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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Student life

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

Hot Feet (IMP Society) records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG-23/46
Dates: 1902 - 2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James H. Law, Jr. papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16430
Content Description

James H. Law, Jr. papers (1920-1921; 0.2 cubic feet) include correspondence, notebooks, blueprints, and exams of alumnus James H. Law, Jr. (Architecture, 1925).

Dates: 1920-1921
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Development Office - addition

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12
Content Description This addition to RG 12 University Library includes clippings, university and student magazines about student life, faculty, alumni and UVA athletics, promotional cards and event ephemera about UVA and Special Collections exhibits and dinners, and a file on "Wednesdays in Mississippi" movement with a recording on CD of Dorothy Height at the University of Virginia, and a VHS tape of a Local PBS station's story on Lewis and Clark. The magazines include The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine,...
Dates: c. 1946-2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Nu Charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity photograph

 Collection — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 5, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16670
Content Description

This collection contains a photograph of the Nu Charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity that appeared in the 1928 edition of Corks and Curls. The photograph was taken by Gitchell's Studio, the yearbook photographer at the time. The framing label lists a "Mr. Ruffin," who is thought to be Robert DeJarnette Ruffin, a student in the College at the University of Virginia at the time.

Dates: circa 1928
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Patterson University of Virginia notebook

 Collection — Box BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16659
Content Description

Notebook of University of Virginia student Robert Patterson.

Dates: circa 1835
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frederick Pilcher Jr. scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178635]
Identifier: MSS 16824
Content Description Content Warning: This material contains graphic imagery and content involving human remains. The purpose of this note is to allow users 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 a scrapbook of black and white photogaphs and ephemera documenting Frederick Pilcher, Jr.'s life from the 1920s to the 1930s as a student at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI),...
Dates: C.1923-1932
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Madeline Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16794
Content Description This collection contains six class notebooks and a folder of material on the One Less Resource booklet detailing the classes and work of Madeline Shaw a student at the University of Virginia. The notebooks and essays that document her class work related to a variety of topics including the Civil Rights movement, modern political thought, immunology, arts and pop culture, 18th century philosophy, microeconomics, history of the British empire and early American law. Also included is a manual...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2015 - 2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thurman Wenzl papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16615
Content Description This collection contains papers, correspondence, newspapers and clippings, publications, leaflets, and records on events, activities, and professional connections related to Thurman Wenzl's study as a graduate student at the University of Virginia (1963-1969). These materials document his efforts in the Civil Rights Movement and for worker's rights. The items include 1994 reunion materials of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), information on the Radical Student Union of UVA,...
Dates: ca. 1960s-2000
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

B.H. Winston report card

 File — Box BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16532
Dates: 1844 - 1845
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library