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Item — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16477
Content Description
This collection contains a ship passport issued to the brig "Milford" of Baltimore, authorizing the ship to load its cargo at Port Republican, Santo Domingo. It was issued under the authority of Toussaint Louverture as the Général en chef de l' Armeé de San-Domingue, a position in which he had recently been confirmed by the newly-installed First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte. This document gives permission for the six-gun brig Milford of Baltimore, under Captain Littleton Waters, to load her...
Dates:
1800 January 23
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16614
Content Description
This collection contains six notebooks of course materials and notes from Christopher J. Bright's, class of 1991, study in the MA Foreign Affairs program at the University of Virginia. Subjects include Latin America, Military in Latin America, Democracy in Latin America, and the Cold War.
Dates:
c. 1990
Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16890
Content Description
This collection contains the diary of Elizabeth Albee Brooks (1828-1869) from 1865. Brooks was an artist in training who lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The diary has an inscription in the front endpaper that reads "With many happy new years from her loving Auntie. Medford." The diary contains 124 entries handwritten in pencil graphite. It documents and gives insights into the experiences of adult, single women in suburban Northern communities as the Civil War came to a close. The diary...
Dates:
1865
Collection — Box: BW 60, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16911
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one Exercise or Cypher Book created by Sally Brown for a classroom environment in the United States of America between 1786 and 1787. It demonstrates basic mathematical and measurement disciplines specifically geared toward a future of work in a mercantile economy. Various 18th century mathematical procedures and some proofs are showcased throughout the Exercise Book. ...
Dates:
1786-1787
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.
Dates:
1851-1855
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589326]
Identifier: MSS 16230
Scope and Contents
Stonewall J. Brown compositon on obedience for Literary Society, dated 1885, February 15 but postmarked 1904 Feburary 24, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a compositon handwritten on a single sheet of paper about obedience for boys and addressed to Mrs. Columbia Elizabeth Brown at Miller School, Mount Fair, Virginia
Dates:
1885, 1904
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 6213
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, handouts and membership lists. The volumes chronicle the formation and activities of the Virginia Fight for Freedom Committee, an organization which combatted isolationism and supported the Allied war effort before the U.S. entry. Correspondents include Richard Evelyn Byrd, Virginius Dabney, Carter Glass, Francis Pickens Miller, Claude Pepper, and Dave Edward Satterfield.
Dates:
1941
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16562
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16563
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589328]
Identifier: MSS 16233
Scope and Contents
S. E. Brownell letter to Albert Gallatin Remington regarding gathering material for the first and only number of the New York Quarterly Review, December 29, 1851, and an itemized bill of John P. Prall, book and job printer in New York for the first 500 copies printed, February 11, 1852, 0.03 cubic feet. The literary journal was short lived and folded after the first number. The letter from Brownell to the editor Remington, shows that the author is agitated over the article, mentions his work...
Dates:
1851 December 29
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16870
Content Description
This collection contains an account book of the toll house along Brown's Gap Turnpike. The account book, oblong in format, contains thirty pages, nine of which have pasted news clippings pasted over the manuscript entries. The account book spans from 1810 to 1817 and details road tolls for wagons, lodging expenses for men and animals, meals, and other expenditures. Accounts for the Brown family loom, grist mill, and sawmill also appear, listing charges for grain, planks, etc. Through these...
Dates:
1810-1817
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16876
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16826
Content Description
This collection contains photographs and negatives of subjects and properties for projects of photographer Bruce Kennett. Most of the images are of Bremo, John Hartwell Cocke's nineteenth-century home. Kennett was invited to photograph the property, and much of Kennett's work was included in a monograph titled "Birth of a Virginia Plantation House: The Design and Building of Bremo." Also included are images of Carter's Grove Housing (quarters) for Enslaved People in Colonial...
Dates:
1989 - 2012
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16547
Content Description
A ladies album belonging to Lucy Bradbury Bruce of Worcester County, Massachusetts which contains five engraved plates, sentiments from friends and family, three calligraphy drawings, and a watercolor theorem of a rose. Most of the well wishes are signed and dated, and many include locations. Predominately the locations and many of the signers are women including two of her sisters.
Dates:
1853 - 1868
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6244
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16839
Content Description
This collection contains one scrapbook belonging to William Bryant of Little Rock, Arkansas. Bryant, son of a physician and an African American, attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama between 1936 and 1939, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. The scrapbook is notable as it is made from thick wooden boards, metal hinges and bound with two long screws and wingnuts. The front cover artfully has the title inlaid in wood reading "Tuskegee Inst. 39." The...
Dates:
1936-1939
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16545
Content Description
This collection consists of forty-two letters primarily from John Newton Buck to his son, Walker Davison Buck, starting in December 1866 and ending in April 1873. There is one letter to John signed by "sister Catherine" and maybe the same women referred throughout the letters as “Aunt Cathie” throughout the letters. The letters are written from towns in Virginia and Maryland.
Walker Davison Buck was a young boy when he received these letters; the letters cover his youth from the age of...
Dates:
December 14, 1866 - April 17, 1873
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16715
Content Description
Annie C. Buckley Album of Memory with gift inscription from her father dated Christmas 1857. The album includes multiple entries from Annie's friends and relations, many of which are dated 1858, Easton. Most of the entries are in verse form about friendship, memory, and in some cases death. Most appear to be original, not copied from printed works. There are 11 entries.
Dates:
1857 - 1858
Collection
Identifier: MSS 38-31
Scope and Contents
Papers of Edward Price Buford, lawyer of Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va., who practiced alone and in the firms of Buford, Palmer and Hill, and Buford, Palmer and Eggleston. Letter books, daybook and journal containing personal and legal correspondence and accounts, and materials relating to political and economic conditions in Lawrenceville and Southside Virginia, to a hospital fund campaign in Lawrenceville, and to the Lawrenceville Land and Timber Co. of which Buford was an officer....
Dates:
1893 - 1931
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589421]
Identifier: MSS 15962
Scope and Contents
James Buford estate sale list (1797; 0.03 cubic feet) contains a list of Buford's assests in Lunenburg, Virginia. The list mention the sale of six enslaved people, along with cattle and furniture.
Dates:
1797