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School notebooks

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth A. Curtis art notebook

 Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16889
Content Description This collection contains a single notebook of Ruth A. Curtis of Windsor, Connecticut. The notebook documents her studies in art, spanning two different groups of lessons from 1906-1909. There are encouraging notes from her instructor, Marshall T. Fry, and several examples of her art, including woodblock prints and two colorful drawings of flowers. Her notes include motive, arrangement, color, shape, value, intensity, design principles, and lecture notes. Curtis also copied a "Schedule of 10...
Dates: 1906-1909
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Branch J. Epes lecture notebook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16469
Content Description This collection contains one notebook with handwritten notes on lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, with some earlier lectures during his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney College. These notes seem to be lectures on philosophy and ethics rather than law, perhaps taken at different stages of Epes's matriculation, with reference to Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, and Stewart. One early lecture may be attributed to "McGuffie" suggesting possibly William Holmes McGuffey (of McGuffey Reader...
Dates: 1850 - 1853
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

G. Firth mathematic notebook

 Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: Folder 001
Identifier: MSS 16893
Content Description This collection contains one paper vellum-bound, handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799 belonging to G. Firth, a student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The notebook contains eighty-five handwritten pages of calculations and notes. Girth divided the notebook into the following headings: the "Mensuration of Surfaces," "Mensuration of Solids," "Timber Measuring," and "Vaulted and Arched Roofs," written in large calligraphy....
Dates: 1796-1799
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

A.W. Francis school notebook (University of Virginia)

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16741
Dates: 1927
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Kern mathematics exercise book

 Collection — Box BW 41, Folder: ViU-2022-0090-001
Identifier: MSS 16707
Content Description This collection contains a mathematics exercise book from the mid-1800s belonging to Thomas Kern. The notebooks contains exercises and solutions for simple mathematics concepts, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Towards the end of the notebook, two pages contain longer writings of a religious nature written by Kern. The headings of each page contain many calligraphic flourishes and ornate touches. It is unclear if Kern was enrolled in a school or if this was his...
Dates: ca. 1856 - 1871
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Madeline Shaw papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2020-0126
Dates: Majority of material found within 2015 - 2019
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

John Henry Timberlake University of Virginia student notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16691
Content Description The first notebook covers courses on modern languages taught by Professors Maximilian Schele de Vere and [George Frederick] Holmes. Generally divided into a French and Spanish section, with an "Index Variorum," "Notes on French Idioms," and timelines of authors' lives. The second notebook covers the courses on mathematics taught by Professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe, with sections on differential calculus, integral calculus, and analytical problems. The third...
Dates: 1854-1858
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louisa Wooten botany and zoology notebook

 Collection — Box BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16781
Content Description This collection contains one handwritten notebook from an English female student learning about botany and zoology in 1857. The notebook includes sixty-eight pages of notes and essays on plant and animal biology. The notebook cover has the handwritten signature of the original owner, Louisa Wootten (possibly Woodson or Woodrow).It is unusual for a female student to study botany and zoology in 1857 so this notebook is remarkable in that regard.The cover also notes an...
Dates: 1857
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library