Richmond (Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Cora M. Aldridge scrapbook
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762786]
Identifier: MSS 16932
Content Description
This collection contains the college scrapbook of Cora M. Aldridge, an African American student at Hartshorn Memorial College in Richmond, Virginia. Hartshorn Memorial College was a private college for African American women in Richmond, Virginia, active from 1883 until 1932, when it merged with Virginia Union University. The cover is titled “My Memories of School Days” in gilt. Alridge’s name and her Vauxhall, New Jersey, address are written on the first endpage, as is the date of June 14,...
Dates:
1926, 1956
Clariedale Moonshine amateur newspaper
Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU2025-0069_001: [Barcode: X032762760]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0069
Cora M. Aldridge scrapbook
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762786]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0098
Herbert R. Davis photograph albums
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16840
Content Description
This collection contains two photo albums of Herbert R. Davis of Richmond, Virginia that document Black pre-World War II life in Richmond; Davis's service in the South Pacific (Guam, Guadalco, and Peleliu) as a Black Marine; and Davis's family life upon his return from combat during the early 1930's to the late 1940's. Many of Davis's fellow soldiers in the 11th Marine Depot Company, 16th Field Depot are posed in photographs. The 11th Company, who fought at the Battle of Peleliu,...
Dates:
c. 1930-1950
James Conway Farley collection of cabinet card photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16968
Content Description
This collection contains seventeen albumen photograph cabinet cards on cardstock mount of portraits taken by African American photographer James Conway Farley during his time at Davis Studio in Richmond, Virginia, and later at Jefferson Fine Art Gallery at 528 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va. Eight of the cards are from the Jefferson Fine Art Gallery and eight are from Davis Studio. The photographs are notable as a work of James C. Farley, one of the first successful Black...
Dates:
c.1870-1905
Roger Horace Johnson Sr. and family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2025-0010
Sanjay Suchak photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16926
Content Description
The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017. Some groups chanted racist and antisemitic slogans and carried weapons. The organizers' stated goals included the unification of the American white nationalist movement and opposing the proposed removal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville's former Lee Park. The rally sparked a national debate over Confederate iconography, racial violence,...
Dates:
2017 - 2021
Jefferson Wallace collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-16338
Content Description
This collection contains typescript and manuscript books, all richly illustrated with watercolor paintings and illuminations by commercial artist and Richmond resident, Jefferson Wallace. These include The Fairy Book, The Story Teller, Anthology of English poetry, The Virginia Text Book: Containing a history of Masonic Grand Lodges and The Book of Myths. The content mainly focuses on mythological stories, fairy tales, original stories and selections from English
Dates:
1890-1950