diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. Use "journals (accounts)" when referring to an individual's or an organization's account of occurrences or transactions.
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Betty White diaries
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669176]
Identifier: ViU-2019-0139
Dates:
1941 - 1942
Climate Capsule journals
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 6/14/7
Content Description
Twenty-seven "climate capsule" journals created as part of the 2019 Spring semester English course “Climate Fiction” taught by Professor Mary Kuhn (2019; 0.6 cubic feet). The journals consist of weekly observations and reflections from either specific routes or locations at the University of Virginia and Charlottesville, along with comments on cultural pieces regarding climate issues. The climate capsule journals are sealed until 2030.
Dates:
2019
Mary Helen Detmer journal
Collection — Box BW 12, Folder: 1 [X030899230]
Identifier: MSS 16372
Scope and Contents
Mary Helen Detmer journal (0.04 cubic feet), 1996 May 23 - December 10, containing entries related to her garden and her life at the University of Virginia Pavilion I.
Dates:
1996
Diary of Charlotte C. Sweitzer, mother of Jesse W. Lazear, 1894-1895
Item — Box 2: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 4
Identifier: uva-lib:2222065
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates:
1894-1895
Diary of Charlotte C. Sweitzer, mother of Jesse W. Lazear, European travels, 1894-1895
Item — Box 2: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 3
Identifier: uva-lib:2222064
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates:
1894-1895
Diary (part one) of Martha P. Houston, mother of Mable Houston Lazear, European travels, 1893-1895
Item — Box 2: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 1
Identifier: uva-lib:2222062
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates:
1893-1895
Diary (part two) of Martha P. Houston, mother of Mabel Houston Lazear, European travels, 1894-1895
Item — Box 2: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 2
Identifier: uva-lib:2222063
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates:
1894-1895
Frances Parkinson Keyes family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0187
Dates:
1851-1998
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
Howard University student diary
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762503]
Identifier: MSS 16847
Content Description
This collection contains a diary from an unknown female student attending Howard University in 1915. It measures 9 X 6 inches, and the pages are hole-punched and tied with a ribbon. The diary includes one tipped-in item and twenty-eight leaves with thirty-three of the pages written on. Most of the diary documents the last few days of May 1915, covering the writer's final days at Howard and reminiscing about her time at the university. She discusses attending the annual play by...
Dates:
1915
Hubard family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0077
Dates:
1850 - 2000
John G. Staysa Civil War Diary
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2023-0026
Dates:
January 25 - June 2, 1862
John W. Peyton diaries and account books
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2020-0038
Dates:
1862 - 1911
William S. Kibler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15270
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the papers of William S. Kibler (1911-2002), a high school teacher and educator, Stanley, Virginia, ca. 1925-2002, 23,684 items (103 Hollinger boxes; 43 linear feet) including his diaries, 1936-2002 April, recording in detail Kibler's daily activities as well as his impressions of events, travel journals and manuscripts for chiefly foreign trips, slides, postcards, and photographs, chiefly concerning his trips, both high school and college papers, literary work, and...
Dates:
1925-2002
Betty White Loving diaries
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669176]
Identifier: MSS 16055
Content Description
Betty White Loving chronicles her years as a teenager and student at Scottsville High School, and writes about events, names of people, and places she has visited.
Dates:
1941 - 1942
Sir Fitzroy Maclean papers
File
Identifier: MSS 11487
Scope and Contents Note
This Fitzroy Maclean papers consist (1827-1996; 44 cubic feet) of the professional and personal papers of Scottish soldier, diplomat, politician, author, and traveler, Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean (1911-1996) of Dunconnel. It includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, typescripts, newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, lectures, speeches, photographs, memorabilia, and research material pertaining to his military, diplomatic, political and literary career as well as family and...
Dates:
1827-1996
Thomas Nelson Berkeley Noland papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -16476
Content Description
This collection documents Thomas Nelson Berkeley Noland's time in Peru, and contains his journal, a typed transcript of the journal by Mary Noland Young, photographs (chiefly albumen prints) of items, places, and peoples in the Amazon, correspondence (including drafts and translations), and legal documents. Also present are oversize blueprint maps of the Peruvian Amazon region drawn by Noland, a "Map of a Section of South America - Peru, a Vertical Cross Section of the Continent...
Dates:
1872 - 2020; Majority of material found in 1872-1906, 1964, 2020
Pages from diary of Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1900
Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 69
Identifier: uva-lib:2224539
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:
1900
Pages from the diary of Jefferson Randolph Kean with annotations by Philip Showalter Hench, 1897-1900
Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 23
Identifier: uva-lib:2224141
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:
1897-1900
Papers of Garrard Glenn, 1901-1951
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-1
Abstract
Small collection of professional correspondence, UVA Law School memorabilia and personal diaries.
Dates:
1901 - 1951