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North Anna railroad bridge original pen sketch
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589216]
Identifier: MSS 16013
Scope and Contents
North Anna railroad bridge original pen sketch by C. A. Manning, 1863, May 16, 0.03 cubic feet, mounted with glued tabs in an ivory colored mat, with beveled windows.
Dates:
1863 May 16
Notebook about greyhounds
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589367]
Identifier: MSS 16273
Scope and Contents
Notebook about greyhounds, 1835-1837, 0.03 cubic feet, from Shropshire or Berkshire, United Kingdom, listing the names and pedigrees of the hounds, date of litters, note of purchase, state of health, and qualities of the dogs. There is also information about breeding, whelping, and ownership details of notable greyhounds such as Hippogriff and Lyster's Lucifer.
Dates:
1835-1837
[James Nounnan] General Store business ledger
Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589237]
Identifier: MSS 16073
Scope and Contents
[James Nounnan] General Store business ledger in Putnam County, West Virginia, 0.03 cubic feet, 1834-1836. The leder was used to record sales and expenses, credit transactions and all other kinds of business common to a general store. The store sold a lot of whiskey and coffee, indicating this establishment was also a local tavern. The ledger contains over 470 pages of entries with many references to James Nounnan, who appears to be the owner or scrivener.
Dates:
1834-1836
Nu Charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity photograph
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 5, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16670
Content Description
This collection contains a photograph of the Nu Charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity that appeared in the 1928 edition of Corks and Curls. The photograph was taken by Gitchell's Studio, the yearbook photographer at the time. The framing label lists a "Mr. Ruffin," who is thought to be Robert DeJarnette Ruffin, a student in the College at the University of Virginia at the time.
Dates:
circa 1928
Donald Nuechterlein Additional Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10798
Content Description
This collection of papers originated from the career and personal life of Donald Nuechterlein (1925-2022), who was originally from Saginaw, Michigan, served in World War II and became an American diplomat and a professor of International Relations. He was a University of Virginia adjunct professor, and international foreign relations analyst from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. He lived in Charlottesville and wrote a regular political opinion column in the local paper, The Daily Progress. He...
Dates:
1969-2019
Nürnberg Memories photo album
Collection — Box: BW 54, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16782
Content Description
This collection contains a photo album of an unidentified African American U.S. Army soldier in Nürnberg during the post-WWII Allied occupation of West Germany. The album includes photographs of fellow squadron members stationed at Merrell Barracks. The album's compiler was a car enthusiast, and several pictures depict a German soap box derby. Subjects of the photographs also include shots of the town and environs, animals at a zoo, soldiers in uniform, tanks, jeeps, a baseball...
Dates:
Undated, c.1950s
Alice E. Nutt letter
Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16667
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from Alice E. Nutt to her cousin, Kate, that discusses various personal matters before querying Kate on her impressions of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Nutt, whose father was an ardent Virginia secessionist, articulates an unfavorable reaction to the recently published work and also addresses her disdain for the abolitionist efforts of English noblewomen. The letter measures 7.75" X 6.25" and is four pages in length. Some parts of the fourth page are written...
Dates:
1853 January 12
Rush Nutt speech
Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16770
Content Description
This collection contains a speech by Dr. Rush Nutt delivered in Greenville, Mississippi Territory on March 4, 1809. Nutt celebrates the just-concluded Jefferson Administration and commemorates the inauguration of James Madison. The address, fifteen and one-half pages in length, celebrates the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson and attacks the preceding Adams administration which Nutt believed brought the Nation to the brink of tyranny and despotism. Dr. Rush Nutt, planter,...
Dates:
March 4, 1809
Julia M. Nutter friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16664
Content Description
This collection is a friendship album of Julia Nutter. The album is approximately less then a quarter filled. Entries are mostly poems or short notes and date from 1855 to 1863. Locations are those around the Boston area. The album is inscribed as follows: "Presented to Mrs. Julia M. Nutter by her friend Fannie A. Bradbury, December 25th, 1855." Later in the book Fannie also provides a poem in the shape of a diamond. In addition to entries from friends and albums, there are tipped in...
Dates:
1855 - 1863
Nydrie and Algoma related papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -14956
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers relating to Nydrie and Algoma, consisting chiefly of photographs and articles pertaining to the family homes of the Logan and Forsyth families. Included is a scrapbook of articles by Lily Logan Morrill.This collection contains material from around 1880, when the homes were built, to about 1960, when the Forsyth family, which owned “Nydrie” at the time, started a discussion about what to do with the house due to its dilapidated conditions. This collection...
Dates:
circa 1862-2003
Susan Oberman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16349
Scope and Contents Note
Susan Oberman papers (1960's-2017, 7 cubic feet) documenting her negotiation practice (Common Ground Negotiation Services, her activism in women's issues in Nassau County, New York (1972-1989) and her support for women, social justice, and race relations in Charlottesville, Virginia (1990-2013). Of interest is information about the history of African American life in Charlottesville including questions about the racial background of Queen Charlotte. There are also three...
Dates:
1960's-2017
ODYSSEY records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15866
Scope and Contents
The ODYSSEY records (2000-2013; 2 cubic feet) consist of directories, meeting minutes, program planning, by-laws, member lists, news clippings, photographs, president's notebooks,folio scrapbooks, and miscellaneous printed materials.
Dates:
2000-2013
Office of the Architect/Photographs-addition 2 Mary Hughes
Collection
Identifier: RG-35/2
Content Description
This addition to RG 35/2, Office of the Architect/Photographs contains photographs, slides, and VHS tape of Mary Hughes, the University of Virginia Landscape Architect since 1986. The slides and photographs depict college campuses, principally the University of Virginia, documenting projects initiated by the Office of the Architect including new construction. The VHS tape is dated October 24, 1994, and titled "Thomas Jefferson Academical Village.” The slides and photographs were contained...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Colonel Edward M. Offley comments on the book titled "In the Valley of the Little Big Horn"
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589287]
Identifier: MSS 16167
Scope and Contents
Colonel Edward M. Offley comments on the book titled "In the Valley of the Little Big Horn," by Robert C. Kain, and a documentary including a hand drawn map and three type written pages of commentary consisting of 0.03 cubic feet. 1899-1916; 1970. There are also original photographs captioned, Flying boat, San Diego, California, Miramar Ranch, Miramor Store, View from the U. S. Army Transport "Logan," leaving the harbor of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Troop G. 1st Cavalry Fort Meade, South...
Dates:
1915-1916; 1970
Ogden family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15524
Content Description
Ogden Family papers, 1801-1979, 3 cubic feet containing family correspondence about the Civil War, politics, Freedmen, race riots, and mostly describing a young family trying to make a living in farming, and merchant business with westward expansion after the Civil War.The family of Elias and Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden came from Newark, New Jersey and settled in several places including Abingdon, Virginia, Warrenton, Missouri, and Bossian Parish, Louisiana. One of the sons (Henry...
Dates:
1801-1979
Patrick Oliphant artwork and papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16492
Content Description
Drawings of varying size, political cartoons, sculpture, books, framed items, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, slides, video tapes, and news clippings. Scope and Contents The Patrick Oliphant artwork and papers collection contains materials documenting the life and work of artist Patrick Oliphant. It covers his career as a political cartoonist from 1955 to 2015, including thousands of original cartoon drawings. It also includes examples of his other...
Dates:
1947 - 2016
Corporal Tipton B. Omohundro, Jr. papers
File
Identifier: MSS 16098
Scope and Contents
This collection (1943-1946; 1 cubic foot) consists of letters from Corporal Tipton B. Omohundro,Jr. to his parents in Howardsville, Virginia while serving in both the 454th and 176th Quartermaster Laundry Companies during World War II. Most topics refer to family news including his concern for his father's drinking, mention of letters about the rest of the family and girlfriends, and the daily activities of Corporal Omohundro. There is a brief mention of the D-Day invasion (1944 May-June...
Dates:
1943-1946
Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16399
Scope and Contents
Hand copied translation by unknown translator of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, second edition (Hamburg, 1891) by Hermann Goos. English translation is bound with printed German copy, as well as three newspaper issues on the topic of horseracing. Two of these newspapers are issues of the Berlin publication Sport-Welt, dating from 22 December 1893 and 6 February 1896.
Dates:
1891 - 1896