University of Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:
ENWR 2520: History of Writing at UVA student projects
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0025
Ernest C. Mead papers--addition 3
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2017-0037
Film of 1946 University of Virginia Medical School Graduation, 1946
Item
Content Description
These items consist of two (2) 16mm silent black and white film reels with a total amount of around 15 minutes of footage. The films seem to depict people exiting a building on the University of Virginia grounds after the 1946 School of Medicine commencement ceremonies.
Dates:
1946
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
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
Gregory H. Swanson 75th Anniversary Commemoration Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2025-02
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of digital files documenting the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's admission to the University of Virginia School of Law. These include the following:1. Announcements and Marketing Materials (e.g., posters, brochures, online announcements)2. Photographs of the Walking Tour3. Script, Map, and Description of the Walking Tour4. Local Television and Radio News Stories Related to the...
Dates:
2025
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
Dale Hill Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16583
Content Description
The Dale Hill Papers contain recordings, notes, research material, forms, consent waivers, articles, and photographs all relating to the beginning of co-education at the University of Virginia. The bulk of the materials are the audiovisual content, which were maintained previously on and digitized or transferred from audio cassette, DVD, CD, and flash drive carriers at the time the collection was donated to the Library.The...
Dates:
1970s - 2010s
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
Collection — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box M 1: [Barcode: X032432753], Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16892
Content Description
This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of young men and women formally dressed and posed on the University of Virginia Rotunda steps. The men are likely UVa students and faculty. The photograph is dated about 1896 and has a Holsinger, Charlottesville stamp on the left corner. Scaffolding is in the photograph's background, erected during the Rotunda restoration efforts. The exposed fluted columns of the Rotunda's front facade lack plaster in this scene, a result of the...
Dates:
circa 1896
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
The University of Virginia Jefferson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Jefferson Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters written by and addressed to Thomas Jefferson, as well as architectural plans and studies that were created or endorsed by Jefferson, created by other individuals associated with him, deeds, plats, and maps, some of which pertain to the subjects of the architectural studies, and other miscellaneous materials.All of the Architectural Drawings and Other Oversized & Miscellaneous Materials listed in the Jefferson Papers Calendar are fully...
Dates:
1751 - 1898
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
Identifier: RG 18/12/4
Content Description
This addition contains 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. Files on the disk include agendas from 1998 to 1999, letters working to address the harassment of the LGBTQ community during the "Good Old Song" singing, and various research...
Dates:
circa 1993-2017