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Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16713
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589458]
Identifier: MSS 16288
Scope and Contents
P. Traynor letter to Randolph Huntington, 1897, 0.03 cubic feet, concerning the Arabian horse, Lady Washington, and the fact that she was about to foal. He discusses the filly Hegira at length, noting its value as $1000, and briefly mentions the controversy surrounding Huntington's efforts to breed these horses.
Dates:
1897
Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899303]
Identifier: MSS 16019
Scope and Contents
A 2 x 21/2 inch miniature triangular folded "book" with green coated stock cover with applied printed cut-out images of an imp, a frog, and a chick on front (1860's). On back are the word "Peep in this and you will find amusements for the inquiring mind." Within is miniature verse found in fold-out pages that open into circles. The first page is titled, "How to Make Love," and appears to be written by a woman from a woman's perspective. As you turn and fold the 24 center, side, and back...
Dates:
[1860's]
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16733
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589499]
Identifier: MSS 16391
Scope and Contents Note
Polly Trumbull place book (1782; 0.04 cubic feet) contains extracts from Virgil, Thomson's Seasons, Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, The 5 Volume of the Spectator, Baxter's; Saints Everlasting Rest, and Principles of Politeness.
Dates:
1782 March 25
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14791
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, other documents, and photographs pertaining to Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker, his son Beverley Randolph Tucker II, and their families, most prominently being Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann, wife of Beverley Randolph Tucker II. This collection also includes two 1886 business letters of Confederate veterans Robert Boyd and Andrew Easley. There is also a small group of World War II letters of Beverley Randolph Tucker II, including a fundraising...
Dates:
1886-1973
Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16698
Content Description
Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.
Dates:
1843 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1843
Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589240]
Identifier: MSS 16079
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Mrs. Penny Tweedy, owner of race horse Secretariat, 0.03 cubic feet, 1974
Dates:
1974
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16423
Scope and Contents Note
The Theodore G. Twitchell papers (1965-1994; 0.96 cubic feet) document Twitchell's activity as a composer. Musical materials include original orchestral scores, individual instrument parts, photocopies, and piano reductions of works such as Tidewater, The Gettysburg Address, and The Pride of Monticello. The collection also includes correspondence and print materials documenting the performance of The Gettysburg Address for Abraham Lincoln's birthday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1965 - 1994
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16796
Content Description
This collection features an undated tintype photograph of two unidentified African American women dressed in Victorian-style dresses and hats. One of the women holds a bouquet that drapes over a bridge made of branches that the two figures are posed on in a photography studio. It measures 2.5 X 3.5 ". The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans across the United States. The medium of the photograph and the women's dress...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16694
Content Description
Memorial of Captain John Fenno Mansfield (1788-1812) in this Eulogium in calligraphy by Benjamin Owen Tyler. At Westpoint Tyler designed and accomplished this memorial dated November 20, 1816.Calligraphically and stylistically, the broadside bears all of the hallmarks of Tyler's penmanship and design such as floating cherubic heads. The Eulogium's most telling couplet states: "Science and Taste, united, would have shed/ A living luster round his honored head."Mansfield commanded...
Dates:
1770, 1816
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8540
Content Description
This addition to MSS 8540 Papers of Royall Tyler contains a autographed signed letter written in 1808 from Vermont Chief Justice Royall Tyler to New York publisher Isaac Riley discussing Tyler's preparation on the manuscript for publications of Tyler's "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Vermont." Riley would subsequently publish the work in two volumes, 1809-1810.The original collection contains four letters, 1810-1824, from...
Dates:
1808 - 1824
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16658
Content Description
Highly decorated autograph album with full color title page, "The Aldine Autograph Album with decorated spaces and lines for sentiment and name." A majority of the album is filled with inscriptions, verse, and autographs. The first inscription written at the front is from Rose's brother, "A birthday present from J. E. Tynan to his sister Rose, June 3rd, 1882." Recorded dates range from 1882-1901 with most of the inscriptions complete with locations, including Kittanning Penn., Fresno...
Dates:
1882 - 1901
Collection
Identifier: MSS-90-5
Abstract
Working draft of manuscript.
Dates:
undated
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589175]
Identifier: MSS 15957
Scope and Contents
The unidentied woman photograph (circa 1824; 0.03 cubic feet) was taken by a photography studio named Davis on Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia.
Dates:
circa 1860s
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16802
Content Description
This collection contains a photo album documenting the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This album includes images of patients in bathrobes relaxing on sunny, fresh-air “sleeping porches”; reclining in chairs; in bed; on the grounds of the home’s 200-acre complex; and in the company of nurses, staff, and administrators. Pictured extensively is the Union Printer's Home itself (called “The Mountain” by the printers and also referred to as the "the Castle"), which housed a...
Dates:
C.1931
Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589382]
Identifier: MSS 16296
Scope and Contents
Union Station in Richmond Virginia paint color research report by Margaret Long sTephenson, 1981 January 16, 0.03 cubic feet contains a final report, paint swatches, color slides,research notes, and correspondence.
Dates:
1981 January 16
Collection
Identifier: RG-50/3
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the Univeristy of Virginia's response to the events of August 11 and 12, including documentation created by President Sullivan's working group, progress updates, FAQs, community messages, and more. It also includes relevant articles published by UVA Today.
Dates:
2017
Collection — Digital_container: 1
Identifier: RG-6/5/1
Scope and Contents
The collection contains reproductions of banners made to celebrate Women's Day (March 8, 1990) and organized by the UVA Department of Anthropology.
Dates:
1990 March
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589354]
Identifier: MSS 16248
Scope and Contents
University of Virginia, and Charlottesville (and local counties) collection of correspondence, prints, and photographs, 1836-1891, 1985, 2011,0.04 cubic feet, of reproductions of pencil sketches of University Presidents Frank Hereford, Robert O'Neil by Eric Knowles, and a color photograph of the academic procession at the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan.
Dates:
1836-1891; 1985; 2011