Women students
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Alpha Kappa Alpha scrapbook
Record Group — Ledger 1
Identifier: RG 23/4/25
Content Description
Scrapbook of the Theta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1974-1975; 0.10 cubic feet). Album contains photographs, flyers, certificates, and other ephemera.
Dates:
1974-1975
Lu Ann Cates papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16581
Content Description
This collection contains photographs, personal letters, coursework, notebook, forms and surveys for new students, directory and schedule, and other university specific items of Lu Ann Cates, a 1978 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Dates:
1972 - 1974
Co-education at the University of Virginia collection-addition 2
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ACC_BW_003: [Barcode: X006178799], Oversize_Flat_File_folder: ViU-2025-0080_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0080
Committee on Admission of Women records
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2/9/1
Content Description
Committee on Admission of Women records, 1921-1968, 1.2 cubic feet, include correspondence, statistics, surveys, minutes, and reports from students, alumni, various UVA committees, and other universities. Materials relate to the shift of a UVA into a fully coeducation institution.
Dates:
1921-1968
Ruth A. Curtis art notebook
Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16889
Content Description
This collection contains a single notebook of Ruth A. Curtis of Windsor, Connecticut. The notebook documents her studies in art, spanning two different groups of lessons from 1906-1909. There are encouraging notes from her instructor, Marshall T. Fry, and several examples of her art, including woodblock prints and two colorful drawings of flowers. Her notes include motive, arrangement, color, shape, value, intensity, design principles, and lecture notes. Curtis also copied a "Schedule of 10...
Dates:
1906-1909
Julia Ellen duVal papers
File
Identifier: MSS 15477
Content Description
This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled “Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;” a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of...
Dates:
1890-1930
Elizabeth (Gladys) McCarthy scrapbook
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU2023-0173_001: [Barcode: X006178638]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0173
Dates:
1920 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1924
Elizabeth Glover school annual
Collection — Box BW 22, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16464
Content Description
This collection contains "The Star" 1924 yearbook for ‘Grade 7B,’ handwritten by Buckingham County teacher, Mary Elizabeth Glover. Each page has a student's name and quotes and comments about them. Many pages include a small photograph of the child named.
Dates:
1924
Gritty Women Podcast Series Recordings
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16806
Content Description
This collection contains the four documetnary style episodes of the Gritty Women podcast series, by Giovana Benatto de Oliveira, and one audio file of an interview used to create the episodes. Each episode includes segments of interviews conducted by the podcast’s creator. The podcast explores the history, and legal, political, and social context of UVA's coeducation, and balances both scholarly and personal perspectives through interviews with both scholars and...
Dates:
2020-08-25 - 2021-05-23
Handmade concertina album made by students of the Modescule der Stadt Wien in Vienna appealing to designer Oskar Kokoschka for help in purchasing art supplies (Addition 71), 1950
File
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a handmade fundraising appeal concertina album to the artist Oskar Kokoschka. The book was created by design students at the Modeschule der Stadt Wien (Fashion School of Vienna). In 1946, the school relocated to Schloss Hetzendorf, an eighteenth-century palace that sustained significant damage during the Second World War.Students were pressed to raise money...
Dates:
1950
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
Joy Rebekah Kime Benton scrapbook
Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762515]
Identifier: MSS 16843
Content Description
This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Joy Rebekah Kime Benton (1886-1957) of Burlington, North Carolina, an author, poet, painter, and weaver. The contents of scrapbook items are principally documents from 1905 to 1908, although some paste-ins are from the 1930s. There are 128 pages with photographs, clippings, drawings, and ephemera pasted and laid in. The album primarily documents her college days at the Salem Female Academy (later Salem College). It includes her...
Dates:
c. 1905-1933
Wendy Martin papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16866
Content Description
This collection documents the first-year experience of Wendy Martin, a student-athlete at the University of Virginia, class of 1991. The collection contains brochures, schedules, and correspondence collected by Martin, including materials sent to incoming first-year students, student activities brochures, materials from housing, honor code documents, and materials related to Track and Field, including correspondence, schedules, and brochures. It also includes her application for admission to...
Dates:
1985 - 1987
Mary Frances Jordan portrait
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 5, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0126
Bessie M. Rhoades botany workbook and notebooks
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032652648], Folder: 1-4
Identifier: MSS 16776
Content Description
This collection contains six handwritten notebooks and a workbook outlining botanic observations of Bessie M. Rhoades, an orphan at the Bethany Orphanage in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. The collection highlights the study of science by a female student at the turn of the twentieth century.It is a personal archive detailing life inside an American orphanage during a pivotal moment in the history of child advocacy.The education provided by an orphanage could give students academic opportunities...
Dates:
1903-1904
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 71 Fundraising Appeal to Oskar Kokoschka
Unprocessed Material — Box MSS 16758_NewAdditions_02: [Barcode: X032762575], Folder: Folder ViU2024-0149_001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0149
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 72 Velma Sandlin teacher training diary
Unprocessed Material — Box MSS 16758_NewAdditions_02: [Barcode: X032762575], Folder: ViU2024-0150_001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0150
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 77 Ida Narkaus notebooks
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2025-0022
Lucy or Ella Winston letter
Collection — Box BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16669
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from a young woman, either Lucy or Ella Winston, to her mother, Martha A. Winston. The letter, unsigned, describes her travel to and her experience of the Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute. The Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute, chartered in 1837, was the first college for women in Virginia and was attended by both Winston sisters. In the letter, the writer describes the sisters' trip to the institute, shares her first impressions, comments on...
Dates:
February 16, 1852
Louisa Wooten botany and zoology notebook
Collection — Box BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16781
Content Description
This collection contains one handwritten notebook from an English female student learning about botany and zoology in 1857. The notebook includes sixty-eight pages of notes and essays on plant and animal biology. The notebook cover has the handwritten signature of the original owner, Louisa Wootten (possibly Woodson or Woodrow).It is unusual for a female student to study botany and zoology in 1857 so this notebook is remarkable in that regard.The cover also notes an...
Dates:
1857