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Black-and-white photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to a broad class of photographs having images in gray tones, black, and white, and sometimes one hue (which can result from chemical processes used, including toning, or from aging).

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

7 folders, 1910s-1930s

 Box — Box 26: Series 1 [Barcode: X004962787]
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis. Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting. Some of this...
Dates: 1910s-1930s

African American Freemason lodge photographs

 Collection — Box BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16711
Content Description Collection of eight black and white photographs. All are group portraits of members of African American fraternal lodges in Virginia. The images bare the stamps of several different photographers -- from Richmond, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach. Several images show handwritten annotations on the back -- one lodge is identified as Progressive Lodge #80 in Norfolk, another as King David Lodge #28 in Richmond (this photo is signed by 13 members of the lodge on the back), another as Willow...
Dates: circa 1950s

Collection of photographs of African American Women in Chicago

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16797
Content Description This collection contains thirty-one photographs of young Black women in Chicago in 1940s-1950s.The photographs document the youth of a young woman named Bea and several of her friends Nedra, Vera, and others. Included are class photographs from Forestville Elementary School and Lucy Flower Technical High School. Flower Tech was an integrated school for girls. There are photographs of their prom, jazz clubs, and the girls out on dates, celebrating, and having fun. The jazz club...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1942-1954

Ben Boblett Inkjet Prints of Pat Oliphant and Tom Oliphant

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 5, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1/1
Identifier: ViU-2022-0129

George Buckston Browne collection on Down House

 Collection — Box BW 33, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16562

Charlottesville Department of Neighborhood Development Services historic documentation

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2020-0033

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

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2019-0142

Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16419
Scope and Contents Note The Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. papers (circa 1870-1926; 0.05 cubic feet) document Coleman's studies and travels to Richmond, VA and Charleston, SC. Collection materials include eleven letters Coleman wrote from Hanover Academy, VA to his mother Mary. Among other topics, Coleman discusses his friend Richard Henry Jesse (1853-1921), who briefly attended the University of Virginia. Collection materials also include two photographs, one of which depicts Coleman's son Lewis III among other University...
Dates: circa 1870-1926

Colleton estate photographs

 Collection — Box BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031688129]
Identifier: MSS 16440
Scope and Contents Note The Colleton estate photographs (circa 1890s-1910; 0.04 cubic foot) document the appearance of Colleton, a Cabell family estate in Nelson County. Materials include ten mounted photographs of the Colleton house and one photograph of the nearby James River. Colleton photograph subjects include rooms like the ballroom and library, along with a childhood portrait of Evelyn Byrd Robinson on the building's porch.The collection also contains a copy of Robinson's will, where she divides...
Dates: circa 1890s-1910

Joyce Crary show horse photo album

 Item — Ledger 1
Identifier: MSS 16300
Content Description The Joyce Crary show horse photo album (1940s; 0.2 cubic feet) contains photographs labeled by hand in white ink. 10 x 13 with 35 leaves containing around 120 black and white photographs, and a few pieces of ephemera, inserted into corner mounts. Photographs feature Joyce Crary, her family, and her friends and horses at the family ranch near Chico, California. Horses and riders are shown jumping, racing, and performing trick riding of various types. One image is of Joyce, her father, and a...
Dates: 1940s

Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16404
Content Description

The Clinton K. Curtis photograph albums (1880s; 0.5 cubic feet) contain 76 photographs (albumen prints, most mounted, some hand-colored, probably commercially produced and sold) of views and people in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Burma, collected by U.S. Navy officer Clinton K. Curtis.

Dates: 1880s

George C. Davis studio photograph

 Collection — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16642
Content Description

This collection contains a single black and white photograph of a street with a Liberty Loan mural in Roanoke, Virginia from the George C. Davis studio.

Dates: ca. 1941-1945

Elizabeth Howard papers

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2018-0102

Farm life photograph album

 Item — Ledger 1: [Barcode: X031778607]
Identifier: MSS 16301
Scope and Contents The Farm Life photograph album (1910s; 0.2 cubic feet) depicts many children and family members with farm animals, mostly horses, but cats, dogs, chickens, and one elephant also appear in the images.One image depicts a horse wearing a covering labeled "Tom Mix's Tony". This is presumably Tony the Wonder Horse, the famous film companion of silent-film western star Tom Mix. Another image contains a street sign suggesting that this farm may have been located on or near...
Dates: 1910s

Frances Parkinson Keyes family papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0187

Frederick Pilcher Jr. scrapbook

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

Lesley Frost photograph

 Collection — Box BW 31, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16585

Geology of the Narrows Region, Virginia, typed manuscript

 Collection — Box BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031660929]
Identifier: MSS 16449
Scope and Contents Note

Geology of the Narrows Region, Virginia typed manuscript (1920s; 0.03 cubic feet)is a manuscript by Elizabeth Barbara Mohr.

Dates: 1920s

Gitchell Studio collection--addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0077

Holsinger photograph of Charlotte Kohler

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0019