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Virginia State Fair photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589394]
Identifier: MSS 16027
Virginia Surgical Society records
Collection
Identifier: MS-80
Scope and Contents
The collection includes organizational record books, membership lists, correspondence, by-laws and constitutions, meeting minutes, annual meeting reports and publications, and photographs.
Dates:
1952 - 2002
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Virginia Tax Review records
Collection
Identifier: RG-32-220
Scope and Contents
The Records of the Virginia Tax Review [1993-2010]t (1 archival box, .3 linear ft.), consist of administrative files related to the publication of the journal. The archives retained contracts with the authors, two files of correspondence with Mortimer Caplin, an SBA file with a handbook and guidelines, and the Course Syllabus for the Alternative Dispute Resolution class taught by William L. Waddell.Orders of contract proof, distribution and offprint orders were recycled after...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1993-2019
Virginia Union University Class of 1950 photograph
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589312]
Identifier: MSS 16203
Scope and Contents
Virginia Union University Class of 1950 photograph, 1950, 5 x7 inch black and white outdoor photo taken on the steps of a prominent building, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1950
Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and New York photographs
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 15684
Scope and Contents Note
The photo album (circa 1880s-1910s; 0.15 cubic feet) contains scenes of ships in Hampton Roads including the U.S.S. San Francisco, U.S.S. Brooklyn, the Cape Charles light ship, the Princess Anne, and the St. Louis. There are scenes of the seashore at Virginia Beach and Richmond. Beyond Virginia, scenes include monuments in Baltimore, Maryland, various streets and historical sites in New York City, and the United States Capitol. The album consists of a total of 50 pages, 8 of...
Dates:
circa 1900
Petra Vogt papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -16480
Content Description
This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...
Dates:
1966 - 1978
Von Frieling's Salve collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-65
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 17 folders. In addition to the untitled book, designated the "Von Frieling Sammelband," the collection contains photocopies of the book and materials related to the 20th century version of Von Frieling’s green butter salve, also called Von Frieling’s plaster salve. These materials include documentation and packaging for the salve, patent paperwork, correspondence, and various items related to herbal medicine and early German printing, as well as two...
Dates:
circa 1512-1977,; Majority of material found within 1900-1932
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Carl von Lang-Puchhof thoroughbred racehorse portrait album
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16136
Scope and Contents Note
The von Lang-Puchhof album (1891-1911; 0.25 cubic feet) consists of 165 racehorse photographs from a golden age of European racing before breeding was disrupted by the Great War. Most of the photographs are of mares, often with foals, in each case fully named with the identity of the sire provided. Two additional photographs are mounted on boards and laid in. The album was apparently compiled by or for owner and breeder, Carl von Lang-Puchhof.
Dates:
1891-1911
Votes for Women printing block
Collection — Box: BW 54, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16793
Content Description
The collection contains a printing block measuring 6" x 7.5" x 1" made of wood and metal. The printing block is headlined "Roll of Honor" with a suffrage pennant emblazoned "Votes for Women" below. Underneath the pennant, an inscription reads, "Distinguished people who have declared themselves for woman suffrage." Beneath are columns titled "Statesman," "Preachers," "Men of Letters," and "Educators." These columns list names such as Mark Twain, Plato, and Jack London. Though uncredited, this...
Dates:
circa 1909
Wade Hampton Frost papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-2
Scope and Contents
Historical Collections and Services houses seventeen boxes of Wade Hampton Frost materials. The Frost Papers include personal and official correspondence, photographs, scientific publications, newspaper articles, taped interviews, and assorted memorabilia pertaining to Wade Hampton Frost and his family. Frost's daughter, Susan Frost Parrish, donated the collection to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1984 with added research notes. (It is noted that the maiden name of Susan Frost...
Dates:
1880-1938; 1938-1984
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs Tea at the White House
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589217]
Identifier: MSS 16014
Scope and Contents
Waleski photograph collection on the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs tea at the White House, 0.03 cubic feet, of members on the grounds of the White House and Arlington Cemetery. Photographs of Dorothy Waleski, Pat Person, Lucille Bland, and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace (wife of the Vice-President).
Dates:
1941 May
Mrs. G. J. Walker collection
File — Box: BW 38-115
Identifier: MSS 38-115
Scope and Content
An autograph album of a Miss Glasgow, of Virginia, contains autographs, 1842-1847, of American statesmen including John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Henry A. Wise.
The collection also includes a note from Henry Clay, 1847 July 30, responding to a request for an autograph; "In memoriam," a poem "written for Harrie [?] W. Kuhl after his death by Davis"; a letter from George [McCorkle], Newport News, Va., 1901 Dec. 26, to his sister Juliette McCorkle,...
Dates:
1842-1901
Nikuyah Walker Charlottesville City Council Campaign Ephemera
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16561
Walter O. Klingman papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-76
Content Description
This accession consists of materials belonging to Water O. Klingman, a neurologist at the University of Virginia. The papers includes lecture notes, personal correspondence, research files, and various materials from professional associations, pharmaceutical and equipment companies, and Klingman’s military service. Note that there is no Box 3.
Dates:
1955-1962
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
I.T. Walton dental account book
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16830
Content Description
This collection contains an account book of a Virginia dentist, Dr. I.T. Walton, who worked in Appomattox, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, and Albemarle Counties. The book recorded services for white, enslaved, and free Black patients between 1857 and 1861. The account book documents procedures, tooth conditions, and overall health assessment of patients and includes prices for cleanings, toothache drops, "gold plugs," and various "temporary" and "amalgam" fillings, as well as for...
Dates:
1857-1861
Ward Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-16097
Scope and Contents
The Ward Family letters containing less than one document box, approximately 100 letters, and .02 cubic feet consist of letters from Robert P. Ward (“Bobby" or "Bob"), Lawrence ("Larry") Ward, and David (“Duke”) Ward and his wife, Aldine, to their mother, Dona E. Ward in Richford, New York. Robert is in the Navy on the U. S. S. Missouri during the Korean War, Lawrence is entering naval training at the United States Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois, and David ("Duke") Ward and...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1949-1964; 1950-1953
Virgil Maxwell Ward letters
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: VIU-2022-0038-001
Identifier: MSS 16678
Content Description
This collection contains four letters from a formerly enslaved person, Virgil M. Ward to his former Philadelphia employer, Edward Morris Davis, referred to as "Dear Friend " in the letters. Ward was born in Virginia in 1827, and it is unknown how he escaped enslavement. He worked in Philadelphia for Davis at $15.00 per month from April 1st, 1855 to April 13th, 1857. He moved to Ypsilanti, then Canada, and finally to Michigan. The letters are from the year 1860. The first letter...
Dates:
October 25, 1860 - December 16, 1860.
Warm Springs Virginia, photographs
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589404]
Identifier: MSS 16038
Scope and Contents
Warm Springs Virginia, photographs, undated, 0.03 cubic feet, 7 photographs showing women playing golf with two young African-American caddies, a casino, children playing in a creek, and men harvesting hay.
Dates:
undated
John W. Warner papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 10191
Scope and Content note
This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner’s life and career.A note regarding consituent correspondence: only in rare instances did the Senator's office keep outgoing corespondence. The vast majority of what makes up the constituent correspondence are the incoming letters from his constituents. Original letters sent to the Senator were microfilmed...
Dates:
1956-2009; Majority of material found in 1967-2008
Charles Dudley Warner manuscript
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16543
Content Description
This collection contains twenty-six leaves of Charles Dudley Warmer’s manuscript of "The Study" for "The Editor's Study" in Harper's Bazaar. The manuscript contains the first two parts of Warner's essay published in Volume 95, October 1897 [pp. 798-800]. The text appears identical to the published version. It is likely that this was the manuscript submitted to Harper’s – though there are...
Dates:
October 1897