Showing Collections: 1 - 20 of 709
A brief survey of printing: history and practice manuscript
Item — Box: BW 22, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16409
Scope and Contents NOte
The manuscript is likely a production copy of "A brief survey of printing: history and practice" (1923; 0.03 cubic feet) by Stanley Morison and Holbrook Jackson. Sixteen additional leaves with reproduction printing samples pasted on. Fourteen of these reproductions are not present in the published version of this work, and two leaves contain notes handwritten by Morison. Duplicated pages of typed text on letterhead of "Linotype & Machinery Limited, London."
Dates:
1923
Ellie Acker copy book
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589233]
Identifier: MSS 16068
Scope and Contents
Ellie Acker copybook, 0.03 cubic feet, 1860-1861 consists of handwritten essays titled "On Good Manners", On the Importance of a Good Character", "Precepts On Time", "On the Importance of a Well-Spent youth" "Indolent Habits Lay the Foundation of Misery", and "Pride"
The book is printed in gray wrapper depicting a scene showing the exterior of Leary & Getz Booksellers in Philadelphia on the front and include their advertisements
The book is printed in gray wrapper depicting a scene showing the exterior of Leary & Getz Booksellers in Philadelphia on the front and include their advertisements
Dates:
1860-1861
Advertising receipt issued by the Richmond Examiner to the State Department, C.S.A.
Collection — Box: BW 29, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16523
Scope and Contents
Advertising receipt acknowledging payment for inclusion of a printed version of President Jefferson Davis's December 23, 1862 proclamation ordering that "All commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honourable warfare, but as common robbers and criminals deserving death." Partly printed receipt headed "Richmond Examiner," completed in manuscript and signed by Examiner manager R.F. Walker, Dec. 23, 1862,...
Dates:
1862, December 23
African-American owned Virginia businesses letters and ephemera
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589378]
Identifier: MSS 16290
Scope and Contents
African-American owned Virginia businesses letters and ephemera, 1919-1933, 0.03 cubic feet, includes A. W. Holmes, Grand Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Maggie L. Walker, W. J. Craig, C. M. Burt, Ellen B. Talor, Edward B. Taylor, James T. Carter and many others representing passenger traffic committees and banks.
Dates:
1919-1933
African-American World War II Unit photograph
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031580190]
Identifier: MSS 15975
Scope and Contents
This collection of an African American Unit in World War II photograph is 0.03 cubic feet, contains one photograph of the First Platoon Company D. 8th Medical Training Battalion, 3rd Medical Training Regiment, at Camp Pickett, Virginia on June 25, 1943.
Dates:
1943
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 with...
Dates:
1940-1959
Airplane delivery of the Richmond News Leader, photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589401]
Identifier: MSS 16034
Scope and Contents
Airplane delivery of the Richmond News Leader, photographs, 1923 July 10, 0.03 cubic feet, showing an airplane and crew in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and Richmond, Virginia. Photograph #1 was taken in White Sulphur Springs, flown to Richmond, published in the Richmond News Leader, and the printed newspapers returned to White Sulphur Springs with the same crew and airplane. Photograph # 10 show the pubished newsaper with photograph #1. Photographs #8 and #9 show buildings at Byrd...
Dates:
1923 July 10
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company annual report of the President and the Directors
Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16462
Content Description
This collection contains a mimeograph or lithograph copy of annual report of the president and directors of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company annual report. This report describes the condition and business of this company for the year from 1888 to 1889.The document is signed by Franklin Weld, President. The report contains a narrative description of the events of the year followed by lists of merchandise shipped through the year, comparative statements of materials shipped, and...
Dates:
1889-09-30
Albemarle County ledger book
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16407
Scope and Contents Note
The Albemarle County ledger book (1871-1880; 0.5 cubic feet) is approximately 60 pages of accounts recorded; many names have been lined through, indicating the ledger was repurposed. Page 50 is an account "An approximation of all debts by me Jan. 1, 1879 with a view of comparisons on Jan'y 1880," and includes monies owed "Geo. M. McIntire, Druggist," "Patterson & Cochrane, Dry goods," and "A.C. Brechin Books," etc. Pages 52-61 record cash expended for the year 1879 and contain hundreds of...
Dates:
1871 - 1880
Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Sophia Bledsoe Herrick letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3461
Dates:
1858-1908
Alicia Wertenbaker Flynn letters
Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 16514
Content Description
This collection contains approximately forty-three letters to and from Alicia Middleton Wertenbaker Freeman Flynn. Correspondence include writings from her sons, Charles and John, in regards to Black Mountain College and their studies and artwork; writings from her second husband, John Rodney, the American actor; letters from Alicia to her mother, Alice DeLancy Girardeau. Also included are other family-related letters and Charlottesville receipts.
Dates:
1930 - 1944
John F. Allen letter
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899212]
Identifier: MSS 16358
Dates:
1855 August 25
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
Amanda's commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16549
Scope and Contents
Amanda's commonplace book album consists of 13 pages used for inscriptions and verse, a majority of them with the location "Germantown [PA]." Amanda's full name is not known.
Dates:
1873 - 1875
Amate bark paper manuscript Historia de la curacion de Antigua de San Pablito
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16551
Dates:
1979
Amate bark paper manuscript Tratamiento de una ofrenda pura pedir la lluvia
File — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16552
Scope and Contents
Handmade codex titled "Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia."
Dates:
1978-08-10
Amelia's friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16550
Content Description
Amelia's memory album and book of handwritten verse, approximately 6.5" x 4.75" brown leather bound with gilt decorated borders on covers and title on spine. It has marbled end papers. There are 46 pages used for inscriptions, verse, and literature, with a few dates in the range of 1823-1832.
Dates:
1823-1833
Amherst County Virginia subscription list
Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16475
Content Description
This collection consists of five pages of names and amounts of money to pledge support for the Confederate Army in the early stages of the Civil War. The title page says, "The undersigned promise and bind themselves to pay on demand to T.W. Dillard, Henry Loving, Samuel Richeson, John B. Wheeler, William Kent and John D. Davis the sums severally annexed to their respective names to be expended under the direction of Amherst County Court in equipping the volunteers from the said county under the...
Dates:
13 August 1861
Filtered By
- Library: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- letters (correspondence) 53
- commonplace books 45
- Black-and-white photographs 25
- Scrapbooks 21
- Photographs 17
- Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia) 16
- Ledgers (account books) 15
- University of Virginia 14
- Photograph albums 13
- clippings (information artifacts) 13
- Poetry 11
- Screenplays 11
- diaries 10
- manuscripts (documents) 10
- Friendship booklets 8
- Student life 8
- correspondence 8
- University of Virginia -- Alumni 7
- Women students 7
- women--education -- Virginia 7
- Authors and publishers 6
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- notebooks 6
- Drawings (visual works) 5
- Student activism 5
- Student organization 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 5
- United States History Civil War 1861-1865 5
- University of Virginia -- Faculty 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- World War, 1939-1945 5
- illuminated manuscripts 5
- minutes (administrative records) 5
- Love letters 4
- Slavery--United States -- Virginia 4
- Slavery--United States--History--19th Century 4
- Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 4
- United States. Navy 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 4
- authors 4
- enslaved persons 4
- magazines (periodicals) 4
- newspapers 4
- posters 4
- Abolitionists 3
- Aerial photographs 3
- African American business enterprises 3
- African American families 3
- African American fraternal organizations 3
- African Americans -- Virginia 3
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 3
- Art, Modern--20th Century 3
- Business records 3
- Buttons (information artifacts) 3
- Cabinet photographs 3
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 3
- Civil rights -- Virginia 3
- Color photographs 3
- Enslaved laborers 3
- Enslavers 3
- Family papers 3
- Friendship 3
- Political history 3
- Presidents -- United States 3
- Receipts 3
- Slides (photographs) 3
- Tobacco industry -- Virginia 3
- University of Virginia -- Co-education 3
- University of Virginia -- Department of English 3
- University of Virginia -- History 3
- University of Virginia -- Library 3
- University of Virginia -- Miller Center of Public Affairs 3
- University of Virginia -- School of Architecture 3
- University of Virginia--Students--Correspondence 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence 3
- human hair 3
- reports 3
- African American students 2
- African American women teachers 2
- African Americans 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 2
- African Americans -- Education 2
- African Americans -- Study and teaching 2
- Albemarle County (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 2
- Albemarle County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century 2
- Albemarle County (Va.) -- Photographs. 2
- American Literature--20th Century--History and Criticism 2
- Architecture -- Virginia -- Albemarle County. 2
- Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans. 2
- Audiocassettes. 2
- Autograph albums. 2
- Banks and banking -- United States 2
- Book design. 2
- Charlottesville (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 2
- Children’s books 2
- Engraving (printing process) 2
- Farm life -- United States 2
- Fraternities 2
- Freedmen 2 ∧ less
- Language
- English 687
- German 8
- French 6
- Latin 3
- Spanish; Castilian 3
- Arabic 1
- Burmese 1
- Chinese 1
- French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) 1
- Hungarian 1
- Italian 1
- Multiple languages 1
- Nepali 1
- Syriac 1
- Thai 1 ∧ less
- Names
- James Arsenault and Co. 3
- Karon, Jan (Janice), 1937- 2
- Max Rambod 2
- A.B. Dick Company 1
- Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company 1
- American Field Service 1
- Amherst (Va.) 1
- Asia 1
- Azher, Hira 1
- Baptiste, Jean 1
- Barber , John, 1893-1965 1
- Bardo Matrix (Firm) 1
- Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991 1
- Baumgartner, M. P. (Baumgartner, Mary Pat), 1953- 1
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 1
- Berhanu, Hibah 1
- Berkeley, William , Sir, 1605-1677 1
- Black, Donald J., 1941- 1
- Bligh, William, 1754-1817 1
- Blote, Harold C. 1
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 1
- Brown, James, 1933-2006 1
- Bruce, Lucy Bradbury, 1830-1902 1
- Buck, John Newton, 1820-1875 1
- Buck, Walker Davison, 1856-1910 1
- Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute 1
- Burke , John William, 1826-1898 1
- Burnett, Allison L. 1
- Cabet, Étienne, 1788-1856 1
- Call family 1
- Call, William Denison 1
- Cann, Elizabeth Sloan (Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann), 1917-2002 1
- Caryll, John, 1667-1736 1
- Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991 1
- Chivers, T.H. (Thomas Holley), 1809-1858 1
- Clanton , Vera Lee , 1916-2013 1
- Clanton, Berry 1
- Clark, Robert S., 1845-1916 1
- Clemm, Maria Poe, 1790-1871 1
- Cohen, Ira 1
- Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016 1
- Colette, 1873-1954 1
- Crane, Nathalia, 1913-1998 1
- Cullen, Mary Butler 1
- Dabney, Crystal Ray (Ross), 1900-1995 1
- Dabney, Lewis M. 1
- Davis, Roy 1
- Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854 1
- Derringer Books 1
- Digby, Theresa Anna Maria (Fox-Strangways), 1814-1874 1
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
- Dufief, N. G. (Nicolas Gouin), 1776?-1834 1
- Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878 1
- Epes, Branch J. (Jones), 1832-1911 1
- Eveleth, George Washington, 1819-1908 1
- Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 1
- Farrow, Sue A., 1832-1874 1
- Faulkner, Estelle Oldham, 1896-1972 1
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
- Ferencz, Szauer S. 1
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 1
- Fife, Francis H., 1920-2015 1
- Flemming, James 1
- Flynn, Alicia Wertenbaker, 1897-1989 1
- Foss, Edward Granville, 1938-2020 1
- Földvári Books 1
- Genoa Indian Industrial School (Genoa, Neb.) 1
- George C. Davis Studio 1
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945 1
- Glover, Mary Elizabeth , 1906-1987 1
- Gontier, Fernande 1
- Granbery, Ella Fayette Winston, 1837-1906 1
- Gray, Harriet Dudley Brown, 1867-1947 1
- Great Britain. Royal Naval Reserve 1
- Great Britain. Royal Navy 1
- Greenia, George D. 1
- Gresham, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Fenner), 1904-1985 1
- Griffin, Caroline Lydia, 1820-1861 1
- Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857 1
- Gulledge, Laura Lee 1
- Gunnell family 1
- Gunnell, Francis Mackall, Dr., Surgeon General of the United States Navy, 1827-1922 1
- Hampton Institute 1
- Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957 1
- Harrison, Gessner, 1807-1862 1
- Hayes, Daniel, 1649-1732 1
- Hering, Edwin A., Dr. 1
- Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth, 1807-1894 1
- Hubbard family 1
- Hughes, William E., 1926-2020 1
- Huntington, Randolph, 1828-1916 1
- Hutter, Christian Sixtus, 1891-1957 1
- Ingram, John Henry, 1842-1916 1
- Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 1
- Johnson, Nunnally 1
- Johnston, Eliza Ellen (Davidson), 1811-1837 1
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 1
- Keen, Ellie F. 1
- Keith-Falconer, Anthony Adrian, 7th Earl of Kintore, 1794-1844 1
- Kelly, Greg Antrim 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
∨ more