Dolores Ann Smith autograph album
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Dolores Ann Smith, an African American student from Roanoke, Virginia. The album’s cover is embossed with “My School-Day Autobiography” in gilt letters. Two black and white photographs of young African American children are at the front of the album, one pasted and the other tipped in. The names of Dolores’s teachers up to the eighth grade are identified on the “My Teachers” listing and a list of classmates. Seven autographs with associated greetings dedicated to Dolores appear throughout the album from classmates and family. These autographs range in date from December 1944 to November 1948. One page near the end of the album is written as a diary entry by Dolores from 1945. The end page, contains the address and the date August 14, 1948.
Dates
- Creation: 1944-1948
Creator
- Smith, Dolores Ann (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Full Extent
0.03 Cubic Feet (One letter-sized file folder. )
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia makes its bibliographic records and the metadata contained therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a purchase from Caroliniana Rare Books to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 23 April 2025.
- Title
- Dolores Ann Smith autograph book
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Ellen Welch
- Date
- 2025-06-09
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States