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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
May family papers
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16057
Scope and Contents Note
The May family papers (1870-1945; 0.4 cubic feet) document the lives of a couple generations of the Richmond-based May family. Photograph subjects in the collection include J.A. May in his Confederate Army uniform post-Civil War, J. Howard May, Jr. as an infant, Virgil May, Sr., Phil May with relatives at Virginia Military Institute, and Virgil R. May, Jr. with his wife Ella and children Linda and Billy.Letters in the collection are primarily written by or to Virgil, Jr. and...
Dates:
1870 - 1945
Memorabilia of Arthur J. Morris
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-3
Abstract
Collection of some correspondence, diplomas, certificates, medal, photographs and other memorabilia that belonged to Arthur J. Morris, Class of 1901.
Dates:
1884-1992
Mortimer C. Caplin Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-04-5
Abstract
Collection of profesional papers and personal memorabilia (1933-2014). Includes speeches, reports, photographs, certificates, scrapbooks.
Dates:
1930-2014
John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16459
Scope and Contents
The John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection (1806-1988, bulk 1861-1865; 133 cubic feet) contains Civil War-era correspondence, service records, pension records, artifacts, photographs, military records (including orders, requisitions, and correspondence), currency, newspapers, and other print materials. The collection primarily contains the correspondence, records, and photographs of white soldiers and officers who fought in the Civil War, including white officers serving in...
Dates:
1806-1988; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865
Nydrie and Algoma related papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -14956
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers relating to Nydrie and Algoma, consisting chiefly of photographs and articles pertaining to the family homes of the Logan and Forsyth families. Included is a scrapbook of articles by Lily Logan Morrill.This collection contains material from around 1880, when the homes were built, to about 1960, when the Forsyth family, which owned “Nydrie” at the time, started a discussion about what to do with the house due to its dilapidated conditions. This collection...
Dates:
circa 1862-2003
Office of the Architect/Photographs-addition 2 Mary Hughes
Collection
Identifier: RG-35/2
Content Description
This addition to RG 35/2, Office of the Architect/Photographs contains photographs, slides, and VHS tape of Mary Hughes, the University of Virginia Landscape Architect since 1986. The slides and photographs depict college campuses, principally the University of Virginia, documenting projects initiated by the Office of the Architect including new construction. The VHS tape is dated October 24, 1994, and titled "Thomas Jefferson Academical Village.” The slides and photographs were contained...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Oscar Ogg papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11995
Content Description
Addition 4 to MSS 11995 contains newspaper & advertisement clippings, periodicals (The Christmas Reader and The Committee for italic Handwriting Newsletter, book reviews by Oscar Ogg, book cover mock-ups, ink & water color drawings, illustrations of calligraphy, and correspondence. Included are “typofile” and italic scripts handwriting. There is personal information including Squire Ogg’s grade school report on the...
Dates:
1936 - 1967
Papers of A. E. Dick Howard on the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision
Collection
Identifier: MSS-81-4
Dates:
1969-1971
Papers of Clarence B. Pearce
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-2
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Clarence B. Pearce consist primarily of letters written by Pearce to his mother as well as photographs of Pearce and the University of Virginia grounds while Pearce was a law student (1917 - 1921). His college activities included participation in the debating society and service on the editorial board of Virgina Law Review.
Dates:
1916-1920
Papers of E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-5
Abstract
This small and very important collection consists of correspondence and working papers from McReynolds’ clerkship for Justices Robert H. Jackson, Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan, 1953-1955. Of significance are the files on Brown v. Board of Education and the notes between the justices; also drafts opinions, memoranda, correspondence and notes of other cases.
Dates:
1944 (1953-1955)-1982
Papers of Judge Richard L. Williams
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2011-01
Abstract
Judicial papers (1979-2011) from Williams' chamber files. Chamber manuals, jury instructions, case files, correspondence, memoranda, digital files, opinions, calendars, scrapbooks.
Dates:
1979-2011
Papers of Richard B. Lillich
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-1
Abstract
Professional and private practice files (1957-1996) related to international issues: claims, human rights, nationalizations, refugees, Iran -U.S. Claims Tribunal, organ transplantation. Also Law School and case files.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1957-1996
Personal Papers of Richard J. DeMartino as History Consultant to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2017-02
Abstract
Interesting historical chronology related to the IMTFE. Includes many Japanese documents and photographs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1936 - 1948
Photographs Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Monticello, and the University of Virginia
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15986
Scope and Contents
Box 1: Photographs: President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Monticello; wreath laying at Lafayette's Tomb and Thomas Jefferson grave; Monticello renovations (Milton Grigg); historical pageant on the Lawn at the University of Virginia 1918; an unidentified group including University of Virginia President Edwin A. Alderman and Virginia Senator, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. in the Rotunda library, before 1938; the University of Virginia Grounds in snow, 1948 February; football at Scott Stadium,...
Dates:
1918-1962
Photographs of Frank S. Tavenner at House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 1952; 1954
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-02
Abstract
Three photographs of Frank S. Tavenner at HUAC.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1952, 1954
Frederick Pilcher Jr. scrapbook
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16824
Content Description
Content Warning: This material contains graphic imagery and content involving human remains. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials or, at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains a scrapbook of black and white photogaphs and ephemera documenting Frederick Pilcher, Jr.'s life from the 1920s to the 1930s as a student at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI),...
Dates:
C.1923-1932
Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2338
Scope and Contents
The larger collection consists of the original materials and 7 additions including the most recent one represented in this finding aid. In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six Elizabeth Upshur Teackle letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her...
Dates:
1713-1977