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newspapers

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Serials published at stated, frequent intervals, such as daily or weekly, and containing news, editorials, features, advertisements, and other items of current interest.

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Advertising receipt issued by the Richmond Examiner to the State Department, C.S.A.

 Collection — Box BW 29, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16523
Scope and Contents Advertising receipt acknowledging payment for inclusion of a printed version of President Jefferson Davis's December 23, 1862 proclamation ordering that "All commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honourable warfare, but as common robbers and criminals deserving death." Partly printed receipt headed "Richmond Examiner," completed in manuscript and signed by Examiner manager R.F. Walker, Dec. 23, 1862,...
Dates: 1862, December 23

Boltonville Free Press

 Collection — Box BW 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16466
Content Description This collection contains a handwritten amateur newspaper containing 9 pages of text, by Emma Tucker and Jennie LeRoux of Boltonville, Vermont. Bound with a screw plus two red ribbons and penned on lined paper. An original photograph of the town is pasted to the first page, along with several newspaper clippings. Much of the paper consists of verses and blurbs relating to people at the girls' school. There is also an article on the meeting of the Vermont legislature, and an...
Dates: 1913

Chestnuts manuscript newspaper

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16743
Content Description This collection consists of 26 handwritten amateur newspapers titled "Chestnuts,"by a group of ten girls calling themselves "WG's," the Woodfords Girls, who lived in the Woodfords neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It is likely they attended Deering High School, as the initials DHS appear several times. The newspapers contain original poetry, personals, advertisements, and editorials. Some include several small ink sketches. A few of the issues include riddles, local crime and fake...
Dates: 1888-1889

Crocus manuscript magazine

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16745
Content Description

This collection contains a twenty-page manuscript periodical produced by a Ladies Benevolent Society, at a Methodist Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts. It contains numerous contributions, noted by their initials, of prose, poetry, humor, education, lost items, religious topics, riddles, marriages, and death. The editor is noted as a Mary Lizzie Alden.

Dates: 4 November 1874

Crocus periodical

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2020-0083
Dates: 4 November 1874

Daily Courier mimeograph newspaper

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16744
Content Description This collection contains nine issues of an amateur newspaper created by two brothers, Harold and Arthur Rowley, ages fifteen and eleven, from Springfield, Massachusetts. They were the children of H.C. Rowley, head of the G & C Merriam Company, a well-known publishing and bookselling business. The newspapers are one page printed broadsides using a late 19th century mimeograph process. The brothers hand wrote these newspapers and likely printed them using their father's...
Dates: 1894

John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16459
Scope and Contents The John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection (1806-1988, bulk 1861-1865; 133 cubic feet) contains Civil War-era correspondence, service records, pension records, artifacts, photographs, military records (including orders, requisitions, and correspondence), currency, newspapers, and other print materials. The collection primarily contains the correspondence, records, and photographs of white soldiers and officers who fought in the Civil War, including white officers serving in...
Dates: 1806-1988; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865

The Mobile Blabber manuscript newspaper

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16751
Content Description

This collection consists of one, four-page, volume of a handwritten paper from Mobile, Alabama. The paper reports on a variety of events including a tanker explosion, a mayoral election, and bank robberies. Also included society pages, want ads, sports, and ads.

Dates: c.1931

The Rainy Day manuscript newspaper

 Collection — Box BW 41, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16725
Content Description This collection contains three illustrated and handwritten manuscripts that are newspapers dated February 11, 1880, March 24, 1880 and April 8, 1889 by a child in Jacksonville, Florida. B. Blair (probably the child's parent) is identified as the editor. The newspaper reports on the news of the Blair family as well as noting current events in Jacksonville including mumps outbreaks, steamers and schooners who came to port, and election day results. The re-election of General...
Dates: 1880-02-11 - 1880-04-08

The University of Virginia Collection on the Events in Charlottesville, VA, August 11-13, 2017

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16386
Scope and Contents This collection contains offensive and harmful language and imagery including racist and violent references and imagery. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials.  This collection documents the events of August 11 and 12, 2017 that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the circumstances...
Dates: 2015-01-13 - 2020; Majority of material found within 2017-01-03 - 2020

Versailles Union newspaper

 Collection — Box BW 29, Folder: 1 [X032669078]
Identifier: MSS 16502
Content Description

Handwritten amateur newspaper containing fourteen pages of text bound at the top, written on lined paper created in Versailles, Ohio. Several boys signed their names to the articles, including two members of the Schman family. The first two articles are on western trips -- one to the Indiana/Ohio border and the other to Iowa. Also included are poetry and editorials.

Dates: 1873-04-04

Virginia Spectator papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-23/9
Scope and Contents

Chiefly financial papers including a ledger, 1939-1940, loose bills and receipts, a certificate of incorporation, 1938, and a copy of the Constitution and By laws of the Jefferson Society indicating that the Spectator was a publication of the Society.

Dates: 1937-1942