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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Women -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Byrns and Jean McLaren Manhattan Turn-Style periodical

 Collection — Box BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669068]
Identifier: MSS 16501
Content Description

This collection contains nineteen privately printed pages using a mimeograph type process, addressed to women readers. The feature is authored by two women in Sunnyside, Queens and covers "fashions, theatre, shop windows... all of the kaleidoscope that is New York, seen through women's eyes and written for women to read." The authors write much about fashion, particularly with regards to the seasonal styles worn by glamorous women promenading on New York's avenues.

Dates: 1939

Mary Ann Heston album

 Collection — Folder MSS16786_001: [Barcode: X032571333]
Identifier: MSS 16786

Rebecca Jackman friendship album

 Collection — Folder MSS16779_001: [Barcode: X032571332]
Identifier: MSS 16779
Content Description

This collection contains the friendship album of Rebecca Jackman. The book is roughly one-quarter of the album filled with twelve lengthy verse entries signed by friends across New England. Most of the verses appear to be original and/or tailored to Rebecca. The album itself is titled "Souvenir album," and published by J.C. Riker, New York," with several engraved illustrations throughout and some pages of pink and blue paper.

Dates: 1846-1847

Jane Chapman Slaughter papers--addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2023-0048_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0048
Dates: February 1896 - May 1915

Julia Ellen duVal papers - addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2023-0023_001: [Barcode: X031579407]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0023

League of Women Voters of Fluvanna County records

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0007

Lucy Larcom letter

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0045

Lydia commonplace book

 Collection — Folder MSS16761: [Barcode: X032571322]
Identifier: MSS 16761
Content Description This collection contains the commonplace book belonging to a woman, possibly named Lydia from the United States, circa 1844. A commonplace manuscript book with verse neatly recorded verso and recto throughout. The book consists of twelve unpaginated leaves, ruled in pencil and partially uncut in original pink and black marbled paper wrappers. The contents are largely short verse excepts and meditative or religious in nature. However, there are several more substantial selections, "The...
Dates: c.1844

Lydia commonplace book

 Unprocessed Material — Folder MSS16761: [Barcode: X032571322]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0069

Mary Ann Heston album

 Unprocessed Material — Folder MSS16786_001: [Barcode: X032571333]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0075

Mary Ann Pratt friendship album

 Unprocessed Material — Folder MSS16763_001: [Barcode: X032571331]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0073

Mattie Davis friendship album

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2022-0071_001: [Barcode: X032571324]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0071

Mary Ann Pratt friendship album

 Collection — Folder MSS16763_001: [Barcode: X032571331]
Identifier: MSS 16763
Content Description This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813-c.1880), of Livonia, New York. The bulk of the entries are from 1830 to 1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville. The entries mostly consist of poems, with some original works, as well as short notes, whose general themes touch on memory, friendship, morality, heaven, and time. Some poems are attributed to a Charles Spraque. There are a few entries from...
Dates: 1829-1835

President Frank Hereford and Betty Brooker photographs

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2023-0004_001: [Barcode: X031579380]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0004

Rebecca Jackman friendship album

 Unprocessed Material — Folder MSS16779_001: [Barcode: X032571332]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0074