University of Virginia -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Maverick engravings and Lawn Facebooks
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0166
Memory Marks podcast and transcripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16747
Content Description
This collection contains audio files and transcripts created by students as part of ENWR 2520: Writing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA in the Fall of 2021. Students were broken into four groups and each created a podcast episode and supplied the transcriptions. Students researched and reflected upon the history of slavery at the University of Virginia—including its connections to present day racism and white supremacy in Charlottesville and beyond. In addition to the four episodes,...
Dates:
2021
Office of the Architect/Photographs-addition 2 Mary Hughes
Collection
Identifier: RG-35/2
Content Description
This addition to RG 35/2, Office of the Architect/Photographs contains photographs, slides, and VHS tape of Mary Hughes, the University of Virginia Landscape Architect since 1986. The slides and photographs depict college campuses, principally the University of Virginia, documenting projects initiated by the Office of the Architect including new construction. The VHS tape is dated October 24, 1994, and titled "Thomas Jefferson Academical Village.” The slides and photographs were contained...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Office of the Architect/Photographs-addition 2 Mary Hughes slides
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2022-0130
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Reject the Compact protest posters and fliers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2026-0007
Sandy Gilliam papers--addition 2
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: X031780979]
Identifier: ViU-2021-0013
School of Arts and Sciences/East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Digital_container ViU2024-0128_ER001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0128
Summerfield Smith autograph album
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16879
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Summerfield Smith (1836-1864), compiled while he was a student at the University of Virginia. Smith collected fifty-eight autographs of peers and professors at the University between 1856 and 1858. The red leather-bound autograph book contains entries that list a student’s name, the date of entry, their location, where they lived away from the University, the “session” (i.e. 1857-58), and a personal note to Summerfield (referred to as...
Dates:
1856 - 1858
Theta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority scrapbooks and paddle
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0159
University Library/University Librarian/Deputy University Librarian-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2022-0124_001: [Barcode: X031579416]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0124
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1987
University of Virginia Cemetery Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 20/10/3
Content Description
This addition to RG 20/10/3 Administrative Committees/Cemetery includes slides of headstones of the University of Virginia Cemetery made between 1993 and 1996 and 9 CDs containing files of the digitized slides and associated HTML files.This collection documents the photography portion of the project; each stone was rephotographed, and the slides were labeled by name and plot number. The boxes contain the slides, organized by cemetery sections. Box ViU2021.0133_001 contains slides...
Dates:
1993 - 1996
University of Virginia Demolitions map
Unprocessed Material — Oversize_flat_file_folder Viu-2022-0079_001: [Barcode: X031750354]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0079
University of Virginia Rolling Stone controversy web crawls
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2025-0066
UVA Administrative photographs of final exercises, dedications, Founders Day, Olympic torch lighting, and other events
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X031579321]
Identifier: RG-30/10
Content Description
This transfer primarily includes photographs spanning from 1995 to 1999 of events at the University. Photograph subjects include Final Exercises, Reunion Weekends, a 1996 Olympic Torch Lighting ceremony, Founder's Day celebrations, Cauthen and Bice House dedications, and special events involving President John T. Casteen. Casteen served as President of the University of Virginia from 1990 to 2010. He is seen in many photographs in this collection.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1995-1999
UVA photographs of graduation and other events; an assessment of Carr's Hill, and a letter from the State Department about exchange/visitor program (from Decorative Arts Collection files)
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: X031579321]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0136
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1995-2006
John Walter Wayland collection on Henry Martin
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669194]
Identifier: MSS 16677
Content Description
John Walter Wayland collection of correspondence,notes,photographs, and newspaper clippings about Henry Martin who was the bell ringer for the University of Virginia from 1868-1909. “Henry Martin rang the bell at dawn to awaken the students, and rang it during the day to mark the hours and the beginning and ending of class periods. He was beloved by generations of faculty, students, and alumni, and he remembered them all when they returned for visits.” Dr. Wayland, a former University of...
Dates:
1909-1965
Women Students Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/3
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two minute books and three folders of loose papers taken from the minute books, a copy of the Constitution of the Women's Students Association, a letter from Dean of Women Robert Hollingsworth and Peggy Thompson, Acting President, to the Women Students of the University of Virginia, 1946, enclosing a copy of the Constitution, and explaining various regulations and describing organizations that welcome women, and in what capacity. It also includes papers regarding...
Dates:
1948-1967