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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Blank books or albums designed so that a variety of items may be affixed to the pages, including photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia.

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Bessie Marie Africa scrapbook

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16697
Content Description

High school memory scrapbook and photo album of Bessie Marie Africa of Kanawha, Iowa from 1923 to 1927. The scrapbook is in a "School Friendship Book binding" assembled by Bessie Marie Africa documenting her high school years at Sanborn High School. It includes correspondence, programs, and mementos from theater, basketball, and football, and a declamatory contest. There are two large dolls created out of crepe paper.

Dates: 1923 - 1927; Majority of material found within 1925

Bernard Proctor Scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU2024-0001_001: [Barcode: X032762416]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0001

William Allen Butler family papers (and related Terry, Collins families)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16447
Scope and Contents This collection depicts the family lives of three prominent New England families, the Butler, Collins, and Terry families from 1808 to 1920 consisting of 8.5 cubic feet, (17 document boxes). Their correspondence, genealogy, photographs, and journals compile a historical collection, vast in size and informative of American life in the nineteenth century. It contains over three hundred letters written when family members were attending Yale or Princeton during the American Civil...
Dates: 1808-1959

C. W. J. Phelps War Crimes and the "Tojo Trial" Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-01
Abstract

Personal ephemeral scrapbooks of C.W.K. Phelps during Tokyo War Crimes Trial.

Dates: undated

Jean Cynthia Cheatham family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16387
Scope and Contents Note

Jean Cynthia Cheatham family papers (1852-2012; 1 cubic foot) contains genealogy information, military papers, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1852-2012

Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner

 File
Identifier: MSS 16333
Scope and Contents

Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner (1900-2001; 2 cubic feet) consists of letters, newspaper clippings,scrapbooks, and photographs from the life of Frank Gardiner Wisner including his intelligence career, track achievements and scholarship at the University of Virginia, 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, and his family.

Dates: 1909 - 1997

Civil War patriotic envelopes scrapbook

 Collection — Ledger 1
Identifier: MSS 16455
Content Description

A scrapbook containing 670 unused Civil war patriotic envelopes with decorative designs, some printed in multiple colors, and eight Confederate engraved banknotes, all pasted down onto the scrapbook leaves.

Dates: 1861-1865

Civil War patriotic envelopes scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Ledger 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0237

Clifford Dowdey papers--addition 15 [MSS 3809-o]

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2019-0142

Harriet Cooke scrapbook

 Item — Ledger 1: [Barcode: X031778615]
Identifier: MSS 16400
Scope and Contents Note Folio scrapbook with marble-paper cover, and gold-stamped green leather corners and binding, containing pages of many different colors. Inside the front cover is a red leather gold-stamped plate reading "Harriet Cooke / 1842." Title page has a memorial plate reading "To Miss Cook May 2nd 1842 / In Remembrance of the late / Miss Sarah P. M. Kreth / Obit 26 Apr Atat 33yr / Jas Thomas, Undertaker, Bristol." Contains a wide range of visual materials pasted into the volume, including original...
Dates: 1842

Joan Alice Coyne scrapbook

 Item — Ledger 1: [Barcode: X031778610]
Identifier: MSS 16403
Scope and Contents Note

The Joan Alice Coyne scrapbook (1935-1938; 0.4 cubic feet) was owned by Joan Alice Coyne: a young girl living in Elizabeth, NJ. Contents include a few photos of Coyne, various clippings of school materials and event programs, holiday cards, and obituaries for her father.

Note: Scrapbook contains items with racist imagery typical for the time period that some patrons may find offensive.

Dates: 1935 - 1938

Daughters of the American Revolution, Shadwell Chapter records--addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0076

Estelle Frances Tayloe commonplace books

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2022-0093

Roxana Foreman scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16702
Content Description

Roxana Foreman high school scrapbook in "My Memory Book" binding from Harriman, and Lenoir City, Tennessee in 1927. It contains pasted-in colorful handmade and printed ephemera and letters, related to football, theater and school. There are also candy wrappers, ribbons, hats, Camel cigarettes, and many pages of hand-written text and sentimental authographs that provide a "diary" of Roxana's high school experiences.

Dates: 1927

Frederick Pilcher Jr. scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178635]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0097

Funeral remembrance book

 Collection — Box BW 35, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16586
Content Description

Memorial album with blank pages for writing remembrances; hand-written entries of poetry and farewell sentiments, most signed and many dated.

Dates: 1842 - 1846

DeWitt Clinton Gallaher scrapbook and diary transcript

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: X030899351]
Identifier: MSS 15598
Scope and Contents Note

The DeWitt Clinton Gallaher scrapbook and diary transcript (1863-1925; 0.25 cubic feet) consists of a travel diary of New England and Europe (1869-1870), chronology of Civil War battles (October 1863- April 1865) and an album of newspaper clippings on general topics including the University of Virginia and Professor Basil Gildersleeve (1915-1925). The transcript of his travel diary contains vivid descriptions of his travels.

Dates: 1863 - 1925

Gladys Stone album

 Unprocessed Material — Ledger 1: [Barcode: X032669179]
Identifier: ViU-2019-0152

Gregory Family Letters--addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0232

James Southall Wilson papers--addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0200