinations, 5) Specialty Nursing, 6) Military Nursing, 7) Persons, and...
Dates:
1900-2007
Small Collections, Series 7: Persons
Series
Identifier: 2022-073-07
Scope and Contents
The Small Collections consist of varied small manuscript donations to the Bjoring Center, each one too limited in quantity to warrant cataloguing individually. These donations have been ordered in eight discrete series, by subject, as follows: 1) Professional Organizations, Standards, and Licensing, 2) Nursing Procedures and Manuals, 3) Nursing Education, Schools, and Hospitals, 4) Nursing Student Notes, Essays, and Examinations, 5) Specialty Nursing, 6) Military Nursing, 7) Persons, and...
Dates:
1898-2018
Small Collections, Series 8: History of Nursing
Series
Identifier: 2022-073-08
Scope and Contents
The Small Collections consist of varied small manuscript donations to the Bjoring Center, each one too limited in quantity to warrant cataloguing individually. These donations have been ordered in eight discrete series, by subject, as follows: 1) Professional Organizations, Standards, and Licensing, 2) Nursing Procedures and Manuals, 3) Nursing Education, Schools, and Hospitals, 4) Nursing Student Notes, Essays, and Examinations, 5) Specialty Nursing, 6) Military Nursing, 7) Persons, and...
Dates:
1890-1996
Addison H. Smith papers
File
Identifier: MSS 15056
Scope and Contents
The Addison H. Smith papers (1917-1970; 1.6 cubic feet) includes many letters between 1917 and 1919 to Addison Smith’s mother and his battlefield diary from 1918, which describes in vivid detail the voyage to Europe and his work as an ambulance driver in France. It also includes his certificates of discharge and service in the United States Army Ambulance Service, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection dates between the years of 1917 to 1922, and...
Dates:
1917-1922; 1970; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1922
Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12947
Scope and Contents
Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793-2002, 2 cubic feet, consisting of correspondence about her work with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and many other Southern organizations to preserve the Confederacy. She was also involved with the Democratic Party, Womens' rights and genealogy. There are narratives of family histories and eighteen and nineteenth century papers including slave documents. There are also personal papers, correspondence with other writers and publishers,...
Dates:
1793-2002
Christine Smith Files Concerning Conservation of the Wills of George Washington and Martha Washington
File
Identifier: MSS 16289
Scope and Contents Note
The Christine Smith Conservation files (1945-2016; 2.69 cubic feet) concern the conservation of the wills of George Washington and Martha Washington. The files contain slide photographs of each page of each will, usually with additional detail photos. Each set of before-treatment slides represents the wills as they appeared in 1998, approximately nine decades after manuscript restorer William Berwick preserved them; the after-treatment slides document the appearance of each will in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-2016
Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15732
Scope and Contents
This collection of Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting in Boston, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1956 is about 235 items, 19 folders, one half-size legal document box, totaling .04 cubic feet. Also included is cockfighting weights and scores.
Dates:
1936-1956
Dolores Ann Smith autograph album
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16900
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Dolores Ann Smith, an African American student from Roanoke, Virginia. The album’s cover is embossed with “My School-Day Autobiography” in gilt letters. Two black and white photographs of young African American children are at the front of the album, one pasted and the other tipped in. The names of Dolores’s teachers up to the eighth grade are identified on the “My Teachers” listing and a list of classmates. Seven autographs with associated...
Dates:
1944-1948
Elizabeth Oakes Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 38-707
Content Description
The papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, and journals of Mrs. Smith, her husband, Seba Smith, and of their sons, Appleton Oaksmith, Sidney Oaksmith, Alvin Oaksmith and Edward Oaksmith.
The literary papers include Seba Smith's column on Major Jack Downing and Solomon Swope, and reviews of his "New elements of geometry"; drafts and copies of numerous poems, short stories, essays and lectures by Mrs. Smith as well as manuscripts of her plays "Destiny, "...
Dates:
1823 - 1919
E.W. Smith photograph album
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16020
Scope and Contents Note
The E.W. Smith photograph album (1917-1921; 0.2 cubic foot) documents Smith's service in Battery A of the United States Army's 148th Field Artillery at the end of World War I. The bulk of the photographs document Smith's travels in Germany in 1918 and 1919, with other subjects ranging from training at Camp Mills, New Jersey and Camp Merritt, New York to postwar family vacations.
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Howard W. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8731
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc...
Dates:
1933 - 1966
Summerfield Smith autograph album
Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16879
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Summerfield Smith (1836-1864), compiled while he was a student at the University of Virginia. Smith collected fifty-eight autographs of peers and professors at the University between 1856 and 1858. The red leather-bound autograph book contains entries that list a student’s name, the date of entry, their location, where they lived away from the University, the “session” (i.e. 1857-58), and a personal note to Summerfield (referred to as...
Dates:
1856 - 1858
SOCA records for the outreach program to Garrett Square 1996-1999
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15919
Scope and Contents
The collection of SOCA records for the outreach program to Garrett Square from 1996 to 1999, 0.15 cubic feet containing details for the program to help children living at Garrett Square, which is a public housing complex located in downtown Charlottesville. Included are a grant proposal to Charlottesville City Council, soccer teams, player rosters, certificates, soccer tips, invitations to events, photographs, newspaper clippings (copies), negatives, and slides of the children playing...
Dates:
1996-1999
Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Virginia records
Collection
Identifier: MSS13700
Somerville family papers
Box
Identifier: MSS 16201
Scope and Contents
The Somerville family papers (1821-2013) consists of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and extensive genealogical files. The papers and research detailing the history of the Somerville family, mainly in America, range from its colonial background to contemporary times. The extensive genealogical research is comprised of notes and charts, along with correspondence, photographs, military records, personal notes, clippings, and printed materials. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1821 - 2013
Sons of Staunton African American Fraternal Lodge minutes book
Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16522
Content Description
Manuscript minutes book of the Sons of Staunton African American Fraternal Lodge in Staunton, Virginia. Containing 154 pages of manuscript in pencil, dated 1914-1919. The Sons of Staunton Lodge no.1833 Grand United Order of Odd Fellow, an African American masonic lodge based in Staunton, Virginia. Each entry lists the officers present, the amount of dues paid, and any other business attended to during the meetings. Also included is a 1927 letter on letterhead of the King Harem Lodge, a...
Dates:
1914-1919; 1927; 1948; 1948; 1927
Maria Louisa Southerland letters
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16924
Content Description
This collection consists of five personal letters written by University of Virginia student Alex W. Weddell to Maria Louisa Southerland between 1860 and 1861. The letters, hand-sewn with a single red thread, are dated February 24, 1860, October 30, 1860, November 16, 1860, December 10, 1860, and January 22, 1861. They are intimate in nature, discussing the friendship and relationships between Alex and Maria, as well as referencing shared acquaintances. The envelope is addressed to Maria L....
Dates:
February 1860 - January 1861
Southern District Grand Tent No.1 (membership certificate for Eliza Braxton)
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16739
Content Description
Once named for abolitionists J. R. Giddings and Jolifee Union, the Southern District Grand Tent No. 1 is a secret organization to help African American Christian women. It was created by former enslaved women, Annette Lane and Harriet Taylor. The collection contains a membership certificate for Eliza Braxton. It certifies that Braxton was part of the Iola Tent No.74 of Richmond, Virginia. The United Order of Tents was formed in 1867 in Richmond. The society provided aid to the African...
Dates:
1911
Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589472]
Identifier: MSS 16344
Scope and Contents
Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu, 0.03 cubic feet, 1899, Richmond, Virginia.
Dates:
1899
Southern pre-Civil War poetry album
Collection — Box: BW 51, Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16738
Content Description
This collection consists of thirty-four leaves of a poetry album from Richmond, Virginia. Four poems are those of John Esten Cook (1830-1886), an American poet, novelist, and Confederate soldier, lawyer, and biographer of Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. The other thirty pages consist of poems written by a variety of other authors noted by initials or their names. Many of the poems are to a woman named Edmonia or "Monie." These pages appear to be extracted from an album...
Dates:
C. 1850-1860