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Collection
Identifier: MS-13
Scope and Contents
The collection includes regular and executive board minutes, financial statements, social services files, Annual Reports, and scrapbooks of photographs and miscellaneous materials.
Dates:
1908 - 2021
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-216
Scope and Contents
The Virginia Eagle was founded in 2002 as a “non-partisan political quarterly published by the University of Virginia School of Law.” Stephanie Russek, Ian Bryan, Lynne C. Fogarty, Kevin G. Ritz and Joseph Tubin were the founders of the new student publication that "wanted to explore the events that unfold far outside of our bucolic quadrangle, in “The Real World”.”
The Virginia Eagle had a short life and became inactive in 2004.
Dates:
2002 - 2004
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-204
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1979-2009
Collection
Identifier: 2022-098
Abstract
(b. 1924) Public health nurse in the San Francisco area, 1953–1979. Includes materials on her work to establish an endowed chair in "Ethical Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice" at the University of California San Francisco.
Dates:
1948-2004
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2021-03
Abstract
Small collection of personal memorabilia. Contains programs, catalogue, certificates, family tree.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1868 - 1969
Collection
Identifier: MSS15247
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16662
Content Description
11 letters from Alexander Theroux to Judy Barnes. Barnes, whose name is now Judith Music, describes the letters as such: “We had met in 1972 when he was on the faculty of Longwood College and I was a reference librarian there.” The dates of the letters are: 1 Letter (1973), 4 Letters (1974), 2 Letters (1978), 1 Letter (1979), 2 Letters (1980).
Dates:
1973 - 1980
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16474
Content Description
This collection contains the manuscript ledger book, "Record of Deaths" kept by Thomas H. Brown's Funeral Home, 301 Gill Street, Petersburg, Virginia. This book detailed the funerals of approximately 500 African Americans during the last years of the Great Depression. The volume opens with a twenty-four page alphabetical index, listing the names of the deceased persons with the number of the page for further information about their funerals. Entries for each funeral appear in chronological...
Dates:
1935 - 1941
Collection
Identifier: MSS12221
Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-7
Abstract
Circular letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Rhode Island, 11 January 1793.
Dates:
01-11-1793
Collection
Identifier: MS-83
Scope and Contents
The collection consists largely of the professional correspondence of T.R. Johns; his correspondents included H. Houston Merrit, Bernard J. Alpers, the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, and Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad. Other materials represented in the collection include Johns' committee work, office files, grant proposals, and research subject files. Topics among the collection include potential departmental hires, work for the School of Medicine Committee on Governance (Chaired...
Dates:
1956 - 1977
Box
Identifier: MSS 16184
Scope and Contents
The Sally H. Thomas papers (1968-2010; 76 cubic feet) document the political career of Sally H. Thomas as a member of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, as well as a member of the Albemarle County School Board. The materials in this collection mainly consist of Albemarle County Board of Supervisors correspondence, reports, budgets, site plans and maps, city-planning documents and publications, and related printed materials. Some of the topics emphasized are conservation, rural...
Dates:
1968 - 2010
Item — Box: BW 42, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16427
Scope and Contents Note
The Thruston family commonplace book (1604-1925; 0.03 cubic feet) documents the family history of the Thruston family of Bristol and Virginia, with early records concerning Martin's Hundred, Virginia, a plantation on the north shore of the James River, first settled in 1638. The manuscript opens with an "Epistle dedicatory" dated 25 October 1628 by Abell Louering, addressed to Robert Rogers, Esq., whose wife was present at the baptism of John Thruston's son John. The manuscript then passes...
Dates:
1604 - 1925
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589349]
Identifier: MSS 16241
Scope and Contents
Thyne Institute students photo album, 1935, 0.03 cubic feet contains 16 pages of black and white photographs. One photograph is stamped "Photo of E. M. Pardue."
Dates:
1935
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16706
Content Description
This collection contains the commonplace book of Margaret Tillotson. A full commonplace book, with many of the items religious in nature, such as psalms of personal importance, the ten commandments, Jewish translations for the months of the year, poems yearning to travel to Rome or other pilgrimage sites, besides the usual miscellaneous collection of poetry. Tillotson's father was John C. Tillotson (1791-1867) who was the son of Dr. Thomas Tillotson (1750-1832), Congressman and Secretary of...
Dates:
1837 - 1841
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16691
Content Description
The first notebook covers courses on modern languages taught by Professors Maximilian Schele de Vere and [George Frederick] Holmes. Generally divided into a French and Spanish section, with an "Index Variorum," "Notes on French Idioms," and timelines of authors' lives. The second notebook covers the courses on mathematics taught by Professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe, with sections on differential calculus, integral calculus, and analytical problems. The third...
Dates:
1854-1858
File
Identifier: MSS 16444
Scope and Contents Note
The Christopher Tompkins papers (1800-1803; 0.34 cubic feet) contains about 20 documents that record trade conducted between Virginia and Saint Domingue during two separate sailings of the Schooner Lively and the Schooner Dart in 1800 and 1801, both captained by Christopher Tompkins. The ships and goods belong to a Virginia man named Alexander Wilson who gave permission to Tompkins to sell the goods and the ships, in Saint Dominque. Of particular interest are the Haitian printed forms,...
Dates:
1800 - 1803
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589174]
Identifier: MSS 15955
Scope and Contents
This collection of a Sotère Torregian poem is 0.03 cubic feet, dated April 10, 1976 and is a handwritten impromptu poem to his publisher, Bob Hawley for his housewarming. It is, inscribed "Presented to Bob and Dorothy At our long-overdue reunion, in friendship, Sotere"
Dates:
1976 April 10
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589348]
Identifier: MSS 16240
Scope and Contents
William Wade Townes racing archive, 1827-1840, 0.03 cubic feet, contains information about breeding and racing thoroughbreds in Virginia including Bay mare by Director "now in foal by the celebrated race horse Stallion Arab," monies collected from 26 breeders for services of Stallion Timoleon, known as the Pride of Virginia, agreement between Townes and 5 co-partners to go to England to buy two thoroughbred stallions, and breeding agreements including Townes' horse McDuff and mare Fanny,...
Dates:
1827-1840
Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16713