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Collection
Identifier: 2022-058
Abstract
World War Two Army Nurse. Scrapbook materials including extensive photograph collection from 1943–1945, including stateside training and service in the Pacific theater, Japan. Digital media contains 2004 audiotape interview.
Dates:
1943-1945, 2004
Collection
Identifier: 2022-031
Abstract
American Association of the History of Nursing newsletters by Bjoring as organizantion president, biographical items, keepsakes. Includes original British edition of Florence Nightingale's "Notes on Nursing," 1860.
Dates:
1860, 1965-2011
Collection
Identifier: MS-16
Scope and Contents
The Elizabeth Brown Mulholland Gamble Papers include correspondence to and from Elizabeth Brown Mulholland Gamble. Also included are a Woman's Hospital Auxiliary Badge and two photographs.
Box 18, Folder 11 located in the Edward W. Hook Papers deal with the dedication of a courtyard garden at the University of Virginia Hospital in her honor. Historical Collections & Services houses a complementary collection, University of Virginia Hospital Auxiliary (Hospital Circle)...
Dates:
1951 - 1973
Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16464
Content Description
This collection contains "The Star" 1924 yearbook for ‘Grade 7B,’ handwritten by Buckingham County teacher, Mary Elizabeth Glover. Each page has a student's name and quotes and comments about them. Many pages include a small photograph of the child named.
Dates:
1924
Collection
Identifier: 2022-094
Abstract
(b. 1933) Maternal Child Nursing professor, Certified Nurse Midwife program. Materials from throughout her academic career at the University of New Mexico, University of Kentucky, and Medical University of South Carolina Schools of Nursing; especially items concerning social anthropologist Martha Beth Hicks. Frontier Nursing Service and Penn Center of Saint Helena Island, South Carolina are represented.
Dates:
1946-2014
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS15274
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16650
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589489]
Identifier: MSS 16356
Scope and Contents
Elk Creek furnace records, 1844-1849, 0.03 cubic feet containing business letters of Alex N. Montgomery, owner of the Elk Creek furnace located in Nelson County, near Lynchburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1844-1849
Collection
Identifier: MS-59
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 28 folders containing postcards, photographs, and publications pertaining to Ella Thomas Whitten's experiences in World War I and later service as a nurse in Virginia. The collection also includes 9 certificates and diplomas recieved by Ella Thomas Whitten throughout her nursing career. 14 nursing artifacts, mostly related to Ella Thomas Whitten's service during World War I, are cataloged with the medical artifacts collection and are also listed as part of this...
Dates:
circa 1914-1979
Collection
Identifier: 2022-023
Abstract
University of Virginia School of Nursing graduate, 1979: student notebooks, exercises, and papers; labs, related course materials.
Dates:
1970s
Collection
Identifier: 2022-067
Abstract
(b. 1924) University of Virginia School of Nursing graduate, Air Force nurse, 27–year career, Colonel, retired. Personal papers include correspondence, a wide range of publications, certificates, and alumni activities.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1950s-1980s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16168
Scope and Contents Note
The Joseph Elsleger papers (1944-1945; 0.4 cubic foot) document Elsleger's time spent as a prisoner of the German Army in World War II, after his plane was shot down over France on June 23, 1944. The collection includes two diaries distributed by the YMCA chapter in Geneva, Switzerland: one blank save an introductory letter and one used by Elsleger. The latter's contents include drawings of the prison camp, makeshift recipes, photographs of unidentified people (presumably from Elsleger's...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16393
Scope and Contents
These items document the early-career inspiration and late-career work of architect Alfred Oscar Elzner.The first album features approximately 75 sketches and floor plans made during Elzner’s time working with architect James W. McLaughlin. The majority of the plans within the book are not Elzner's designs, but his sketches of houses he found interesting. Of particular interest to Elzner was Henry Hobson Richardson's work, and there are numerous sketches of the houses he...
Dates:
1883 - 1923
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16823
Content Description
This collection contains a brown faux leather photo album (7.25" X 11.25") belonging to Bessie Emanuel. Bessie (1902-1984) was raised in White Plains, New York. She was the first Black woman in her town to attend college, entering the Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1922. The photographs are dated from 1922 to 1924 and capture daily life at the Institute, sports events, friends, and family. Captions are found throughout the album. A picture of Bessie with her family in the Hampton...
Dates:
1922-1924
Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16804
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12840
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16710
Content Description
Document for the hire of an enslaved person named Ben, for $90.00 until December 25, 1852 possibly in Charlestown, West Virginia. Signed by John L. & W. N. Craighill. Docketed on the verso. The document specifies clothing to be furnished during the term of employment and requires the Craighills to return Ben with "a good wool hat, a blanket, a pair of winter shoes, two pair of home-made yarn stockings, one shirt, and a coat, waistcoat, and pants of good fulled-linsey, and pay his...
Dates:
1851-12-29
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16469
Content Description
This collection contains one notebook with handwritten notes on lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, with some earlier lectures during his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney College. These notes seem to be lectures on philosophy and ethics rather than law, perhaps taken at different stages of Epes's matriculation, with reference to Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, and Stewart. One early lecture may be attributed to "McGuffie" suggesting possibly William Holmes McGuffey (of McGuffey Reader...
Dates:
1850 - 1853
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-404
Scope and Contents
Special Collection has been collecting these miscellaneous files over a period of many decades. There is an excel.doc with all the information.
Dates:
1866 - 2005
Collection — Artifact: MSS2198_001_Portfolio
Identifier: MSS 2198
Content Description
This collection contains a 2977-acre estate map of Hawfield, Orange County, Virginia. The map measures 48"x50" and was commissioned by Captain William G. Crenshaw, owner of Hawfield. It denotes field use, service and public use roads, outbuildings, homes, barns, potential enslaved community ruins. Mentioned are Mt. Pisgah Church (now defunct but was prominently mentioned in Civil War accounts from the area), and adjacent property owners. Individual trees, springs, and other...
Dates:
April 1877