Virginia -- History -- 19th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Berkeley Cox family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-16941
Content Description
This collection contains items from the Berkeley Cox family papers. The collection contains cased photographs, hair of various family members, a glass plate photograph, a silver card case with calling cards, a medallion, a photograph, and a Mulberry Hill pamphlet. Many of the items have a small notation from a family member describing the people in photographs or the physical item. Family members represented in the collection include: Mary Berkeley Cox, Lewis Berkeley Cox, Francis Callendar...
Dates:
c. 1863-1897
Deliveries of American Tobacco lettersheet from James Dunlop to J. and D.K. Stewart
Collection — Box BW 61, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16938
Content Description
This collection contains a single-leaf document, printed on the front and back, titled "Deliveries of American Tobacco from 1st January to 31st January 1837.” The printed document recorded the prices and quantities of many different tobaccos imported into England in 1837, as well as outlining tobacco deliveries for 1836, stocks remaining in the “King’s Warehouse,” specifics on market fluctuations of tobacco varieties, a “Recapitulation of Exports in 1836” to various markets, measured in...
Dates:
1837
John M. Woolsey collection of legal documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-6
Scope and Contents
The John M. Woolsey collection is comprised of fifteen historically significant legal documents from 1790 to 1844.The papers contain the records of two cases signed by Samuel Chase, justice of the United States Supreme Court and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. This information was recorded when Justice Chase presided over the Supreme Court of Maryland. Six papers are entirely in James Monroe’s handwriting and form an agreement of arbitration between James Monroe...
Dates:
1790 - 1844
Marshall family account book and cookbook
Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2025-0096_001: [Barcode: X032762784]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0096
Nineteenth-century legal manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-89-2
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT This collection contains documents - mostly letters - from a variety of Virginia and Maryland judges, Supreme Court personalities from the 19th century.
Dates:
1820 - 1859
Rice, Biedler, and House family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0165
Rose, Redd, and Claiborne family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-16944
Content Description
This collection contains correspondence, deeds, estate indentures, account books, receipts notebooks, photographs, carte-de-visite, genealogical research and trees, clippings, a tintype, and ephemera, including wallets, a metal box, and a lock of hair documenting the Rose, Redd, and Claiborne families of Virginia. Names frequently appearing in papers include Eugene M. Redd and his son James Redd. Also included are Ezra Morrison, Mattie Tompkins, Clarence Redd, Jessie Redd McCarthy, Rachel...
Dates:
c. 1771-2007
Wickham family papers
File
Identifier: MSS 15753
Scope and Contents
The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates:
1704-circa 1950