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Collection of African American Children photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16798
Content Description
This collection contains ninety-eight photographs of African American children and families at home and play from about the 1950s to the 1990s. Measurements range from 6" X 4" to 2" X 2" inches and are in color and black and white. Several subjects recur throughout the archive. All are unidentified; only three have any annotations on the back. The photographed figures, primarily children but some family shots included, are captured within their homes or playing outside. Activities include...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1950s-1990s
African American Freemason lodge photographs
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16711
Content Description
Collection of eight black and white photographs. All are group portraits of members of African American fraternal lodges in Virginia. The images bare the stamps of several different photographers -- from Richmond, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach. Several images show handwritten annotations on the back -- one lodge is identified as Progressive Lodge #80 in Norfolk, another as King David Lodge #28 in Richmond (this photo is signed by 13 members of the lodge on the back), another as Willow...
Dates:
circa 1950s
African American girl's birthday photograph album
Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16756
Content Description
This collection contains a photo album containing fifteen original black-and-white photographs from the 1960s of a birthday celebration of a young Black girl and her family.Exceptional depiction of an 11 year old's birthday party with all of it's innocence, happiness and absence of the racial world that lives outside the doors of their grandmother's nice home.The children are wearing cone hats and there is dancing, presents, game playing, a birthday cake, blowing out candles, and an...
Dates:
1960s
African-American man photographic crayon enlargement portrait
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 5
Identifier: MSS 16809
African American programs and photographs from Roanoke, and Wytheville, Virginia
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16901
Content Description
This collection contains four programs and eight photographs documenting mid-twentieth-century African American life in Roanoke and Wytheville, Virginia. Two programs for Debutante Balls hosted by “The Altruists,” a club for Black women in Roanoke, are dated 1954 and 1977. The Altruist Club program for 1954 has "Stella Ednise Miller" in blue ink on the cover. A 1958 pamphlet for a Virginia Congress Colored P.T.A. annual work conference held at Scott Memorial School in Wytheville discusses...
Dates:
1954-1977
Collection of photographs of African American Women in Chicago
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16797
Content Description
This collection contains thirty-one photographs of young Black women in Chicago in 1940s-1950s.The photographs document the youth of a young woman named Bea and several of her friends Nedra, Vera, and others. Included are class photographs from Forestville Elementary School and Lucy Flower Technical High School. Flower Tech was an integrated school for girls. There are photographs of their prom, jazz clubs, and the girls out on dates, celebrating, and having fun. The jazz club...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1942-1954
African Americans in Richmond organizations photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15967
Scope and Contents
African Americans in Richmond organizations photographs (1940-1959; 0.06 cubic feet) includes the Leigh Street Young Men's Christian Asssociation, Hi-Y Club, Gray Club, B and P Council, Richmond Area Youth, Interracial Seminar, Richmond Basketball, Father-son Banquets, Annual Banquets, Leigh Street Y.M.C.A. camp, [Gradale] Girls, girls playing cricket, and Baskets for the Need(y). Included is a photograph of Dr. J. W. [Banco] and Roscoe Mitchell. Photographs are from the studios of Brodnax...
Dates:
1940-1959
African Americans in rural Virginia photographs
Collection — Folder: MSS 16923
Identifier: MSS 16923
Content Description
This collection contains twenty black and white photographs, approximately 9 x 7 inches, depicting African American life, presumably in a segregated area in rural Virginia. The pictures have no annotations on the back, and the photographer is unknown. The location is also unclear; however, it may be somewhere near or in Fauquier County, Virginia. This location possibility is based on a photograph that depicts several storefronts, including a beauty salon which has two names painted on the...
Dates:
C. 1940s
[Rheuben Allen] photograph album, 1st Balloon Squadron, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16220
Scope and Contents
Photograph album of [Rheuben Allen] who could be from the Comanche tribe or African American], consists of approximately 120 black and white photographs taken in and around Fort Sill, Oklahoma where [Allan] was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Balloon Squadron.The album is covered in patterned black cloth and stamped "1st Balloon Squadron, Fort Sill, Oklahoma" in gold on the front cover.There are also some photographs at the end of the album of bases in New Mexico,...
Dates:
1935-1943
Roy Alson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16861
Content Description
This collection contains black-and-white negatives, color slides, and photographic prints, taken and collected by Roy Alson, as well as a few photographs by other photographers, and some printed materials. Alson, who graduated from the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences in 1974, the same year as the first cohort of women to be admitted to the University, was a photographer for The...
Dates:
1970 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1975
Mary Ella Parker Berkeley carte de visite and Confederate money
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 15911
Scope and Contents
Mary Ella Parker Berkeley carte de visite and Confederdate money (1888; 0.03 cubic feet) consists of an image of Berkeley and some Also included is Confederate money.
Dates:
1888
Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589285]
Identifier: MSS 16161
Scope and Contents
Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph, 1934, a Western Albermarle County estate, inscribed "Much love from Blanche Ortman Merry Xmas 1934" totaling 0.03 cubic feet. Sepia toned photograph inscribed in black ink on the front and captioned in pencil on the verso.
Dates:
1934
Benjamin Boblett Photographs of John Jackson
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 5, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16873
Content Description
This collection contains three black and white photographs of musician John Jackson taken by physician and photographer Benjamin Boblett. John Jackson (1924–2002) was an American Piedmont Blues Musician. Jackson played an important role in highlighting the Appalachian musical traditions. The photographs are annotated...
Dates:
1975 - 1976; circa 1983
Book Baskets records
Series
Identifier: MSS 15920
Scope and Contents
Records of the Book Baskets (1995-2018; 1.5 cubic feet) consists of meeting agendas, minutes, reports, news clippings, photographs, thank you letters, information on grants, contributors, and general correspondence. The collection is organized into three series.
Dates:
1995 - 2018
Mathew Brady Studio: Union Civil War Camp photograph of African Americans
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16833
Content Description
This collection contains an albumen photograph of a Union wagon camp in Virginia during the Civil War from the Washington D.C. studio of Mathew Brady. Brady was one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history. He is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He often photographed Black soldiers and laborers during the war, mostly in Union or contraband camps. The present image documents for posterity a number of Black soldiers and laborers working towards a Union...
Dates:
c.1864
George Buckston Browne collection on Down House
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16562
Bruce Kennett photographs of Bremo; Enslaved Housing at Carters Grove, and other projects
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
Call family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 13421
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
Eugene Edward Chiles papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14439
Scope and Contents Note
Eugene Edward Chiles papers, (3 cubic feet, 1915-1922) contain love letters from his girlfriend, Eugenie O'Neill who is traveling in European circles with wealthy and or famous acquaintances, while he is working as a realtor in Pittsburgh, PA. and Stephens City, Virginia, after the war. Her letters mostly describe her feelings for him and mention (briefly) famous places, people, and events from the Twenties. Topics consist of post war conditions, unemployment, strikes, feminism, racism, and...
Dates:
1915-1922