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Stella Pratt scrapbook

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16417
Scope and Contents Note

The Stella Pratt scrapbook (1883-1894; 0.4 cubic feet) contains correspondence, clippings, printed material, invitations, sketches, flowers, ribbons, photos, and a sketch of Stella herself. Pratt is from Longwood, Massachusetts, a neighborhood within Brookline.

Dates: 1867 - 1947
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gregory A. Prince Mormon Studies Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16540
Content Description The Gregory A. Prince Mormon Studies Collection (MSS 16540), 1813-2020, contains about 10,000 items (107 cubic feet) and reflects a lifetime of dedicated scholarship and careful acquisition of materials by Gregory A. Prince that would be very difficult to replicate in modern times. It contains pamphlets, charts, books, manuscripts, diaries, journals, audiovisual materials, newspapers, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera related to the organization and evolution of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Dates: circa 1813-2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Martha T. Pritchard commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16647
Content Description

Handwritten poems and sentiments written to Martha, 1839-1842. Blank "Album" published by J. C. Riker, New York, includes several pages of illustrations, mostly black and white, many signed by artists and engravers. Printed engravings are preceded by colored papers for protection. Some illustrations have been pasted in.

Dates: 1839 - 1842
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Private stock label

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589473]
Identifier: MSS 16345
Scope and Contents

Private stock label printed broadside captioned "Private stock" humorously describing labeling a bottle of alcohol., undated, 0.03 cubic feet.

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

Bernard Proctor Black History Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16835
Content Description This collection contains a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, (a Tuskegee Airman). The notebook is a green cloth 3-ring binder, with "Negro History" written on the spine, containing newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Courier, illustrations from a syndicated cartoon Your History, by J.A. Rogers, and illustrations from Negroes...
Dates: c.1949-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Propaganda sign criticizing Virginia Board of Education Member Wes Bellamy

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16918
Content Description This collection contains one printed sign with a photograph of Wes Bellamy next to a Confederate Flag. The text reads, "One of these is Racist. The Other is a Confederate Flag" with "#AdministrativeLeave" underneath. Unknown persons printed the fan, most likely by local neo-Confederates, who, in late 2016 and early 2017, campaigned to remove Bellamy, who was then Charlottesville City Council and Virginia Board of Education member, from office. Bellamy had championed the 2016 petition by...
Dates: December 2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago geteekend van Johann Christian Friderici

 Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: ViU-2024-0129_001
Identifier: MSS 16886
Scope and Contents This collection contains one watercolor view titled "Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago" [View of Porto Praia, Cape Verde]. The drawing, measuring 11.5 X 47.5 inches, is the largest recorded early modern panoramic view of Cape Verde. It was completed in 1783 by Johann Christian Friderici (1766-1804), a cartographer and ...
Dates: 1783
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Queer Student Union records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/111/1
Content Description

Constitutions, meeting agendas, newsletters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and press releases relating to the activities of the Queer Student Union (1979-2015; 0.6 cubic feet). Includes a wide variety of advertisements for QSU events, such as drag bingo, as well as publications originating from both the union itself and its various members. Finally, contained in the records are many documents from the LGBTQ Resource Center, the Women’s Center, and the Serpentine Society.

Dates: 1979-2015
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2338
Scope and Contents The larger collection consists of the original materials and 7 additions including the most recent one represented in this finding aid. In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six Elizabeth Upshur Teackle letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her...
Dates: 1713-1977
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Qur'an

 Collection — Box: 1, Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 15943
Scope and Contents

Qur'an, 1849, 0.03 cubic feet, housed in contemporary gilded red morocco with flap, and finely calligraphed in Naskh script.

Dates: 1849
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stephen Railton collection of Uncle Tom's Cabin ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16759
Content Description This material contains racist imagery of Black people. This note aims to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains materials related to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" predominately created between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century and collected and curated by Stephen Railton. Railton is a University...
Dates: 1884-2015
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Railway mortgage certificates

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16408
Scope and Contents Note The Railway mortgage certificates (1880-1937; 0.3 cubic feet) consist of two bound sets of railway mortgage documents. One set comprises a stack of $1000 mortgage certificate sheets for the Alabama Central Railroad, payable 1918. The second set comprises a stack of $1000 mortgage certificate sheets for the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad Company, payable November 1937. The latter includes agreements by the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to pay the mortgage if Oxford and Clarksville...
Dates: circa 1880s-1937
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Claude Rains annotated script

 Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16661
Content Description This collection contains Claude Rains' copy of the Jefferson Heritage with extensive annotations and emendations. This bound volume is contemporary buckram with two leaves and old cello tape repairs. In 1952, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters received funding from the Ford Foundation for The Jefferson Heritage, a 13 part series on Thomas Jefferson's influence on American life. Dr. Dumas Malone, professor of history at Columbia University, collaborated with...
Dates: 1952
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Emma Randall autograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589235]
Identifier: MSS 16070
Scope and Contents

Emma Randall autograph album (1880-1890), 0.03 cubic feet, is a well populated album with signature and verse; some watercolors by young adults (some signed and dated) including pen and ink illustrations of a baseball player and a couple roller skating together.

Dates: 1880-1890
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill and Wilson Cary Nicholas

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 5533
Scope and Content

This collection consists of the papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill, (commonly called the Edgehill-Randolph Papers) and the Wilson Cary Nicholas papers, ca. 787 items (6 Hollinger boxes, 2.5 linear shelf feet), ca. 1765-1869, and undated.

Dates: 1765 - 1869
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Randolph-Macon Woman's College photograph album

 File — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16930
Content Description This material contains images of racist imagery. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials. This collection includes a photograph album compiled from 1910 to 1913 documenting the Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, now called Randolph College, in Lynchburg, Virginia. It contains approximately 274 photos, mainly measuring 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches and smaller, with some small panoramas. All photographs have numbers written in silver ink, and...
Dates: 1910-1913
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Marie Rasmussen scrapbook

 Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16699
Content Description Marie Rasmussen high school scrapbook from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924. Bound in "My Golden School Days" binding and assembled by Marie Rasmussen of South High School, it has 49 pages filled with newsclippings of jokes, and school events including athletic events, plays, and ephemera.There are also photographs of friends, girls at camp, and handwritten sentiments from friends, and a poem about a boy's first kiss. The album is a snapshot of close friendships, and school days from the life of...
Dates: 1923-1924
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Everett Nathan "Silent" Rattan photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 16827
Dates: c.1931
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6785
Dates: 1938-1942
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alexander Read Virginia land office military warrant

 Item — Box: BW 21, Folder: [X031750309]
Identifier: MSS 16436
Scope and Contents Note

The Alexander Read Virginia land office military warrant (1784; 0.03 cubic feet) documents one Revolutionary War veteran's receipt of land for his service. This warrant number 2899 grants 466 and 2/3 acres of land to Alexander Read, with hand-written details of the transaction on the verso.

Dates: 1784
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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