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Warren Chappell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10204
Content Description
These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of...
Dates:
1929-2000
Margaret Crockett album
Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899238]
Identifier: MSS 16320
Scope and Contents
Margaret Crockett album, MSS 16320, 1905-1933, 0.03 cubic feet is described as a commercial album with gold-stamped leather batting-stuffed covers and multi-colored gilt-edged pages, covered with a dull green hand-made fabric cover embroidered "M.C." in red thread. Front free endpaper reads "Margaret Crockett / July 1911," though one pasted entry is dated 1905 and the latest entry is from 1933. The initials RNS (Royal Naval School), is found scattered throughout the volume, as are the...
Dates:
1905-1933
M. Gillett botanical plates
Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16882
Content Description
This collection contains a single-bound manuscript produced by an English student of botany, dated 1838 with the name and date "M.Gillet" inscribed on the front endpaper with "M. Gillet" stenciled with a floral wreath border in the front free endpaper. The book contains watercolor, pencil, and ink illustrations of plants. The manuscript opens with tissue-guarded images of common English plants, including a key to leaves ("roundish," "linear," "kidney-shaped," "trowel-shaped"). The text...
Dates:
1838
Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie
Item — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 2, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1 [X031750312]
Identifier: MSS 16429
Scope and Contents Note
The Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie (circa 1769; 0.08 cubic foot) documents a rare original drawing for an illustration in the Encyclopédie by its most important and prolific draughtsman. This is the original for the workshop scene, the top section of "Hongroyeur," pl. III. In the engraving the plate has the legend, "Hongroyeur, l'Operation de mettre au Suif et Plan de l'Eture. (Tanner of Hungarian Leather, Operation of Tallowing and Plan of the Drying Room). Collection...
Dates:
circa 1769
Milton L. Grigg Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6478
Scope and Contents
These additions to MSS 6478 Milton L. Grigg Papers, organized into two main series, contain architectural drawings, administrative and project files, and miscellaneous materials created by Milton Grigg and his architectural firm from the 1920s to the 1990s. The names of the projects and clients are followed by the commission number(s) where available. The materials document the projects completed by Grigg and his firm across the...
Dates:
circa 1920s-1990s
The Illustrated Alphabet
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875
Jack R. Levien papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15241
John Leech watercolor sketches
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16912
Content Description
This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned...
Dates:
undated, circa 1840
Materials related to UVA mass shooting
Collection
Identifier: RG-50/6
Content Description
This collection features a colored pencil portrait of Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler, the University of Virginia students and football members killed in a mass shooting on November 13, 2022, at the University of Virginia. After the tragedy, President and Mrs. Ryan opened their home for students to gather. Isabelle Martins, a Univeristy of Virginia architecture student, brought this drawing as a gift to Carr's Hill. The following week, President Ryan asked for the artist to...
Dates:
November 2022
Charles M. Robinson and Principals Architectural Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16518
Scope and Contents
The Charles M. Robinson and Principals Architectural Records consist of materials about Charles M. Robinson, and the office records, architectural and design plans, and project photograph files of the Charles M. Robinson, Architect firm and successor firms. The materials document the business operations of the firms, as well as their role in developing the city of Richmond, VA, and in developing various institutions and organizations across the state of Virginia. The works in this collection...
Dates:
Circa 1855-2012
Howard W. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8731
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc...
Dates:
1933 - 1966
Petra Vogt papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -16480
Content Description
This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...
Dates:
1966 - 1978
W. Dexter Whitehead prints
Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16431
Content Description
This collection contains fifteen prints of drawings created by Dr. W. Dexter Whitehead, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia from 1956-1992. The drawings depict the following views and locations around Grounds, and are titled accordingly: Lawn Room, Steps at Pavilion IX, Pavilion IX Entrance Detail, Dome Room - The Rotunda, Levering Hall, Steps Behind Pavilion VIII, West Rotunda Arch, Pavilion III, Arcade Fan Windows, East Rotunda Arch, Pavilion VI, Pavilion IX - Entrance,...
Dates:
undated