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Receipt log of Clothing Distributed to the 117th United States Colored Troops

 Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16799
Content Description This collection contains a receipt log (18"X22") of provisions given to the African American infantry during the Civil War. The top of the document states that 'WE, the undersigned Non-commissioned Officers, Artificers, Musicians, and Privates, of [Co "F" 117th U.S. C.S.], do hereby acknowledge to have received of [Capt Riley I. Griffith] the several articles of clothing set opposite our respective names." There are about sixty-five names listed. The receipt includes the date of issue (Dec....
Dates: December 31, 1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Records of the Albemarle Chapter, No. 1 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 11331
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of pertinent clippings from newspapers and magazines about the Civil War.

Dates: 1951-1954
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Red Cross artwork

 Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16671
Content Description

This collection contains one outsider artwork that appears to honor the Red Cross following the end of World War I. The item has the red cross symbol along with the date, 1919, rendered as a large cross made from red cross stickers. On the back is an additional Red Cross stickers. The artwork is torn on the top left corner.

Dates: circa 1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Augustus Julian Requier letter

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899262]
Identifier: MSS 16368
Scope and Contents

Augustus Julian Requier letter, MSS 16368, November 23, 1867, 0.04 cubic feet, sending his contribution to the Southern Society periodical and asking to be sent copies of the issues in which it will be printed.

Dates: November 23 1867
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Reynolds Citizenship Certificates

 Collection — Box: BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16790
Dates: 1892-09-16
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bessie M. Rhoades botany workbook and notebooks

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Identifier: MSS 16776
Content Description This collection contains six handwritten notebooks and a workbook outlining botanic observations of Bessie M. Rhoades, an orphan at the Bethany Orphanage in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. The collection highlights the study of science by a female student at the turn of the twentieth century.It is a personal archive detailing life inside an American orphanage during a pivotal moment in the history of child advocacy.The education provided by an orphanage could give students academic opportunities...
Dates: 1903-1904
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Richard M. Brandt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS12838
Dates: 1966-1985
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Richmond Printer's Association broadside

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589179]
Identifier: MSS 15961
Scope and Contents

Richmond Printer's Association broadside dated 1924, is 0.03 cubic feet, and opposes any legislation that would allow the penitentiary to compete with them in printing. The broadside is titled, "Immediate Action Needed" and also includes a letter of opposition from Franklin Printing.

Dates: 1924
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Florence T. Rickert leaves of friendship book

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589370]
Identifier: MSS 16281
Scope and Contents

Florence T. Rickert Leaves of friendship book, 1860's, 0.03 cubic feet,in original red boards with blind tooling, all edges gilt. Title in ornate gilt round design on front cover and elaborate design on the spine. The first entry is written by her father, the second by her grandfather and there are several illustrations throughout. Signed by family and friends.

Dates: 1860's
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ripley Hitchcock letter to Mrs. H. C. Bunner

 Item
Identifier: MSS14723
Dates: circa 1896-05-19
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Ritchie letter to Joseph R. Williams

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16899
Content Description This collection contains a printed circular letter and a handwritten letter sent by Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854), the editor of the Richmond Enquirer, to Joseph R. Williams, Esquire. The printed circular letter, dated July 29, 1835, was sent by Ritchie and John L. Cook, publishers of the Richmond Enquirer newspaper, and was a printed questionnaire that discussed the “movements of certain Fanatics [abolitionists] in the North.” Founded in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society...
Dates: July 20, 1835
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Amélie Rives papers

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Identifier: MSS-214
Content Description This addition to MSS 214, Amélie Rives papers, contains correspondence and literary papers documenting the friendship between Virginia Moore, a poet, biographer, and scholar, and Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, a novelist, poet, and playwright. Both were prominent literary figures residing in Albemarle County, Virginia, in the early and middle twentieth century, when these letters were authored. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, terminating the year of Rives’s death. Much of the...
Dates: 1930-1983
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hallie Erminie Rives papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8090
Dates: 1890-1906
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Cabell Rives letter

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589330]
Identifier: MSS 16235
Scope and Contents

William Cabell Rives letter to Congressman Benjamin C. Howard, 1838 October 15, autograph signed letter from Castle Hill, Virginia totaling 0.03 cubic feet, and discussing the election of Hugh Swinton Legare of South Carolina to the House of Representatives and other political matters. Legare, who was a friend of both of them, is losing the election to their disappointment. Also mentioned are charges made by Daniel O'Connell against the United States minister to England, Andrew Stevenson.

Dates: 1838 October 15
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Madeleine Coleman Roach papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16869
Content Description This material contains references to offensive and harmful language and crimes involving racism. The purpose of this note is 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 photographs, diaries, a memory book, a prayer book, witness reports, scrapbook pages, photographs, certificates, newsletters, telegrams, menus, and ephemera...
Dates: 1942-1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Roanoke Virginia Baseball teams, photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589403]
Identifier: MSS 16036
Scope and Contents

Roanoke Virginia Baseball teams, photographs, [1890-1900], 0.03 cubic feet, contains three photographs mady by Davis Photo Co. made circa 1890-1900. Teams shown are the Roanoke [Magicians?] of the Virginia League circa 1896, Edward Christopher "Pop" Tate manager; the Old Dominion team; and the Roanoke Machine Works team, circa 1887-1888. All players ictured in the Roanoke Machine Works photograph are identified.

Dates: [1890-1900]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Chambliss Light article, "Rotunda Renovated, Controversy Resolved"

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589379]
Identifier: MSS 16292
Scope and Contents

Robert Chambliss Light article, "Rotunda Renovated, Controversy Resolved", 2002, 0.03 cubic feet, about the controversy surrounding planned ses of the Rotunda folloiwng its renovation, 1973-1976. There is also a letter dated 2002 April 8 from Larry J. Sabato to Robert Light thanking him for sending a copy of his article.

Dates: 2002
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Clark papers

 Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16497
Content Description This collection contains 14 fourteen letters written during the Civil War to Robert Clark (48th Infantry Illinois) by three Union soldiers: William B. Oliphant (6 letters) (a Sergeant in Company E, 51st Infantry Regiment Illinois), John R. Oliphant (4 letters) (Illinois E Company), Henry Willett (2 letters), and 2 unidentified letters/writings, including a leather pouch in which the letters were discovered. The letters were written primarily from Tennessee and Mississippi.The...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1863 - 1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Roberts "The Slave Stealer" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16632
Dates: 1968-10-28
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mattie Robertson commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16629
Dates: 1859 - 1863
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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