Postcards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Hand-painted postcards, drawn in black ink, depicting children playing outside (Addition 2) 2023-0064, 1922
File — Box 2: [Barcode: X032669458], Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Addition 2 of MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains seven hand-painted postcards presumably created by Elisabeth, the sender. The postcards, drawn in black ink, depict children playing outside: a child pushing another child's sled; two children talking under a tree in spring/summer; two children playing with a balloon; a girl having a picnic with a bunny; one older and one younger girl in the snow; an older girl...
Dates:
1922
Stephen Railton collection of Uncle Tom's Cabin ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16759
Content Description
This material contains racist imagery of Black people. This note aims 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 contains materials related to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" predominately created between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century and collected and curated by Stephen Railton. Railton is a University...
Dates:
1884-2015
Taylor family papers
Series
Identifier: MSS-16857
Content Description
This collection contains personal letters, postcards, U.Va. grade reports, certificates, a Monticello Association Lifetime Pass, various Army documents, and pamphlets on the life and interests of Thomas Jefferson documenting the lives of the Taylor Family: Edward Colston Taylor (1877-1940), Jessie Alwine Taylor (1879-1973 ), and Edward Colston Taylor, Jr. (1911-1997). The collection includes genealogical notes and research on the Taylor Family, undertaken by Peter Flugg Mayron, an Austin,...
Dates:
1894-1983
The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16758
Content Description
The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.
Dates:
1700-2014
Virginia postcards--additions
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032669530]
Identifier: MSS 11425
Content Description
Virginia postcards (forms part of the Virginia Postcards collection MSS 11425) This addition contains 10 postcards including the South Front Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Academic Building-University of Virginia, West Lawn-University of Virginia, the Governor's Mansion, Richmond, Virginia, Banquet Hall at Mount Vernon, Original side board and George Washington portrait of his elder half-brother, Lawrence at Mount Vernon, Tomb of General Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia, Night...
Dates:
1920s-1930s