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Mrs. Dennis Berry Freedom certificate

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589320]
Identifier: MSS 16218
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Dennis Berry Freedom certificate, Shenandoah County, dated 1825, consists of 0.03 cubic feet and is a handwritten statement made before a justice of the peace, stating that Samuel Few has made an oath that he has been a long time acquaintance of the wife of Dennis Berry and that to his knowledge she is a free women, and is signed by Sam Woodstock.

Dates: 1825
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Beseler Lantern Slide Company salesman sample catalogs

 File
Identifier: MSS 16424
Scope and Contents Note

The Charles Beseler Lantern Slide Company salesman sample catalogs (1890s-1920; 1.2 cubic feet) document a portion of the titular company's product line at the turn of the 20th century. The collection consists of ten albums--about 950 lantern slide prints in total--on a variety of topics. Many photographs are of historical and Christian figures, while others range from architecture and engineering diagrams to landscapes and artwork.

Dates: 1890s-1920s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bessie's friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16536
Content Description

This collection contains one friendship album with pink, yellow, and blue colored pages filled with verse, inscriptions, and original drawings and illustrations. The inscription at front reads: "To Bessie, Wishing her many happy returns of her birthday with love from Lena & Will, August 13, [19]08."

Dates: 1908-1911
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Christine Best friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16534
Content Description

This collection contains a single book with 29 pages of inscriptions, autographs, and verse dated between 1839-1841, from Hudson New York. The first inscription was written by Christine Best, owner of the album, and includes a color illustration and title, "Christine Best's Book Hudson July 22, 1839." Original black leather embossed boards, highly decorated; red leather spine with gilt decoration.

Dates: 1839-1841
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bet letter to Littleton W.T. Wickham

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899213]
Identifier: MSS 16359
Dates: After 1853 September 5
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Beta Louise Michelberger Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-022
Abstract

(1927–2013) Cadet Nurse Corps, student documents/records of mid-20th-century nursing education. Faulkner Hospital School of Nursing, Boston; later career at Boston Lying-in Hospital operating room (and successor facility) 1969–1994. This collection is not processed.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1969-1994
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Beth Wharton Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-00-2
Abstract

Oversized photographs of University of Virginia students, 1920-1926.

Dates: early 1890s-1926
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Betty Joe Coyner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-039
Abstract

Director, University of Virginia Heart Center Nursing; items concerning her "Model Hospital Project" study, 1992. This collection is partially processed.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Betty Norris Professorship Fund Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-056
Abstract

These documents concern the establishment (and perhaps awarding) of the endowed professorship chair named for Betty Norris. University of Virginia School of Nursing. This collection is not processed.

Dates: 1990s
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Beulah R. Beach Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-030
Abstract

(b. 1904) Student notebook pages from Worcester State Hospital School of Nursing, Worcester, Massachusetts. Monograph on dosage, 1949, used by Beach's daughter at St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, New Bedford, Massachusetts. This collection is not processed.

Dates: 1923-1926, 1949
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Beverly C. Mosby papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16171
Scope and Contents This collection of Beverly C. Mosby papers of about 60 items, one half size legal document box, .04 cubic feet, contains business letters of Beverley C. Mosby and letters of the Mosby family, including John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916)Confederate Colonel in the American Civil War. There is also a letter about President Mckinley helping John Singleton Mosby to obtain a job in the Justice Department and letters from John Singleton Mosby to his son, Beverley C. Mosby about family news and...
Dates: 1899-1910
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16481
Content Description

This collection contains the 1798 bill of sale for an eight year old Creole boy named Jean Baptiste from Port-au-Prince on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). It was written by the Bordeaux-born merchant Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) to a " Monsieur Grandidier". It is a single sheet of paper consisting of eleven lines of french detailing the transaction of enslavement including the name and age of the boy and the price of sale of a hundred livre.

Dates: 1798-03-03
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Billye Jean Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-034
Abstract

Dean of the School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin, retired 1989. Sigma Theta Tau items; miscellaneous nursing education materials. This collection is partially processed.

Dates: 1967-1989
Found in: The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

James A. Binford journal

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589358]
Identifier: MSS 16254
Scope and Contents

James, A. Binford journal, 1872-1873, 0.03 cubic feet, includes notes for Mr. Binford's meetings in relation to his work as school superintendent of the Richmond schools.

Dates: 1872-1873
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jonathan A. Bishop papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16392
Scope and Contents The Jonathan A. Bishop papers (1897-1924; 0.25 cubic feet) consist of his letters to his wife, Florence Collier Bishop, during his service as a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Spanish-American War (1898-1899) and government documents regarding a pension for his wife (1897-1924), totaling over 80 items. There is also one letter from his wife describing a lynching of an African American man named John Henry James on July 12, 1898 at Wood's Crossing, Charlottesville, Va. Also included is a...
Dates: 1897 - 1924
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Black and Brown Trading Stamp Albums

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-16479
Content Description

This collection contains three empty Black and Brown trading stamp albums, and two filled Black and Brown trading stamp albums. Also included are approximately 75-100 unattached twenty-five cent Black and Brown stamps featuring James Brown.

Dates: circa 1969
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Donald Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15031
Scope and Contents This collection contains items from Donald Black’s life and career, spanning from the 1930s up until the 2010s, ranging from personal memorabilia from his high school years, to his research in graduate school, to drafts of his major published works, to his professional involvement in sociology and universities, all the way up to correspondence concerning his retirement from the University of Virginia in 2016. Some folders contain groupings of files that remain as-is from their arrangement...
Dates: 1935-2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Blair family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 11694
Scope and Contents The Blair family papers (1821-1949) contains the personal correspondence of Lewis Harvie Blair, Martha Ruffin Feild Blair, and Jean Feild Blair Helion; drafts of various works by Lewis H. Blair; a copy of Lewis H. Blair’s "On the Prosperity of the South;" unpublished writings from Mr. Blair’s family members; interior decorating books by Brown Landone; personal finances; a sampling of checks; letters and financial documents from the Hideaway Motor Court; insurance documents; photographs of...
Dates: 1821-1949 (bulk 1920-1940)
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Blanks, Dabbs and Co. ledger

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16443
Dates: 1857-1859
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lieutenant William Bligh diary leaf recounting his uncomfortable journey to London (for surveying the Coast near Dungeness in preparation of the Napoleonic Wars)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16499
Content Description Lieutenant William Bligh diary handwritten leaf recounting his uncomfortable journey to London (for surveying the Coast near Dungeness in preparation of the Napoleonic Wars)in 1803. He writes, Friday 16, 1803 "[Dear Wm?] At 4 this morning I got into the [Balloon] Coach [ ] Passengers [two] ladies, sisters called Miss Wear's. Very much [destroyed?] by the frequent stopping of the coachmen.Saturday 17, 1803 "D. [Wm] After a tedious & unpleasant nights traveling and...
Dates: 16-17 [December?] 1803
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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