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William R. Aylett letter

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589192]
Identifier: MSS 15978
Scope and Contents

This collection of one letter to William R. Aylett is 0.03 cubic feet, and is from a student at the University of Virginia who describes the University faculty, students, and Charlottesville. He mentions Mr. Minor and Miss Burkhead.

Dates: 1854 December 13
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hira Azher posters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16576
Content Description This collection contains four posters displayed on the Lawn by Hira Azher, an undergraduate at the University of Virginia over the fall and winter of 2020 and 2021.The posters include critiques of the University of Virginia and the police, for white supremacy upheld in these institutions informed by Azher's experiences as a Muslim woman of color. Another poster provided protest and action steps to re-examine the case of Xavier Hill, an unarmed Black teenager, who was killed by the Viriginia...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Isabella Bain memory album

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16754
Content Description This collection features a memory book belonging to Miss Isabella Bain (1855-1934) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Various personal letters from friends and New Orleans community members addressed to Miss Bain are included. The cover of the memory book is composed of engraved Morrocan leather adorned with "Miss Isabella Bain" in gilt. Several chromolithographs of a variety of subjects, notably botany and female gender roles, are pasted throughout the book. Letter entries are not...
Dates: c.1870-1913
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

E.P. Baker letter

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16915
Content Description

This collection consist of a thank you letter written from E.P. Baker, secretary of the University of Virginia's UVA Debating and Oratorial Society, to a Mr. Batten for a gift of a package of Albermarle Pippin apples.

Dates: April 24, 1915
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Timothy H. Bakken collection of historic letters

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589187]
Identifier: MSS 15969
Scope and Contents

This collection of Timothy Bakken historical letters, 1836-1881, is 0.03 cubic feet and contains twelve letters from Henry A. Wise, Thomas Masters, Alpheus Baker, Austin Willey (to Joseph Palmer Fessenden), J. Allred, William Brown, Edward Downing Barber about slavery, politics, business, church, and family.

Dates: 1836-1881
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Barber papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16530
Content Description This collection contains the personal art library and papers of the artist and educator John Barber (1893-1965). The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, slides, exhibition catalogues and brochures, biographical information, books, and engraving plates for Christmas cards. These materials document primarily the professional life of John Barber but also includes some of his personal life. There are letters from Hollywood actors Vincent Price who was an art collector and...
Dates: Circa 1910-1999
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Benjamin Johnson Barbour scrapbook

 Collection — ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 1486
Scope and Contents Benjamin Johnson Barbour scrapbook (1890-1895) is part of the James Barbour family papers (1793-1941) Orange County, Virginia. The scrapbook is in poor condition and contains a few newspaper clippings about the family.enThe other boxes in this collection include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; enslaved persons and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders;...
Dates: 1890-1895
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

M. L. Barker's Art album of Pin Pricking

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16718
Content Description

This collection consists of an Art album containing (pin) pricking designs used for stationary, embroidery patterns, home-made cards, and paper decoration. There are different sizes of tiny pinholes punched into geometric and picturesque designs. Many pages are decorated with foil border and die-cut ornament illustrations pasted on at the corners. No date and no text. There is a signature in the front cover that says M. L. Barker.

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

Barrett Minor Authors Literary Collection Index cards

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16730
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of index cards, in alphabetical order, listing the hundreds of individual authors and manuscripts that form the Clifton Waller Barrett Minor Authors Literary Collection.

Dates: 1968 December 12
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Barrow and Davey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16125
Scope and Contents The Barrow and Davey collection contains over 500 family letters about early twentieth century life in Brunswick County, Virginia (1902-1977),(3 document boxes, 1.5 cubic feet) and family records including military records of Dr. Bernard Barrow (1874-1954), who served in World War I (1917-1918); business receipts, prohibition permits, scrapbooks and other personal ephemera. The Barrow family were plantation owners and had the social position and influence of the extended family...
Dates: 1898; 1902-1977; 1993
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ellen Strong Bartlett letters

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16854
Content Description This collection primarily contains the letters of Ellen "Nellie" Strong Bartlett, author and historian, when she was sixteen years old. Ten letters describe her trip to Washington, D.C., from January to early March 1864. She stayed with her aunt and uncle, Julia and David Bartlett. David Bartlett wrote an early and influential campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln and served as the Clerk of the Committee on Elections in the House of Representatives. The letters describe her travels to...
Dates: 1864-1897
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

D. G. Barton et al signed letter to Honorable Richard E. Parker

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589322]
Identifier: MSS 16223
Scope and Contents

D. G. Barton et al signed letter to Honorable Richard E. Parker, 1826, March 15, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a letter in reference to the creation of a new county (in Winchester, Virginia) and concern for the location of the courts.

Dates: 1826 March 15
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Base hospital No. 41 Saint Denis photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589226]
Identifier: MSS 16053
Scope and Contents

Base Hospital No. 41 Saint Denis, 1918, 0.03 cubic feet contains photographs of patients, nurses, doctors, facilities, and outside scenes depicting hospital life.

Dates: 1918
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Archer B. Bass World War I papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16267
Scope and Contents Archer B. Bass World War I papers, 1918-1922, .07 cubic feet, consists of correspondence with his wife while he was assigned as a military chaplain to a machine gun company within the 27th Division. There is also correspondence with his mother, Sue G. Bass, and his mother-in-law, V. H. Legg.Included are official military communications to Chaplain Bass, newspapers (United States Bulletin, The Saturday Evening Post Christian Church), photographs and diaries, which describes his...
Dates: 1917-1922; undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Battle Abbey, Richmond Virginia, photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589400]
Identifier: MSS 16033
Scope and Contents

Battle Abbey, Richmond, Virginia photograph, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, taken by A. Homeier Studio, at the intersection of Boulevard and Patterson Avenue.

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

J. Battle letter to Samuel Battle

 Item — Box: BW 21, Folder: [X031750308]
Identifier: MSS 16434
Content Description

The J. Battle letter to Samuel Battle (circa 1797; 0.03 cubic feet) documents one piece of the titular relatives' correspondence. The letter is marked "Care of Thomas Maule"; Maule may have been the same Maule that owned a soap and candle factory in late-18th century Virginia. Little information circulates online about either of the Battles, but the contents of the letter should be legible to those accustomed to reading 18th-century cursive.

Dates: circa 1797
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Julie Baugnet COVID-19 sketchbooks and notes

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16928
Content Description This collection contains two notebooks and two sketchbooks kept by Julie Baugnet, a book artist and painter from St. Paul, Minnesota. The notebooks contain Baugnet’s observations of epidemiologists and other experts as well as other information on COVID-19 that was being publicly disseminated and notes for her COVID-19 projects. “Covid Notes #1” is dated February 21, and features Baugnet’s notes on Dr. Michael Osterholm’s podcast on the pandemic. On the cover of the notebook is “info for my...
Dates: 2020-2022
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

P.J. Beattie Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16728
Content Description This collection contains University of Virginia clippings, scrapbook pages and ephemera collected by P.J. Beattie Jr, a graduate from the class of 1937. The collection includes two directories spanning the academic years 1935 to 1937 with Beattie's name handwritten at the top of each directory, a program from the University of Virginia graduating exercises dated June 15, 1942, a blue felt pennant flag with the University of Virginia seal, and articles clipped from alumni publications on the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1935-1942
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Beck photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16003
Scope and Contents

Mary Beck photographs, dated 1948-1973 0.06 cubic feet. The photographs were ordered with some printed materials including race meeeting pamphlets, The Chronicle of the Horse periodical, issues of Americcan Turf Monthly periodical, and one book, "Riding" by Benjamn Lewis. Related collection MSS 16006

Dates: 1948-1973
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ray Becker imprisonment related letters

 Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031660930]
Identifier: MSS 16450
Scope and Contents Note The Ray Becker imprisonment related letters collection 1935; 0.03 cobic feet) consists of two autograph letters signed by John Dos Passos June 1 and 4, 1935, to Kate Crane-Gartz, accompanied by a four-page autograph letter to Dos Passos from Ray Becker dated January 22, 1935. Dos Passos writes to the Pasadena heiress and supporter of workers' causes, Kate Crane-Gantz, about the case of Ray Becker, the last of the I.W.W. "Wobblies," to be in prison in the aftermath of the 1919 Armistice Day...
Dates: 1935
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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