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Esther Lightner Matson and Frank A. Matson autograph albums

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16486
Content Description This collection contains two similarly designed autograph albums belonging to Esther Lightner Matson and her husband Frank A. Matson. The albums contain inscriptions to Esther Lightner Matson from fellow students and teachers at the Santee Normal School and to Frank A. Matson from the Genoa Indian School, both Native American Residential schools in Nebraska and taught by Quakers in the 1880’s. The albums look like typical nineteenth century autograph albums except for the page(s) that are...
Dates: 1880 - 1899
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

European figure engravings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS11388
Dates: 1535-1849
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dixon Evans letter to James Evans about Dixon's murder of an enslaved person

 Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16719
Content Description

Autographed signed letter from Dixon Evans to his brother James Evans in Fayetteville, North Carolina with his acccount of his shooting, and killing an unnamed enslaved person from Marion, South Carolina. The enslaved person was trying to obtain food from the dairy and smokehouse. Dixon Evans was being sued by Nathaniel Evans who was the owner of the enslaved person. Dixon Evans blames the enslaved person for Dixon's own murderous actions.

Dates: 1850-10-04
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Evelyn Crary Bacon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-004
Abstract

US Army Nurse Corps, UK; faculty member University of Virginia School of Nursing, Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, J. S. Reynolds Community College. Leader in Virginia nursing education: Virginia State Board of Nursing, Virginia Nurses Association, Virginia League for Nursing, Southern Regional Education Board.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1942-1985
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Evie Lee Bowcock papers

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS15196
Dates: 1864, 1882-1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ewing Memorabilia

 Collection — Container: MSS 2015-02, Box 1
Identifier: MSS-2015-02
Abstract

Small memorabilia collection with photographs of the 1936 graduation and of The Lawn.

Dates: 1892 - 1894; 1936; 1982-04-21
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Examinations of the University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-401
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of examinations that the University of Virginia Law School administered to students between 1890 and 2018. It also includes a few examples of examination answers.

The examinations exist in diverse media formats. Most of them are printed on paper, and most printed examinations are bound together into volumes. The other examinations were born digital and were initially made available to students online or on digital media (e.g., CDs, DVDs).

Dates: 1890 - 2018
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Explorations in Black Leadership project papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16674
Content Description This collection contains briefings with preparatory materials, questions and notes for oral histories conducted as part of the Explorations in Black Leadership project. The briefings were often compiled by interns with the Institute for Public History and included interview questions, possible answers prepared for Julian Bond (the primary interviewer), biographical information, handwritten notes, and correspondence. The collection also includes audio and video cassettes, CDs, and DVDs of...
Dates: 1998 - 2015
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Captain John Exton letter

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589257]
Identifier: MSS 16314
Scope and Contents

Captain John Exton letter, 1864, 0.03 cubic feet, written to "Bob," describing his march to Richmond and the conditions he faced as well as the various battles he endured along the way.

Dates: 1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Extracts of letters about Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson, and Washington D. C.

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589268]
Identifier: MSS 16117
Scope and Contents Extracts of letters about Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson, and Washington D. C. from a gentleman on a visit to the University of Virginia in 1830 and consists of 0.03 cubic feet. He mentions that he was a childhood friend of Thomas Jefferson and knew Daniel Boone, John Adams, and Justice John Marshall. He also writes about touring Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D. C.. There are comments about paintings in the Capitol rotunda, especially the paintings by John Trumbull on the The...
Dates: 1830
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

F. A. T. Magazine

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589239]
Identifier: MSS 16078
Scope and Contents

F. A. T. magazine, 0.03 cubic feet, 1884, presumably by Charles F. Leland, a handwritten manuscript of weekly humor periodical with color drawings,stories, rhymes, riddles, and more, with at times bawdy illustration and also natural history drawings.

Dates: 1884
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

F. S. Beverly v. Everette B. Stanley - Election Contest, Dickenson County, Virginia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2004-06
Abstract

Bound legal documents, depositions, related to an election contest in Dickenson County, Virginia.

Dates: 1943 - 1945
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty Arboretum Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-306-81
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding the landscape of North Grounds, ca. 1977-1980. Blueprint of proposed landscaping of North grounds, 1975.

Dates: 1975 - 1980
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty biographical files - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-403
Scope and Contents

Vertical files with faculty memorabilia gathered by Special Collections since 1982. Consist of newspapers articles, papers, invitations, programs, etc.

Dates: 2014
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty Building Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-301
Abstract

Committe files: notes, correspondence, plans, blueprints.

Dates: 1978
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty Curriculum Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-305
Scope and Contents

Files for committee matters. Also one file on the Student Curriculum Committee (chaired by Nusbaum in 1979)

Dates: 1980 - 1993
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty Dean Search Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-303-79
Scope and Contents

Records for the 1976 selection of Emerson Spies to succeed Monrad Paulsen as dean.

Dates: 1979
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty Flexible Exam Committee Report

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-308-82
Scope and Contents

Committee's final report to the dean, 1 March 1982.

Dates: 1982-03-01
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Faculty Long-Range Planning Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-312
Abstract

Committee files

Dates: 1977
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer fox hunting journal

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16526
Dates: 1820 - 1823
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit) 2
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