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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. The concept does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

A. E. Dick Howard papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2013-01
Abstract

Extensive collection of professional, academic and legal papers mainly about Constitutional Law, International Law and Environmental Law.

Dates: 1928 - 2017

African Americans in Richmond organizations photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15967
Scope and Contents African Americans in Richmond organizations photographs (1940-1959; 0.06 cubic feet) includes the Leigh Street Young Men's Christian Asssociation, Hi-Y Club, Gray Club, B and P Council, Richmond Area Youth, Interracial Seminar, Richmond Basketball, Father-son Banquets, Annual Banquets, Leigh Street Y.M.C.A. camp, [Gradale] Girls, girls playing cricket, and Baskets for the Need(y). Included is a photograph of Dr. J. W. [Banco] and Roscoe Mitchell. Photographs are from the studios of Brodnax...
Dates: 1940-1959

African Americans in rural Virginia photographs

 Collection — Folder MSS 16923: [Barcode: X032784970]
Identifier: MSS 16923
Content Description This collection contains twenty black and white photographs, approximately 9 x 7 inches, depicting African American life, presumably in a segregated area in rural Virginia. The pictures have no annotations on the back, and the photographer is unknown. The location is also unclear; however, it may be somewhere near or in Fauquier County, Virginia. This location possibility is based on a photograph that depicts several storefronts, including a beauty salon which has two names painted on the...
Dates: C. 1940s

Roy Alson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16861
Content Description This collection contains black-and-white negatives, color slides, and photographic prints, taken and collected by Roy Alson, as well as a few photographs by other photographers, and some printed materials. Alson, who graduated from the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences in 1974, the same year as the first cohort of women to be admitted to the University, was a photographer for The...
Dates: 1970 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1975

Arthur J. Morris memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-97-3
Abstract

Collection of some correspondence, diplomas, certificates, medal, photographs and other memorabilia that belonged to Arthur J. Morris, Class of 1901.

Dates: 1884 - 1992

Ayres Saint Gross Architects photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35007008629085]
Identifier: MSS-2017-03
Abstract

Collection of photographs of North Grounds taken before the 1995 renovation.

Dates: 1995 - 1996

Bruce Kennett photographs of Bremo; Enslaved Housing at Carters Grove, and other projects

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16826
Content Description This collection contains photographs and negatives of subjects and properties for projects of photographer Bruce Kennett. Most of the images are of Bremo, John Hartwell Cocke's nineteenth-century home. Kennett was invited to photograph the property, and much of Kennett's work was included in a monograph titled "Birth of a Virginia Plantation House: The Design and Building of Bremo." Also included are images of Carter's Grove Housing (quarters) for Enslaved People in Colonial...
Dates: 1989 - 2012

Call family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13421

Carl McFarland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-85-3
Abstract

Professional legal papers that document McFarland's work in administrative law at the Department of Justice, the Hoover Commission, the Virginia Administrative Procedure Act and as President of the University of Montana. There is correspondence, research materials, student notebooks and miscellaneous materials.

Dates: circa 1920 - 1980

Warren Chappell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10204
Content Description These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of...
Dates: 1929-2000

Eugene Edward Chiles papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14439
Scope and Contents Note Eugene Edward Chiles papers, (3 cubic feet, 1915-1922) contain love letters from his girlfriend, Eugenie O'Neill who is traveling in European circles with wealthy and or famous acquaintances, while he is working as a realtor in Pittsburgh, PA. and Stephens City, Virginia, after the war. Her letters mostly describe her feelings for him and mention (briefly) famous places, people, and events from the Twenties. Topics consist of post war conditions, unemployment, strikes, feminism, racism, and...
Dates: 1915-1922

Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner

 File
Identifier: MSS 16333
Scope and Contents

Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner (1900-2001; 2 cubic feet) consists of letters, newspaper clippings,scrapbooks, and photographs from the life of Frank Gardiner Wisner including his intelligence career, track achievements and scholarship at the University of Virginia, 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, and his family.

Dates: 1909 - 1997

Clarence B. Pearce papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-2
Scope and Contents

The papers of Clarence B. Pearce consist primarily of letters written by Pearce to his mother as well as photographs of Pearce and the University of Virginia grounds while Pearce was a law student (1917 - 1921). His college activities included participation in the debating society and service on the editorial board of Virgina Law Review.

Dates: 1916 - 1920

Clay family memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-94-5
Abstract

Clay family memorabilia collection. Contains diplomas, photographs, engravings, portraits, and other material belongings.

Dates: 1892 - 1925

Coleman, Bromm, Kirschmann family papers

 Collection — Box 19
Identifier: MSS 16418

Coleman, Bromm, Kirschmann family papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0066

Collection of Battle of Rio Hill papers

 Collection — Box BW 13, Folder: 2 [X031589428]
Identifier: MSS 15898
Scope and Contents

The collection of Battle of Rio Hill papers ( 1992, 0.03 cubic feet) consists chiefly of photographs and negatives and includes an image of the site of Rio Hill Shopping Center being searched for Civil War artifacts, the marker commemorating the skirmish, and the honor guard at the dedication of the marker. The collection also includes press releases, a letter from Charlottesville mayor Elizabeth "Bitsy" Waters, and an audiocassette recording of the dedication ceremony.

Dates: 1992

Cumming Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6922
Scope and Contents This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the Cumming family, with most pertaining to United States Surgeon General, Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and his son, Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. (1900-1986). Items...
Dates: circa 1818 - 1992