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Hampton Institute student photograph album
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16525
Content Description
This collection contains a photograph album of a student from Hampton Institute. The original photo album, measuring 7' x 10' with 24 pages, contains 44 black and white photographs of an unidentified young Black woman, approximately 20 years old, as well as cut newspaper images and a photo postcard. She is seen at Hampton Institute, a historically Black University, in Hampton, Virginia, posing in front of school buildings, clowning around with friends, and preparing for graduation. Also...
Dates:
undated
Hampton, Virginia aerial photographs
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589177]
Identifier: MSS 15958
Scope and Contents
Hampton, Virginia aerial photographs (1921; 0.03 cubic feet)were taken by the United States Army in 1921.
Dates:
1921
Hewitt Wiley photographs and interviews
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-03
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of digital photos and a taped interview of Hewitt H. Wiley on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE).
Dates:
circa 1946 - 1948
Holsinger Studio portrait on Rotunda steps
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box M 1, Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16892
Content Description
This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of young men and women formally dressed and posed on the University of Virginia Rotunda steps. The men are likely UVa students and faculty. The photograph is dated about 1896 and has a Holsinger, Charlottesville stamp on the left corner. Scaffolding is in the photograph's background, erected during the Rotunda restoration efforts. The exposed fluted columns of the Rotunda's front facade lack plaster in this scene, a result of the...
Dates:
circa 1896
Howard Klee papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-04
Scope and Contents
Howard Klee's papers document the Amoco-US Environmental Protection Agency's pollution prevention project at Amoco's refinery in Yorktown, VA. The collection includes scientific analyses and engineering reports, as well as budgets, correspondence, and the executive summaries written across the years. Included in the collection are unique data maps of the refinery, as well as a set of photographs taken between 1989-1992 that reflect the work of the field scientists, engineers, and academic...
Dates:
1988 - 1995
Langston Hughes photograph
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16783
Content Description
This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of Langston Hughes, noted American poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In the picture, Hughes is surrounded by students after speaking at Harlem's Public School #113 graduation exercises which was also attended by students at James Madison High School and New York City grade school students. Mimeographed caption label with "Newspictures, Inc. ... please credit 'Acme Photo' ..." -- rubber-stamped on verso....
Dates:
June 25, 1945
International Military Tribunal for the Far East photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2014-06
International Military Tribunal for the Far East photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2014-07
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of photographs related to the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.
These photographs relate to the Carrington Williams papers, MSS-78-4
Dates:
circa 1946 - 1948
Isabelle Delano Money with African American caregiver photograph
Collection — Box: BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16617
Jack R. Levien papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15241
Jefferson Society records
File
Identifier: RG 23/50/2
Nunnally Johnson collection of Nathalia Crane papers
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899232]
Identifier: MSS 16374
Scope and Contents
The Nunnally Johnson collection of Nathalia Crane papers (1923-1926; 0.03 cubic feet) collection contains correspondence of Nunnally Johnson relating to Nathalia Crane, a child author whose authenticity was questioned. There are 14 letters from Nathalia Crane to Nunnally Johnson; 1 letter from HM Crist to Johnson, and 1 letter from Clarence Crane. Also included is a typescript poem "The First Writer," two photographs of Crane, and one graphite self-portrait by Crane.
Dates:
1923-1926
Florynce Kennedy photographs
Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16784
Content Description
This collection contains four black and white photographs (roughly trimmed to 8 x 10 inches or slightly larger) featuring Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy (1916-2000) speaking. Kennedy was an American lawyer, feminist, and activist who founded the Feminist Party in 1971. Each photograph is stamped in red ink with the Examiner Reference Library. The stamps are dated 1973-1976. Three photos include a newspaper clipping of the same image pasted onto the verso, with "Examiner" captioning the photo and...
Dates:
c.1973-1976
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence carte de visite
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16638
Content Description
This collection contains a carte de visite of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a formerly enslaved child. The caption states "A Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of Age. Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher in May 1963. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York." Photographed by the...
Dates:
May 1863
George Washington Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16413
Content Description
The George Washington Lewis papers consists chiefly of correspondence to and from George Washington Lewis and between other family members, but also includes a few photographs of the Lewis family and the homes of "Claymont", "Shellfield" and "Marmion"; a plat of "Claymont"; newsclippings; notes on Lewis family history and genealogy; and a few financial and legal documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1805-1906, 1966
Virginia Scott Cocke Lyman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16921
Content Description
This collection contains 268 letters Virginia Scott Cocke wrote to David Russell Lyman, whom she would marry in 1905. The letters date from 1898 to 1905 and document their courtship. Also included are photographs, a postcard, a bookplate, an album, marriage certificates, transcripts of the letter, and a thumb drive. Virginia Scott Cocke lived at 'Lower Bremo' in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and met her future husband when he was a senior at the University of Virginia in...
Dates:
1898 - 2025; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1905
Sir Fitzroy Maclean papers
File
Identifier: MSS 11487
Scope and Contents Note
This Fitzroy Maclean papers consist (1827-1996; 44 cubic feet) of the professional and personal papers of Scottish soldier, diplomat, politician, author, and traveler, Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean (1911-1996) of Dunconnel. It includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, typescripts, newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, lectures, speeches, photographs, memorabilia, and research material pertaining to his military, diplomatic, political and literary career as well as family and...
Dates:
1827-1996
Marion K. Kellogg papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-2
Scope and Contents
The papers of Marion K. Kellogg contain correspondence, programs, photographs, and clippings of the Uruguayan seminar (1960) and the Bolivian seminar taught at the Law School, as well as photographs from the alumni meeting (1966). There is also one folder of correspondence with the American Bar Association Committee on International Economic Organizations from 1966-1972. Some documents are in Spanish.
Dates:
1960 - 1972
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