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Frank Shay photograph
Item — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589474]
Identifier: MSS 16389
Scope and Contents
Frank Shay photograph (1935; 0.03 cubic feet)contains one black and white promotional photograph.
Dates:
1935
Sheeran Architects records
File
Identifier: MSS 15462
Scope and Contents
The Sheeran Architects records (1980-2008; 9.4 cubic feet plus 250 gigabytes) include drawings and office files relating to projects by Peter L. Sheeran and members of his firm, financial records, correspondence, notes and sketches. Materials are organized by project name, and then by date. Other records included are projects dating from Sheeran’s time as principal of Cleveland Sheeran Architects, AIA (1980-1989) and as project architect for Jack L. Rinehart Architect (1977-1980)....
Dates:
1980s-2010
John Shepherd West Main Street, Charlottesville, Va. images
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16152
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of 288 black and white slides and 142 scanned images from the slides as well as notes that accompany the slide show. Mr. Shepherd took these images in 1976 and states that he created the images "just as construction on the mall was beginning." The images were shot on 35mm Panatomic X. The scanned images appear to duplicate the physical slides, and there is some be duplication among the physical slides.
Dates:
1976
Sheppard family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14256
Scope and Contents
The papers consist chiefly of personal letters and correspondence of James H. Sheppard during his service in France in World War I. There is some information about his role in the development of the 155 mm Filloux gun.
There is also material relating to Thomas Jefferson Sheppard, including a reminiscence of his life that mentions his Civil War service and detention in Andersonville prison; a piece of a stockade log from Andersonville; a manuscript of a speech given by Sheppard at the...
Dates:
1883-1919, 1981-1999, undated
Charles Shoffner slides
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15676
James Shop papers
Collection — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16473
Content Description
This collection consists of two documents related to John Shop, a freedman from Connecticut who served in the Continental Army. One item is a Connecticut pay-table committee document authorizing payment to Shop for his army service. This was signed by James Hart on December 15, 1870 in Hartford, Connecticut. The other is a one page letter certifying Shop's service in the 2nd Regiment of the Connecticut line of the Continental Army. In the letter he is identified as a freedman from the town...
Dates:
1780
Susan Richards Shreve papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16887
Content Description
This collection contains the papers of Susan Richard Shreve (b. 1939), a prominent American author, a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University and a co-founder of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation (1985) for which she served as a board member and chairman. The collection documents her literary and teaching career with manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, journals, correspondence, contracts, clippings, digital files, and other materials related to her authorship and...
Dates:
1969-2020
Sophia M. Sias album
Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899240]
Identifier: MSS 16371
Scope and Contents
Sophia M. Sias album, MSS 16371 (1854; 0.03 cubic feet) is a commercially made album with stamp of William H. Fisk's Bookstore & Bindery, No. 4 Methodist Church, Manchester, N.H. Brown leather binding with blind- and gold-stamped cover with floral illustration and words "Boquet Album." One hundred pages of various colors, only about twenty sides used for inscriptions, verse, etc. Includes title page "Boquet Album," with no publication information. Five printed floral plates, which...
Dates:
1854
Silverthorne Films super 16 reels
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16621
Content Description
This collection contains seven reels of footage that were used to create the "Declaration of Independence" film that is played at the University of Virginia's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The reels also contain footage of spaces throughout Small Special Collections Library.
Dates:
2004 June-September
Charles F. Simms photograph
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589183]
Identifier: MSS 15965
Scope and Contents
Charles F. Simms photograph, [1920] 0.03 cubic feet. Simms was a guard for the George Washington tombstone.
Dates:
[1920]
Ella F. Simons, "A Young Ladies school newspaper written for subscribers"
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589277]
Identifier: MSS 16137
Scope and Contents
Ella F. Simons, "A Young Ladies school newspaper written for subscribers"(1859; 0.03 cubic feet) Contains eleven pages of hand written material. Begins with an "edatoreal" about the state of the nation and the mission of the paper, followed by articles with titles such as "Night," "The Poet," "Dear Emily," "A Ride," "Our Wreath," "Composition," "Sniff," and more. All articles are written in the same hand and with the same unique writing voice, leaving one to ponder if she was a scribe or...
Dates:
1859
Daniel French Slaughter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-15438
Scope and Contents
This collection of the Daniel French Slaughet papers, 250 items, one half-size legal document box, .04 cubic feet and contains the business and family correspondence of the Slaughter family, the Winston family and papers related to slavery, and the Civil War. There is also correspondence of Lewis Rogers to John Rogers and Charles Cocke to Jeremiah Morton.
Slaughter business and political correspondence Virginia Governor John M. Patton.
Dates:
1827-1885
Jane Chapman Slaughter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3700
Content Description
This collection and addition consists of about 4.25 shelf feet (ca. 1500 pieces) and includes the legal, financial, genealogical, and personal papers of Jane Chapman Slaughter, a genealogical authority and one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. These papers cover the years 1809-1951 and consist of the correspondence of both Miss Slaughter and her family, her M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation, genealogical records, photographs, notebooks,...
Dates:
1809-1951
Philip Slaughter daybook
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6556
Scope and Contents
Plantation owner of Culpeper County, Va., and Captain in the Continental Army.
Dates:
1808-1816
Addison H. Smith papers
File
Identifier: MSS 15056
Scope and Contents
The Addison H. Smith papers (1917-1970; 1.6 cubic feet) includes many letters between 1917 and 1919 to Addison Smith’s mother and his battlefield diary from 1918, which describes in vivid detail the voyage to Europe and his work as an ambulance driver in France. It also includes his certificates of discharge and service in the United States Army Ambulance Service, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection dates between the years of 1917 to 1922, and...
Dates:
1917-1922; 1970; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1922
Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12947
Scope and Contents
Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793-2002, 2 cubic feet, consisting of correspondence about her work with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and many other Southern organizations to preserve the Confederacy. She was also involved with the Democratic Party, Womens' rights and genealogy. There are narratives of family histories and eighteen and nineteenth century papers including slave documents. There are also personal papers, correspondence with other writers and publishers,...
Dates:
1793-2002
Christine Smith Files Concerning Conservation of the Wills of George Washington and Martha Washington
File
Identifier: MSS 16289
Scope and Contents Note
The Christine Smith Conservation files (1945-2016; 2.69 cubic feet) concern the conservation of the wills of George Washington and Martha Washington. The files contain slide photographs of each page of each will, usually with additional detail photos. Each set of before-treatment slides represents the wills as they appeared in 1998, approximately nine decades after manuscript restorer William Berwick preserved them; the after-treatment slides document the appearance of each will in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-2016
Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15732
Scope and Contents
This collection of Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting in Boston, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1956 is about 235 items, 19 folders, one half-size legal document box, totaling .04 cubic feet. Also included is cockfighting weights and scores.
Dates:
1936-1956
Dolores Ann Smith autograph album
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16900
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Dolores Ann Smith, an African American student from Roanoke, Virginia. The album’s cover is embossed with “My School-Day Autobiography” in gilt letters. Two black and white photographs of young African American children are at the front of the album, one pasted and the other tipped in. The names of Dolores’s teachers up to the eighth grade are identified on the “My Teachers” listing and a list of classmates. Seven autographs with associated...
Dates:
1944-1948
Elizabeth Oakes Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 38-707
Content Description
The papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, and journals of Mrs. Smith, her husband, Seba Smith, and of their sons, Appleton Oaksmith, Sidney Oaksmith, Alvin Oaksmith and Edward Oaksmith.
The literary papers include Seba Smith's column on Major Jack Downing and Solomon Swope, and reviews of his "New elements of geometry"; drafts and copies of numerous poems, short stories, essays and lectures by Mrs. Smith as well as manuscripts of her plays "Destiny, "...
Dates:
1823 - 1919