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Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589224]
Identifier: MSS 16050
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669069]
Identifier: MSS 16503
Content Description
This collection contains two letters from Ephraim George Squier to Charles Eliot Norton discussing his book "Waikna; or, "Adventures on the Mosquito Shore" as well as other works in progress. These two letters were removed from the printed book, which has been cataloged separately.The first letter, dated Apirl 26, 1855, Squier describes how many pages that he has written of "foolscap" and how many pages of proof that he has to read before his passage to Europe. He mentions his...
Dates:
April 26 and May 16,1855
Collection
Identifier: 2022-015
Abstract
Combined donation of Patricia M. Quill (b. ca. 1935) and Pamela J. Brink concerning the St. Vincent's Hospital SON, where Quill was a student in the 1950s and later involved in alumnae activities. The collection includes a procedure manual, 1953; photographs; School of Nursing alumni directory, 1999; and historical pamphlets.
Dates:
1953-2018
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589323]
Identifier: MSS 16224
Scope and Contents
Stanley Methodist Church subscription, dated 1915, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a sheet with ruled lines and columns containing signatures and correlating dollar amounts to to pay the treasurer, D. M. Hodesett for the purpose of erecting a brick church building in the town of Stanley, Virginia.
Dates:
1915
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-317
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials that document the work of the State and Local Government Policy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. These materials include websites and publications. The collection also contains items documenting the clinic's participation in major projects including the Commission to Examine Racial and Economic Inequality in Virginia Law (2019-2022).
Dates:
2019 - 2023
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16683
Content Description
This collection contains Margaret Stephenson's research materials on the Nansemond County Training School (NCTS), a historic Rosenwald School for African-American students first constructed in 1924 in Suffolk, Virginia. The materials include historical files and pictures of the school and students, NCTS reunion day event materials and registration forms, newspaper clippings about the history and preservation of the school; and information on "Strength Through Our Roots", a...
Dates:
2000 - 2014; Majority of material found within 2013 - 2014
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2013-03
Abstract
This collection (1993-2003) contains photographs of Law School graduation ceremonies.
Dates:
1993-2003
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 8266
Content Description
Three autograph letters of Elizabeth Stoddard signed, to Ella Farman, author and editor of Wide Awake discussing the literary periodical press, payments to authors, and other matters. Written legibly in ink on three folded sheets of "E.D.B.S." (Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard) embossed stationary. This collection is an addition to Elizabeth Stoddard letters in the Barrett Collection (MSS 8266, 8266-a).
Dates:
circa 1875
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16452
Content Description
Photo album and scrapbook of Gladys Stone (ownership inscription on front leaf) of her time at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, founded in 1891 in Lynchburg, Va. 71 leaves, 56 filled, with photos and ephemera affixed on both rectos and versos. 82 photos include an African American worker, "Uncle Harry," a student in blackface, evocative images from 1914 Field Day and May Day, Commencement, the inauguration of President William Alexander Webb, individual images of nine sorority houses and...
Dates:
1913-1914
Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16714
Content Description
Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..."...
Dates:
1826 - 1838
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16433
Scope and Contents Note
The Stowe grocery store ledgers (1870-1934; 0.4 cubic feet) document the operation of the titular family's grocery store in Petersburg, Virginia. Ledgers document monthly expenses for items ranging from rent to flour to labor. The collection also contains a small file of personal letters and bills for appliances.
Dates:
1870 - 1934
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16645
Content Description
Amateur newspaper and handwritten essays by a young woman from Hopkinton, New Hampshire in the 19th century. Four handwritten essays, totaling eleven pages, plus a manuscript amateur newspaper, all signed by the author. The essays include a four page spoof titled "Autobiography of an old stove," describing the life of a stove from its existence as a lump of ore in an iron mine, to the manufactory, to being used in a schoolhouse. The other essays are titled "Summer," "Our talents," and "A...
Dates:
1888
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589227]
Identifier: MSS 16056
Scope and Contents
Francis T. Stribing, (the superintendent of the Western Lunatic Hospital in Staunton, Virginia) signed handwritten letters, 0.03 cubic feet, 1836-1854. One letter is to Peter Hoshorn of Woodstock, Virginia about a patient. Other letters are from Evelyn Boyd Walker of Brandon Plantation about the condition of her mother, and E. Watts of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Dates:
1836-1854
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3014
Scope and Contents
Aubrey E. Strode (1861-1969,88 cubic feet) was a Virginia lawyer, state senator and eugenics advocate who drafted the Virginia sterilization law and brought Buck vs. Bell to the Supreme Court. This collection consists of his personal and professional papers concerning his family, law practice, army service, political and legislative activities as a member of the Virginia Senate, the Virginia Democratic Party and the Progressive movement, and as a co-owner of the newspaper, The Amherst...
Dates:
1861-1969
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589429]
Identifier: MSS 16111
Scope and Contents
Shirley Copenhaver Farrier Strother interviews, 2015 February 12, 2015 March 10, 2015 April 10, 0.03 cubic feet, and transcribed by William M. Finley, III.
Dates:
2015 February 12, 2015 March 10, 2015 April 10
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-205
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-210
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-200
Scope and Contents
The records of the Student Legal Forum are comprised of general files, correspondence, photos, newspapers clippings, card file of speakers, tapes and miscellaneous materials.
Of note is a scrapbook of clippings begun when Robert Kennedy was president of the SLF.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1946-1987
Collection
Identifier: 2022-010
Abstract
Administrative materials: meeting minutes, membership, correspondence, related professional organizations.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1980s-1990s
Collection
Identifier: MSS13205