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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

University of Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Final and Valedictory Exercises programs -addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2022-0106
Dates: Majority of material found within 2021-2022

A.W. Francis school notebook (University of Virginia)

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16741

Joel Gardner collections of war memorabilia and materials related to the University of Virginia

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16773
Content Description This collection contains war materials and materials related to the University of Virginia both donated by Joel Gardner. The war memorabila is from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century including a certification that Sergeant James Goldsmith served in the Continental Army in 1781; a letter dated July 8, 1862 requesting permission to form a "Company of 'Partisan Rangers" from the Confederate States Army; a photograph of Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler following a September 24, 1938...
Dates: 1848-1970

Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X031780979]
Identifier: RG 2/6/1
Content Description This collection contains materials collected by Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam in his role as University of Virginia Historian. Included are professional and personal correspondence, lectures, notes, letters, clippings, and promotional material. This addition pertains to committee's he served on, lectures and papers he produced about the University of Virginia, correspondence with guests to the university, correspondence to Gilliam on a variety of topics including his retirement, recipients of...
Dates: 1985 - 2016

R. E. Griffith letter

 Collection — Box BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589313]
Identifier: MSS 16209
Scope and Contents

University of Virginia Medical school student R. E. Griffith letter to Dr. J. Hays in Philadelphia, PA., February 20, 1838, 0.03 cubic feet, and a handwritten address and postmarks about his studies, lectures, professors, and colleagues in the fields of psychology, pathology, and obstetrics. He mentions several people by name, including a Dr. Couch, and a Mr. Hyde, whose death had recently been "in the papers".

Dates: 1838 February 20

Henry M. Harris papers

 Collection — Box BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589295]
Identifier: MSS 16180
Scope and Contents

Henry M. Harris papers, 1848-1948, 0.03 cubic feet includes letters and photographs of the University of Virginia. Also included are Lewis W. Cabell, J. B. Cochran, Kenneth Brown, Donald A. Harris, with either Charlottesville or UVA connections. There are also photographs of Henry M. Harris, Donald Harris, and the University of Virginia.

Dates: 1848-1948

Gessner Harrison silver spoon and handkerchief

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16685
Dates: undated, c.1828-1859

Susan Tyler Hitchcock papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X031579338]
Identifier: MSS 16729
Content Description This collection documents the work of Susan Tyler Hitchcock, writer, editor, and former faculty member at the University of Virginia. This collection includes Hitchcock's correspondence, notes, photographs, research, and drafts of manuscripts. The bulk of the materials focus on the work surrounding her book The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History published by the ...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1990-1999

Holsinger Studio portrait on Rotunda steps

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box M 1, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: ViU-2022-0144

Hot Feet (IMP Society) - addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2020-0086
Dates: 1916 - 1919; Majority of material found within 2011 - 2019

Hot Feet (IMP Society) records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG-23/46

Jefferson Cable Corporation collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 11458
Scope and Contents The majority of the collection is composed of videotape recordings of local-origination programming aired on the Jefferson Cable Corporation, including City Council Meetings and local news specials. The collection includes approximately 300 color slides used in productions; color slides of a University of Virginia baseball game, 1970; photographic negatives of Lawrence Halpin's model of the Downtown Mall; Charlottesville City Council agenda, 1971 October 4, with an item...
Dates: 1885-1982

Joseph Kent Roberts Rotunda photograph

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 6, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0210

LGBTQ Student Center records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG 18/12/4
Content Description

This addition contains includes T-shirts, committee reports, proposals, surveys, petitions, clippings from various newspapers including The Cavalier Daily, brochures, a letter from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida regarding the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, and a floppy disk documenting the work of the LGBTQ student center.

Dates: 1990 - 2017

LGBTQ Student Center records

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0190

Charles McCoy letter

 Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589278]
Identifier: MSS 16140
Scope and Contents

Charles McCoy letter (1839; 0.03 cubic feet) is a six page, hand-written letter from University of Virginia student Charles McCoy about family, friends, activities at the University of Viginia, including students and professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe and professor Mankin.

Dates: 1839

Nu Charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity photograph

 Collection — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 5, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16670
Content Description

This collection contains a photograph of the Nu Charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity that appeared in the 1928 edition of Corks and Curls. The photograph was taken by Gitchell's Studio, the yearbook photographer at the time. The framing label lists a "Mr. Ruffin," who is thought to be Robert DeJarnette Ruffin, a student in the College at the University of Virginia at the time.

Dates: circa 1928

Office Administrative Files of Leonard Sandridge-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Box RG 5/1 - Additions Box 1: [Barcode: X032668418], Folder: ViU2022-0140_001
Identifier: ViU-2022-0140

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