Student life

Content Description This collection contains two minute books of the Alpha Tau Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Bluefield State College, an H.B.C.U. in Bluefield, West Virginia. Each grey cloth-bound book has “Records” printed on its cover, with “Kappa Alpha Psi” handwritten on one and “KAΨ” handwritten on the other. The minute books document meetings of the fraternity held over a decade, between 1951 and 1964. The first book dates from 1951 to 1956, and the second book is dated from 1956 to 1964....

Dates: 1951-1964

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Roy Alson papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 16861

Content Description This collection contains black-and-white negatives, color slides, and photographic prints, taken and collected by Roy Alson, as well as a few photographs by other photographers, and some printed materials. Alson, who graduated from the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences in 1974, the same year as the first cohort of women to be admitted to the University, was a photographer for The...

Dates: 1970 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1975

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Andrew Craig correspondence

Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU2023-0200_001: [Barcode: X032762383]

Identifier: ViU-2023-0200

Dates: 1970-1974

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

E.P. Baker letter

Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001

Identifier: MSS 16915

Content Description

This collection consist of a thank you letter written from E.P. Baker, secretary of the University of Virginia's UVA Debating and Oratorial Society, to a Mr. Batten for a gift of a package of Albermarle Pippin apples.

Dates: April 24, 1915

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

P.J. Beattie Jr. papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 16728

Content Description This collection contains University of Virginia clippings, scrapbook pages and ephemera collected by P.J. Beattie Jr, a graduate from the class of 1937. The collection includes two directories spanning the academic years 1935 to 1937 with Beattie's name handwritten at the top of each directory, a program from the University of Virginia graduating exercises dated June 15, 1942, a blue felt pennant flag with the University of Virginia seal, and articles clipped from alumni publications on the...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1935-1942

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bessie Emanuel photo album

Unprocessed Material — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178633]

Identifier: ViU-2023-0185

Dates: 1922-1924

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louise Boyer scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: MSS 14971

Content Description This collection contains the college scrapbook of Louise Boyer who attended the School of Education at the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Institute, a historically Black college, was founded in 1868 as the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School by the American Missionary Association for the education of the formerly enslaved. Also included is an earlier collection of one scrapbook titled "Scrapbook of Louise Boyer at Hampton Institute. This...

Dates: 1925-1936

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Christopher Bright notebooks

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: MSS 16614

Content Description

This collection contains six notebooks of course materials and notes from Christopher J. Bright's, class of 1991, study in the MA Foreign Affairs program at the University of Virginia. Subjects include Latin America, Military in Latin America, Democracy in Latin America, and the Cold War.

Dates: c. 1990

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Co-education at the University of Virginia collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 16898

Dates: c. 1973-1975

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Edmund Harrison autograph book

Unprocessed Material — Box RG 30 - Additions Box 1: [Barcode: X032668433], Folder: ViU-2023-0146_001

Identifier: ViU-2023-0146

Dates: 1859-1860

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bill Ellis papers

Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001

Identifier: MSS 16883

Content Description This collection contains the papers of Bill Ellis related to the the May Day protests of 1970 at the University of Virginia. Ellis participated in these events as a student, and the collection contains material created and collected during this time. The papers comprise of four computer-generated banners, a bulletin, posters, and a summary report by the Virginia Strike Committee. The report details the events when State and Local Police confronted protesters on the U.Va. campus and Rugby...

Dates: 1970

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bessie Emanuel photo album at Hampton Institute

Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178633]

Identifier: MSS 16823

Content Description This collection contains a brown faux leather photo album (7.25" X 11.25") belonging to Bessie Emanuel. Bessie (1902-1984) was raised in White Plains, New York. She was the first Black woman in her town to attend college, entering the Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1922. The photographs are dated from 1922 to 1924 and capture daily life at the Institute, sports events, friends, and family. Captions are found throughout the album. A picture of Bessie with her family in the Hampton...

Dates: 1922-1924

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library