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Book Baskets records

 Series
Identifier: MSS 15920
Scope and Contents

Records of the Book Baskets (1995-2018; 1.5 cubic feet) consists of meeting agendas, minutes, reports, news clippings, photographs, thank you letters, information on grants, contributors, and general correspondence. The collection is organized into three series.

Dates: 1995 - 2018
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jorge Luis Borges papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10155
Content Description New collection of eleven manuscripts by writer Jorge Luis Borges which have been combined with the Borges collection. The new acquisitions include Herrera y Reissig; Soneta Para un Tango en la Nochecita; La Cabala (1943), Los Espejos Velados; Prologo a Mester de Juderia, de Carlos Grunberg;El Milagro Secreto; Nota Sobre la Paz; De Alguien a Nadie; La Biblioteca Total; El Dios y el Rey; and Prose Poems for I. J.Other Borges manuscripts include : Juderia, Ciudad, Calle Desconocida,...
Dates: 1919-1978
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Edward Hugh Boscawen letter

 Item — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16904
Content Description This collection contains a letter from Edward Hugh Boscawen (1744-1774), eldest son of Admiral Edward Boscawen, to John Nichols (1745-1826), an English printer and author. Boscawen writes to the Nichols about a forthcoming edition of John Evelyn’s Sylva, the first of several to be edited by the Scottish physician, Alexander Hunter, then resident in York. Boscawen is soliciting Nichols’ help in finding qualified engravers to work on the plates for the volumes. He notes that he has tried...
Dates: April 29, 1774
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bound Case Materials for Walsh v. Preston, also called the Mercer Colony Case

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-95-7
Abstract

Heavily annotated documentation of a late 19th century Texas case concerning a pre-statehood land grant. The case was heard by the U.S. Fifth Circuit in 1879 and by the Supreme Court in 1882.

Dates: undated
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Louise Boyer scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14971
Content Description This collection contains the college scrapbook of Louise Boyer who attended the School of Education at the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Institute, a historically Black college, was founded in 1868 as the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School by the American Missionary Association for the education of the formerly enslaved. Also included is an earlier collection of one scrapbook titled "Scrapbook of Louise Boyer at Hampton Institute. This...
Dates: 1925-1936
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Ellery Bradley papers

 Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: MSS 9728
Content Description

Charles Ellery Bradley U.S. Civil War diaries 1861, 1862, and 1863. Bradley, a volunteer in the 32nd Regiment., New York, describes marching, keeping guard, and fighting in key battles including Bull Run, The Battle of Gettysburg, Antietam, and mentions generals such as Ambrose Everett Burside, John Sedgwick, George B. McClellan, and Joseph Hooker.

Dates: 1861-1863
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mathew Brady Studio: Union Civil War Camp photograph of African Americans

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16833
Content Description This collection contains an albumen photograph of a Union wagon camp in Virginia during the Civil War from the Washington D.C. studio of Mathew Brady. Brady was one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history. He is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He often photographed Black soldiers and laborers during the war, mostly in Union or contraband camps. The present image documents for posterity a number of Black soldiers and laborers working towards a Union...
Dates: c.1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Brandon L. Garrett Collection of Criminal and Death Penalty Trial Transcripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2017-01
Abstract

Trial transcripts for Virginia death penalty cases. DNA exonoree trials, and various state criminal trials.

Dates: 1977-2011
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Caroline Brandt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16693
Content Description This collection contains correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, certificates, broadsides, catalogs, notes, lectures, appraisals, articles, DVDs, audio cassettes, and VHS tapes related to the Caroline Brandt's building of The McGehee Miniature Book Collection. The bulk of the collection is reference materials on the miniature books as well as appraisals documenting the collection and its value. Brandt spent most of her life building a collection of 15,000 miniature books, which...
Dates: 1964 - 2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Michael Brannon papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16925
Content Description This collection contains five folders maintained by Michael Brannon, a University of Virginia alumnus from the class of 1969, which document his involvement in voter registration efforts during the summer of 1966. Two folders are labeled Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC). One includes field notes and a letter, while the other contains pamphlets, workbooks, newsletters, meeting minutes, agendas, and reports collected through the VSCRC. Another folder, titled Southern Student...
Dates: c.1966-1968
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John McKnight Brayton diary

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589385]
Identifier: MSS 16309
Scope and Contents John McKnight Brayton diary, 1865 April-May, 0.03 cubic feet, while he was serving with the United States Christian Commission in devastated Richmond. Brayton's job included supplying wounded soldiers with bibles, crutches, paper, food, and other necessities, which is detailed in his diary. He also wrote letters for the soldiers to their family members and they are included at the end of the diary. There are descriptions of Brayton's trip to Richmond and the scenery as his boat neared the...
Dates: 1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative ephemera and zine collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16546
Content Description This collection contains a collection of ephemera and zines that were available in repurposed newspaper boxes outside The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. These items were gathered in intervals throughout the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021. These include personal and political zines by Laura Lee Gulledge, Mala Leche, and the rasquache collective; informational fliers about defunding the police and policing, Black Lives Matter, and actions against white...
Dates: 2020 - 2021
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Brig Milford of Baltimore ship passport

 Item — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16477
Content Description This collection contains a ship passport issued to the brig "Milford" of Baltimore, authorizing the ship to load its cargo at Port Republican, Santo Domingo. It was issued under the authority of Toussaint Louverture as the Général en chef de l' Armeé de San-Domingue, a position in which he had recently been confirmed by the newly-installed First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte. This document gives permission for the six-gun brig Milford of Baltimore, under Captain Littleton Waters, to load her...
Dates: 1800 January 23
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Christopher Bright notebooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16614
Content Description

This collection contains six notebooks of course materials and notes from Christopher J. Bright's, class of 1991, study in the MA Foreign Affairs program at the University of Virginia. Subjects include Latin America, Military in Latin America, Democracy in Latin America, and the Cold War.

Dates: c. 1990
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elizabeth Albee Brooks Diary

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16890
Content Description This collection contains the diary of Elizabeth Albee Brooks (1828-1869) from 1865. Brooks was an artist in training who lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The diary has an inscription in the front endpaper that reads "With many happy new years from her loving Auntie. Medford." The diary contains 124 entries handwritten in pencil graphite. It documents and gives insights into the experiences of adult, single women in suburban Northern communities as the Civil War came to a close. The diary...
Dates: 1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sally Brown Math Exercise Book

 Collection — Box: BW 60, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16911
Scope and Contents This collection contains one Exercise or Cypher Book created by Sally Brown for a classroom environment in the United States of America between 1786 and 1787. It demonstrates basic mathematical and measurement disciplines specifically geared toward a future of work in a mercantile economy. Various 18th century mathematical procedures and some proofs are showcased throughout the Exercise Book. ...
Dates: 1786-1787
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents

Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.

Dates: 1851-1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stonewall J. Brown composition

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589326]
Identifier: MSS 16230
Scope and Contents

Stonewall J. Brown compositon on obedience for Literary Society, dated 1885, February 15 but postmarked 1904 Feburary 24, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a compositon handwritten on a single sheet of paper about obedience for boys and addressed to Mrs. Columbia Elizabeth Brown at Miller School, Mount Fair, Virginia

Dates: 1885, 1904
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Barbara Colquhoun Trigg Brown Fight for Freedom scrapbooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 6213
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, clippings, handouts and membership lists. The volumes chronicle the formation and activities of the Virginia Fight for Freedom Committee, an organization which combatted isolationism and supported the Allied war effort before the U.S. entry. Correspondents include Richard Evelyn Byrd, Virginius Dabney, Carter Glass, Francis Pickens Miller, Claude Pepper, and Dave Edward Satterfield.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George Buckston Browne collection on Down House

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16562
Dates: 1929 - 1939
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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