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1828 Catalogue Project Digital Image Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2025-01
Scope and Contents

This collection contains high-resolution digital images of rare legal texts. The University of Virginia Law Library created these images for its "1828 Catalogue Project."

Dates: circa 2012-2019
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Bessie Marie Africa scrapbook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16697
Content Description

High school memory scrapbook and photo album of Bessie Marie Africa of Kanawha, Iowa from 1923 to 1927. The scrapbook is in a "School Friendship Book binding" assembled by Bessie Marie Africa documenting her high school years at Sanborn High School. It includes correspondence, programs, and mementos from theater, basketball, and football, and a declamatory contest. There are two large dolls created out of crepe paper.

Dates: 1923 - 1927; Majority of material found within 1925
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cora M. Aldridge scrapbook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16932
Content Description This collection contains the college scrapbook of Cora M. Aldridge, an African American student at Hartshorn Memorial College in Richmond, Virginia. Hartshorn Memorial College was a private college for African American women in Richmond, Virginia, active from 1883 until 1932, when it merged with Virginia Union University. The cover is titled “My Memories of School Days” in gilt. Alridge’s name and her Vauxhall, New Jersey, address are written on the first endpage, as is the date of June 14,...
Dates: 1926, 1956
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alpha Kappa Alpha scrapbook

 Record Group — Ledger: 1
Identifier: RG 23/4/25
Content Description

Scrapbook of the Theta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1974-1975; 0.10 cubic feet). Album contains photographs, flyers, certificates, and other ephemera.

Dates: 1974-1975
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Anbian papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16922
Content Description This collection contains the papers of poet, author, publisher, and political activist Robert White Anbian (1949-2022). Anbian graduated from the University of Virginia in 1971, after which he spent three years in Niger with the Peace Corps from 1974 to 1977. He then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked as a writer and poet until his death. From 1985 to 1996, Robert served as the editor of the monthly Film Arts Foundation magazine, Release Print, and the publicist for an independent...
Dates: 1974-2022
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Annual reports - University of Virginia School of Law Foundation

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-509
Scope and Contents The University of Virginia Law School Foundation published these annual reports to share information about the organization and solicit gifts. The reports were distributed to a broad audience of potential donors, and they included the following content: letters from the Dean of Law, statements from Foundation leadership, summaries of Foundation programs, lists of donors, and Foundation budget statements.Between 1977 and 1990, the University of Virginia School of Law published the...
Dates: 1953-1976 and 1990-2023
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

The Arcadians records

 Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 23/3/1
Content Description

Typed scripts, musical score, and newspaper clipping relating to the musical The Visiting Girl, authored by Nevil G. Henshaw and Jesse B. Hull for production by the Arcadians.

Dates: 1907
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Isabella Bain memory album

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16754
Content Description This collection features a memory book belonging to Miss Isabella Bain (1855-1934) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Various personal letters from friends and New Orleans community members addressed to Miss Bain are included. The cover of the memory book is composed of engraved Morrocan leather adorned with "Miss Isabella Bain" in gilt. Several chromolithographs of a variety of subjects, notably botany and female gender roles, are pasted throughout the book. Letter entries are not...
Dates: c.1870-1913
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

E.P. Baker letter

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16915
Content Description

This collection consist of a thank you letter written from E.P. Baker, secretary of the University of Virginia's UVA Debating and Oratorial Society, to a Mr. Batten for a gift of a package of Albermarle Pippin apples.

Dates: April 24, 1915
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Barrister records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-32-212
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of contact sheets and photographic negatives used in the Barrister yearbook.

Dates: circa 1974-1983
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

P.J. Beattie Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16728
Content Description This collection contains University of Virginia clippings, scrapbook pages and ephemera collected by P.J. Beattie Jr, a graduate from the class of 1937. The collection includes two directories spanning the academic years 1935 to 1937 with Beattie's name handwritten at the top of each directory, a program from the University of Virginia graduating exercises dated June 15, 1942, a blue felt pennant flag with the University of Virginia seal, and articles clipped from alumni publications on the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1935-1942
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ned Berkeley Jr. and Doug Bakken correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12/11/4
Content Description

This collection contains the correspondence between Edmund "Ned" Berkeley, Jr. and Doug Bakken, two archival colleagues and close professional friends, circa 1965-1983. The correspondence is a mix of personal and professional topics but primarily focuses on their respective work in archives. Also contained are four pages of Bakken's reflections on their personal and professional relationship that he sent along with the donation of this material.

Dates: 1966-2019; Majority of material found within 1966-1983
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bessie's friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16536
Content Description

This collection contains one friendship album with pink, yellow, and blue colored pages filled with verse, inscriptions, and original drawings and illustrations. The inscription at front reads: "To Bessie, Wishing her many happy returns of her birthday with love from Lena & Will, August 13, [19]08."

Dates: 1908-1911
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Christine Best friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16534
Content Description

This collection contains a single book with 29 pages of inscriptions, autographs, and verse dated between 1839-1841, from Hudson New York. The first inscription was written by Christine Best, owner of the album, and includes a color illustration and title, "Christine Best's Book Hudson July 22, 1839." Original black leather embossed boards, highly decorated; red leather spine with gilt decoration.

Dates: 1839-1841
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Virginia Law Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-217
Scope and Contents

The administrative records, scrapbooks, websites, newsletters, and artifacts in this collection document the history of the Virginia Law Chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA).

Dates: circa 1990 - 2024
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Board of Visitors web archive

 Collection — Digital_container: 1
Identifier: RG 1/1/11
Scope and Contents This web archive includes web pages about the activities of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Topics covered include upcoming board meetings, past meetings, public minutes, committee work, and a listing of membership and related staff. The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is composed of seventeen members who are appointed by the governor of Virginia along with one full-time student and faculty member. The Board approves policies and budget for the University of...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louise Boyer scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14971
Content Description This collection contains the college scrapbook of Louise Boyer who attended the School of Education at the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Institute, a historically Black college, was founded in 1868 as the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School by the American Missionary Association for the education of the formerly enslaved. Also included is an earlier collection of one scrapbook titled "Scrapbook of Louise Boyer at Hampton Institute. This...
Dates: 1925-1936
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Michael Brannon papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16925
Content Description This collection contains five folders maintained by Michael Brannon, a University of Virginia alumnus from the class of 1969, which document his involvement in voter registration efforts during the summer of 1966. Two folders are labeled Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC). One includes field notes and a letter, while the other contains pamphlets, workbooks, newsletters, meeting minutes, agendas, and reports collected through the VSCRC. Another folder, titled Southern Student...
Dates: c.1966-1968
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lucy Bruce friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16547
Content Description

A ladies album belonging to Lucy Bradbury Bruce of Worcester County, Massachusetts which contains five engraved plates, sentiments from friends and family, three calligraphy drawings, and a watercolor theorem of a rose. Most of the well wishes are signed and dated, and many include locations. Predominately the locations and many of the signers are women including two of her sisters.

Dates: 1853 - 1868
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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