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Votes for Women printing block
Collection — Box: BW 54, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16793
Content Description
The collection contains a printing block measuring 6" x 7.5" x 1" made of wood and metal. The printing block is headlined "Roll of Honor" with a suffrage pennant emblazoned "Votes for Women" below. Underneath the pennant, an inscription reads, "Distinguished people who have declared themselves for woman suffrage." Beneath are columns titled "Statesman," "Preachers," "Men of Letters," and "Educators." These columns list names such as Mark Twain, Plato, and Jack London. Though uncredited, this...
Dates:
circa 1909
Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs Tea at the White House
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589217]
Identifier: MSS 16014
Scope and Contents
Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs tea at the White House, 0.03 cubic feet, of members on the grounds of the White House and Arlington Cemetery. Photographs of Dorothy Waleski, Pat Person, Lucille Bland, and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace (wife of the Vice-President).
Dates:
1941 May
Mrs. G. J. Walker collection
File — Box: BW 38-115
Identifier: MSS 38-115
Scope and Content
An autograph album of a Miss Glasgow, of Virginia, contains autographs, 1842-1847, of American statesmen including John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Henry A. Wise.
The collection also includes a note from Henry Clay, 1847 July 30, responding to a request for an autograph; "In memoriam," a poem "written for Harrie [?] W. Kuhl after his death by Davis"; a letter from George [McCorkle], Newport News, Va., 1901 Dec. 26, to his sister Juliette McCorkle,...
Dates:
1842-1901
Nikuyah Walker Charlottesville City Council Campaign Ephemera
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16561
I.T. Walton dental account book
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16830
Content Description
This collection contains an account book of a Virginia dentist, Dr. I.T. Walton, who worked in Appomattox, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, and Albemarle Counties. The book recorded services for white, enslaved, and free Black patients between 1857 and 1861. The account book documents procedures, tooth conditions, and overall health assessment of patients and includes prices for cleanings, toothache drops, "gold plugs," and various "temporary" and "amalgam" fillings, as well as for...
Dates:
1857-1861
Ward Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-16097
Scope and Contents
The Ward Family letters containing less than one document box, approximately 100 letters, and .02 cubic feet consist of letters from Robert P. Ward (“Bobby" or "Bob"), Lawrence ("Larry") Ward, and David (“Duke”) Ward and his wife, Aldine, to their mother, Dona E. Ward in Richford, New York. Robert is in the Navy on the U. S. S. Missouri during the Korean War, Lawrence is entering naval training at the United States Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois, and David ("Duke") Ward and...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1949-1964; 1950-1953
Virgil Maxwell Ward letters
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: VIU-2022-0038-001
Identifier: MSS 16678
Content Description
This collection contains four letters from a formerly enslaved person, Virgil M. Ward to his former Philadelphia employer, Edward Morris Davis, referred to as "Dear Friend " in the letters. Ward was born in Virginia in 1827, and it is unknown how he escaped enslavement. He worked in Philadelphia for Davis at $15.00 per month from April 1st, 1855 to April 13th, 1857. He moved to Ypsilanti, then Canada, and finally to Michigan. The letters are from the year 1860. The first letter...
Dates:
October 25, 1860 - December 16, 1860.
Warm Springs Virginia, photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589404]
Identifier: MSS 16038
Scope and Contents
Warm Springs Virginia, photographs, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, 7 photographs showing women playing golf with two young African-American caddies, a casino, children playing in a creek, and men harvesting hay.
Dates:
undated
John W. Warner papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 10191
Scope and Content note
This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner’s life and career.A note regarding consituent correspondence: only in rare instances did the Senator's office keep outgoing corespondence. The vast majority of what makes up the constituent correspondence are the incoming letters from his constituents. Original letters sent to the Senator were microfilmed...
Dates:
1956-2009; Majority of material found in 1967-2008
Charles Dudley Warner manuscript
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16543
Content Description
This collection contains twenty-six leaves of Charles Dudley Warmer’s manuscript of "The Study" for "The Editor's Study" in Harper's Bazaar. The manuscript contains the first two parts of Warner's essay published in Volume 95, October 1897 [pp. 798-800]. The text appears identical to the published version. It is likely that this was the manuscript submitted to Harper’s – though there are...
Dates:
October 1897
E. Warren letters from Virginia springs
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899216]
Identifier: MSS 16362
Booker T. Washington photograph
Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031677118]
Identifier: MSS 16446
Scope and Contents Note
The Booker T. Washington photograph (1902; 0.03 cubic foot) documents Washington wearing a cap and gown.
Dates:
1902-04-12
John Augustine Washington collection
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589315]
Identifier: MSS 16210
Scope and Contents
John Augustine Washington collection of 7 letters were purchased separately and the Small Special Collections Library combined them into one collection, 0.04 cubic feet, 1837-1845. There are letters from Jacob Thompson to John Augustine Washington about the purchase of slaves, a letter from Judith B. Alexander to John Augustine Washington about his health, two letters from John Augustine Washington to his mother, Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington about Mount Vernon and slaves at "Blakeley"...
Dates:
1837-1845, 1858
Washington Literary Society resolution memorializing President McKinley
Collection — Box: RG 23 - Additions Box 2, Folder: 1 of 1
Identifier: RG-23/7
John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16913
Content Description
This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and...
Dates:
1748 - 1772
George W. Watt trotting bred stock registration
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589178]
Identifier: MSS 15960
Scope and Contents
George W. Watt trotting bred stock registration (1932; 0.03 cubic feet) is to the Virginia Horse Breeders Association, Inc., and a subscription to The Horse, Journal of the American Remount Association.
Dates:
1932
Watts family papers-addition
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 12170
Content Description
The Watts family papers of Roanoke County, Virginia at "Oaklands" in Flat Creek, Campbell County) consist of correspondence and documents related to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the United States Civil War, war with Osceola and Seminole tribes in Florida, Virginia politics, economic and social history (including enslavement),land ownership, farming, court cases and debt from 1786 to 1950 in southwest Virginia. The Watts are related to many other Virginia families including James...
Dates:
1786-1950
L.B. Watts diary
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16624
Content Description
A small hand-written and illustrated manuscript diary compiled by Commander LB Watts, RNR (Royal Navy Reserve) on his World War I and later service that holds details and information on the merchant ship, HMS City of London. The diary contains detailed lists of officers and men, armaments and technical diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, and annotated cartoons.
Dates:
ca. 1916-1944
John Walter Wayland collection on Henry Martin
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16677
Content Description
John Walter Wayland collection of correspondence,notes,photographs, and newspaper clippings about Henry Martin who was the bell ringer for the University of Virginia from 1868-1909. “Henry Martin rang the bell at dawn to awaken the students, and rang it during the day to mark the hours and the beginning and ending of class periods. He was beloved by generations of faculty, students, and alumni, and he remembered them all when they returned for visits.” Dr. Wayland, a former University of...
Dates:
1909-1965
Waynesboro Community Hospital scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16748
Content Description
This collection contains one National Hospital Day Scrapbook from the Waynesboro Community Hospital. This scrapbook was compiled by the staff of the Waynesboro Community Hospital documenting its community outreach as part of National Hospital Day. It consists of fifty leaves with a blend of ephemeral clippings, correspondence, and original photography. Included are eight original photographs as well as illustrated seals, brochures, buttons, a menu, and clippings among other material. The...
Dates:
1938