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Morton-Halsey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3995
Content Description The Morton and Halsey family papers and addition (MSS 3995) contain family letters and some business letters, financial and legal papers, diaries, ledgers, printed items, and photographs belonging to the family of Jeremiah Morton (1899-1878), his wife Jane Smith Morton, and his son-in-law Joseph Jackson "J. J." Halsey (1820-1907) Halseys' wife, Mildred Halsey and their children and grandchildren with the family papers spanning from 1838 to 1951 in Culpeper, and Orange County, Virginia as...
Dates: ca. 1833-1951
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mundy family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15895
Scope and Contents The Mundy family papers, MSS 15895, 0.8 cubic feet, 1860-1970, consists of business, financial, and legal papers related to the Mundy Company, and Mundy family properties including Allen's Creek in Amherst Lynchburg, Virginia (Gladstone property), and Botelier Place. Also of interest are papers about William Stark Mundy, Jr. as a Rhodes Scholar and letters from his wife's ancestors, Christopher Valentine Winfree and Virginia Brown when they were courting as well as some Winfree family...
Dates: 1860-1970
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Michael Murphy "Seance" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589270]
Identifier: MSS 16119
Scope and Contents Michael Murphy's original screenplay Seance (1966; 0.03 cubic feet) was written for a television episode. It was part of a series but this episode was never produced. Each show was a seance, given by four "distinquished guests," and the specter they attempt to "recall." This episode is about Ernest Hemingway. Throughout the episode the guests converse with Hemingway, asking him questions about his youth and his writing career. The episode ends with a hint at the following week's episode...
Dates: 1966
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Music festival in Charlottesville press photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589254]
Identifier: MSS 16094
Scope and Contents

Music fesival in Charlottesville press photograph, 1931, 0.03 cubic feet, 8x10 original with newspaper caption, "1,000 sing at music festival--the greatest music festival event in Viginia history, the Virginia music festival at Charlottesville recently came to a close. A feature was the chorus of 1,000 voices singing Schubert's Mass in E flat. The mass was directed by Dr. T. Tertius Noble, of New York. ACME-P&A press pPhoto 4/18/31.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Music Library director files

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12/30
Content Description This addition contains the Music Library's director files. It includes correspondence, guides, donor files, bibliographies, notes, reports, and photographs that document the work and collections of the Music Library. Documented collections include those of Randall Thompson, Jefferson’s Music Library, Lenneberg report, John Powell collection, and the Constantine record collection, among others. In addition to these records, there are bibliographies, guides, and materials related to oral...
Dates: 1971-2006
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Paul Barringer Myers papers

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16878
Content Description This collection contains four letters written by Paul Barringer Myers (1878-1918). Three of the letters are written on University of Virginia letterhead. The letters are addressed to Virginia Wilhoite and Julia Fay Hurt, who attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois. Most of Myers’s letters were addressed to Julia Fay Hurt. James C. Hurt, Julia’s brother, was a law student at the University of Virginia in 1900, and maybe how Myers knew Julia. The letters' primary topic is a romantic...
Dates: April-September 1898
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Isabella A. Myler album

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16619
Dates: 1860s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mylius family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16091
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of several dozen documents, 1930's, 0.015 cubic feet, including letters with Nazi postmarks, Heil Hitler signatures, visa applications, receipts, biographical sketch, genealogy publications, photographs, church documents, and printed songs and poems. Most of the letters are in German.

Dates: 1914-1944
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Nalle, Jr. papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16620
Dates: 1907 - 1980
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bernard Narokobi"s History of Wautogik Village typescript

 Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16560
Dates: 1999
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

National Ideal Benefit Society records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16256
Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents from 1912 to 1951, 0.06 cubic feet, such as invitations, receipts, financial papers, letters, certificates, and programs related to the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The documents are mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community.

Dates: 1912-1951
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16459
Scope and Contents The John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection (1806-1988, bulk 1861-1865; 133 cubic feet) contains Civil War-era correspondence, service records, pension records, artifacts, photographs, military records (including orders, requisitions, and correspondence), currency, newspapers, and other print materials. The collection primarily contains the correspondence, records, and photographs of white soldiers and officers who fought in the Civil War, including white officers serving in...
Dates: 1806-1988; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sue R. Neff album

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16625
Dates: 1867
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Clara D. Nelson commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16746
Content Description This collection contains one notebook filled with poems and some loose newspaper clippings of printed verse. The inside front cover is signed, "Mrs. Clara D. Nelson's book." The book is full of poems copied down by Clara. Some of the poems included are "The golden side," by Mary Ann Kidder, "The old, old home," [Reverend Henry Brown], "Peace," by J.G. Whittier, and "Watching and waiting," by Marianne Farningham. Additionally, there are thirteen poems on newspaper, eight of which...
Dates: c.1873
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alois Neumayer World War I memoir

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16396
Scope and Contents Note Alois Neumayer World War I memoir (1914-1915; 0.15 cf) is a hand-written documentation of his service in the German army during World War I. Neumayer came from the town of Cham, along the Czech border. He served in the 3rd Bavarian Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment, and saw action on both the Western and Eastern fronts. The volume is illustrated throughout with around 700 pieces of contemporary ephemera including postcards, photographs, maps, original artwork, clippings, letters, newspapers,...
Dates: 1914 - 1915
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Callendar St. George Noland papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16527
Dates: 1837 - 1850
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Nelson Berkeley Noland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -16476
Content Description This collection documents Thomas Nelson Berkeley Noland's time in Peru, and contains his journal, a typed transcript of the journal by Mary Noland Young, photographs (chiefly albumen prints) of items, places, and peoples in the Amazon, correspondence (including drafts and translations), and legal documents. Also present are oversize blueprint maps of the Peruvian Amazon region drawn by Noland, a "Map of a Section of South America - Peru, a Vertical Cross Section of the Continent...
Dates: 1872 - 2020; Majority of material found in 1872-1906, 1964, 2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John A. Nolf daily jottings

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589309]
Identifier: MSS 16196
Scope and Contents

John A. Nolf daily jottings about local news, 1903 August 31-December 10, and 0.03 cubic feet. The collections consists of a handwritten journal mimicking the standard news style of the times and stories from John Nolf's life on the farm, his travels, visits with family members, school events, and random notes about food he ate or work he did.

Dates: 1903 August 31-December 10
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Norfolk Poet's Club records

 File
Identifier: MSS 14245
Scope and Contents Note

Norfolk Poet's Club Records (1912-1983; 2 cubic feet) include manuscripts of Josephine Johnson and Margaret Haley Carpenter; and correspondence of Mary Sinton Leitch, Josephine Johnson, Julia Johnson Davis, and William Stanley Braithwaite. There are also press releases, newspaper clippings, printed items, and scrapbooks about these poets and editors and their colleagues as well as their poetry and the creative writing process.

Dates: 1896; 1912-1983
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Norman A. Graebner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS12758
Dates: 1958-1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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