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African American man tintype portrait

 File — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16795
Content Description This collection features one 2.25 X4" tintype photograph of an unidentified African American man dressed in a three-piece suit with a bowtie, pocket square, and derby hat with a sash perched at a stylish angle on his head. The man leans against a marble column against a plain background in a studio. The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of enslaved African Americans across the United States. His suit, medium, and background suggest a date roughly...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

African American programs and photographs from Roanoke, and Wytheville, Virginia

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16901
Content Description This collection contains four programs and eight photographs documenting mid-twentieth-century African American life in Roanoke and Wytheville, Virginia. Two programs for Debutante Balls hosted by “The Altruists,” a club for Black women in Roanoke, are dated 1954 and 1977. The Altruist Club program for 1954 has "Stella Ednise Miller" in blue ink on the cover. A 1958 pamphlet for a Virginia Congress Colored P.T.A. annual work conference held at Scott Memorial School in Wytheville discusses...
Dates: 1954-1977
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Collection of photographs of African American Women in Chicago

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16797
Content Description This collection contains thirty-one photographs of young Black women in Chicago in 1940s-1950s.The photographs document the youth of a young woman named Bea and several of her friends Nedra, Vera, and others. Included are class photographs from Forestville Elementary School and Lucy Flower Technical High School. Flower Tech was an integrated school for girls. There are photographs of their prom, jazz clubs, and the girls out on dates, celebrating, and having fun. The jazz club...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1942-1954
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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...
Dates: 1940-1959
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

African Americans in rural Virginia photographs

 Collection — Folder: MSS 16923
Identifier: MSS 16923
Content Description This collection contains twenty black and white photographs, approximately 9 x 7 inches, depicting African American life, presumably in a segregated area in rural Virginia. The pictures have no annotations on the back, and the photographer is unknown. The location is also unclear; however, it may be somewhere near or in Fauquier County, Virginia. This location possibility is based on a photograph that depicts several storefronts, including a beauty salon which has two names painted on the...
Dates: C. 1940s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

African Heroes and Heroines printing plate by Lois Mailou Jones

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16828
Content Description

This collection contains a steel printing plate mounted on a block for the dust jacket of Dr. Carter G. Woodson's "African Heroes and Heroines," published by Woodson's publishing imprint Associated Publishers, Inc. in 1939. The cover illustration was created by Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), who illustrated many projects of Woodson, and the block has her name, "Lois M. Jones," in the plate's lower right corner.

Dates: 1939
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Agnes M. Marshall/American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-0089
Abstract

(1934-2010) Associate Professor of Nursing at Northwestern, Chicago, where she established and directed the graduate program in Neuroscience Nursing. Founder and second president of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, and launched its professional journal (J of Neuroscience Nursing); established the World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses. Includes Marshall's correspondence as well as items related to both professional organizations.

Dates: 1967-2009
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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...
Dates: 1871 - 1880
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albemarle County Medical Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-29
Scope and Contents The collection includes five boxes of membership applications; four boxes of subject-related files, including committee papers, the government and bylaws of ACMS, resolutions passed, and the women's auxiliary; one box of minutes from years 1951 to 2001; one box of correspondence from 1948-2002; and three boxes of financial records beginning in 1933. There is one photograph of nineteen of the presidents of the ACMS taken in 1981. The addition received in November 2019 was processed into four...
Dates: 1933 - 2015
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Albemarle Garden Club Records-Periwinkle Garden (addition 12)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 5520
Content Description This addition to MSS 5520, Albemarle Garden Club records (Periwinkle Cottage), contains one thumb drive with text description of the Garden Club of America's Garden History & Design Committee, 2016 (incl. planting lists, licenses, copies of articles, and possibly photos) and one folder labeled AGC Periwinkle Cottage 2017, Albemarle Garden Club Zone VII, Periwinkle garden Submission 2017. The folder contains miscellaneous papers and one disc labeled "Smithsonian Archives of American...
Dates: 2010 - 2017
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Sophia Bledsoe Herrick letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3461
Dates: 1858-1908
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alderman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS14818
Dates: 1779-1961
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

Alexandria Hospital School of Nursing records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-14
Scope and Contents

The Alexandria Hospital School of Nursing Records are comprised of 22 boxes of papers and archival material, including photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, Yearbooks, nursing caps and uniforms. The collection does *not* contain official student records such as transcripts. HSL does not know where these records were transferred when the school closed.

Dates: 1894 - 1987
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Alfonso García Robles papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-98-7
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of documents (1978-1986) relating to the Committee on Disarmament and a few photographs.

Dates: 1978 - 1988
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Alice Constance Burford Booth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-095
Abstract

(1920–2004) Faculty member at the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, specialist in psychiatric nursing. Papers include reference materials and notes concerning diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, along with course materials in the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. These relate the state of knowledge at mid-century.

Dates: 1940-1968
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

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Clark, Tom C., 1899-1977 2
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Dobie, Armistead Mason, 1881-1962 2
Eager, George B., Jr., 1888-1942 2
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 2
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Gregory, Charles O., 1902-1987 2
Grew, Joseph C., 1880-1965 2
Hashimoto, Kingoro, 1890-1957 2
Hata, Shunroku, 1879-1962 2
Hiranuma, Kiichiro, 1867-1952 2
Hirota, Koki, 1878-1948 2
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 2
International Court of Justice 2
Itagaki, Seishiro, 1885-1948 2
Karon, Jan (Janice), 1937- 2
Kaya, Okinori, 1889-1977 2
Keenan, Joseph B., 1888-1954 2
Kennedy, Edward M., 1932-2009 2
Kennedy, John F., 1917-1963 2
Kido, Koichi, 1889-1977 2
Kimura, Heitaro, 1888-1948 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Kneedler, H. Lane 2
Koiso, Kuniaki, 1880-1950 2
Marshall, John, 1755-1835 2
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Ribble, Frederick D. G., 1898-1970 2
Ritchie, John, III, 1904-1988 2
Sato, Kenryo, 1895-1975 2
Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 1887-1957 2
Shimada, Shigetaro, 1883-1976 2
Shiratori, Toshio, 1887-1949 2
Sutton, David Nelson, 1895-1974 2
Suzuki, Teiichi, 1888-1989 2
Tavenner, Frank S., Jr., 1895-1964 2
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 2
Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848 2
Umezu, Yoshijiro, 1882-1949 2
United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit) 2
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