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Colonel Nathaniel Burwell letter

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589194]
Identifier: MSS 15980
Scope and Contents

This collection of a Nathaniel Burwell letter from Alexander W. Green is 0.03 cubic feet, and is dated November 30, 1813 about runaway slaves near the estate of General Nelson, at Carters Hall, Millwood, Virginia

Dates: November 30, 1813
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Eleanor and Caroline Butler school exercises from Belmont Academy

 Collection — Box: BW 29, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16517
Scope and Contents One calligraphy sample book with writing by Eleanor and Caroline Butler from the Belmont Academy in Loudon County in 1845 and 1849, 5 essays signed by Eleanor, three notes on "Scenes the Moon Looks Upon", "Glass", and "Cathage" signed by C. S. Butler, and a recipe for arsenic soap. The academy was founded by female abolitionist Margaret Mercer (1791-1846)Essays by Eleanor Angela Isabella Butler include "The Importance of Religion", "The Weaver's Daughter", "Glass: Its Discovery...
Dates: 1845 and 1849
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ernest Butler photograph album

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16875
Content Description This collection contains the photograph album of Ernest Butler, a United States Army soldier who served in Germany during the Second World War. Butler was among the one million African American men and women who served during the war. The album documents his time in Germany, his return to the United States, and his post-war life. The album contains over 250 black and white silver gelatin photographs over its thirty pages. The images depict Butler’s service in Germany, where he...
Dates: c. 1942-1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Helen Butler papers on Ernie McClintock

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16837
Content Description This collection contains the papers of Helen Butler, arts educator, actress, and writer, on Ernie McClintock, American director, teacher, and theatre artist. The collection contains professional correspondence, memos, pamphlets, brochures, flyers, reports, newsletters, clippings, obituaries, Articles of Incorporation of the Jazz Theater and the Afro-American Heritage Society, as well as By-Laws for Jazz theater, and a headshot of Ernie McClintock. Also included is an album of the...
Dates: c.1970-2004
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jennie M. Bromley Butler diary

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16884
Content Description This collection contains the diary of Jennie M. Bromley Butler (1860-1948) who lived in Rockville, Connecticut. The diary documents her life after returning from her honeymoon with her husband, Edward Butler, and their first decade of marriage. The entries are dated from 1887 to 1898. She records her traveling experiences, including their honeymoon trip to Montreal, other trips to New York and Philadelphia, and summer and weekend trips. She also records her day-to-day life, which includes...
Dates: 1887-1898
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Allen Butler family papers (and related Terry, Collins families)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16447
Scope and Contents This collection depicts the family lives of three prominent New England families, the Butler, Collins, and Terry families from 1808 to 1920 consisting of 8.5 cubic feet, (17 document boxes). Their correspondence, genealogy, photographs, and journals compile a historical collection, vast in size and informative of American life in the nineteenth century. It contains over three hundred letters written when family members were attending Yale or Princeton during the American Civil...
Dates: 1808-1959
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ruth Byrns and Jean McLaren Manhattan Turn-Style periodical

 Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669068]
Identifier: MSS 16501
Content Description

This collection contains nineteen privately printed pages using a mimeograph type process, addressed to women readers. The feature is authored by two women in Sunnyside, Queens and covers "fashions, theatre, shop windows... all of the kaleidoscope that is New York, seen through women's eyes and written for women to read." The authors write much about fashion, particularly with regards to the seasonal styles worn by glamorous women promenading on New York's avenues.

Dates: 1939
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Nicholas Cabell Jr. portrait - addition 2

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 38-111
Content Description

A five inch square mezzotint engraving by the artist Saint-Memin. It is a profile of Nicholas Cabell Jr.

Dates: 1808
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Call family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13421
Dates: 1917-1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Caperton family genealogical research files

 File
Identifier: MSS 15848
Scope and Contents

Genealogical research files of Bernard Caperton on the Caperton family from the 1700's to 1980

Dates: 1938-1980
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Malinda Caperton album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16769
Content Description This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the...
Dates: 1855 - 1867
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Caroline Ticknor collection of American authors and publishers

 Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS-16488
Content Description This collection contains forty-one letters and manuscripts by American authors and publishers from the files of James R. Osgood & Co. and its successor Ticknor & Co assembled by Caroline Ticknor (1866-1937), daughter of Benjamin Holt Ticknor (1842-1914) and granddaughter of William Davis Ticknor (1810-1864). Many of the authors represented in this collection have related collections in the Small Library. Authors represented in this collection of letters and manuscripts...
Dates: 1862-1913
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Caroline's floral album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16721
Content Description This collection contains the friendship album belonging to a woman named Caroline. It is assumed from the locations of the authors of the entries that she was from Massachusetts as towns listed include Plymouth, Boston, Berkley, etc. The earliest note from this album dates from 1837 and is a loose page that was inserted into the front covers. The page has two original poems written in 1837 and 1838, by Ester Holmes of Plymouth, entitled "The Thunder Storm," and "Parting of a mother with...
Dates: 1837 - 1880
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Conrad Carpenter estate inventory

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589366]
Identifier: MSS 16265
Scope and Contents

Conrad Carpenter estate inventory, 1829, 0.03 cubic feet, is a court ordered appraisal of the estate in Lincoln County, Kentucky and includes a Negro girl. Also of note are $5590 of itemized promissory notes, $8490 of silver, and $1190 of commonwealth paper.

Dates: 1829
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Private Riley Carpenter letters

 Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16891
Content Description This collection contains six letters written by Private Riley Carpenter, a Union soldier in the 150th Pennsylvania "Bucktails" unit. The letters are from camps in Rappahanock, Warrington, and Culpeper, Virginia. The letters' content discusses battles, waiting periods at various camps, fellow soldiers, and Riley's longing to be home...
Dates: 1862-1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Carr's Hill assessment report

 Collection — Box: RG 31 - Additions Box 1, Folder: 1 of 1
Identifier: RG 31/1/4
Scope and Contents

February 28, 2006 report on the conditions of the President's House at Carr's Hill by John Milner Associates, Inc. The "Building Assessment & Schematic Design Final Report" included preservation issues regarding the house and how they may be alleviated.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John D. Casey letters to Marcia McGhee

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 10973
Dates: 1958-1959; 1956
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Casteen records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 2/1/2
Content Description

Records include a mix of materials with different provenance, including correspondence, awards, and other files relating to John Casteen, former president of the University of Virginia.

Dates: 1984 - 2010
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lu Ann Cates papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16581
Content Description

This collection contains photographs, personal letters, coursework, notebook, forms and surveys for new students, directory and schedule, and other university specific items of Lu Ann Cates, a 1978 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.

Dates: 1972 - 1974
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cedar Hall papers and Vance/Allen architectural drawings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-15730
Scope and Contents

This collection of Cedar Hall papers and Vance/Allen architectural drawings of about 17 drawings, 100 items, one half-size legal document box, and .04 cubic feet contains information about the Darling family, and their historic home, Cedar Hall.

Dates: 1900-1940
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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