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Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu

Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589472]

Identifier: MSS 16344

Scope and Contents

Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu, 0.03 cubic feet, 1899, Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: 1899

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Southern pre-Civil War poetry album

Collection — Box: BW 51, Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 16738

Content Description This collection consists of thirty-four leaves of a poetry album from Richmond, Virginia. Four poems are those of John Esten Cook (1830-1886), an American poet, novelist, and Confederate soldier, lawyer, and biographer of Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. The other thirty pages consist of poems written by a variety of other authors noted by initials or their names. Many of the poems are to a woman named Edmonia or "Monie." These pages appear to be extracted from an album...

Dates: C. 1850-1860

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Southern Student Organizing Committee records

Collection

Identifier: MSS 11192

Scope and Contents The Southern Student Organizing Committee records include correspondence regarding the founding of the organization and its constitution and bylaws, correspondence, and memos and reports pertaining to the organization’s 1969 dissolution. The records also include publications from the SSOC and its members (such as Thomas Gardner and Steve Wise), including newsletters, brochures, project reports, and journal publications regarding a variety of topics, but particularly around civil rights...

Dates: 1948-1994

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Spanish Consulate in Norfolk, Virginia records

Item — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 16307

Scope and Contents Note

The first ledger contains correspondence between the Spanish embassies in New York and Philadelphia, and its consular office in Norfolk, Va., 1797-1817. Most letters are addressed to Spanish diplomats Josef Ignacio de Viar and Carlos Martinez de Irujo. The second ledger is a bound log of shipping activity from Norfolk to Cuba and other ports, 1817-1840.

Dates: 1797 - 1840

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Special Collections Shelf Lists and Reference Card Files

Record Group

Identifier: RG 12/11/22

Content Description

This collection includes vault shelflist cards, cards for archives and manuscript books, an audiovisual card file, the manuscript shelflist, National Union Catalog for Manuscript Collection cards, the archives shelflist, a microfilm card file, and a donor and dealer card file.

Dates: circa 1936-2000

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Spectators at a University of Virginia football game, photograph

Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589417]

Identifier: MSS 16060

Dates: 1959

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Anne Spencer exhibit archival museum prints

Collection

Identifier: MSS 16228

Dates: undated

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James Madison Spiller letter

Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589369]

Identifier: MSS 16275

Scope and Contents

James Madison Spiller letter to Dr. I. L. Twyman, 1853, 0.03 cubic feet,consists of a signed letter on a single sheet of blue paper, hand written in ink in regard to the negotiation of a sale of two Negro "family girls." The girls were being sold by Dr. Twyman and S[piller was helping to facilitate the sale to Seth Woodruff. Current market price for a girl are mentioned, as well as the effects of war in Europe on other market prices.

Dates: 1853

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cleo Sprouse photograph

Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589224]

Identifier: MSS 16050

Dates: 1937

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ephraim George Squier letters to Charles Eliot Norton

Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669069]

Identifier: MSS 16503

Content Description This collection contains two letters from Ephraim George Squier to Charles Eliot Norton discussing his book "Waikna; or, "Adventures on the Mosquito Shore" as well as other works in progress. These two letters were removed from the printed book, which has been cataloged separately.The first letter, dated Apirl 26, 1855, Squier describes how many pages that he has written of "foolscap" and how many pages of proof that he has to read before his passage to Europe. He mentions his...

Dates: April 26 and May 16,1855

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stanley Methodist Church subscription

Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589323]

Identifier: MSS 16224

Scope and Contents

Stanley Methodist Church subscription, dated 1915, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a sheet with ruled lines and columns containing signatures and correlating dollar amounts to to pay the treasurer, D. M. Hodesett for the purpose of erecting a brick church building in the town of Stanley, Virginia.

Dates: 1915

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Staunton Virginia Farm and Boarding House account book (during Civil War)

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16846

Content Description This collection contains an account book written during the Civil War by an unidentified person or persons. It consists of the day-to-day transactions and the numerous individuals that either boarded on, used the owner's land, or purchased various products and services from the unnamed proprietor, including $600 for a land bond in 1862. The account book is disorderly in many ways, as the dates vary and are not in order. The subject matter accounts for all aspects of living within...

Dates: c. 1862-1873

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John G. Staysa Civil War Diary

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16812

Dates: January 25 - June 2, 1862

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Stephenson collection on Nansemond County Training School

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 16683

Content Description This collection contains Margaret Stephenson's research materials on the Nansemond County Training School (NCTS), a historic Rosenwald School for African-American students first constructed in 1924 in Suffolk, Virginia. The materials include historical files and pictures of the school and students, NCTS reunion day event materials and registration forms, newspaper clippings about the history and preservation of the school; and information on "Strength Through Our Roots", a...

Dates: 2000 - 2014; Majority of material found within 2013 - 2014

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elizabeth Stoddard letters to Ella Farman

Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1

Identifier: MSS 8266

Content Description

Three autograph letters of Elizabeth Stoddard signed, to Ella Farman, author and editor of Wide Awake discussing the literary periodical press, payments to authors, and other matters. Written legibly in ink on three folded sheets of "E.D.B.S." (Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard) embossed stationary. This collection is an addition to Elizabeth Stoddard letters in the Barrett Collection (MSS 8266, 8266-a).

Dates: circa 1875

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gladys Stone album from Randolph Macon Women's College

Collection — Ledger: 1

Identifier: MSS 16452

Content Description Photo album and scrapbook of Gladys Stone (ownership inscription on front leaf) of her time at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, founded in 1891 in Lynchburg, Va. 71 leaves, 56 filled, with photos and ephemera affixed on both rectos and versos. 82 photos include an African American worker, "Uncle Harry," a student in blackface, evocative images from 1914 Field Day and May Day, Commencement, the inauguration of President William Alexander Webb, individual images of nine sorority houses and...

Dates: 1913-1914

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louis P. Stone Letter

Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16858

Content Description This collection contains a letter from Louis P. Stone (1843-1903) to Colonel Tracy describing his exploits as a U.S. Secret Service operative and requesting payment for his services. Stone was a U.S. Secret Service operative during the first two years of the Civil War. The "Secret Service," before officially inaugurated as the investigative branch of the Treasury Department in 1865, was the unofficial name for the intelligence services in the Union Army. The letter contains Stone's account...

Dates: 1863 May 3

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book

Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1

Identifier: MSS 16714

Content Description Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..."...

Dates: 1826 - 1838

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Floyd Stovall papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 12707

Dates: 1936-1959

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Stowe grocery store ledgers

File — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 16433

Scope and Contents Note

The Stowe grocery store ledgers (1870-1934; 0.4 cubic feet) document the operation of the titular family's grocery store in Petersburg, Virginia. Ledgers document monthly expenses for items ranging from rent to flour to labor. The collection also contains a small file of personal letters and bills for appliances.

Dates: 1870 - 1934

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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Southern Philatelic Association Banquet menu

Southern pre-Civil War poetry album

Southern Student Organizing Committee records

Spanish Consulate in Norfolk, Virginia records

Special Collections Shelf Lists and Reference Card Files

Spectators at a University of Virginia football game, photograph

Anne Spencer exhibit archival museum prints

James Madison Spiller letter

Cleo Sprouse photograph

Ephraim George Squier letters to Charles Eliot Norton

Stanley Methodist Church subscription

Staunton Virginia Farm and Boarding House account book (during Civil War)

John G. Staysa Civil War Diary

Margaret Stephenson collection on Nansemond County Training School

Elizabeth Stoddard letters to Ella Farman

Gladys Stone album from Randolph Macon Women's College

Louis P. Stone Letter

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book

Floyd Stovall papers

Stowe grocery store ledgers

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