School notebooks
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
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
A.W. Francis school notebook (University of Virginia)
Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16741
Dates:
1927
G. Firth mathematic notebook
Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2023-0057_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0057
Dates:
1797-1799
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
Madeline Shaw papers
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2020-0126
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2015 - 2019
Ruth A. Curtis art notebook
Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU2023-0105_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0105
Dates:
1906 - 1909
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
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
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