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Mrs. Samuel J. C. Moore letter
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589219]
Identifier: MSS 16024
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Samuel J. C. Moore letter. (Samuel's grandmother, E. C. Moore) to Samuel's wife Ellen about her concern for them during the John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. 1859, November 15, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1859 November 15
Moot courts at the University of Virginia School of Law records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-202
Scope and Contents
Collection RG-32-202 consists of the following materials documenting the history of moot courts at the University of Virginia: meeting minutes, briefs, ledgers, programs, handbooks, and awards.
Dates:
1849 - 2025
James Palmer Morgan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16841
Content Description
This collection contains the papers and photograph album that documents the life and career of a noted African American horse racing jockey, trainer, and self-taught veterinarian, James Palmer Morgan (1916-2002).He was sought out across the country for his knowledge and was ranked as the 12th driver in the United States in 1955.The album has ten leaves, containing thirteen photographs, assorted newspaper excerpts, and ephemeral items. Tipped into the front of the album are...
Dates:
1964-1974
Morris Plan Bank of Virginia records
Item
Identifier: MSS 16412
Scope and Contents Note
Three ledger books, a bundle of cancelled checks, and one deposit pass book, all from the Morris Plan Bank of Virginia. The three ledgers contain stock certificates from 1923 (four in number), 1931 (100 in number), and 1933-1934 (25 in number). The bundle of checks are written to a variety of recipients and span the years 1937 to 1946. The undated deposit pass book contains payment slips and schedule for a loan of $100.Collection also contains a series of papers documenting the...
Dates:
1923 - 1946
Maria Morse commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589488]
Identifier: MSS 16319
Scope and Contents
Maria Morse commonplace book, 1828-1876, 0,.03 cubic feet is a cCommercially produced album with covers of hand-marbled paper with red leather corners and binding, and hand-marbled endpapers. Printed title page reads The Album. / E. Hunt & Co. Middletown Con." Owner has illustrated half-title with heart-shaped flower illustration and a stamp 'The Property of / Maria Morse." Hand-painted floral illustrations in a similar style appear throughout the volume. One page includes an example of...
Dates:
1828-1876
Mortimer M. Caplin papers and memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-04-5
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects Mortimer M. Caplin's life during his years as a student at the University of Virginia and as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. It consists primarily of awards, photographs, certificates, articles, interviews, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1930 - 2014
Morton-Halsey family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3995
Content Description
The Morton and Halsey family papers and addition (MSS 3995) contain family letters and some business letters, financial and legal papers, diaries, ledgers, printed items, and photographs belonging to the family of Jeremiah Morton (1899-1878), his wife Jane Smith Morton, and his son-in-law Joseph Jackson "J. J." Halsey (1820-1907) Halseys' wife, Mildred Halsey and their children and grandchildren with the family papers spanning from 1838 to 1951 in Culpeper, and Orange County, Virginia as...
Dates:
ca. 1833-1951
Ange Denis M’Quin "Series of Heads" Album
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16934
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small quarto (9 1/8 X 7 1/2 inches) of over a hundred caricatures created by Ange Denis M’Quin (Ange-Denis Macquin) (1756-1823). A pen and ink manuscript title page that reads "A Series of Heads by A.D.M." with a roundel of sixteen heads is dated at the lower right-hand corner, "June 1819." An index follows with four handwritten pages and then a sub-title page, "A congeries of heads, May 1819," with a quote from Macbeth and an illustration of heads drawn together...
Dates:
1812 - 1819
Muller-Jones Surgical Society records
Collection
Identifier: MS-49
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, programs of the biennial Society meetings, and organizational constitutions and by-laws.
Dates:
1966-2011
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Mundy family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15895
Scope and Contents
The Mundy family papers, MSS 15895, 0.8 cubic feet, 1860-1970, consists of business, financial, and legal papers related to the Mundy Company, and Mundy family properties including Allen's Creek in Amherst Lynchburg, Virginia (Gladstone property), and Botelier Place. Also of interest are papers about William Stark Mundy, Jr. as a Rhodes Scholar and letters from his wife's ancestors, Christopher Valentine Winfree and Virginia Brown when they were courting as well as some Winfree family...
Dates:
1860-1970
Michael Murphy "Seance" screenplay
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589270]
Identifier: MSS 16119
Scope and Contents
Michael Murphy's original screenplay Seance (1966; 0.03 cubic feet) was written for a television episode. It was part of a series but this episode was never produced. Each show was a seance, given by four "distinquished guests," and the specter they attempt to "recall." This episode is about Ernest Hemingway. Throughout the episode the guests converse with Hemingway, asking him questions about his youth and his writing career. The episode ends with a hint at the following week's episode...
Dates:
1966
Music festival in Charlottesville press photograph
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589254]
Identifier: MSS 16094
Scope and Contents
Music fesival in Charlottesville press photograph, 1931, 0.03 cubic feet, 8x10 original with newspaper caption, "1,000 sing at music festival--the greatest music festival event in Viginia history, the Virginia music festival at Charlottesville recently came to a close. A feature was the chorus of 1,000 voices singing Schubert's Mass in E flat. The mass was directed by Dr. T. Tertius Noble, of New York. ACME-P&A press pPhoto 4/18/31.
Dates:
1931
Music Library director files
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12/30
Content Description
This addition contains the Music Library's director files. It includes correspondence, guides, donor files, bibliographies, notes, reports, and photographs that document the work and collections of the Music Library. Documented collections include those of Randall Thompson, Jefferson’s Music Library, Lenneberg report, John Powell collection, and the Constantine record collection, among others. In addition to these records, there are bibliographies, guides, and materials related to oral...
Dates:
1971-2006
Paul Barringer Myers papers
Collection — Box: BW 59, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16878
Content Description
This collection contains four letters written by Paul Barringer Myers (1878-1918). Three of the letters are written on University of Virginia letterhead. The letters are addressed to Virginia Wilhoite and Julia Fay Hurt, who attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois. Most of Myers’s letters were addressed to Julia Fay Hurt. James C. Hurt, Julia’s brother, was a law student at the University of Virginia in 1900, and maybe how Myers knew Julia. The letters' primary topic is a romantic...
Dates:
April-September 1898
Isabella A. Myler album
Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16619
Mylius family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16091
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of several dozen documents, 1930's, 0.015 cubic feet, including letters with Nazi postmarks, Heil Hitler signatures, visa applications, receipts, biographical sketch, genealogy publications, photographs, church documents, and printed songs and poems. Most of the letters are in German.
Dates:
1914-1944
Myra Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2022-037
Abstract
(b. 1916) Last director of the Blue Ridge Tuberculosis Sanatorium before its 1972 closure. World War Two Navy nurse at Pearl Harbor: largely a photographic collection from this wartime period.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1941-1945
William Nalle, Jr. papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16620
Nancy Milio Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2022-103
Abstract
(b. ca. 1940) Highly significant collection. Milio was a public health nurse and community organizer in Detroit, Michigan. Materials concern a pediatric and women's health clinic established by Milio in southeast Detroit's low-income/minority Kercheval and McClellan neighborhood. Nine field notebooks present a near-daily record of operations, conversations, assessments — yielding insights on race relations and identity, and on collaborative organizational strategies. 1994 audio tape...
Dates:
1952-2015
Bernard Narokobi"s History of Wautogik Village typescript
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16560